Jan Paulsen also told the group of young adults from the church’s Inter-American region, to embrace peers who are considering leaving the church or acting out in rebellion.
“Let’s love them back,” said Paulsen, referring to Jesus’ example of the Prodigal Son. “God is in the business of saving people.”

We need our young people to know what it is they are up against, yes, but when naturalistic evolution is taught as fact or as the preferred and normative worldview, then we can be sure that the enemy has breached our lines.

This appears to be a growing sentiment among many younger Christians in America today. They love Jesus but they want little to do with His Church. It’s not that they don’t like the their local church or even other Christians—it’s that they don’t like how Christianity in America is frequently represented by many professing Evangelicals, which in their minds is often unloving, judgmental, arrogant, and hypocritical.

Lelis Viera has a message for Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders: “Put us to work.”

The twenty-year-old Puerto Rican and student at Antillean Adventist University was among three young delegates who attended the church’s Inter-American regional year-end meetings in Miami this month and hope opportunities to shape the church’s future don’t end there.

WITHOUT parental supervision and with countless opportunities to party, university campuses provide a hotbed of distractions for the Christian student. Still, the Seventh-day Adventist fraternity, Advent Fellowship, thrives.

Apart from providing a spiritually stimulating environment for Seventh-day Adventists, the group undertakes a number of outreach projects on and off the campuses of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of Technology in Kingston, where it has operated for more than 40 years.