Sturgeon Bay Seventh-day Adventist Church issued the following announcement on November 2.
The “Mission in the Pandemic” vespers was the only scheduled programing on Friday, October 30, for the 2020 Year-End Meeting of the North American Division. The evening service highlighted stories of mission within the division’s territory that creatively adapted to the realities presented by the coronavirus disease pandemic.
Kenneth Denslow, assistant to the president of the North American Division, and Jose Cortes, Jr., associate director of the NAD Ministerial Association, led virtual attendees through a series of video reports and live video-conferenced interviews that were streamed on Zoom for executive committee members and invitees. The meetings were also streamed directly on the NAD website, YouTube, and Facebook.
Attendees heard reports of an It Is Written media ministries evangelism series pivoting from in-person meetings to multi-faceted virtual programs; church planting in Washington, D.C., and Richardson, Texas; a church in Apopka, Florida, conducting its worship services as a drive-in; food distribution programs operating in Kansas City, Kansas, and throughout the Nova Scotia providence in Canada; the NAD Vacation Bible School reaching more than 13,000 children and families; and an elder ministering to a remote indigenous village on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska.
The vespers program also included live baptisms broadcast from churches in New York City, New York; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; South Windsor, Connecticut; and Cliffside Park, New Jersey. The baptisms were aligned with various evangelism series that were taking place at the same time as the vespers program. This was the first-time baptisms have been included in NAD Year-End Meeting.
For several conferences and unions who were unable to send a video report, a list of projects and ministries taking place within their respective territories rolled as part of the credits of the broadcast.
“Through these stories of church planting, lives changed, compassion, and discipleship — during a time of a pandemic, racial tension in our nation and throughout the division, and economic hardship — we’ve seen how the gospel continues to move forward,” said Cortes.
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