Over 120 people attended the showing of this documentary film in September and October, and more are interested in learning this warn-

ing. The Health Department will be organizing another viewing

Monday, December 4.

DON’T MISS IT!

Tickets for this will be $5.00 per person children 15 & under free

Dinner before the film will be served at 5:30 pm

Movie and dinner option will be

$10.00 per person children/youth 15 & under $3.00 for the dinner

For more info contact Gord & Kathy Rayner

519-472-6066 gord.rayner@sympatico.ca

Showing

December 4

This Newsletter is produced by the Communication department of the London Seventh-day Adventist Church

Date Speaker/Facilitator Event Time

3 Alex Golovenko Cultural Diversity Sabbath program 11 am

10 Alex Golovenko Radical Eschatology Lord’s Supper 11 am

17 Opal McKenzie Empowering our Children 11 am

17 Opal McKenzie Misconceptions in parenting 2 pm

24 Gordon Baptiste Christmas Choral presentation 11 am

31 Angelina Polihronova New year program by youth 11 am

31 Alex Golovenko Mission 316 “Praying for London” 7 pm

Schedule of events and speakers for November 2011 London Seventh-day Adventist Church

805 Shelborne Street, London, ON

Are You living Your Highest Vision For Your Life?

North American Adventists reaffirm commissioned ministers as leaders - giving equal opportunity for women to lead

On October 11, 2011 he General

Conference Session annual meeting

turned down (59:41% close margin

vote!) the request to allow commis-

sioned ministers, women, to serve as

conference presidents. The request

was brought forward by the North

American President Dan Jackson, who

led Canadian Union of Adventist

churches prior to his election in 2010.

A few weeks later the question was

addressed again during the yearend

meetings of North American leader-

ship.

On October 31, 2011 after a few hours of discussion, just be-fore noon, a motion to reaffirm the 2010 action of allowing women to lead conferences as presidents was put to a secret ballot vote and passed by a mar-gin of 162-61, 3:1, 75% YES!

A carefully balanced pair of actions

was taken. First a vote was taken to

fully participate in the recently

launched study of the theology of ordi-

nation. Second: reaffirming the divi-

sion's unique policy of allowing or-

dained or commissioned ministers to

serve as presidents of any of the 58 lo-

cal conferences that make up the 1.1-

million member church region.

Currently women already serve in

high Administrative offices. Sandra

Roberts is the Executive Secretary of

the Southeastern California Confer-

ence.

NAD president Daniel Jackson in-

troduced the day's discussion in the

context of church unity. "The church is

the apple of God's eye. People around

the world are interested in what hap-

pens here. But at moments of change

there is some pain. No reformation oc-

curs without pain.”

Jackson sketched several options

available to the delegates gathered. The

Executive Committee's rejection could

simply be noted; the NAD's 2010 pol-

icy could be discussed and rescinded;

or delegates could reaffirm the policy

they voted one year earlier.

More than two-dozen speeches from

the floor followed in the next two

hours, most urging the body to reaffirm

the 2010 action to broaden leadership

o p p o r t u n i t i e s b y a l l o w i n g

"commissioned" ministers who had not

been ordained to hold top leadership

positions in conferences. Though Jack-

son had clarified that the topic of the

ordination of women to ministry was

not the point of the discussion, numer-

ous speakers spoke in favor of ordain-

ing women.

Ron Clouzet, director of NAD's

Evangelism Institute at Andrews Uni-

versity, urged delegates to act on the

basis of Bible teaching. “Church gov-

ernance should follow theology,”

Clouzet said. "I firmly believe in the

ordination of women. Once we have

settled the issue of theology, [the rest]

will be chicken feed."

Arnold Trujillo, vice

president of the Pacific

Union, who recently con-

ducted Evangelistic series

here in London, spoke in

support of the action, also

encouraging a dynamic

tension, where differences

allow movement forward. "We are

structured to allow for differences. We

were not designed to be a monolithic

organization, but one where dynamic

tension is allowed to exist. We need

freedom to be different, without com-

promising our mission. We sing in har-

mony, not in unison."

The Theology of Ordination will be

decided on at the next General Confer-

ence Session in San Antonio, Texas in

2015, the “20th anniversary” of the his-

toric debate and negative vote on

women's ordination held at the 1995

Session in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

February 27 Monday – Miracles, Medicines and Mirages February 28 Tuesday – Portrait of a Killer & Stalking the Killer February 29 Wednesday – Eat More Weigh Less March 1 Thursday – Going up in Smoke & Magic of Fibre

March 4, Sunday - Nutrition workshop 2:00 to 6:00 PM Diabetes & Hypertension 6:00 to 8:00 PM March 6, Tuesday – 5:30 PM Nutrition workshop, Cholesterol Control @ 7 March 7, Wednesday – Fats in the Fire March 8, Thursday – Fit at any Age

March 12, Monday – Osteoporosis March 15, Thursday – Lifestyle & Health/Disease Reversal

March 19, Monday – Optimal Diet review & Diet and Cancer March 20, Tuesday – Adaptability March 21, Wednesday – Forgiveness & Building Self Worth

March 31, Testimonies Sabbath at 11 AM April 1, Sunday - Graduation

Coronary Health Improvement Program 2012

is coming in March

nightly sessions run from 7 to 9 pm

On November 16, 2011 Miroslav Pujic reported from Becici, Montenegro, where 45 delegates and 25 church administrators from the thirteen Unions and three at-tached Fields, constituting the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Trans-European region (TED) came for the annual year-end executive committee meetings. The Mo-tion on Women in Leadership was one of the agenda items.

Dr Bertil Wiklander supported Dan North American Dan Jackson’s motion at the General Conference meetings when it was voted down in October. He stated that “opening doors for women in leadership would strengthen growth of the church in Europe." Whereas in North Amer-ica the request is for Conference leadership, in Europe that is a reality already, and the request was for the next

level of leadership, Union of churches. Those gathered in Montenegro expressed sadness and

disappointment at the response of the Annual Council and recognised the Bible-based conviction that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is a fellowship of the “priesthood of all believers” and that the Holy Spirit calls and equips men and women with various gifts, including that of leader-ship.

After prayer, the 91% of the delegates voted by secret ballot to express approval of the motion. The invitees af-firmed the motion by a similar percent in a secret ballot.

The committee prayerfully voted to affirm that each union can apply parity between male and female pastors within the framework of existing policies and guidelines.

European Adventist Churches affirm Women in Leadership

On October 24, 2011 the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in Vati-can presented a 41 pages document entitled “Toward Reforming the In-ternational Financial and Monetary Systems in the Context of Global Public Authority.” the Document is prepared in several languages and 18 pages are made provisionally in English. Cardinal Peter Kodwo Ap-piah Turkson, the president of the pontifical council said that Roman Catholic Church’s concerns about economic instability and widening inequality of income and wealth around the world demands such measures.

Some question if this initiative co-incides with 99% protests that be-gan in Europe on September 7. Catholics around the world have mixed feelings about the Vatican’s ideas on how to fix today’s troubled

global economy. This is not the first attempt for Global order. Much of this document reiterates the devel-opment of Catholic thought on eco-nomic disparity and need to work for the common good. It highlights encyclicals from Pope John XXIII’s 1963 “Pacem in Terris” (“Peace on Earth”) to Pope Benedict’s 2009 “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”).

This Vatican’s initiative calls for the gradual creation of a world po-litical authority, a supranational au-thority with broad powers to regu-late financial markets. The “new world dynamics,” it said, call for a “gradual, balanced transfer of a part of each nation’s powers to a world authority and to regional authori-ties.” “In a world on its way to rapid globalization, the reference to a world authority becomes the only horizon compatible with the new realities of our time and the needs of

humankind,. Helping to usher in this new society is a duty for everyone, especially for Christians. A long road still needs to be traveled before ar-riving at the creation of a public au-thority with universal jurisdiction. It would seem logical for the reform process to proceed with the United Nations as its reference.

At a news conference on the day of release, Octover 24, the Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, emphasized that the document was “not an expression of papal magisterium,” but instead was an “authoritative note of a Vatican agency,” the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

For people of Three Angels’ Mes-sage understanding of Revelation 13 is urgent to observe these current developments toward regulation of buying and selling under control of the authority originating in place where papacy ruled for 1260 years.

Toward emerging universal po-litical authority over economics. Bold move by Vatican.

For the past two months we prayer for 22 countries each

month, covering 5% of population each months. This

month we will pray for less countries – only 14, but will

cover in prayer 22% of world population! China accounts

for 19% of people living on our planet today.

Last month we had already started praying for Chinese

people in Hong Kong, Macau. Now we dedicate half of

December to pray for Gospel work among Chinese people

around the world.

We do so because we believe that when this gospel of

God’s kingdom will be preached in all the world as a

witness to all the nations, then the end will come.

(Matthew 24:14) We are passionate to see Christ coming

Join our church family and Christians around the

world who are praying for unentered territories, for mis-

sionaries, for those persecuted for sharing Jesus. This

experience will connect you to the World family in a

unique way. Pray that God would direct you not only to

learn about, and pray for these countries, but to befriend

people in your neighbourhood, as the Universe moves

next door.

I dare you to participate in our One Year Experiment.

The first step is to pray for entire world daily.

1,330,584,783

Country Population Adventists Prayer needs & challenges faced by people

1 China, Taiwan 23,561,660 6,111 Mostly urban island, pray for its controversial and ambiguous political status with China

2

People’s Republic of

China

393,280

Church growth through unregistered network of house churches, safety for leaders

3 Han Chinese, Mandarin speaking majority 92% of people to receive Christ

4 Over 60 million members of the Communist Party to encounter and accept God

5 Draconian policy of “one child” per family causing divorces, abortions & suicide

6 Impoverished under-class working slave labour, economic inequality among provinces

7 unfair treatment toward over 90 million people with disabilities, mental and physical

8 Environmental destruction, deforestation, pollution (90% top polluted cities worldwide)

9 Availability of Christian literature and media (Radio, satellite, internet) for outreach

10 Daoist superstitions and Confucian legalism which hold millions in false hopes

11 Three Self Patriotic Movement – officially registered Christian church in China

12 The “lost generation” of youth exploited by the Cultural revolution, now by globalization

13 Establishment of Bible Study groups among students on University campuses

14 Mongols of the Nei Mongol and Manchurian region bordering Siberia

15 Muslim Uygur, Kazak, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Tatar and other 25 million people in Xinjiang

16 Tibetan Buddhists of Xizang region, freedom from demonic bondage & occult practices

17 Colombia 46,300,196 284,103

Urban centres, most violent drug cartels (75% of world cocaine), fear of paramilitary

18 Zambo-afro people, Mestizo & Amerindian tribes where 50% of population unreached

19 Comoros 691,351 NONE! Almost entire population is Muslim. Islands between Mozambique & Madagascar

20 Congo, Republic 3,758,678 636 Bantu people influenced by Marxist atheism, churches were banned, mission needed

21 Congo, Democratic Republic

67,827,495

525,849

End of war in Kivu region, where Coltan mining is, end to ethnic man-hunt by warlords

22 AIDS pandemic left about 1 million orphans, rural villages are not evangelized

23 Division between French & English regions, between Kinshasa Muslims and Christians

24 Czech Republic 10,410,786 7457 Rise of atheism after Communism failed, where freedom is interpreted as immorality

25 Costa Rica 4,639,827 63749 Lack of spiritual discipling, very open for evangelism, but needs unity and leadership

26 Cote d’Ivoire 21,570,746 12,304 Fetish groves outnumber Christian churches, Muslim north and divided Christian South

27 Croatia 4,409,659 2,875 Reconciliation to recent hatred among Croat, Serb & Bosnian, hindering evangelism

28 Cuba 11,204,351 30,852 Liberation of this last bastion of Communism in the West, desperate poverty exploits

29 Cyprus 879,723 74 Divided community between Greek & Turkish areas, Orthodox nationalism

30 Cook Islands 19,933 844 Pitcairn is 100% Adventist. Predominantly evangelical Niue, Tokelau need Revival.

31 Denmark 5,481,283 2,436 80% are formal Lutherans with very liberal theology, Faeroe Islands &Greenland.