Pastor Daniel daSilva has accepted the call to serve as the pastor for The Edge Christian Worship Center and Cambridge Church. Daniel speaks several languages such as Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and English. He has a BA in international Relations from University of Brazil Sao Paulo and a BA in Theology from Southern Adventist University in Tennessee. Daniel and his wife Wendy come with a lot of experience working with and on Pathfinder programs.
While attending Southern Adventist University, Daniel served as a student pastor at Ooltewah SDA Church in Ooltewah, TN. Pastor daSilva comes with an understanding of how the church works having served as an Elder and as a Deacon. He has done home visitation conducting Bible studies with non-members. Daniel has also done literature evangelism, going to churches and schools both in and outside our denomination, showing our church literature and providing training for other Literature Evangelists. He has done health seminars working with multi-cultural communities, as well as even working with Jewish communities doing Bible studies with them.
Daniel and Wendy daSilva come to The Edge Christian Worship Center with a desire to use their pastoral leadership to work with the church’s international community. They come willing to learn and to teach in order to create a community of faith that is trusting and growing. Join us in welcoming Pastor daSilva to The Edge Christian Worship Center and Cambridge Church. We believe that his personality, enthusiasm about his Adventists faith, his compassion and leadership abilities will help the churchs to became a Christian center in the community.
Brian K. Mungandi, Vice President for Administration
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We are happy to announce that Russell Meier has accepted the call to the Brainerd district. Pastor Meier writes that his desire is to work with the church members to foster discipleship by cultivating a culture of evangelism in the local church. He wants to encourage church members to use their unique spiritual gifts to reach their neighbors and friends for Christ.
Shelina Rose Bonjour graduated from Union College in 2011 with Bachelor of Arts in Theology and Minor in Biblical Languages and a BA in Communication with emphasis on Public Relations. She has accepted the call to serve as the Associate Pastor in Andover district with Pastor Adam Breiner. Her ministry responsibilities will include Pathways Church, serving as the pastor. She will work with the congregation on a mission program that seeks to engage congregational participation in personal Bible study and community outreach.
The Minnesota Conference believes the well being of the family is of highest priority. The ability of the local church to play a vital role in the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church depends on the wellbeing and spiritual maturity of the individual family members. The role of husband and wife in the life and ministry of the church depends on the degree of their commitment to the mission and vision of their church. In a world devastated by divorce, the church needs to make sustained effort to build a Christ-centered loving relationship among a husband and wife. To this effect the Oromo Seventh-day Adventist church has a special time for couples of the church. This is the time dedicated to family life with the objective of sharing experience and encouraging each other.
The goal for the Kenyan Community Church (KCC) in 2015 was to do a mission trip into Kenya. The preparations started early in the year with the help of a local evangelist Brother Nimrod Magati. The church finally choose to go to Tabaka-Kisii in the western part of Kenya where the Adventist church has no presence. The area is dominated by the work of the Catholic mission hospital and the church’s philanthropic work in the area.
In the evening, Evangelists Nimrod Magati and Eliazer Obure, the local evangelists preached the everlasting gospel in the local language. These were joined by the KCC mission team, Elijah Nyambane, Geoffery Maronga, Steve Magusa, Rhonda Nyambane and others, on the second Sabbath. By the end of the three weeks, 95 souls were baptized. These were all first time Adventists.
