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Peace be with you all! My name is Victor and I'm from Latvia! I've been an Adventist since 1994! I've decided to create a website for the Glory of our Savior Jesus Christ (https://jesus-love.net/) and thereby bring a drop of light into our dark world! I've also created a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/theworldofthebible/). I'd be very grateful to everyone who supports me by following me on Facebook and sharing the site! Sincerely, Victor!

Recently, the plan to begin automatic Selectivfe Service registration in December has been in the news. This may result in some questions related to the imposition of an actual draft. The following link should provide most answers. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/here-s-who-is-and-isn-t-impacted-by-us-military-draft-changes/ar-AA20Bm34?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=69da30d56f5641ce968c24cd12882b33&ei=19

There is an EGW quote I learned in my first year in the church. It has always stuck with me. crowd all the good deeds we can into this life. Think about that. Crowd is such a powerful word. We only have a finite amount of time on this planet. She says we should crowd all the good deeds we can. What if that was our motto. Our mantra for the day. To crowd some good deeds into the day. Good deeds do not have to cost money. We all have the ability to do good deeds. This text is from a letter to her son Willie in 1874. https://text.egwwritings.org/read/14052.3471009?query=good deeds we can into this life.&highlight=1#14052.3471009 What a blessing that woman was.

I have a story. A while back I was doing an evangelism program at one of our churches in the Philippines. Every night there was a man and some children. One night after the program, one of the bible workers asked me to visit the wife of the man with children. Sure I said. The next day we went to their house. The house was way out in the rice patties. A bamboo house, 2 floors. To get there, we parked on the road and walked. On the edge of the rice patties there is a mound and a path. A path of mud that can be very slippery when wet. This is country of small people and small feet. The paths were not made for Americans with size 12 shoes. We walked carefully with someone holding on to me as we traversed the different paths. I have been all over the Philippines. I have seen the poverty like no other. The first time I came here, I was in shock for two months after returning home. I have seen things I can not tell my friends in the USA. So we arrived at the house and went inside. It had a dirt floor. The loft was for sleeping. It was dark inside. The only light came in through the door opening. The mother of the children was there. She was about 30 years old and dieing of cancer. Stage 4 I was told. She had a tooth abscess that was never treated because of poverty. Over the years it turned into cancer, or at least that was my understanding of the translation. She was too weak to walk. We prayed for her and the family and left. At the end of the program, on a Sabbath, there was a baptism in the afternoon. She was baptized by the elders carrying her into the water as the pastor prayed. I received word a few months later that she died. Imagine, but for the grace of God, that was you or I. Because of where we were born, our circumstances are completely different. But imagine you were born there into poverty, had 4 or five children and then died in poverty and pain. What a life. Now today things are slightly better. Each town has an intern to help the poor a few hours a week. A tooth access can be dealt with. Simple injuries are treatable. But the poverty still dictates treatment. People can be seen amputated limbs, because that was the only option. Better than death though. Imagine having 4-5 children that had to grow up without a mother or father. Very common here. There are children in this condition within 500 feet of my home. Very likely they will live in extreme poverty their whole life. Sometimes, if the grandparents can afford to, they will raise the children. Again, there are several instances of that with 1000ft of my home. Never forget how fortunate your life is. No matter what your struggles are. The majority of the world, lives in such poverty, you cannot really understand it.