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  • The Alhambra and Long Beach churches in Southern California Conference hosted art contests and other events centered on the 2011 Easter weekend that attracted community interest and participation. ...
  • “You will have several graduations in your life, but there is no greater graduation than the one we are having today,” said Kurt W. Johnson, director of the Voice of Prophecy’s Discover Bible Schoo...
  • The program for the 2011 Pathfinder Convocation was as packed as the church where it was held, filled with activities extending into the afternoon. More than 2000 Pathfinders, leaders and parents f...
  • Lafo Ordained to the Ministry

    Posted on Apr 14 2011

    Eliu Lafo, pastor of the Compton Samoan Church, was ordained to the gospel ministry on Sabbath, February 12. Born in Tutuila, American Samoa, he has four brothers and three sisters who make their h...
  • “As the new year dawns, I propose a simple thought: Are we capable of Reconnecting, Reclaiming and Reflaming our missing members?” That question posed by Don Greathouse, Glendale City Church first ...
  • Churches multitask as they reach their communities while also nurturing members, an approach clearly activating the Pasadena Church. A recent calendar included renewal of marriage vows, saturating ...
  • Updates, Japan Earthquake 3.11.11

    Posted on Mar 11 2011

    3.11.11 Japan Earthquake Updates, including a partial report from Northern California Conference
  • Mar 11 KeepinginTouch Newsletter

    Posted on Mar 09 2011

    Mar. 2011 KeepinginTouch SCC Newsletter
  • Young Adult Walks Again, with Jesus

    Posted on Feb 10 2011

    Raised and baptized in the Van Nuys Spanish Church, 13-year-old Jason Arias began to live his life apart from God. “He occasionally visited church,” said Pastor Yonny Jiminez, “but did not make any...
  • Pheron, a Southern California Conference organization for youth and young adult ministry, recently began organizing a ministry on the campus of Cal State Northridge (CSUN).  “The Spirit of God is m...
  • “Stay away from that church,” said a local Christian pastor to a homeless family he was helping when they told him how helpful the pastor and members of the Ventura Church had been. “They’re a sata...
  • The Baldwin Park Bilingual Church organized three 40-Day Holy Spirit revivals during 2010, in which 150 families participated. Each revival ended with a one-week evangelistic meeting.  “Our purpose...
  • The Sunland-Tujunga, Living Stones and Lighthouse Community churches joined in a “mini-camp meeting” with Crescenta Valley Adventist School on Oct. 1 and 2, 2010, celebrating the 150th anniversary ...
  • Nenad Didara Ordained

    Posted on Dec 09 2010

    “You are our first born, Nenad,” said Miroslav Didara, president of the Sudan Field, as he spoke at his son’s ordination service earlier this year in the Eagle Rock Church. “I was thinking often th...
  • The Place Adventist Fellowship in Newbury Park is seeing the greatness of God in powerful ways. Each summer, members embark on a missionary journey, to varying destinations. Their journeying purpos...
  • Nov 2010 SCC Keeping in Touch Newsletter
  • When Pastor Daniel and Rose Vaughn began planning the New Beginnings evangelistic series for the Northridge Church, they focused on prayer as a basic need for every aspect of the outreach. To prepa...
  • A banquet for members of the Long Beach Church celebrated the church’s drive for signatures for the enditnow global campaign sponsored by the General Conference Women’s Ministry Department and Adve...
  • More than 130 SCC young people accepted the call to become small-group missionaries in their homes, following a Jesus Loves Jeans 2.0 (JLJ) rally earlier this year. A total of 45 small groups forme...
  • Coming from four out of five SCC academies, both Pacific Union colleges and local churches, 40 young people set out from early June through mid-August for the experience of their lives during SCC’s...
  • The lyrics, “Servants of God are we,” will have special meaning for the Breath of Life (BOL) Church Pathfinder Club from now on. Nearly two dozen Pathfinders, with their parents and younger sibling...
  • The third annual Race to Race – Mercy & Grace Bike-a-thon drew six Pathfinder clubs, with more than 100 participants coming out to support the event. The Bike-a-thon is a multicultural gathering th...
  • Throughout 2010, SCC Pathfinder Clubs have been helping in their communities—baking muffins for Habitat for Humanity volunteers in Ridgecrest, cleaning up hiking and park areas in San Dimas, feedin...
  • Sept. 2010 SCC Keep in Touch Newsletter
  • Six students from Los Angeles Adventist Academy and one student from Redlands Adventist Academy gave up a week of their summer vacation to minister to the Navajo people in Arizona. Mission trip sp...
  • “The mortgage is done,” said Jim Pedersen, former Eagle Rock Church pastor and current president of the Northern California Conference. “Let’s rise up and celebrate!”  Led by Calvin Knipschild, the...
  • The Long Beach Church, pastored by Mike Elias, who texted, "Debbie Holmes is our coordinator. Last Sabbath members took the pledge sheets to go to their neighbors and friends etc and they were aske...
  • Soon after arriving at the Glendale Spanish Church, Pastor Jaime Heras announced the first evangelistic campaign of his pastorate there. “Vacation Bible School is an evangelistic campaign, not just...
  • A team of SCC youth pastors, chaired by Pastor Iki Taimi, has been meeting for two years to develop Pheron, a ministry for Adventists on secular campuses within Southern California Conference. Taim...
  • “The Wellington Square Farmers Market is the only certified farmers market out of 200 in Southern California that is entirely vegetarian,” reported JewishJournal.com.  “‘It’s quasi-kosher,’ said Ju...