What would happenif every Seventh-day Adventist in North America would spend just a few minutes each day - or maybe just one minute each day - praying for one specific person...a neighbor, a colleague, someone special that God lays on your heart? What if even half of our members would catch that vision?
Well, if just half of us made that commitment between now and the next three or four months, and if we spent only a minute each a day - one minute each day - over the next ten weeks or so we would storm the gates of heaven with more than a million hours of focused intercession! Read More
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5 Tips for Fixing Your Church's Web Design
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Every church has a web site, but many need a few fixes to make a larger impact. I want to share 5 tips to fix your church's web site design.
1. Figure Out Why People Are Coming To Your Site.
This seems like too much of a philosophical approach to web design and not enough action, but I promise you this: if you do not have this nailed down, you are missing out on so much effective traffic! Do people come for information on events? Then have your links and web forms easily scannable and accessible. Is your target audience new visitors that should see your ministries? Make that prominent. Read More
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Serving the World's Cities:
An Andrews University Response
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 Cities have been interwoven in human experience from the beginning of time. Some will argue that humans prefer the gentle pastoral beauty and pace of life familiar to uncrowded rural settings, but the reality tells us otherwise. For whatever reason, we gather in cities. Today's cities are larger, more creative, diverse, and global than ever. In the mid-19th century less than 10% percent of the world's population lived in a metropolis of 100,000 or more. By 1900 the urban population in the world had increased to 14%. Today 60% of human population is in the city, and in developed nations like Canada and America, it is an astounding 75%. And the pace of migration to urban life is quickening. Today's cities are the center of power, culture, economy, and spirituality. Read More
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It Is Time to Take Church Media Risks Seriously
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For the large church with a media team, social media outreach, a video team that streams services online or through their local cable network, media risk is an important topic. For the small church that meets in a home with just a few members, media risk is ALSO an important topic. Read More
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Convention Hotel Accommodations
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Pastors attending the 2015 NAD Pastoral Family Convention can begin their experience at one of the eight-three or four star hotels specifically selected for convenience and comfort in Downtown Austin. Walk to the Austin convention center, shopping, vegetarian and vegan restaurants in this walkable city.
Take advantage of rooms with single, double, triple, and quad occupancy room rates that include concessions like in-room internet, breakfast, and discounted parking rates depending on what hotel selected. Hotels with suites are also available for those bringing their families. For more information on hotel options go to www.nadpastorsconvention.com.
Reserve your room today!
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Ideas, Events, Resources, Announcements
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 Jesus, the ONE - Do you want to draw closer to Jesus? Would you like to learn how to draw others to Him? There are only three days left to register (by Dec. 31) at the regular rate for The One Project gathering in San Diego, Feb. 8-9. Register while there is still space. This gathering will be focused on the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7. With reflections from Alex Bryan, Chris Oberg, Laurence Turner, Emily Whitney, Ivan Williams, Randy Roberts, Japhet De Oliveira, John McVay, Dwight Nelson, Karl Haffner, Manny Arteaga, Tim Gillespie, Michaela Lawrence Jeffery, Sam Leonor and more. Special guest John Ortberg will focus on discipleship.
Just for pastors and theology students: One extra day for free, called Reframe to explore the implications of Jesus. All. In our congregations. This will include a Q&A session with the One Project leadership.
 Jesus Unlimited - Dr. Ricardo Graham, president of the Pacific Union Conference, has written a book that invites us to imagine Calvary and the spiritual, emotional, and physical wounds of Jesus. Based on well-beloved passages of Scripture, each chapter not only provides a good devotional read, but fresh ideas for your next sermon.
How to Predict Divorce - Kevin Thompson does a lot of weddings and has learned an uncanny way to tell which couples will succeed and which couples are most likely to divorce - all in the way the wedding cake is exchanged.
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