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Members 548 Posted 24 minutes ago How very, very kind of you for making the teddy bears. That shows so much love and compassion!!!!!!!!! I am so sorry that happened to you. I think you missed my point. It did not happen to me. The woman's selfishness happened to ten children. Ten children that may not have had anything or anything new for christmas. The party that took the first donation and sold at flea market really didn't hurt me, but it did future families that may have benefitted and now certainly won't. No, I got that. What I wanted you to know is that your endeavor was very kind. And the fact that you saw your things at a flea market later--that is why I said i was sorry it happened to you.You did not have to do that, and regardless of the outcome, you deserve to be thanked.

How very, very kind of you for making the teddy bears. That shows so much love and compassion!!!!!!!!! I am so sorry that happened to you. Bonnie, I know what you are talking about. But for all of your stories there are many other stories that i have seen,m any are thankful and use wisely. I am a 73 yo SNAP recipient--no stamps this month--I'm ok though. Having been an Adventist for awhile, and knowing how to make a meal out of nothing because of it (my son and I used to walk up to a bulk store and buy a 25 lb bag of flour, a large soy sauce, and some oatmeal.) I'm sure you know where this is going We made seitan from the flour and used soy sauce as a broth, and made bread, and oatmeal or oatmeal bread. Aldi had cheap vegs and fruits in cans, and i bought those also, I served sweet potatoes and broccoli 2 times a week.. It was a lot of fun making those meals. I still make choplets, but with VWG that i got a fantastic deal on.I didnt have food stamps during this time.I do now though and try to use them wisely. Will be ok if I cant get stamps in the future. One of the problems I think is folk have lost the desire to cook, and if they had to because of not ready for consumption meals, they would eventually grow to love cooking. IDK, though. I wish there were required classes,online would be easy, and everyone pretty much has a phone. I also wish the USDA would publish recipes, and a pantry stock checklist (onion powder garlic powder salt pepper baking powder, baking soda, stuff like that), and post it as a list at places like Walmart. Walmart could have a run on those things like they do with school supplies. Folks who dont know would have building blocks basics for recipes. When I was a kid, I had a friend whose family got commodities. Big Cans of USDA butter, Lard, cheese, tons of Texas Toast type bread. We would, when the commodities came in, put lard on a piece of bread, fry it, and the put some of the real butter on it. I know, lard, but I was a Mormon kid and lard was fine. My parents couldn't afford real butter, and those fried toast things were someone of the most delicious things I'd ever had. I wish we still had commodities--the farmers could sell those to the government, and the government distribute. Meanwhile the recipients, if they can, are volunteering for whoever needs them. I understand there are some states going to require that if you get benefits, you need to work or at least perform community service for X hours a week. This is an excellent idea IMO. I would do it if i had transportation just because it is fun to help someone. Again, thank you for your kindness! This is all over the place and Im sorry--home from church today recovering from pneumonia--much much better,praise God, but supposed to rest and not be around crowds for a week or two. So Im chillin online .

Your questions are valid. I do not have the answers.

Yes, I see that now. It is really hard for me to comprehend the difficulty of life in America back then. The poverty, the sickness, the difficult travel. One of the things this book has not yet touched on was the cold. The daily temperatures were colder than today. This is one reason they had such thick clothing. Also, the lack of central heating made life difficult. Life was VERY difficult back then.

Joe, you ask: What kind of turning point? I think your answer is found in the following quote: " . . . we believe, the most pressing issue facing Adventism. In the pages that follow, readers will discover the beginning of a work of reconstruction. The goal is simple: to reclaim our prophet by honest affirmation of her gift."

Wow, I love this book !!! It gives such insight to their lives. They had such struggles. I did not know there was malaria in Michigan. So there were 16 years difference between them. Life was so hard back then. More things to be grateful for. That we live in a time of convinces and powerful medicine.

I don't mean this to start an argument or dispute but was wondering if things have changed in the context of foreign mission fields. In the above 1923 report of the SDA Southern Asian Educational Department, it is stated SDA's had a problem with using "C.L.S. Readers" (Christian Literature Society). C.L.S. readers were Christian educational books and pamphlets that were generic Protestant in nature that were those Christian Doctrines agreed upon by Lutheran's, Anglican's, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, & other Reformed Denominations. On Page 8 of the report its stated that the SDA educators had to black out sentences in these books because they taught The Trinity, immortality of the soul and consumption of flesh foods. The jest of the article is an appeal for funding so that the SDA Church can produce its own educational materials, so they can shower Hindu's with the "latter rain" of truth. I'd be interested to know if the SDA India mission field is using their own readers and if so what these books and pamphlets say about the Trinity. I realize that the date of this report is only 8 years after the death of Ellen White so the Church may have been in its infancy of more favorable views of the Trinity - I'd like to know more about when the SDA Church started producing it's own educational material for the Hindu / India mission field and what those newly minted educational books had to say about the Trinity Doctrine - how the Doctrine was addressed. 14 years prior to the above report of the SDA Education Dept. another article appeared in the Sabbath Herald - this article was extremely venomous against the Trinity Doctrine. I'm attempting to track the point within the time-hack that SDA Educators started producing their own religious educational materials and how those newly created materials dealt with the most important question / Doctrine in Christianity - WHO JESUS IS.

Annual Council is an important administrative meeting of the SDA Church that takes place each year. The 2025 one has just ended. Andrew Francis, a student at Andrews University, has authored an extensive report on this recent Annual Council. Yes, it is extensive. In his report he cites both positive values and aspects that he suggests could be improved. It is well worth reading and can be accessed from the link below. https://spectrummagazine.org/views/annual-council-left-me-encouraged-but-with-questions/