Nota Oficial de Condolências e Solidariedades SDA Kinship Brasil.

O SDA Kinship Brasil tomou conhecimento, com grande pesar, do terremoto que atingiu a costa sul do México nesta terça-feira (23), que causou a perda de vidas e significativa destruição material.

Estes últimos meses nos Estados Unidos onde eu moro foram extremamente estressantes para todos. A quarentena trouxe o melhor de algumas pessoas e o pior de muitas. Os incidentes de violência domésticas aumentaram significativamente, já que a maioria das pessoas foram convidadas a ficarem em casa. Não apenas milhões de pessoas perderam os empregos, mas o número de pessoas que morreram de COVID-19 em meu país ultrapassou de 100.500.

A humanidade gosta de se conectar! Quantos de vocês gostam de se conectar com suas próprias famílias para celebrações, reuniões especiais ou apenas relaxar se divertindo juntos?

41st ANNUAL ONLINE KAMPMEETING

Mark your calendars for Saturday, July 18, 2020. We will have an abbreviated Kinship Kampmeeting Sabbath program online via Zoom. Start time 12 pm EST/9 am GMT.

More details to follow. 

SDA Kinship wants to give you all the resources possible to help fill your time during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place.

 A Week at Quest Learning Center

BY JERRY MCKAY

By the end of the first week of September 1982, I had decided to relocate to Pennsylvania for counseling. The first thing I had to do was to call Perry in Japan, because my decision would require his finding a teacher to replace me on short notice. At $3.00 per minute, our call was brief. Perry said that any inconvenience my decision might cause did not concern him. Rather, he was concerned for me. After sharing a few details about my visit with Colin, I thought I had put Perry’s reservations to rest. That was not the case. Two days later, Perry called back.

Perry feared that my life—in fact, my whole identity—would become organized around homosexuality instead of a bigger paradigm—my maleness within a Christian framework. He was concerned that by going to Reading, I would establish and reinforce my identity through a sexual framework by being with and talking to other homosexuals, day in and day out. I thought Perry’s concerns were legitimate, but my ship named “Identity” had already set sail.