Material for Sidebar boxes Go to the Let's Talk section at www.gleaneronline.org, or e-mail talk@gleaneronline.org with your perspective on this topic.• Is it better to grow a bigger church or spawn a new church plant?• What is more important, nurture or outreach?• What kin... Read more
Is Your Church Dormant? During this cold, wet and often frozen time of year, those of us who like growing things can hardly wait until spring. In a few short months, those dead, dormant sticks around our homes will leaf out and flower, much to our delight and the culinar... Read more
If You Could Ask the President ... Let me make a not-so-wild guess. Many of us know precious little about the different levels of our Adventist Church structure. While we may go to church on Sabbath, read our bulletins and scan the Adventist Review or GLEANER for interesting tidbit... Read more
A Letter to God It all started when I was in the second grade. My teacher told us our town, Raymond, Washington, was so small that almost no one even knew where it was. That piece of information troubled me, and I began to worry about both me and my little town. ... Read more
One Tuesday in Tura Last of two partsWe were four nights into our evangelistic meetings in Tura, a city of 60,000 in northeastern India, and things didn’t look too rosy. We had started with a good crowd on Friday evening, then watched attendance dwindle away noticeab... Read more
We Called Him Aufty When my class of 1960 met at Auburn Adventist Academy for our 30-year reunion, we did all the regular reunion things while sharing our joys, tragedies and accomplishments. As it got later and later and my class members drifted away, there were onl... Read more
God's Mysterious Ways It was all black smoke and ringing alarms in Auburn Adventist Academy's girls dorm on that rainy November day. Were the girls still inside? Was anyone stubbornly lying in bed with ear plugs to wait out the “drill”? Was someone studying so intently... Read more
