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Blue Christmas: Offering Hope and Comfort
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 Although Christmas is commonly a time of joy and celebration, for the many individuals who have experienced loss and pain throughout the year, the holiday is an especially painful time. Members of the Corona church provided an opportunity for such people to experience peace, comfort and hope.
"What makes the celebration of Christmas difficult for many who have experienced a significant loss recently or whose loss occurred during this time of year is dealing with the pain of that loss while everyone else is celebrating," said Gary Taber, the church's senior pastor. Read More
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Planning a Blue Christmas Service
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I believe that there were three important pieces in the nuts and bolts that made our 2014 Blue Christmas service at the Corona church successful:
1: Holding the Service Early in December
If you look up Blue Christmas on the internet you will discover that most churches that hold them do so on December 21. This is because it is the longest night of the year, thus symbolizing the darkness that grief causes. We chose to hold it on Friday evening, December 12 for these reasons: Read More
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Comfort for the Day:
Your New Grief Ministry Resource
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 Wouldn't it be wonderful if your church members knew how to minister to those who mourn? Wouldn't it be a blessing of hope and healing for them to confidently assist others through their losses? So, in addition to personal grief coaching and my book, Comfort for the Day, I am a grief educator who raises awareness for those on the outside of grief who are looking in and wondering what to do and say. Read More |
I grew up in the city of Barranquilla, Columbia as one of four children in a traditional Hispanic Catholic home. I attended an all-guys school for 12 years. Every kid goes through their issues, especially during their teenage years. For me it was not so much drugs, alcohol or cigarettes. I didn't belong to a gang either. My challenge was bullying-being bullied. Read More
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Events, Resources, Announcements
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 Urgent Need for Volunteers in Micronesia and Marshall Islands: At the beginning of the 2015-16 school year, Guam-Micronesia Mission urgently needed to fill 54 positions in their eight island schools. Thanks to several volunteers from the North American Division, as well as other divisions, who have answered the call, that number is down to 43. However, this still represents a great need, and many of the schools are stretched thin with temporary help to start the school year, and await volunteers to fill these positions. The greatest needs are currently on the islands of Ebeye (Marshall Islands),Yap, and Chuuk (Micronesia), although other islands still have several open positions as well. Read More  Uriah Smith: Apologist and Biblical Commentator: Interrupted on his path to Harvard, a young Uriah Smith threw in his lot with the first Sabbath-keepers. Soon his talents became indispensable to the growing church. He was put in charge of the church paper, the Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald, and his sharply worded opinions became familiar to thousands of readers. He had much to say about prophecy and sharply-worded criticism of slavery and Catholicism. Often he found himself brought into controversy--and sometimes booted out of his position as top editor--but he continued to "stand by the pillars."
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