Columbia Union features ANEW
December 27th, 2011
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Canvassing Program featured on Visitor Magazine
August 19th, 2011
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Campus Ministry @ Princeton!
July 28th, 2011Students Lead Public Campus Ministry at Princeton
By: Celeste Ryan Blyden
An Adventist approach to secular education.
Meet Denver Jn Baptiste (center) and Josephine Elia (right), graduate students at Princeton University, who are helping to lead the Seventh-day Adventist Princeton Fellowship at the Ivy League school. Baptiste, a second-year molecular biology major from St. Lucia, and Elia, a fourth-year chemical engineering major from Indonesia, are doing all they can to connect Adventist students on campus and introduce others at their Princeton, N.J., school to Christ. This fall, with the support of Princeton (N.J.) church pastor Art Randall (left) and his members, they plan to host a Friday night Bible study group and distribute copies of The Great Controversy. The students also teach Sabbath School at the Princeton church, and Elia, who is on her way to Honduras for a mission trip, also plays the piano. In this video clip, she explains why she believes Adventists need to have a presence at Princeton and share Christ in the academic environment.
– Recently the Visitor Magazine interviewed Josephine and Denver to find out more about the campus ministry efforts going on at Princeton, this is a short excerpt on the interview. –
Canvassing Testimony
July 28th, 2011By: Israel Johnson, student at UVA
When I first entered the canvassing program, I had no expectations or personal desires. I was at a point in my life when all was lost. Being half-blind, struggling with engineering studies, and keeping a broken family together was enough to maintain. I was offered to do the Michigan canvassing program during the summer of my first year, but I decided not to. I just wanted a life of my own, obtain my engineering degree, and work as a rehabilitative engineer. I did not want life to be more complicated than it needed to be for me.
During the midst of my second year in college, I made an appeal to be involved in the ANEW canvassing program for this summer. I had initially wanted to do an engineering internship, but I had a conviction in my heart. I wanted to be involved in something that was beyond me and anyone else. One could say that I would have been foolishly leaving my troubles behind. I don’t think so. I have yielded my summer, my future, my life, and my character to Jesus Christ. Why would I want to invest any of that into anything else that is temporary?
Again, this was my first time doing literature evangelism and canvassing. I had no experience and no skill apart from the required preparation we needed beforehand. A lot was required in both training and in character. This was respectable, because colporteur ministry is no easy task. For the first week, we spent a lot of time in training for the canvassing field. However, the first week wasn’t all training, for we went canvassing in the evening on the first day. For the first day, I didn’t get one…single…book…out; not even a drop-down. Not only did I face rejections, but I faced personal insults as well at the door. It was more than enough to take in for the first day.
As I proceeded into the next few days, more training was done, which was very much appreciated. However, further rejections, insults, and failures really started to take its toll on me over time. I had never had to pray this much before, just to hold on to God’s character in me. After the first week, I couldn’t understand what was going on. I have made a declaration and yielded everything to my Heavenly Father before coming to the program, and now I’m only facing failure. Just in the first week, Satan has tried to turn every joy of life against me and every form of rejection upon me. I’ve started to have doubts.
During the beginning of the second week, I came across a Biblical verse that God revealed to me during my first year in college: John 4:34. In this one verse, Jesus’ mission was revealed to me as a whole. And Jesus said “my food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to finish His work”. It was a reminder to me of why I chose to do this work in the first place. Colporteur ministry and literature evangelism is a work that needs to be done. It is the best form of ministry to have and the best way to touch the hearts of our neighbors, those who don’t know about the Advent message, and those who don’t know Christ.
As I canvass here, there is one house that I canvassed which I will never forget. A mother came to the door, and I started to canvass to her and inform her of the literature that I was distributing. While I was doing so, her daughter came to the door, and she was wearing something that looked quite familiar to me. She was wearing an eye-patch over one of her eyes. I found out later from the mother that her daughter had to wear the eye-patch in order to strengthen her eye muscles. For me, it was opportunity to share with her my story and how far God had brought me with my vision. It was definitely an uplifting story for her and an interesting encounter that blessed us both. I was able to give her a Happiness Digest, and she really appreciated the little pick-me-up. I know I touched hearts that day and I have learned a lesson myself.
I am not ashamed to do this work for my Savior. I praise God that I get to work with a Godly group of people here. My only regret is that I won’t have the opportunity to work with the same group of people again, whether it’s in a future career or now in college. God has blessed me with so much, and I am willing to “finish His work” for the rest of the summer program and until Jesus’ second coming.
For more stories and testimonies from the canvassers, see the upcoming ANEW Newsletter.
ASC Rutgers Group Featured on NJ Conference Video
June 24th, 2011A video made by the New Jersey Seventh-day Adventist Conference, featuring Juan Antialon and Jazlyn Amador.
An Appeal to Young Professionals
February 25th, 2011Canvassing Experiences
February 21st, 2011Kwabena Yamoah and Henry Kaweesi | University of Maryland and Cornell University
It’s one thing when people testify that God has performed miracles in their lives but it’s a totally different experience when you see the Spirit of God working on the heart of an individual. On my second day of Canvassing, I met a man named Chris in a parking lot that I was canvassing. Initially when I started to canvass him, he did not show much interest in what I had to say. During training, we had learned how to canvass a person and pray at the same time, so I was doing exactly that. Amazingly, Chris started to open up more. He told me about his financial situation and other problems that he was going through, and we prayed together. Read the rest of this entry »
Campus Sabbath @ Geneseo!
January 18th, 2011December 11, 2010
By: Chelsie Sampayan
The first campus Sabbath was a truly blessed Sabbath. Students from six different campuses across New York state (SUNY Geneseo, University of Rochester, Rochester Institute of Technology, Cornell, Syracuse, and Binghamton) gathered together on a beautiful Sabbath morning with the same purpose: to worship, honor, and glorify the Lord our God, our Creator, and our Redeemer. Read the rest of this entry »
Canvassing – Day 10
January 15th, 2011Antonia Richards | Cornell University | toniajesusbook.blogspot.com
Last day today. Wow! What an experience. So, why should you canvass? Well, glad you asked. Usually at the end of experiences like this, I come up with a top five or top ten list. So, here it is – top five reasons to go canvassing! =) Read the rest of this entry »
Canvassing – Day 9
January 14th, 2011Antonia Richards | Cornell University | toniajesusbook.blogspot.com
P.U.S.H – Pray Until Something Happens. Read the rest of this entry »