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1 Adventist Heritage Center From: Sent: To: Subject: Adventist Review on behalf of Adventist Review Friday, March 31, :18 PM Adventist Heritage Center Adventist Church Goes Back to Court to Defend Sabbath Keepers On March 22, 2017, two former Kellogg employees made their appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit after a lower court found insufficient evidence that the two Adventist plaintiffs were treated unfairly when they were fired for failing to work on Sabbath. A decision from the court of appeals, located in Denver, Colorado, is expected in approximately three months. 1

2 Search Subscribe Menu A couple of days after the clean-a-thon, church members who took part in the initiative gather at Mt. Hagen airport to welcome international evangelist Doug Batchelor. [Photo: T.H.E. Party - PNGUM Facebook] Adventist Church Goes Back to Court to Defend Sabbath Keepers Remember What Made America Great, Says Adventist Professor In the US, Deportation Fears Keep Members Away from Church Adventist Student, First Black Female in Top Neurosurgery Program Church in North-America Reinforces Position on Church and State Separation In a First, 25 Deaf People Are Baptized in Burun The Burundi church's evangelism director weeps as h SUBSCRIBE+NEWSLETTER+ IN THIS ISSUE+NEWS+ARCHIVES+ READER RESPONSE+MEDIA PARTNERS+ SCREENING ROOM+GRACENOTES+ PHOTO SUBMISSIONS

3 Marcos Paseggi Senior Correspondent, Adventist Review Street Cleaning Goes Before Evangelism in Papua New Guinea Church members apply Total Member Involvement principles to their community POSTED MARCH 29, 2017 T housands of members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church swarmed to the streets of a Papua New Guinean city Sunday, March 26 morning to clean the streets in preparation for evangelistic meetings. Church members, coming from more than 12 provinces across that South Pacific nation, have traveled for an evangelistic series and a church gathering at Mt. Hagen City, in the Western Highlands, to take place later this month and in early April. The Clean-a-thon initiative saw members sweeping, raking, and shoveling as early as 7 am, as they slowly made their way from around Kagamuga International Airport to the New Town area in the city, reported EMTV News, which covered the activity. We saw that the city needed to be cleaned and that the church had to do something about it, said Solomon Paul, one of the pastors behind the initiative, in a TV interview. We can t blame others, or wait for the government to step in. The church is taking the initiative now. We saw that the city needed to be cleaned and that the church had to do something about it Cleaning activities enlisted the support of the provincial police force and local fire services. Dozens of police officers were sent to give a hand to the Adventist benefactors. Western Highlands Police Chief Superintendent Martin Lakari told EMTV News that police officers would be out on the streets to enforce city rules and prevent littering and street vending. I call on the public to support the Seventh-day Adventist mission to live a clean and healthy lifestyle, he said. Paul shared that the clean-a-thon is part of a major church project in the country and beyond. This is what we call Total Member Involvement, or TMI, he said, in a nod to the initiative by the world church that encourages every church member to get involved in his or her community for service and mission. Paul also informed local news outlets that church members would install garbage cans across the city, as city authorities joined the church in their cleaning initiative. City authorities gave us gloves, rakes, and plastic bags, said Paul, but members also dug deep into their pockets to pay for fuel, hire dozers, and even used their cars [to remove trash]. The members themselves have done all this, said Paul. The Mt. Hagen clean-a-thon has taken place just a few days before the beginning of evangelistic meetings and a church gathering that will feature international evangelist Doug Batchelor as the main guest speaker. The meetings will also serve as a spiritual preparation for an upcoming church election, shared Paul, hoping members pray to make good choices and avoid troublemaking. We pray meetings will contribute to our members spiritual strength, he said. As the oldest publishing platform of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Adventist Review (est. 1849) provides inspiration and information to the global church through a variety of media, including print, websites, apps, and audio and video platforms.content appearing on any of the Adventist Review platforms has been selected because it is deemed useful to the purposes and mission of the journal to inform, educate, and inspire the denomination it serves.unless identified as created by Adventist Review or a

4 designated member of the Adventist Review staff, content is assumed to express the viewpoints of the author or creator of the content. News & Features Current Adventist News Download The Adventist World Week of Prayer Edition Online Exclusives Gracenotes Events About Issue Archives Our Roots and Mission Staff Writer's Guidelines Advertising Kit Adventist World Departments Reader Response Photo Galleries Prayer Requests Partners Resources Contact Free Newsletter Photo Submissions Downloads Sunset Calendar Church Locator RSS Feed Advertising Questions Copyright 2017, Adventist Review. All rights reserved worldwide.

5 Search Subscribe Menu Adventist Church Goes Back to Court to Defend Sabbath Keepers Remember What Made America Great, Says Adventist Professor In the US, Deportation Fears Keep Members Away from Church Adventist Student, First Black Female in Top Neurosurgery Program Church in North-America Reinforces Position on Church and State Separation In a First, 25 Deaf People Are Baptized in Burun The Burundi church's evangelism director weeps as h SUBSCRIBE+NEWSLETTER+ IN THIS ISSUE+NEWS+ARCHIVES+ READER RESPONSE+MEDIA PARTNERS+ SCREENING ROOM+GRACENOTES+ PHOTO SUBMISSIONS

6 Marcos Paseggi Senior Correspondent, Adventist Review Remember What Made America Great, Says Adventist Professor In op-ed piece, Andrews University professor discusses religious liberty, diversity POSTED MARCH 29, 2017 A professor at an Adventist university in the US recently published an op-ed piece in an important newspaper where he reflected on the religious history of the United States and its importance for contemporary society. Nicholas Miller, professor of church history at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary on the campus of Andrews University, in Berrien Springs, Michigan, wrote in The Philadelphia Enquirer that US religious history is essential to inform the present. If we hope to make America great again, it would be good to know what made America great to begin with, begins Miller s essay. He then starts to look for historical hints in the life of William Penn, the 17 th century Quaker lawmaker and founder of the State of Pennsylvania. Nicholas Miller speaks about religious liberty at Andrews University in February. [Photo: Jonathan Logan/Andrews University] According to Miller, Penn was committed to an open, accountable government and the rule of law. He also placed a special emphasis on the equal treatment of people of all religious beliefs, since he believed in the rights of individual conscience given by a divine Creator. In his essay, Miller states that Penn s emphasis on religious freedom and ethnic diversity led to Pennsylvania becoming a magnet for immigrants from many nations of the world. The eastern US state also became the home of people of the most diverse religious backgrounds, as it embraced English Quakers, German Moravians, French Huguenots, British Baptists, Dutch Anabaptists and Mennonites, European Jews, and Catholics. These people, all of them outcasts somewhere, found a new home of almost unparalleled inclusion and equality, emphasized Miller. The results of Penn s ideas were startling, notes Miller, as Philadelphia rapidly became the largest and most commercially successful city in the American colonies. In a few decades, it became known as the Athens of North America, and the most cosmopolitan city on the continent.

7 Philadelphia s success showed that, far from being an obstacle, religious and ethnic diversity can become instrumental for achieving governmental and commercial success, wrote Miller. If we hope to make America great again, it would be good to know what made America great to begin with. The Adventist professor is also a scholar adviser to the Faith & Liberty Discovery Center in downtown Philadelphia. Scheduled to open in 2018, the $60-million interactive facility will invite people from all backgrounds to learn about the Bible s influence on American history and culture, states the American Bible Society, which is spearheading the project, on its website. The Seventh-day Adventist Church has been a longstanding advocate of a separation of church and state and the free exercise of religion. In 1893, the Protestant denomination organized the International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA), a non-sectarian and nonpolitical entity promoting religious freedom for all. In an interview with Andrews University News, Miller quoted church co-founder and author Ellen G. White, who in her book The Great Controversy wrote that Republicanism and Protestantism became the fundamental principles of the [United States of America]. According to Miller, White s Republicanism referred to the democratic process of checks, balances and free press, while Protestantism was the freedom of religion a balance he finds difficult to maintain, but nonetheless important. In seeking a return to American greatness, we would do well to keep these foundational values in mind, concluded Miller. Konner Dent contributed to this story. As the oldest publishing platform of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Adventist Review (est. 1849) provides inspiration and information to the global church through a variety of media, including print, websites, apps, and audio and video platforms.content appearing on any of the Adventist Review platforms has been selected because it is deemed useful to the purposes and mission of the journal to inform, educate, and inspire the denomination it serves.unless identified as created by Adventist Review or a designated member of the Adventist Review staff, content is assumed to express the viewpoints of the author or creator of the content. News & Features Current Adventist News Download The Adventist World Week of Prayer Edition Online Exclusives Gracenotes Events About Issue Archives Our Roots and Mission Staff Writer's Guidelines Advertising Kit Adventist World Departments Reader Response Photo Galleries Prayer Requests Partners Resources Contact Free Newsletter Photo Submissions Downloads Sunset Calendar Church Locator RSS Feed Advertising Questions Copyright 2017, Adventist Review. All rights reserved worldwide.

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9 Church in North-America Reinforces Position on Church and State Separation In official press release, it says it opposes the rejection of the Johnson Amendment POSTED MARCH 30, 2017 R ecent events by both the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. Government have brought the Johnson Amendment and participation in elections by non-profits (including churches) to the forefront. The Johnson Amendment is the 1954 amendment to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code prohibiting tax exempt organizations from endorsing or opposing candidates for office. This amendment is so named because of its sponsorship by then Senator Lyndon Johnson who had been targeted by a non-profit during an election. While not controversial when passed, it is now viewed by some as an infringement on the religious liberty and speech rights of churches. Critics contend that it regulates what can be said from the pulpit, normally one of the most sacrosanct places free from government intrusion. Others have raised concerns that it creates an environment for further regulation of churches via the tax code. Johnson Amendment supporters view the law as an important tool in the separation of church and state. They argue that this law insulates churches from undue pressure by candidates and from political influence. Supporters also contend the law protects the electoral process from corruption via tax deductible contributions and improper use of tax exempt funds by public charities. Current proposals include a complete repeal of the Johnson Amendment or allowing nonprofits to support candidates if only a minimal amount of money is expended. Under the latter proposal, a pastor would be allowed to endorse a candidate from the pulpit, but could not pay for advertisements to support the candidate. A full repeal would allow a church to spend money, though not an unlimited amount, directly supporting a candidate. Should the law be changed, the church will not modify its practice of remaining neutral in elections. The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America, because of its biblical beliefs and practices, does not desire to intervene in elections. Additionally, the church has opposed certain previous proposals for a full repeal of the Johnson Amendment. Therefore, while recognizing the law s potential First Amendment concerns, the church reaffirms its opposition to legislative efforts to eliminate or weaken rules that prohibit non-profits, including houses of worship, from endorsing or opposing candidates. Should the law be changed, the church will not modify its practice of remaining neutral in elections. While church members are free to support candidates or even run for office themselves, it is not the role of the church to become involved in the electoral sphere. As the oldest publishing platform of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Adventist Review (est. 1849) provides inspiration and information to the global church through a variety of media, including print, websites, apps, and audio and video platforms.content appearing on any of the Adventist Review platforms has been selected because it is deemed useful to the purposes and mission of the journal to inform, educate, and inspire the denomination it serves.unless identified as created by Adventist Review or a designated member of the Adventist Review staff, content is assumed to express the viewpoints of the author or creator of the content. News & Features Current Adventist News Download The Adventist World Week of Prayer Edition About Issue Archives Our Roots and Mission Staff Departments Reader Response Photo Galleries Prayer Requests Resources Contact Free Newsletter Photo Submissions

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12 Adventist Student, First Black Female in Top Neurosurgery Program Ghana native admitted at prestigious Johns Hopkins residency POSTED MARCH 29, 2017 N ancy Abu-Bonsrah, a Seventh-day Adventist, is the first black female neurosurgical resident to have been accepted into the Johns Hopkins program in its history, which spans more than 100 years. According to a CNN TV network report, the prestigious program, ranked second in the United States, accepts just two to five residents. Ben Carson, now the United States secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is one of the program s most notable alumni. On March 17, shortly after 26-year-old Abu-Bonsrah, originally from the Ashanti Region in Ghana, received the news that she had been accepted into the residency program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's neurosurgical department, she posted this on Facebook: What a way to begin the Sabbath! I still haven't processed it yet, but this is such an honor and a privilege to join the department at Hopkins to begin this next phase of my career. From Ghana to the World The daughter of Seth and Georgina Abu-Bonsrah, she moved with her family to the United States at 15 years old when her father accepted an Inter-Division Employee call. Her father moved to work with the Adventist Development and Relief Agency as an assistant director for Monitoring and Evaluation at the Seventh-day Adventist Church world headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. Living in Maryland for the past 11 years, Abu-Bonsrah attended Hammond High School and then Mount St. Mary s University where she received a bachelor of science degree in biochemistry and chemistry before joining the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine program in 2012 to pursue a doctor of medicine. Graduating medical students decide on specialties when they apply for residency. Abu-Bonsrah chose neurosurgery. I am very much interested in providing medical care in underserved settings, specifically surgical care, said Abu-Bonsrah in a Johns Hopkins statement. I hope to be able to go back to Ghana over the course of my career to help in building sustainable surgical infrastructure. I am fortunate to have been born in a God-fearing household, one in which we were encouraged to seek the guidance of God in all that we do," said Abu- Bonsrah in an interview. I deeply believe that without God paving the way for me and serving as a lamp unto my feet, I would not have made it thus far. Abu-Bonsrah said that her family, her husband, and her church family at the Washington Ghanaian Seventh-day Adventist Church had likewise been incredibly supportive. They have indeed been the wind beneath my wings and their prayers have continued to sustain me, she said. The Lord has blessed my hard work and I am eternally grateful for His bounty. I hope that I will likewise be a blessing to everyone I come into contact with. Nancy Abu-Bonsrah celebrates her residency match with Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's neurosurgical department with her husband, Kwabena Yamoah, a third-year medical student at the University of Maryland. [Photo: Nancy Abu-Bonsrah/Facebook] Abu-Bonsrah found out she was slated to begin residency training this summer at Johns Hopkins on March 17, known as Match Day. On the third Friday of March each year, fourth-year students at medical schools across the U.S. discover where they ll be continuing their professional medical journey. Students are given an envelope that will reveal where they will begin training. The opening of the letter at a set time has been

13 considered a rite of passage since the 1950s for physicians-in-training. A Johns Hopkins release explains that matches are selected using a computer algorithm that matches the preferences of applicants with the preferences of residency programs in order to fill the available training positions around the United States. I will be matching into neurosurgery, a field that I am greatly in love with, and hope to utilize those skills in advancing global surgical care, said Abu-Bonsrah, who is married to Kwabena Yamoah, a third-year medical student at the University of Maryland. The young doctor will continue her medical training in a seven-year residency program while at the hospital. In a March 24 Facebook post Abu-Bonsrah wrote, It has been a whirlwind couple of days [as] we have been sincerely touched by all the support and well wishes! She also said that it was indeed an honor and a privilege to have been granted this opportunity to be a part of the Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery Department as a resident. It is truly humbling to be a part of such a legacy and to have so many inspired by our story, Abu-Bonsrah added. We are excited for the journey ahead and ask for continued prayers. An Early Start The interest in becoming a physician started early for Abu-Bonsrah. In Ghana, where she completed her middle school education, students were generally encouraged to study certain subjects based on their aptitude once they entered high school. For Abu- Bonsrah, that was the sciences with the intention of eventually pursuing medicine. I seized on the advice of my academic mentors and also felt that I would be able to positively contribute to my community by being a physician, said Abu-Bonsrah, whose desire to pursue neurosurgery was borne out of shadowing experiences in Ghana during her junior year winter break from Mount St. Mary s University. I cannot wait to go back and serve, not only in Ghana, but in other low resource settings. resource settings, she said. I had an opportunity to spend some time in the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. It was there that I experienced the uniqueness of neurosurgery as well as the general lack of access to care, explained Abu-Bonsrah. Not only was I impressed by the surgical skill and fascinated by the anatomy, I was also stunned by how overwhelmed the surgeons were. She added that ultimately, she felt that this field would help her marry a love for the field with a desire to serve. I cannot wait to go back and serve, not only in Ghana, but in other low Excited for the future, Abu-Bonsrah told Johns Hopkins that she wants to be remembered for serving my community, whether it is through providing quality surgical care or helping mentor the next generation of surgeons. Abu-Bonsrah, who has been involved in mentoring through her work at Johns Hopkins, is already an inspiration to some. Young adult Adaeze Okorie posted this comment on Facebook on March 26: Congratulations, Nancy, on all your hard work paying off! You inspire young African-American girls like me to continue on my premed track despite the setbacks we may face, because someday we can get to where you are. You're truly an inspiration and I pray for many more successes in your life. God Bless! According to a Ghana Seventh-day Adventist News Facebook post on March 19, Abu- Bonsrah s friend's tweet (@Mizpeh) announcing the news received more than 21,000 likes and has been retweeted more than 10,000 times on Twitter in less than two days. As of March 27, that number has grown to 57,000 likes and 23,000 retweets. The same news outlet reported what Maame Jane, who knows Abu-Bonsrah from Ghana, said. She's one of our finest. Very humble. As the oldest publishing platform of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Adventist Review (est. 1849) provides inspiration and information to the global church through a variety of media, including print, websites, apps, and audio and video platforms.content appearing on any of the Adventist Review platforms has been selected because it is deemed useful to the purposes and mission of the journal to inform, educate, and inspire the denomination it serves.unless identified as created by Adventist Review or a designated member of the Adventist Review staff, content is assumed to express the viewpoints of the author or creator of the content.

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16 Adventist Church Goes Back to Court to Defend Sabbath Keepers Office of General Counsel appealed ruling against two former Kellogg workers POSTED MARCH 30, 2017 n March 22, 2017, two former Kellogg employees made their appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit after a lower court found insufficient O evidence that the two Adventist plaintiffs were treated unfairly when they were fired for failing to work on Sabbath. A decision from the court of appeals, located in Denver, Colorado, is expected in approximately three months. The United States District Court for the District of Utah granted Kellogg s motion for summary judgment on the claims for disparate treatment, reasonable accommodation, and retaliation on July 7, At that time the court also accordingly denied Richard Tabura and Guadalupe Diaz s motion for summary judgment. Tabura and Diaz were both fired in 2012 from their manufacturing jobs at a Kellogg USA, Inc. plant in Utah for missing work on Saturdays as they honored their religious belief to observe Sabbath. In 2011, Kellogg increased production and implemented a new work scheduling program known as continuous crewing. This program created four separate, rotating shifts in which employees were to work approximately two Saturdays a month 26 Saturdays a year. While both plaintiffs made attempts to use paid days off and work swaps with other employees they eventually were assessed too many absence points within a 12-month period and, after what Kellogg describes as progressivediscipline measures were exhausted, were terminated. The plaintiffs lost at the trial court level, said Todd McFarland, associate general counsel for the General Conference (GC) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The court said that Kellogg offering the use of their vacation time and swaps was enough. They didn't have to actually eliminate the conflict; they just had to give them the opportunity to do it, and that the fact that there wasn't enough vacation time or enough people to swap with wasn't Kellogg's problem. The GC Office of General Counsel was part of the Tenth Circuit appeal. The appeal argues that the district court erred in holding that an accommodation can be legally sufficient even if it does not eliminate the conflict between a work requirement and a religious practice. It also contends that treating the forfeiture of vacation and sick time as a legitimate accommodation is not appropriate. It's a cold comfort to an Adventist to say, You only have to break half the Sabbaths. If you don't have to eliminate the conflict, then that does no good, said McFarland. So this [case] is important to people of faith about what's required from employment to accommodate Sabbath. For some, the irony is unavoidable. Kellogg, a food manufacturing company, was founded as the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in 1906 by Will Keith Kellogg and John Harvey Kellogg. John Harvey, at the time, was a Seventh-day Adventist and director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, owned and operated by the Adventist Church. The sanitarium s operation was based on the church s health principles, which include a healthful diet, regimen of exercise, proper rest, and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco. According to the Kellogg website, the brothers changed breakfast forever when they accidentally flaked wheat berry. Will Keith kept experimenting until he was able to flake corn, creating the recipe for Kellogg s Corn Flakes. John Harvey eventually turned away from church beliefs, espousing what many believe was a form of pantheism. As the oldest publishing platform of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Adventist Review (est. 1849) provides inspiration and information to the global church through a variety of media, including print, websites, apps, and audio and video platforms.content

17 appearing on any of the Adventist Review platforms has been selected because it is deemed useful to the purposes and mission of the journal to inform, educate, and inspire the denomination it serves.unless identified as created by Adventist Review or a designated member of the Adventist Review staff, content is assumed to express the viewpoints of the author or creator of the content. News & Features Current Adventist News Download The Adventist World Week of Prayer Edition Online Exclusives Gracenotes Events About Issue Archives Our Roots and Mission Staff Writer's Guidelines Advertising Kit Adventist World Departments Reader Response Photo Galleries Prayer Requests Partners Resources Contact Free Newsletter Photo Submissions Downloads Sunset Calendar Church Locator RSS Feed Advertising Questions Copyright 2017, Adventist Review. All rights reserved worldwide.

18 The United States District Court for the District of Utah granted Kellogg s motion for summary judgment on the claims for disparate treatment, reasonable accommodation, and retaliation on July 7, At that time the court also accordingly denied Richard Tabura and Guadalupe Diaz s motion for summary judgment... Read Now A weekly GraceNote from Adventist Review editor Bill Knott The covenant-keeping Lord says of Himself, 'I will remember their sins no more' (Heb 8:12). So why do we berate ourselves for what He has at fearful cost forgiven and forgotten? It is no sign of holiness to disagree with God, accusing ourselves for what He has through grace excused. Our lingering guilt about what Christ died for discounts our claims to trusting in His grace. What Jesus chooses to forget we have a right to forget. This is the day to forgo all forgiven sins, and so begin the life of joy. So stay in grace. -Bill Knott 2

19 Church in North-America Reinforces Position on Church and State Separation In official press release, it says it opposes the rejection of the Johnson Amendment... Read more Adventist Student, First Black Female in Top Neurosurgery Program Ghana native admitted at prestigious Johns Hopkins residency... Read more Remember What Made America Great, Says Adventist Professor In op-ed piece, Andrews University professor discusses religious liberty, diversity... Read more Street Cleaning Goes Before Evangelism in Papua New Guinea Church members apply Total Member Involvement principles to their community... Read more 3

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