Interview with Bradford C. Newton
A
s president, you bring a perspective
around the corner and see the pastor with my
that's unique because of your
parents at the living room couch, studying the Bible
experience in other positions
with the film strip machine. It was through the local
and other places. How does
church that we were nurtured as a family. It was
that influence the way you're taking on this
through the local church, and things as simple as
responsibility?
going to Sabbath School and participating in church,
It goes back to how I began as a Seventh-day
that I experienced what it meant to have a church
Adventist Christian. Everything was built around
community.
what happened in a local church. My family was
I was a church organist at the Orange church,
brought in through the work of a colporteur. A
where our family belonged. We went Ingathering,
local pastor had Bible studies with my parents. I
and I can still remember the church members
can remember sneaking out of my room to peek
showing us how to collect Christmas dollars for Jesus
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