Raising Children in Their Early Years
Daycare vs. Homecare
When Jeremi Powell first tried out football, he thought it was the worst. At 10 years old, he’d been signed up by his mom to channel his energy and keep him out of trouble. What left an impression, instead, were the embarrassing tackles he endured.
My dad is a pastor, and when I was 9 years old, he got a call to leave our home country of the Dominican Republic to come to the United States as a missionary pastor. He agreed and July 25, 2016, we were on our way to America. At first, I thought we were going on a vacation, but I soon realized we were staying for a longer time.
Jane Doe is a member at my local church who is struggling financially to pay rent. Can I designate that I want my offering to help pay Jane’s rent?
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. (1 Corinthians 13:11)
“If you can hear me, clap once.” There was no responding clap heard through the melee that was my current classroom.
If I ask you to go back in time and recall one of your favorite early childhood memories, no doubt your experience would include people, places and events.
The pre-K room at the Crayon Box Children’s Learning Center at Andrews University is a colorful maze of learning centers — one features a wall-mounted rotary phone, play kitchen, and rack of dress-up clothes. Even the bathrooms are built with low sinks and miniature stalls.
The day of Detroit Center Seventh-day Adventist Church's long-awaited reopening in January 2024 was one of the coldest days in memory. Inside the unassuming beige brick one-story building, a familiar sense of warmth and fellowship filled the air, a welcomed contrast to the frigid bite of winter.
It has been one year since I started working at Lake Union as Public Affairs and Religious Liberty (PARL) director. I am blessed to work with your conference’s PARL directors this past year and, as you can probably see from their articles in this issue, our discussions on the mission and work of PARL are always engaging.
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Lake Region Educator Named Teacher of the Year
When we study human development, we realize that children’s first teachers are often informal ones—family members and friends who guide and direct them.
Some years back, decades ago, while strolling on the campus of Andrews University, I spotted what appeared to be a track meet near Meier Hall.
Three conferences in the Lake Union are teaming up to deliver synchronous Adventist Education online for 1st through 8th grades.