SDB photo to appear on PBS Special!

Several months ago, the Historical Society was contacted by Sarah Colt Productions, looking for a photograph credited to our collection. They were in the process of preparing a documentary to be shown on PBS, and wanted to include the photograph in their program. After searching for the initial photograph, which was apparently misattributed to our collection, we were able to find a photograph (at left) that they were interested in including in the documentary of the Little Prairie (Nady), Arkansas SDB church, from the early 20th century. We were happy to send them the photograph and release it for use in the documentary.

That documentary, God in America, will air over the next three nights, October 11, 12 and 13th, on your local PBS station. Check your local listings for the times closest to you, and keep your eyes our for a picture of SDB's!

The trailer for the series:

CLT to meet at Center

The Coordinating Leadership Team—comprised of executives from the various SDB agencies and the president of the SDB Women’s Society—will gather October 8-10 at the Seventh Day Baptist Center in Janesville, Wis.

Ron Ochs, a member of both of the recent Conference ad hoc committees, will spend much of Friday with the CLT to discuss leadership training and implementing performance evaluation procedures. The Team will also discuss denominational activities, new contacts, communication issues and future plans.

We would appreciate your prayers for safe travel and good meetings.

"Fear Not," but some still do

A challenging piece by Robert Dilday, managing editor of the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald.


"Perfect love," wrote the Apostle John, "casts out fear."

For Christians, that simple maxim would seem to be an easy formula for stress-free living. But 2,000 years after those words were written, many disciples of Christ still find their lives dominated by fear -- and worse, many Christian leaders believe, their response to it often is indistinguishable from that of the society in which they live.

“What shocks me... is that many Christians have bought into fear as a thoughtful reaction to terrorism, to immigration, to health care and to many other important issues,” Drew Smith, an ordained Baptist minister who is director of international programs at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Ark., recently blogged.

Bill Shiell, pastor of First Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tenn., observed many Christians “are informed primarily by forwarded e-mails and relentlessly repetitive information, rather than the good news of Christ.”

“The phrase ‘do not be afraid’ is used 365 times in the Bible for a reason,” said Shiell. “The faithful are often the most susceptible to fear.”

For the rest of the article, click here.