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I have checked with others and perhaps it would be better to say that the NCC administration is considered to be Moderate with both liberal and conservative elements in its congregations.

Is the 144,000 in Revelation 7 a literal number of saved individuals at the end of time, perhaps a subgroup of the great multitude in 7:9? To take the number literally requires several assumptions. It assumes that the twelve tribes of Israel still exist in a meaningful way. It assumes that most things in Revelation […] The post Is the number 144,000 Literal or Symbolic? (Interlude 4) appeared first on Jon Paulien's Blog. View the full article

It is probably the first time that the Northern California Conference has ever ordained a female to the gospel ministry. The NCC is considered to be a conservative Conference. It is not considered to be liberal as is the SECC. In any case, this is the first time that the NCC has ordained a female to the gospel ministry in recent times since this has been a point of discussion in Adventism. I consider this to be a major event.

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Carp?!?!? Gag, I remember fishing with my Dad and if we caught one, we would throw it back. Like Crocodile Dundee said, "You can eat it but it tastes like---oops I just remembered I can't finish that quote. I didn't realize how much sea food they ate. In the movies you just see them with that big old turkey leg. I didn't even see poultry in that list. Porpoise and Seal ?!?!?!? Really??? What a shame.

I don't think I would have done very good back in the '40's, but then they made everything from scratch, I doubt I would have been a very good cook either. If for some reason they had to start rationing food now, I think I'd do pretty good, because we are so used to substituting this for that anyways, because of food allergies, special diets, etc.

GAIL I would try my best to make it on what was given dgrimm60

I would manage terribly! I am the grand-daughter of two people who farmed the land until their retirement--they had huge family farms until their 20's, then farmed their own backyard garden between their 30's and 60's. I helped in the digging, the sowing and the picking of the harvest (mostly long beans). But I never learned the how and when to do so! I was an unskilled laborer for them. Now, in my late 40's, I do nothing more with my yard than mow the lawn and trim the hedges. I would love to have my own garden, but I don't know how to go about it. Food rationing would drive me nuts. I have specific foods I need to have to feed my family best. The above is from Wikipedia. (Argue with me all you like about Wikipedia not being a reliable source, I don't mind. It's good enough for this discussion in my opinion.) It seems to be in line with what my grandmother tells me about rationing. I can easily live without bacon, butter, sugar, meat, biscuits, cheese, eggs, lard, milk and dried fruit. I would find it unfortunate to live without tea (particularly hibiscus tea and green tea). If oat bran is considered "breakfast cereal", then I'd be at a huge loss! We eat about 3 cups of oat bran weekly (I make oat bran muffins for breakfast). The biggest loss I'd feel is the loss of fresh vegetables and fruit. If potatoes were part of that rationing, I think we'd nearly die! We all need carbohydrates for energy. __ My grandmother tells a story about her experiences with rationing during the war. She lived in Florida with my grandfather who was stationed there. She worked at a deli/sandwich shop and at a grocery store. Her mother and father were still on the farm in Missouri and had food aplenty. One day, my grandmother wrote home and said how much she would love to have some of the onions from the harvest that year--onions, of all things, were very hard to come by. A week or so later, her parents shipped her a huge box of onions! She took a few in with her to work and gave them to her co-workers. She said her boss took the onion and put it in his coat pocket--wearing it the rest of the day. She said he called home and asked his wife not to cook dinner, he was going to surprise her with "hamburgers with ONION!" Well, according to my grandmother, the wife's glee could be heard through the telephone line! Can you imagine? The excitement over a single onion! Let us hope and pray we never have to be excited over an onion.

KEVIN H yes I had bought several of here music tapes(that was years ago) :-)===;-)===:D===:P=== dgrimm60

Grateful for her voice and ministry. Life on earth is too short. The queen of Adventist stereo systems has fallen asleep but her voice will live in our hearts.