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Despite Saturday's torrential rains, churches and community organizations from around Orange County and beyond gathered at Trinity United Methodist for the Virginia Pregnancy Centers' Walk for Life. The overcast clouds choked out any rainbows, but the walkers provided their own color with umbrellas. For more photos from Saturday's event, see the April 28 Orange County Review.

MBC VBS Antioch Baptist Church will host summer fun days every Tuesday beginning July 5 through Aug. 23, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be activities for kids ages 3 to rising sixth grade including sports, arts and crafts, music, sign language and water fun. A light lunch will be provided. For more information, visit antiochbaptist-unionville.org or email vbs@antiochbaptist-unionville.org . 

MUBC TRIP Beginning Wednesday, March 16 St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Caroline Street will explore the Christian theology found in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The program begins at 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays with a 20-minute worship program in the church , followed by a potluck supper in the parish hall, then viewing and discussion on various portions of the movie. The program is free and open to all.

GOSPEL SINGS DISCONTINUED Gospel sings which have been held in the past on the second Friday of each month at Abundant Life Christian Fellowship in Orange will no longer take place. There will however be special upcoming gospel sing events held at the church which will be publicized in the newspaper and on radio stations. Watch or listen for upcoming details throughout the year. For more information regarding special events, please call 854-7433 or 661-7413. The church office can be reached at 672-9867. Thank you for your attendance and support in the past. We look forward to seeing you at special events during the upcoming year.

COME TO THE TABLE Some people are asking life's deep questions but can't seem to get answers. There's a lot of noise, a lot of false teachers and a lot of sloganeering posing as wisdom. NightLights is a new style of worship taking place Thursdays at Trinity United Methodist Church , Orange, that could open up discussion on life's deep questions. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. followed by service at 7 p.m. Service features live music and is a place where people can discuss things that are real.  For more information, visit www.tumcorange.org/nightlights.

Virginia's Exodus from the SDA | The Loud Cry Ministry

Testimony of Virginia S.

Dear Pastor Mark,

After we visited your church and talked with you I decided to revise and type what I had previously written about my experience of coming out of the SDA church. At this time I have not looked for what my husband had written before his death but will do so at another time. Thank you for the tape and letter. We want to order your series on Revelation when you are finished. We did enjoy your church service and sermon and look forward to visiting again next time we are in Phoenix. It appears that the Lord’s Spirit is moving in your church in a very special way.

The church in which I grew up taught me about God and Jesus, but I never understood that Jesus died on the cross to fully pay for my sins. When I was 16 I learned about the Seventh-day Adventist church and was told that Christ died for our sins in order for us to one day live a perfect life so we could go to heaven. I accepted Christ and was baptized into the SDA Church, having been taught that it was Christ’s one true church for the last days. I was taught that once Jesus stepped into the most holy place to finish His work I would have to be able to live a perfect life because he would no longer be mediator between God and His people. Jesus made salvation possible as long as we achieved perfection in the last days before His second coming.

I had no assurance of salvation because at that time the Grace of Christ was not taught at all. If there was any unconfessed sin, even if forgotten, I could not be saved. His blood only made it possible for me to remember those sins, confess them and eventually live with out sin.

About 12 years ago my husband and I heard some sermons by Desmond Ford and Robert Brinsmead that started us studying about Christ and the perfect life He lived for us and that our salvation was complete in Him. We started studying Romans and Hebrews finding that the old covenant had really been done away with at the cross, that Christ forgives and forgets our sins when we accept Him. He doesn’t forgive them only to bring them against us if we are not living that perfect life during an “investigative judgment”. Once forgiven they are cast as far as the east is from the west. (Praise the Lord!) My sins were nailed on the cross and my salvation depends on my acceptance and relationship with Him and not on a set of rules. Through Christ’s blood and righteousness I am forgiven and saved.

A history of SDA church-state relations in the United States

Steps to Christ Study Workbook

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Encyclopedia of Virginia biography, under the editorial supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler

Spiritism in the SDA Church