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ing. The Health Department will be organizing another viewing
Monday, December 4.
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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.