Touching our kids for Jesus — Cover story
Why do we have Seventh-day Adventist schools? Why do we expend enormous resources of money, time, and energy? Don’t the public schools or other private schools offer quality education? Can’t we entrust that most valued gift from God—our beautiful children—to one of those schools?
The answer is really quite simple: Seventh-day Adventist Christian schools lead our children and youth into a relationship with Jesus Christ while also offering to each student solid Christian values and a quality educational preparation for life on this earth and the earth to come. Yes, and our Adventist schools also prepare fine Seventh-day Adventist church members to lead the church into God’s glorious future. From the textbooks to the curriculum to the songs sung to the memory work to the modeling of Seventh-day Adventist Christian teachers, everything within that school is bent toward changing young lives for Jesus. With all of us—home, school, and church—working together, surely God will bless our efforts and save our kids for eternity! My sincere hope for every teacher and student in our union is expressed in the following dialog. Allow me to share with you the thoughts I’ve asked each teacher to contemplate as he or she lays plans for the upcoming school year: Read it!
Adventist Education — Editorial
July brings us to the halfway point in this “Year of Evangelism,” and I’ve been excited and encouraged to see the outpouring of energy and effort directed toward reaching the unreached. So far, the North American Division has made 28% more progress this year than last, and that’s great news!
In this month’s Record, you’ll learn about a special kind of evangelism that happens year-round in our Adventist classrooms. Each day, committed teachers invest their best in our most precious resource—our children. Read it!
Adventist schools — Feature
The place where students learn from the greatest Teacher
Over a hundred years ago the Lord led His people to establish schools where His children could learn of Him and develop into efficient and effective leaders and laborers. Here we stand in the twenty-first century, straining to determine how a system, ordained by God, will continue to grow and flourish when many of our own parents and parishioners either no longer see the need for a church school system, question its effectiveness, or simply cannot afford it. Read it!
Seven teachers receive 2009 Excellence in Teaching Award — Feature
Exemplifying the very best in Seventh-day Adventist Christian education, seven teachers from across the Southwestern Union Conference were recently chosen to receive the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award for the 2008-2009 school year. Read it!
Adventist school students share Jesus
We love Jesus—And we want to tell others!
Adventist school students share Jesus
Southwestern Union — At the beginning of 2009 Adventist members throughout North America were challenged to make this the Year of Evangelism. Here in the Southwestern Union, from the pulpit to the pew, many have eagerly responded to the challenge, and students in our schools are no exception. There are just too many stories to tell, but we’d like to share a few snippets of what K-12 students, with the help of their teachers and parents, are doing to tell others about Jesus. Read more...
Learning to Serve
CTA students help at Texas coast after hurricane disaster
Chisholm Trail Academy — While the rest of the nation sat glued to the television viewing devastation in the wake of Hurricane Ike last September, 28 seniors along with five faculty from Chisholm Trail Academy were mobilizing to head to the Texas coastline. Read more...
Forever changed by Forever Friends
Little Rock — Evangelism—by and for youth—is alive and well at the Little Rock church. Recently teens organized and conducted a Friends Forever evangelistic program aimed at ages 5-12. They were involved in the planning and advertising, led the singing, taught the memory verses, demonstrated and assisted with crafts, registered kids, and preached two evenings a week. Even nine-year-olds presented sermons with God’s help. Members, young and old, were forever changed by the series. Here’s what they had to say: Read more...
Little acts of service mean a lot
Dallas Christian Academy — Christian education isn’t confined to the school walls at Dallas Christian Academy. At local malls and at a nearby high school, DCA students are visibly touching the lives of others in their community. One day the nearby public high school students were surprised to hear Christian music playing in the parking lot. Then, in a gesture of friendship, DCA students shared popsicles and chatted with their new acquaintances. Read more...
Sharing their faith
Jones Creek Adventist School — At the Jones Creek Adventist School in Baton Rouge, La., six students recently led out in a Truth 4 Youth evangelistic series held at the Baton Rouge church. While the adults attended an Amazing Facts seminar presented by Emanuel Baek, the students were involved in reaching youth through their own evangelistic program. Students from grades 5 through 7 planned the music, lessons, and crafts for the 6- to 12-year-olds, and led out in the program each evening. Each night about 15 children attended. Read more...
Three baptisms plus two
Sandia View Academy students share Jesus on mission trip
Sandia View Academy — When the opportunity came to take a mission trip to Vera Cruz, Mexico, Sandia View Academy student Kaylen White, 16, decided to go, not necessarily to be a preacher, but just to be with her friends. But as the time to leave for Mexico approached, Kaylen began to think seriously about why she was going. “I wanted to do more, so I decided to be one of the preachers,” Kaylen says. “I was nervous because I had never preached before. Read more...
LATEST NEWS 
“Keeper of My Heart”
First ever union-wide pastors’ wives retreat is a success
Southwestern Union — “There is only one word that describes this weekend: WOW!” said a pastor’s wife who attended the first-ever union-wide pastors’ wives retreat in the Southwestern Union. Another pastor’s wife said, “This weekend has been such a spiritual feast, an encouragement and an island in the busy river of life. Thank you for your vision.” Read more...
In their own words: Christian education
Southwestern Adventist University — Ashley Gonzales, Sean Amos, and Thomas Moosey don’t claim to have chosen Christian education. What they do claim, however, is that the Christian education they’re receiving at Southwestern Adventist University is fulfilling, inspirational, challenging, and above all, led by God. Read more...
Sickle Cell Disease poster child meets the president
Austin Alpha — Gabriel George is an extraordinary 10-year-old who was born with Sickle Cell Disease and has been a “crusader” for the disease since he was two years old. Sickle Cell Disease affects the red blood cells’ ability to get oxygen to the different parts of the body. This results in excruciating pain and can even lead to death. Read more...