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  • THURSDAY EVENING JULY 3 PRESIDENT'S REPORT. Ted N. C. Wilson, President, General Conference (GC), giving his report at the business meeting on Thursday, July 3, 2025. The 62nd General Conference Session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, America’s Center Convention Complex, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, July 3-12, 2025. Camera date: Thursday, July 3, 2025 19:19.

    Inside GC Session: What You Need to Know

    July 04, 2025, by Heidi Baumgartner
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    Your Old Men Shall Dream Dreams

    June 25, 2025, by Alden Thompson
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    June 25, 2025, by NW Adventists Team

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Lary Brown, Lary Brown

Florence and Reedsport Church pastor

By Lary Brown, Lary Brown

  • Unique Gifts and a Heart for Service

    September 01, 2007, by Lary Brown, Lary Brown
    "This is what we're here for—to be of help and to serve others," says Florence Bell, leader of the staff at the Dorcas Boutique on the Gladstone Campground. The Dorcas Boutique shared a building this year with Women's Ministries, just across from ...
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  • Poland, Priests, Popes and Preaching

    September 01, 2005, by Lary Brown, Lary Brown
    The six of us from the Florence (Oregon) Church who arrived in Poland on March 29 had done everything within our power to prepare for our twin evangelistic campaigns. Months of training and planning were behind us. We had carefully researched the ...
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  • One Tuesday in Tura

    December 01, 2004, by Lary Brown, Lary Brown
    Last of two partsWe were four nights into our evangelistic meetings in Tura, a city of 60,000 in northeastern India, and things didn’t look too rosy. We had started with a good crowd on Friday evening, then watched attendance dwindle away noticeab...
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