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

805 Shelborne Street, London, ON

Date Speaker/Facilitator Event Time

2 Chris Bassaragh Youth Revival: Revolution is Now! 7 pm

4 Chris Bassaragh Youth Revival: Sound of Victory. 7 pm

5 Chris Bassaragh Man down: your call to duty! 11 am

5 Mike Keim Sanctuary, Grace & Eden 7 pm

6 Gord Rayner Two gardens: Sin & Salvation 7 pm

7 Max Mantiri Jesus’ Saving Presence 7 pm

8 Ray Thompson Lamb of God provide our needs 7 pm

9 Cameron Munro Our Salvation in Mediator’s hands 7 pm

10 Earl Biggs Changed by beholding Grace 7 pm

11 Clara Baptiste The promise of coming Judgment 7 pm

12 Alex Golovenko Radical Prayer 11 am

12 Alex Golovenko Mission 316—Universe next door 6 pm

12 Edwin Onyango Home to Eden—final stretch 7 pm

18 Alex Golovenko Who’s behind World powers? 7 pm

19 Errol Lawrence Being a Growing church today 11 am

19 Alex Golovenko Could Israel hold the Key? 7 pm

20 Alex Golovenko Does Bible predict dates? 7 pm

22 Alex Golovenko Where are Today’s Prophets? 7 pm

23 Alex Golovenko What is Apocalypse really about? 7 pm

25 Alex Golovenko Is Armageddon World War III? 7 pm

26 Alex Golovenko Radical Relationships 11 am

26 Alex Golovenko Is there a place for Hell in eternity? 7 pm

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 organiz-

ing another viewing Monday, December 4.

DON’T MISS IT!

Tickets for this will be $5.00 per person

children/youth 15 and under are 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 and under

will be $3.00 for the dinner.

For more info contact

Gord & Kathy Rayner

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

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Seventh-day Adventist

Prime Minister of Jamaica

Outgoing Prime Minister Bruce Golding speaks with his succes-

sor, Andrew Holness, during October 23rd swearing-in ceremony

at King's House in St Andrew, Jamaica. A former government

education minister, the 39-year-old Holness is the youngest person

to ever hold the high office. He was sworn to the high office by an-

other fellow Adventist, pastor, former Union President, sir Patrick

Allen, the Governor general since 2009.

Seventh-day Adventists make up the second largest denomination in Jamaica—about 11% of the population.

In a ceremony at King‟s House on Sunday af-ternoon, the new prime minister did not swear on the bible as is the custom because of his faith. Rather, as is allowed under the constitution, Hol-ness „declared and affirmed” due allegiance to Jamaica and his intention to carry out his duties as Prime Minister of Jamaica.

At his inaugural address, he said: "I love the poor but I hate poverty." Holness vowed to

"conscientiously and impartially" serve all Jamai-cans during an hourlong speech and pledged to ease the island's poverty by increasing access to education, creating meaningful jobs and ending "garrison politics," a reference to populist alli-ances with gang leaders in vote-rich slums.

"Jamaica is yearning, crying out, for a new poli-tics to emerge," Holness said to applause. "Criminals must never be seen by the community as protectors."

"I take responsibility for the direction of the country" declared Holness in his first address.

On October 7-12 more than 200 members of the General Conference Executive Committee, representing all regions of world wide church, the highest ruling body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, were gathered in Silver Spring, Maryland to hear reports, vote changes in policy, and to approve the church's world budget for 2013.

Among agenda items was forming the new Greater Middle East Union Mission, which will be led by former undersecretary Homer Trecartin. This region was overseen by the Trans-European Church before. The current change places prior-ity on developing Gospel work in the Muslim sec-tion of 10x40 window.

Guam-Micronesia Mission, an administrative region comprising islands in the western Pacific Ocean, will now report to the denomination's North American Division, moving oversight of the region from the church's Southern Asia-Pacific Division, which is based in the Philippines.

Southern Asia-Pacific takes oversight of Paki-stan in a territorial realignment.

Northeast Brazil Union, home to almost 340,000 Adventists and a growing network of churches and church-run schools, was multiplied into two fields -- the Northeast Brazil Union and East Brazil Union. Membership there has more than doubled since the union was established in 1996. Currently we add over 3000 members monthly.

Leadership also is urging the world church's divisions to carefully audit membership rolls and remove the names of those no longer active in the movement. The call for greater scrutiny of membership statistics reflects a desire for accu-racy and transparency. G. T. Ng, Adventist

Church executive secretary, told delegates "The numbers game is not about numbers. It's about people -- souls that are lost twice” and it‟s about honesty.

Artur Stele, the director of the Biblical Research Institute, presented the timeline for the process to examine ordination and its implications for church practices. At the last General Conference in Atlanta, 2010 we admitted to not having a theol-ogy of ordination, and hence the practice must be studied to be Biblical and not based on tradition. The final report should be made ready for Octo-ber 2014.

Meanwhile, the request by North American, Australian and European churches for a variance in policies on leadership practices was not ap-proved.

A request to allow commissioned ministers (those who have not been formally ordained, simply put - women) to serve as conference presidents in cer-tain parts of the world, sparked more than six hours of debate October 11. Dan Jackson, president of church in North America, said, "We believe the position of a president of a conference should be open to treasurers, to finance officers, to secretaries who are not ordained, to those who carry a commis-sioned minister's credential, but are not on an ordi-nation track, including women...This is not a request for women's ordination. ... We are talking about governance and leadership."

Bertil Wiklander, Trans-European president, voiced similar variance: "We need your help to allow all our members in outreach. Opening doors for women in leadership would strengthen growth of the church in Europe," he said, noting the Ad-ventist Church "in the Trans-European Division

faces an extraordinary mission challenge where people are extremely resistant to the gospel and joining a church is an exception rather than the norm in these countries."

Together with the former church president Jan Paulsen the most passionate advocate of change was Dr. Ella Smith Simmons, the first woman elected a general vice president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church. In responding to the comments of some African delegates who op-posed the motion, she said she was "deeply dis-turbed and concerned. Are your memories so short that you do not remember when you were oppressed in your own land? And that those who oppressed used the Bible to uphold this oppres-sion?"

Simmons added, "We talk about unity. What is this unity? I've heard something described that is not unity, it is uniformity. ... What we are describ-ing is uniformity that is more akin to the bondage that grows out of mind control."

In the end, the controversial measure was de-feated by a written ballot vote of 167 to 117. To think, the vote of 26 more people would made the difference, opening the door for women into lead-ership.

For the sake of unity the church considers and respects the pace of African, Asian and Latin delegations.

The top priority was place on the Urban Evan-gelism by the President ted Wilson and the New York city was set as the site for the 2013 effort. The call was made to heed the prophetic voice of E.G.White and concentrate the work among the growing urban population around the world.

Brief Report from the Annual Council of the World Church

Last month we started Prayer Initiative, praying for the

entire world in one year. In October we prayed for 22

countries, where 366 million, only about 5% of world

population live.

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.

Country population Adventists Prayer needs & challenges faced by people

1 Bermuda 64,995 3,827 practical righteousness during the influx of poorer immigrants into wealthy “paradise”

2 Bhutan 708,484 631 strong occult influence of pre-Buddhist Bon animism, spiritual liberation from isolation

3 Bolivia 10,030,832 75,549 peace within & around, justice for the poorest Bolivians, mistreated indigenous people

4 Bosnia 3,79,633 598 Reconciliation after recent war (1992-95), Muslim majority to be receptive to Gospel

5 Botswana 1,977,569 30,030 Widespread immorality, drunkenness & a breakdown of the traditional family structure

6 British Indian Ocean 2,000 NONE! Diego Garcia military US/UK base. Original islanders returning from Mauritius.

7 British Virgin Islands 23,276 1,432 for Christian lifestyles to be in accordance with confession on these wealthy islands

8

Brazil 195,423,252 1,240,845

Amazon river tribes of indigenous people, disintegrating through despair and disease

9 40% of people are of African ancestry, practicing spiritism, the poorest social strata

10 A change in attitude of urban Brazilians to Mestico & native tribes, unreached groups

11 53% of population are of European ancestry, for end of corruption and cronyism

12 Favelas-slums of about 20million poverty stricken needy people of Rio de Janeiro

13 Chinese and Japanese population of Sao Paulo, for work among Buddhists

14 Urban population of richest elite and servant minority groups. Adventist education work

15 End deforestation of Amazon basin, unity among Christian churches for revival

16 Brunei 407,045 NONE! Stop Islamization by financial & career inducements, general pressure to convert

17 Bulgaria 7,497,282 7,621 Openness for progress in religious sphere, end of corruption and poverty.

18 Burkina Faso 16,286,706 3,480 Disconnect through mass immigration of people for work, rapid urbanization

19 Cambodia 15,053,112 5,549 Healing after genocide of 1975-79, 74% of people are unreached by the Gospel

20 Burundi 8,518,862 125,141 End enmity between Tutsi and Hutu, surplus of firearms contributing to violent crimes

21 Cameroon 19,958,351 107847 Division exists between French & English regions, between Muslims and Christians

22 Canada 33,889,747 61,468

Rapidly declining protestant Christianity in face of secularization, indifference to faith

23 Evangelization of First Nations, outreach to Muslim immigrant people groups

24 Cape Verde Islands 512,582 6,554 Catholic in name but superstitious and fetishist in practice. Lack of Creole Bibles.

25 Cayman Islands 56,628 4,032 Pray that the wealth may be used to extend God‟s Kingdom.

26 Central African Republic 4,505,945 10,223 End to banditry and chaos, just government for peace, healing for AIDS devastation

27 Chad 11,506,130 3,745 Zaghawa and other Muslim tribes unreached by the Gospel, peace and safety

28 Chile 17,134,708 119,784 Work among Mapuche indigenous people, strengthening of Christian churches

29 China, Hong Kong 7,069,378 4,600 Freedom from Communist Chinese control over churches, outreach to Han Chinese

30 China, Macau 547,591 210 First Christian territory in Asia is becoming non-Christian. Sustainability of churches