Connecting Columbia Union Seventh-day Adventists

This Month's Issue

Shenandoah Valley Academy’s (SVA) music ministry combines the power of music and the sacredness in the lives of young people who graduate prepared to serve God with their musical talents. One such student is now orchestra director and strings teacher, Kelly Wiedemann (’03), who shares her testimony.

Berkeley Poulsen displays a card he designed for an art class fundraiser to support the Restore a Child organization.

Middle school and high school art teacher, Nancy Rivera, challenged her students to design and sell linoleum block cards and donate the money to Restore a Child, a Christian charitable organization dedicated to helping orphans and underprivileged children throughout the world.

Michelle “Shelby” Muyango (center), joined by Pastor John Kent and Karen Schneider, shares her testimony.

While on a recent mission trip to Pittsburgh, the BMA seniors befriended a young homeless girl. Pastor John Kent, from the Carnegie Simple (Pa.) church, shared that the girl, Michelle “Shelby” Muyango, had been coming to church intermittently due to a difficult living environment. The BMA students took notice of her, and rather than shun her, talked with her.