Inside Story for Friday 29th of March 2024 By Andrew McChesney Ryszard Jankowski couldn’t get the police to leave him alone. Every time he set up a stand to sell Ellen White’s The Great Controversy and other books in a Baltic resort town in Poland, the police showed up and demanded that he remove the … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 22nd of March 2024 By Andrew McChesney Sekule learned of two other Sabbath-keepers in the military: a lieutenant preparing for baptism and an older man born in a Seventh-day Adventist home. The Bosnian War was raging, and the lieutenant tried to convince Sekule that desperate times called for desperate measures. “This … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 15th of March 2024 By Andrew McChesney Returning to the barracks after a short stint of shoveling coal on a mountain, Sekule informed his commander that he would not bear arms, even in the ongoing Bosnian War. “I don’t want to shoot people,” he said. “You must take a weapon,” the … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 8th of March 2024 By Andrew McChesney After Sekule refused to work for several Sabbaths, his commanding military officer began to understand that he could not compel the young soldier to violate his conscience. “So, you can’t work on the Sabbath in the army?” the officer said. “That’s right. I can’t … Continue reading –>
The Mission program of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is an opportunity for us to understand the needs of others and share in supporting them. Please click on the image below to watch the Mission Spotlight presentation for this week:
Continue reading -->Inside Story for Friday 1st of March 2024 By Andrew McChesney During his first few weeks in the military, Sekule was sent with a company of soldiers to work on a mountain in the former Yugoslavia. On a Friday afternoon, he received orders to shovel coal into the Sabbath hours. “You have to shovel for … Continue reading –>
The Mission program of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is an opportunity for us to understand the needs of others and share in supporting them. Please click on the image below to watch the Mission Spotlight presentation for this week:
Continue reading -->Inside Story for Friday 23rd of February 2024 By Andrew McChesney Two weeks after Sekule’s baptism, the Bosnian War erupted. Sekule fled his boarding high school in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and went into hiding for 15 days. When he returned to the dormitory to retrieve his possessions, he found the building had … Continue reading –>
The Mission program of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is an opportunity for us to understand the needs of others and share in supporting them. Please click on the image below to watch the Mission Spotlight presentation for this week:
Continue reading -->Inside Story for Friday 16th of February 2024 By Andrew McChesney On a Friday evening, Sekule was waiting outside the boys’ dormitory at his high school in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was waiting for a boy who had insulted him, and he planned to beat him up. As he waited, a friend … Continue reading –>
