February 2015

Volume 11

Issue 02

To reach London with the distinctive, Christ-centered, Seventh-day Adventist message of Hope and Wholeness.

London, Ontario

NEWSLETTER
In This Issue
I Am a Christian, I Am Charlie......1

First Female Head of Catholic Charities

USA Appointed.3
Leading Evangelical Journal, Christianity
Today, Decides the Adventist Movement
is Too Big to Ignore...3
Street Named After Ellen G. White in
Dominican Republic...4
3,000 to Be Baptized in the Dominican
Republic.....5
Congresswoman Praises Brooklyn, New
York Adventist Church for Putting Gospel
Into Action....6
Religious liberty on minds of many Jamaicans after government..7
Four principles for godly Facebooking...8
Sunset calendar February 2015...9
Western District schedule of speakers,
February 2015..10

I Am a Christian, I Am Charlie
By supporting those who mock religion at Charlie Hebdo, we are also supporting Christian beliefs. BY NOREL IACOB, editor of Semnele Timpului, the Romanian version
of the Signs of the Times

First Female Head of

Catholic Charities USA
Appointed.
By David Gibson

Indian writer Salman Rushdie famously warned that freedom of expression would die if people didnt have the right to offend one another. What is
freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist, he
said. Rushdie himself faced death for exercising his freedom to offend in his
1988 book, The Satanic Verses, Ben Wizner, a director of the American Civil
Liberties Union, noted in a 2012 commentary published by PBS television.
Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme religious leader of Iran, issued a fatwa
ordering Rushdies death on charges of insulting Islam...
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A nun has been chosen as the next

president of Catholic Charities USA, the
first time that a woman will head the
church's main charitable arm in its 105year history. Sister Donna Markham, a
highly regarded Dominican who specializes in clinical psychology, will take over in
June from...

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I Am a Christian, I Am
Charlie

freedom of conscience
sending the author into hiding for
nine years. But Rushdies freedom to
offend had consequences: one of his
translators was stabbed to death, and
dozens of people died in protests
against the book.
On Jan. 7, 2015, a dozen people
were killed in Paris as a result of the
same freedom to offend. Among the
slain employees of the French satirical
magazine Charlie Hebdo were four cartoonists who drew irreverent depictions
of Islam and its prophet, Muhammad.
The massacre by two Islamist
gunmen resulted in an outpouring of
emotion, with scores of people rallying
on the streets and social media to declare, Je suis Charlie, or I am Charlie.
I am a Christian. I am Charlie,
too.
Christians have no problem joining people around the world in condemning the Paris killings. We have a
biblical basis for our stance, the sixth
commandment, which outlaws murder.
But Christians also know that the
Bible extends the principle of love to
loving even your enemies (Matt. 5:44),
and that makes the cartoons published
in Charlie Hebdo appear to be unnecessary and inappropriate provocations.
The magazines cartoonists
knew they were stirring up anger in
some quarters. It perhaps sounds a bit
pompous, but I prefer to die standing
than living on my knees, one of them,

Stphane Charbonnier, said in

2012. To be fair, Charbonnier also said
he disliked all religions equally. An
avowed atheist, he said, Islam is just
as banal as Catholicism.
So Christians may rightly feel
perplexed about what position they
should take personally and as a society
toward those who boldly and blatantly
exercise their freedom to offend.
Some people have seen advantages in restricting free speech and
the freedom of expression. Eric Posner,
a recognized authority on international
human rights law at Chicago University,
has suggested that a governments
desire to protect the freedom of expression should not prevent it from halting
the distribution of offensive materials if
the restrictions could prevent deadly
protests. Posner was specifically referring to a parody film called Innocence
of Muslims whose online distribution in
the West in 2012 sparked violent protests in the Middle East and North Africa.
The simple solution may appear
to be to outlaw extreme forms of free
speech. But there are two real dangers
with this line of thinking. The greatest
danger was succinctly expressed by
Wizner in the PBS commentary: The
only thing predictable about giving the
government the power to censor
speech is that it will use that power unpredictably."
Those words resonate with people like me who live in communist or
former communist countries. The recent past is enough to remind us that
the idea of giving the authorities the
right to censor speech creates threats
much larger than those that arise from
the expression of offensive opinions.

secution throughout world history.

Therefore, we need to protect
the freedom of expression of everyone,
even as we discourage speech that
incites hatred. We need to defend the
freedom of both those who embrace a
religion and those who mock it.

Religious liberty and

freedom of
conscience can
never be invoked to
justify retaliation
against those who mock
a religious belief.
As Asma Jahangir, former United
Nations special rapporteur on freedom
of religion and of conscience, once
said, Freedom of religion primarily
confers a right to act in accordance
with one's religion but does not bestow
a right for believers to have their religion itself protected from all adverse
comment.
I would like to believe that support for the freedom of expression of all
people was what motivated people to
flood the social media with their message of solidarity, I am Charlie. When
we defend the freedom of those who
offend us, we are defending our own
freedom.

The second danger lies in the

fact that the beliefs of one person may
offend another, especially when it
comes to religious matters. Given the
opportunity, some people would criminalize anti-gay activities, while others
would criminalize any activity that was
pro-gay. Likewise, some people would
criminalize religion, others atheism;
some abortion, others the so-called pro
-lifers. The results would be tragic, as
demonstrated by the recurrence of per

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First Female Head of Catholic

Charities USA Appointed

Leading Evangelical Journal,

Christianity Today, Decides the
Adventist Movement is Too Big
to Ignore.
It is the Christian magazine with the largest circulation in the United States, but Christianity Today (CT) has
published almost nothing about the Seventh-day Adventist
denomination in recent decades. The January-February
2015 issue of the journal broke its silence with The Season of Adventists.
The article acknowledged that the Adventist faith has
become the fifth-largest Christian communion worldwide,
after Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Anglicanism and the
Assemblies of God. It reported the rapid growth of the Adventist movement. In 2014, for the 10th year in a row,
more than 1 million people became Adventists, hitting a
record 18.1 million members.

Sister Donna Markham

from the Rev. Larry Snyder, who has headed the
Alexandria, Va.-based Catholic Charities for the past decade.

It quoted Pastor Ted Wilson, president of the Adventist denomination, about the fear that the movement
may be too successful and in danger of losing its
distinctive biblical truths. It also quoted an independent
ministry with the same concerns and stated that Wilson

There can be no greater call than to serve and advocate on behalf of persons who struggle to get by in a
world where they are all-too-frequently relegated to the
margins of society and where they long for dignity, hope,
and compassion, said Markham, currently president of the
Behavioral Health Institute for Mercy Health in Ohio.
I feel blessed to walk among the many dedicated
Catholic Charities workers across the country who daily
make the gospel come alive through their care for their sisters and brothers in need. Catholic Charities agencies
across the country serve 10 million people annually, and
their 70,000 employees are on the front lines of the
churchs social service efforts in the U.S. Markhams appointment by the CCUSA board of trustees -- a board she
once chaired -- comes as Pope Francis is pushing to give
women more prominent roles in the Catholic Church. The
choice of a well-known Catholic sister also coincides with
efforts to ease the Vaticans tensions with the American
nuns, who have been the subject of two separate Vatican
investigations and intense criticism from conservatives in
Rome and the U.S.
I will do all in my power to support her leadership
and passion in working to respond to the growing needs of
the underprivileged, especially following the example of our
dear Pope Francis, said Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik,
the chief liaison between the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops and CCUSA.
During his 10 years as head of Catholic Charities,
Snyder became a prominent faith-based voice for social
justice on Capitol Hill. He is returning to work in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

listed people moving independently from the main

church as one of the ways that Satan is attacking Adventism. The subtitle Can Ben Carson's Church Stay Separatist
amid Booming Growth? is very suggestive. If considered together with other developments in Zambia, where a presidential
runner up, a leading opponent, Hakainde Hichilema, an
Adventist, one of the wealthiest men in the country and an
economist by training, has lost the election, to Edgar Lungu
(49:51%), Adventism is not an insignificant minority any
more.
The question before us How can we love everyone
and still retain the distinctives that make us unique?

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Street Named After Ellen G. White

in Dominican
Republic.
Seventh-day Adventist Church

Wilson thanked the mayor for

her kind words, the citys efforts to
promote religious freedom, and the
commemoration of Whites legacy with
the street.
We believe Ellen G. White
received visions from God not to bring
honor to herself but to point people to
the Bible and the God of heaven, he
added. Her writings on health, family,
the publishing work, relationships with
people, religious subjects, biblical
studies, and education are instructions
for us. Thats why Seventh-day Adventists are law-abiding citizens
because they believe in following
counsel from heaven.

President Ted N. C. Wilson unveils the new

sign, officially changing the name of 7th Street
in La Romana, Dominican Republic, to Ellen
White Street, or "Elena G. de White" in Spanish.
[photo: Libna Stevens]

As the ceremony was ending,

a senior city official made a surprise
announcement that the city was donating a plot of land worth more than
$100,000 to the church so it could
construct a new church building. The
500-square-meter property is located
in an upper middle class district.

Elena G. de White Street is the first

street in the world to be named after
the Adventist Church co-founder

The announcement was greeted with enthusiastic applause from

church leaders, who said there was no
Adventist presence in that part of
town.

A city in the Dominican Republic has named a street after Seventh-day Adventist Church co-founder
Ellen G. White in recognition of her
contribution to the world through her
writings about God, health, and family.
The decision by La Romana, a
city of 127,000 people, marks the first
time that a street has been named
after White anywhere in the world.
La Romana Mayor Maritza
Suero announced the renaming of 7th
Street to Elena G. de White Street at a
ceremony attended by Adventist world
church president Ted N.C. Wilson and
other church leaders.
Words are not enough to
greet such high personalities of the
Christian world here today to this city
of La Romana, which we have declared Gods city, Suero said in a
speech filled with praise for the Adventist Church and its leaders on
Thursday.

churchs Inter-American Division,

which includes the Dominican Republic, assured the mayor that she could
count on local Adventists to be dependable, peaceful, law-abiding, and
respectful of the government. We are
here to serve you, he said.
Cesario Acevedo, president of
the Adventist Church in the Dominican
Republic, presented Mayor Suero with
a plaque on behalf of the church and
sets of White books for her and her
staff. This event means so much to
our members here in the Dominican
Republic, Acevedo said.

Our membership respects and appreciates

greatly the ministry of
Ellen G. White. Our
members continue to benefit from her instruction,
and this street sign will
point to the gems found in
her writings.

Elena G. de White Street is

located in the Villa Alacrn neighbor
hood and is one block away
from the 60-member La Fe de Villa
Alacran Adventist Church. Wilson and
other church leaders later visited the
street to unveil the sign and offer a
prayer.
The idea to rename the street
came from district councilman Wanchy
Medina, a lifelong Adventist member.
He said he wanted to recognize
Whites significant contribution
to the world in health and many different areas, he said.
G.T. Ng, executive secretary
of the Adventist world church and
chair of the Ellen G. White Estates
board of trustees, said this was the
first time that a street had been named
after White and noted that 2015
marked the 100thanniversary of her
death.
Israel Leito, president of the

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Majority of British Jews Feel

They Have no Future in England, Europe
The Jews see a growth in anti-semitism.
BY TREVOR GRUNDY 2015 Religion News Service

stations, airports and tourist attractions. Nearly half the soldiers about 4,700 were assigned to protect Frances
717 Jewish schools.
An increasing number of French Jews have been immigrating to Israel. And the four victims of the Hyper Casher
attack were buried there, even though they were not Israeli
citizens. Britain has been relatively free of anti-Semitism
since World War II.
In the 1930s, Sir Oswald Mosley led the British Union
of Fascists, which organized attacks on Jews. He was imprisoned during the war and his movement fell to pieces in
the late 1950s. Mosley died at his home in Paris in 1980.
Laura Janner-Klausner, senior rabbi in the Movement
for Reform Judaism, disagreed with the surveys conclusions: It doesnt match day to day realities, she said.
Britain is a fantastic place. It offers all religions and minorities freedom. Britain is one of the best countries in the world
for Jews.

Anti-Semitism in Europe.
British Jews fear a return to the 1930s and question
whether they have a long-term future in this country, according to a survey conducted by the Campaign Against AntiSemitism.
Over half of British Jews (58 percent) said they fear
they may have no long-term future not only in Britain but
also in Europe.
The survey included 2,200 British Jews from different
parts of the country.
Britain is at a tipping point, said Gideon Falter,
chairman of CAA. Unless anti-Semitism is met with zero
tolerance, it will grow and British Jews will increasingly
question their place in this country.
Fellow campaigner Jonathan Sacerdoti said rising
anti-Semitism in Britain and Europe has made Jews afraid.
There are approximately 280,000 Jews in Britain and
roughly 500,000 in France.
Dave Rich, a spokesman for Community Security
Trust, which looks after the security of British Jews, said
that extra police and volunteer patrols are protecting synagogues since last weeks terrorism attacks in Paris, including the deaths of four Jews at a kosher supermarket called
Hyper Casher.
On January 12, France announced that 10,000 troops
would guard sensitive sites, including synagogues, railway

3,000 to Be Baptized in
the Dominican Republic.
On January 11, Sunday night, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Dominican Republic concluded one of its
largest evangelistic efforts ever held in the capital city of
Santo Domingo. Thousands of people traveling in scores of
buses came together at Palacio de los Deportes stadium to
hear Evangelist Mark Finley present the message of hope
from January 7 to 11. The five-day evangelistic series
themed New Year New Life drew more than 14,000 every
night and gathered thousands of more participants across
the island who watched the online series in local churches,
in homes, or listened on their radios.
There is a glorious tomorrow in our future, the Bible
says, Finley stated. A world of hope, a world of joy, a world
of peace, and health, where there is no sickness, nor
death, he said.
Finley conveyed a message of salvation to the gathering and reminded them to make use of opportunities to be
joyous, live fully and prepare for heaven. His wife, Earnestine, joined the evangelistic team in offering basic health
concepts. Finley thanked government officials of the Dominican Republic for the religious and political freedom in the
nation. Cesario Acevedo, president of the Church in the Dominican Republic, said Church leaders and members spent
months preparing for the massive campaign. Our Church
wanted to strengthen Dominican families and society with
the presentation of the Word of God in a massive way,
Acevedo said.
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Acevedo shared that preparation began last April as

evangelistic initiatives began in 72 Adventist schools. The
campaigns continued with children, teens and adolescents
in churches from June to August. The month of December
was dedicated to special prayer for the success of the large
evangelistic series in Santo Domingo.

July, and Garner died at the scene. A grand jury subsequently refused to indict the officer. On Dec. 20, two police officers were shot dead by a man claiming retaliation
for Garners death. Both incidences sparked protests, rallies, and extensive national media coverage.
In response, the Flatbush Adventist Church in Brooklyn gathered politicians, police officers, civil rights activists,
and an overwhelmingly young crowd to engage in prayer
and a round-table discussion about the tensions permeating the city.
We still mourn the loss of Eric Garner. We still
mourn the loss of [officers Wenjian] Liu and [Rafael] Ramos, Daniel Honor, president of the Adventist Churchs
Northeastern Conference, told the gathering. Society, however, has presented us with a false choice. It has told us,
Either you support community rights, or you support the
police. Today I want to categorically reject that choice.
As a faith community, we cannot sit in idleness,
twiddling our thumbs in despair. We are a people of hope,
not despair, said G. Earl Knight, president of the Greater
New York Conference. We believe that God can heal the
brokenhearted. He can heal our broken relationships.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Dominican Republic.

This has been the largest attended mega evangelistic

campaign we have had in more than 15 years, Acevedo
said. The Church is growing fast and just recently, we have
been able to reach 90 percent of the country with our FM
station, he added.
The series was reported by news agencies and transmitted live through a network of 20 radio stations as well as
online. Dozens of new believers were baptized throughout
the weekend series, and some 3,000 baptisms are expected to take place on January 17 during a special online
ceremony at El Palacio de Los Deportes. There are nearly
300,000 Adventist Church members in the Dominican Republic. The Church operates 72 primary and secondary
schools, a university, a hospital and one radio station.

Congresswoman Praises Brooklyn,

New York Adventist Church for Putting Gospel Into Action.
An Adventist church has sought to bring healing to a
New York community divided by racially tinged unrest by
organizing a forum that a U.S. congresswoman praised as
an understanding of the gospel that can transform life in
real-time.
Tensions flared in New York after a white police officer put a black suspect, Eric Garner, in a chokehold in

U.S. Representative Yvette Clarke, of New Yorks 9th

Congressional District, commended the Adventist leaders
for coordinating the timely gathering for dialogue and discussion. You have decided that church takes place seven
days a week, she said. From that understanding of the
gospel, we can transform life in real-time, not only in the
spiritual realm, but indeed we can make a change in the
secular realm.
The Jan. 18 program included prayers for city leaders, protection for the more than 35,000 city police officers
patrolling the streets, and Gods healing to ease the hurt

Many in attendance were youth and young adults.

and suspicion that are rampant in the community. Other

guests who spoke at the event included New York City
Public Advocate Letitia James; U.S. Congressional Representative Hakeem Jeffries of the 8th Congressional District;
Harold Miller of the Community Affairs Unit representing
Mayor Bill de Blasio; and New York Police Department First
Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Tucker.
Many in attendance were youth and young adults.
Adventist youth leaders Andres Peralta and Roger Wade

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presented the audience with cards containing information about how to respond when stopped by the police,
as well as information about citizens rights and responsibilities. Gilford Monrose, president of the 67th Precinct Clergy Council, a group of clergy working under the auspices of
the citys 67th Precinct, said pastors could help ease tensions by returning to the more activist-minded roles that
they had played during the Civil Rights era in the 1960s
and 1970s.
Members of the clergy have a specific role to pray,
but we also have to put our feet to our faith, he said. We
have to do work and be that liaison between the police and
our communities. Maranatha Adventist Church pastor
Shane Vidal called for a new paradigm of policing that
would enable police officers to focus not on how many arrests are made, but on how many lives they can transform
by their daily encounters. Recommendations from the panel
discussion will be prepared and presented to the New York
mayors office.

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ON
MINDS OF MANY JAMAICANS
AFTER GOVERNMENT
PASSED FLEXI-WORK WEEK
LAW.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church has opened a
Jamaican chapter of its International Religious Liberty Association, which defends the rights of all faiths, at a festival
attended by senior government officials and thousands of
other people in Kingston. The National Religious Liberty
Association was launched during Jamaicas first Festival of
Religious Freedom at the National Arena on Sabbath, January 24, before a crowd of thousands of Adventists, including Jamaican Governor-General Patrick Allen, and members of other religious denominations.
Leaders of the chapter, called the National Religious
Liberty Association, said the group was needed because
Jamaicans should not take their current religious freedom
for granted.
Religious freedom is on the minds of many Jamaicans after the government passed a flexi-work week law a
few months ago that a number of religious organizations
fear will not sufficiently protect their day of worship. The
government, however, has insisted that the law is not a
threat to religious freedom because it gives employees a 24
-hour period to use as a day of worship.

sented the prime minister, said the government recognized the enormous impact of religious freedom on Jamaicas development and had enshrined the right in a 2011
amendment to the Jamaican constitution. Countless
schools, hospitals, donor agencies, and long-standing community development programs in Jamaica are the result of
religious freedom and the strong influence of the Church,
Pickersgill said.
Parliament member Pearnel Charles, who represented opposition leader Andrew Holness, promised that the
Jamaica Labour Party would defend religious freedom always but urged Christians to speak out against human injustice. You cannot be silent when freedom is under attack
when our people are being murdered all over the world,
including in Jamaica, he said. He also said Christians
should engage in politics because if you dont care, somebody else is going to care. Be ready to defend your freedom, he said. An attack on freedom anywhere is an attack
on freedom everywhere.
The new secretary-general of the National Religious
Liberty Association is Nigel Coke, who is also public affairs
and religious liberty director of the Adventist Churchs Jamaica Union Conference. He named Reverend Conrad
Pitkin as the president and a number of other religious
leaders as members of the interim board.
Pitkin, who is chairman of the Jamaica Umbrella
Group of Churches, thanked successive governments for
preserving religious freedom and allowing religious organizations to establish educational and health-based institutions beneficial to their members.

National Religious Liberty Association.

Jamaica joins more than 80 countries worldwide with

national religious liberty associations. Most recently, Papua
New Guinea opened its own association during a festival
last month. Although spearheaded by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the multi-denomination association in Jamaica aims to defend and preserve religious liberty for all
religions. Its parent organization, the International Religious
Liberty Association, has been defending the religious rights
of people since it was chartered in 1893.

Deputy Prime Minister Robert Pickersgill, who repre

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With that story in mind, here's four principles to help us be

godly Facebookers.
1. Your online behaviour reflects your offline attitudes

Four principles
for godly Facebooking
BY MARY KATE WARNER 5 DECEMBER 2013

How do you respond when someone posts negative comments online?

I recently heard of something that happened on Facebook.
A girl posted about New Years Day, saying People always
make New Years Resolutions, but lets face it, none of us
are going to keep ours.
How would you respond to a statement like that?
Some people posted back in agreement, and the poster had
a lot of likes. But one of the posters 375 friends had just
made a New Years Resolution to go back to the gym. She
really wanted to keep it, and was a kind of up and bubbly
person, so that comment really got to her. This girl (well call
her Jena) simply posted back Ew.
In other words, Jena had read this negative comment, had
felt it strike her wrongly, and she posted her feelings about
it: Ew.
It turns out things had gotten a little tense between the girl
and Jena lately. They were in the same math class no
words had been exchanged, just a few dirty looks that probably started with mutual jealousy. The first girl posted back
to Jena, I hear youre switching high schools. Is it because
you dont have any friends at this school?
What she didn't realise was Jenas dad had serious surgery
the year before, and they were moving so he could live in a
house that didnt have as many stairs. Switching schools
was causing the whole family a tremendous stress.
The point is, this Facebook war mushroomed into something that involved three days of posts, over 160 people
from 5 different communities and 3 different schools.

Philippians 4:8 says, whatever is true, whatever is noble,

whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.
You cant say, and you cant post, what youre not thinking
about.
So before your write something on Facebook, imagine how
others might respond to what are you saying. How do think
they will feel? Good? Or Bad? If you think there's a chance
they will take it negatively, maybe you shouldn't post it.
Posting and texting is just like any other area of life. In Matthew 7:12 Jesus states clearly, So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up
the Law and the Prophets. This 'Golden Rule' sums up almost every other command in the Bible.
2. Avoid online negativity
This principle is like a subcategory of the first. If you say
something negative about a person, it often gets back to the
source. If you post something negative in public about another person, thats worse. If you try to encrypt it so that
only a few people know what youre talking about, it will be
sniffed out by the source and probably 20 other people
who are so deeply insecure that they think everyone is referring to them.
If you have something you need to say to someone, then go
and talk to them face-to-face. And do it with grace and love.
3. Don't return evil for evil
What if someone says something negative about you? Not
returning evil for evil is really hard, and yet it is where the
rubber meets the road in relying on Christ. Youre going to
need practice and patience.
Here are some examples I've seen of people responding to
negative comments:

Negative person says: Whered you get those ugly jeans?

Reply: (roll eyes) I know they're not the best but I really
love all the stuff you wear.
Negative person says: I cant stand so-and-so. He's really
annoying.
Reply: Actually, he sits beside me in math. Hes really nice
once you get to know him.

Some would argue it all started with just TWO LITTLE LETTERS: E-W. Ew.
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Negative person says: So and so wrote bad stuff about

you on the bathroom wall.
Reply: Youre kidding! Wow. I always really liked her. I'll try
and find a time to chat with her about it.
Its very hard to return a mean comment with a nice one
because we feel like we are giving that mean person even
more power. But the opposite is true.

Sunset calendar
February 2015
Friday

Saturday

6 Feb

7 Feb

Sunrise:
7:32 am

Sunrise:
7:31 am

Sunset:
5:45 pm

Sunset:
5:46 pm

13 Feb

14 Feb

Sunrise:
7:23 am

Sunrise:
7:21 am

Sunset:
5:54 pm

Sunset:
5:55 pm

20 Feb

21 Feb

Sunrise:
7:13 am

Sunrise:
7:11 am

Sunset:
6:03 pm

Sunset:
6:04 pm

27 Feb

28 Feb

Sunrise:
7:02 am

Sunrise:
7:00 am

Sunset:
6:11 pm

Sunset:
6:13 pm

4. Kill them with kindness

Psalm 25:21-22 says, If your enemy is hungry, give him
bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink, for
you will heap burning coals on his head, and the Lord will
reward you."
Heap burning coals means that regardless of what people
may show on the outside, you will make them burn with
regret over what they just said. Its such a well-known tactic
that it has a name: Its called killing people with kindness.
That doesnt mean the guilt will show up in people right
away. Generally, they will look confused or stunned.
But often theyll go away and think about it. Conversely, if
you say something mean back, you are throwing fire at fire.
What happens to the fire when you add fire to it? It grows
and grows. Will fire ever put out a fire?
In the end, as Christians, we want to follow the lead of Jesus, who said in Matthew 5:44,

love your enemies and pray for

those who persecute you.
Are you ready to do that on Facebook today?

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London South
805
Shelborne
Street

February
7

Dates

Alex
Golovenko

Lars Muller

Juan Carlos
Atencio

Roy West

Juan Carlos
Atencio

Juan Carlos
Atencio

Roy West

Juan Carlos
Atencio

Karl Nickol

Gerardo
Oudri

Randy
Saunders

Jowin
Mwizerwa

Willys Abali

Windsor
5350
Haig
Avenue

www.adventistlondon.ca

Fred Stele

Fred Stele

Fred Stele

Fred Stele

Pulpit Speakers @ Western District Adventist Churches

St.Thomas
Sarnia
Woodstock
380
1620
594754 Oxford
Manor
Modeland
Road
Road
Road

519.680.1965

Jack Polihronov

Andres Perez

Alex
Golovenko

West London
471
Ridgewood
Cres

Western District schedule of speakers

PRAYING MEETINGS

Mid-week Prayer meeting at 805 Shelborne Street, Wednesdays at 7 P.M. London ( South ) SDA

Western District schedule of speakers, February 2015

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Luis Capote

Marian
Kossovan

Mihai
Giurgesku

Junior
Garcia

Windsor Spanish
3325 Walker Road