That God Created Man in His Own Image

God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he
him; male and female created he them.Genesis 1:27.

All heaven took a deep and joyful interest in the creation of the world and
of man. Human beings were a new and distinct order. They were made “in
the image of God,” and it was the Creator’s design that they should populate
the earth. They were to live in close communion with heaven, receiving power
from the Source of all power. Upheld by God, they were to live sinless lives.

The holy pair were not only children under the fatherly care of God, but
students receiving instruction from the all-wise Creator. They were visited
by angels, and were granted communion with their Maker, with no obscuring
veil between.... The mysteries of the visible universe—“the wondrous works
of him who is perfect in knowledge”—afforded them an exhaustless source
of instruction and delight.

 The laws and operations of nature, which have
engaged men’s study for six thousand years, were opened to their minds by the
infinite Framer and Upholder of all. They held converse with leaf and flower
and tree, gathering from each the secrets of its life. With every living creature,
from the mighty leviathan that playeth among the waters, to the insect mote
that floats in the sunbeam, Adam was familiar. He had given to each its name,
and he was acquainted with the nature and habits of all. God’s glory in the
heavens, the innumerable worlds in their orderly revolutions, “the balancings
of the clouds,” the mysteries of light and sound, of day and night,—all were
open to the study of our first parents.

God created man a superior being; he alone is formed in the image of  God, and is capable of partaking of the divine nature, of cooperating with his Creator and executing His plans.

                   Sons  and  daughters  of  God  Ellen G white pg 7.

Wana semina wa Uwakili wakiwemo wachungaji, Wazee wa Kanisa, na Wakuu wa Huduma za Uwakili kutoka makanisa ya Konferensi za SHC, ECT, na SEC wanaoijua a hapa Gangilonga Iringa kuanzia leo hadi Jumapili.

 

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Wana  semina  wakiwa    makini  katika  kusikiliza  kile  mnenaji  mkuu anapotoa   neno.

PREPARING TO MEET CHRIST

ALL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS LOOK FORWARD LONGINGLY TO THE TIME WHEN JESUS WILL COME TO TAKE THEM TO THE HEAVENLY HOME THAT HE HAS GONE TO PREPARE FOR THEM. IN THAT BETTER LAND THERE WILL BE NO MORE SIN, NO DISAPPOINTMENTS, NO HUNGER, NO POVERTY, NO SICKNESS, AND NO DEATH. WHEN THE APOSTLE JOHN CONTEMPLATED THE PRIVILEGES THAT AWAIT THE FAITHFUL, HE EXCLAIMED: ―BEHOLD, WHAT MANNER OF LOVE THE FATHER HATH BESTOWED UPON US, THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED THE SONS OF GOD…. NOW ARE WE THE SONS OF GOD, AND IT DOTH NOT YET APPEAR WHAT WE SHALL BE: BUT WE KNOW THAT, WHEN HE SHALL APPEAR, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM.‖ 1 JOHN 3:1,2.

TO BE LIKE JESUS IN CHARACTER IS GOD‘S AIM FOR HIS PEOPLE. FROM THE BEGINNING IT WAS GOD‘S PLAN THAT MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN FAMILY, CREATED IN HIS IMAGE, SHOULD DEVELOP GOD-LIKE CHARACTERS. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, OUR FIRST PARENTS IN EDEN WERE TO RECEIVE INSTRUCTION FROM CHRIST AND THE ANGELS IN FACE-TO-FACE CONVERSE. BUT AFTER ADAM AND EVE SINNED, THEY COULD NO LONGER FREELY SPEAK TO HEAVENLY BEINGS IN THIS MANNER.

SO THAT THE HUMAN FAMILY MIGHT NOT BE LEFT WITHOUT GUIDANCE, GOD CHOSE OTHER WAYS TO REVEAL HIS WILL TO HIS PEOPLE, ONE OF WHICH WAS THE MEDIUM OF PROPHETS. TO ISRAEL, GOD EXPLAINED, ―IF THERE BE A PROPHET AMONG YOU, I THE LORD WILL MAKE MYSELF KNOWN UNTO HIM IN A VISION AND WILL SPEAKUNTO HIM IN A DREAM.‖ NUMBERS 12:6.
 

MOROGORO:MAMA MJANE WA MAREHEMU MCHUNGAJI NICANOR KIKIWA AWASHUKURU WASHIRIKI WA KANISA LA WAADVENTISTA WASABATO KWA SIKU ZOTE TANGU MUME WAKE ALIPOKUWA AKISUMBULIWA NA MARADHI HADI UMAUTI ULIPOMPATA

                    Victoria Nicanor Kikiwa akiwa Mme wake Nicanor Kikiwa(Marehemu)

MAMA VICTORIA NICANOR KIKIWA,MKE WA MAREHEMU
"Tuliomba sana lakini Mungu ameruhusu muendelee kuniombea ninapomlea nakumkuza binti yangu BWANA AMETOA BWANA AMETWAA JINA LA BWANA LIBARIKIWE"

BAADHI YA MATUKIO KATIKA FIDERATION ILIYOFANYIKA CHUO CHA USAFIRISHAJI(NIT)

Ilikuwa  ni  asubuhi  ya  kipekee sana  kwa maana  ni siku  ambayo  ilikuwa ikisubiriwa  kwa  hamu  sana  na  wengii wetu  kwa  kuthibitisha  hili  vijana  wa  KAMPALA  walifika  mapema  sana  katika  eneo  la  maegesho  ilikujua  ni  namna  gani  wataweza  kuwa  katika  eneo  la tukio.

Na  hatimaye  gari  hii ndiyo  iliyo chaguliwa liweze kutumika  katika  safari  ya  kuwatoa  wanaKIU kuanzia  chuoni  hapa  mpaka  uko  NIT kwa  lengo  kushiriki  FIDERATION iliyo  mbele  yao.

Kama   MUNGU  wetu  aishivyo  vijana  walianza  safari  kwa OMBI  maalum toka  kwa  MWENYEKITI na kupitia  uhuduma  hii waliweza  kusafiri salama  hatimaye walisali salama

Ni jambo   la  kumshukuru  MUNGU   tuliweza  kufika  mapema  na kuwahi  sehemu  fupi  ya  shule  ya  sabato na  baada  ya  kumaliza  shule  ya  sabato  lilifuata  SOMO MAALUMU  toka  kwa  muinjilisti  Christopher Mang`ombe na  somo  lake  lilisema ALAMA  YA  UTAMBULISHO.

Vijana  nao  walikuwa  makini  sana  kusikiliza  mafundisho  toka  kwa  muinjilisti kama  umekosa  kufika  hapa  ebu  jitaidi  sasa  katika  programu  za  mchana  uwe pamoja  nasi.

Vijana  wa   KIU  pia  waliweza  kupata  nafasi  ya  kuhudumu  kwa  njia  ya  uimbaji.

Kwa   habari  na matukio  ya  mchana  yaliyo  endelea  hapa  karibu  sana  na  usisite  kutembelea na  kualika  wenzako  pia  nawe  utabarikiwa  sana.

2,000 Adventist Couples Renew Wedding Vows Jamaican couples get a crash course on how to improve their marriages.

 

 Northern Caribbean University president Trevor Gardner preparing to kiss his wife, Patricia, at a marriage conference on Feb. 7, 2015. Photo: Nigel Coke

A record 2,000 Seventh-day Adventist couples from across Jamaica renewed their marital vows at a gathering where they learned that the keys to a successful marriage are humility and the full surrender of self to God.

Willie and Elaine Oliver, directors the Family Ministries department of the Adventist world church, speaking at the “Journey Toward Intimacy” conference. Photo: Nigel Coke

The couples, young and old, waited in long lines at Northern Caribbean University in Mandeville, Jamaica, to gain free entrance to the couples’ conference, which is held once every five years and was organized by the Jamaica Union Conference.


“What was accomplished here today, where nearly 2,000 couples participated in this convention, is a statement to our nation that this church still believes that marriage is to be between a man and a woman as God intended it to be,” union treasurer Bancroft Barwise told the crowd as the Feb. 7 event wrapped up.

 
Fewer couples are tying the knot every year in Jamaica even as the divorce rate has grown from 11 percent in 2010 to 13 percent in 2013, according to the latest figures available from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica.

The most important path to an improved marriage is for the couple to be kind and loving, humble and forgiving, said the presenters, Willie and Elaine Oliver, who have been married for more than 30 years.

“The most critical ingredient is surrender: surrender to God and self,” said Elaine Oliver, who with her husband co-directs the Family Ministries department of the Adventist world church.
“Marriage is hard,” she said. “It’s hard work, and if I can focus on the other person more than I focus on myself — which is totally counter-cultural because we live in an individualistic world — then we can have a happy marriage.”

Willie Oliver underscored the necessity of humility.
“When we are humble, we will recognize that we have made a mistake and it’s OK to ask for forgiveness and apologize,” he said. “But persons might be just too proud to say, ‘I am sorry,’ and as the wise man Solomon said, ‘Pride goes before a fall.’ So if we want to stay strong in marriage, we have to be humble.”

Each couple received a 21-page workbook, “Journey Toward Intimacy,” written by the Olivers and packed with practical marital information from the Bible and the writings of Adventist Church co-founder Ellen G. White.

Among the questions is ”What did Jesus say about commitment in marriage?” The answer offered in the workbook is drawn from Matt. 19:3-6: “The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?’And He answered and said to them, ‘Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning “made them male and female,”and said, “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh”? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.’”

In a section on committing to intimacy, the workbook quotes Ellen White’s Happiness Homemade, p. 24: “Determine to be all that is possible to be to each other. Continue the early attentions. In every way encourage each other in fighting the battles of life. … Let there be mutual love, mutual forbearance. Then marriage, instead of being the end of love, will be as it were the very beginning of love.”

The couples were given five- to 10-minute breaks during the conference to discuss their marriages and then list ways to enhance their relationships.
Five couples, one from each of the five Adventist conferences in Jamaica, were randomly selected and given a prize of a weekend for two at a resort.

Attendees Errol and Valerie Vaz, who have been married for 35 years, said they had filled in the workbook and looked forward to putting their new ideas into practice.
“There some areas that were discussed today that we need to brush up on, and we have made our list as to how we are going to address them,” Errol Vaz said.

Some 2,000 couples packing the gymnasium at Northern Caribbean University in Mandeville, Jamaica, for the conference. Photo: Nigel Coke

Adventist University Goes Hi-Tech, Winning Praise From Rwanda’s Premier

The Adventist University of Central Africa opens a state-of-the-art facility where smartboards replace chalkboards.

Rwanda’s prime minister cut the ribbon at the grand opening of a state-of-the-art facility that is expected to turn the Adventist University of Central Africa into a leading provider of IT and communication specialists for the region.

The inauguration of the Science and Technology Center, one of two major Adventist-owned buildings that were opened in Rwanda this week, marks the transformation of the university from a run-down place where students were ashamed to be seen into a top-flight school.


Prime Minister Anastase Murekesi, who toured the campus with a delegation that included Adventist Church leader Ted N.C. Wilson, thanked Wilson on Wednesday for making good on a promise in 2012 to support health and education in Rwanda.


Wilson in turn thanked Murekesi for fulfilling a government pledge to construct a 1 mile (2-kilometer) paved road to the campus’ entrance.
“Three years ago when breaking the ground for the building of this center, Pastor Ted Wilson left me with a promise of a church vision to support health and education in Rwanda,” Murekesi said. “On our part as the Rwandan government, we pledged to build a road. … Both promises have been kept. This is therefore an excellent partnership, and I look forward to many more years of fruitful collaboration.”

The university, formerly located in Mudende in western Rwanda, was destroyed by the 1994 genocide. It reopened in Gishushu, along the main road between the country’s main airport and the capital, Kigali, but offered sparse classroom space in old buildings until construction work started in earnest in 2012.

“It was like a slum,” university rector Abel Ngabo Sebahahashya said at the ceremony Wednesday.
He said students used to sneak on and off the campus with “a sense of humiliation and frustration,” hoping that no one saw them.

The campus is no longer “a kindergarten project but a world-class project,” said university chancellor Blasious Ruguri, who also serves as president of the Adventist Church’s East-Central Africa Division.

The Science and Technology Center has 24 classrooms that seat 40 to 60 students each. Photo: Claude Richli

24 Classrooms With Smartboards

The new building contains 24 classrooms that can accommodate 40 to 60 students. Each classroom boasts a smartboard, replacing chalk or a felt tip pen with a fully networked, digitally responsive whiteboard that facilitates presentations and the instant archiving of lecture notes. The center’s computer labs are equipped with state-of-the-art networked technology that allows students to study with teachers onsite or remotely.

The university, which has about 4,000 students, is working to make all of its teaching materials available digitally. Even the library will be fully digitized, with e-books to students’ computers.
The university also broke ground on Wednesday on a new guesthouse and dormitories. The rector said a school of medicine would open in 2016, the first in Rwanda and Central Africa.


The university’s expansion comes at a key time for the Rwandan government, which has vowed “to transform itself from a low-income agriculture-based economy to a knowledge-based, service-oriented economy with a middle-income country status by 2020,” according to a country report by the World Bank.


Before the prime minister left the campus, Wilson prayed for him and his family, Rwanda’s president, and the government. Wilson claimed a Bible promise regarding wisdom for the prime minister: “If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you” (James 1:5).

Prime Minister Anastase Murekesi, center, touring a computer lab in the new facility. University chancellor Blasious Ruguri is standing in the foreground to the left. Photo: Claude Richli

Mission Headquarters Opened

In a separate ceremony Tuesday, Wilson oversaw the opening of an eight-story headquarters for the Rwanda Union Mission. The mission had been operating in a modest building since its establishment in 1984, but the local church is quickly growing and Kigali has rapidly transformed into a regional center.


Rwanda is one of the Adventist Church’s fastest growing regions, with an average growth rate of 7 percent a year, and it has nearly 700,000 members.
The new headquarters offers spacious suites for church offices and for rent, and a stunning view of Kigali from its terrace at the top.


The headquarters and the new university center cost a combined 5 billion Rwandan francs ($7.2 million), church leaders said.


Wilson said in a speech that the new buildings were magnificent, but Adventists should not be blinded to the fact that they are tools to exercise a strong spiritual influence throughout the country and to help prepare Rwandans for the coming of Jesus.


In an acknowledgement of the humble beginnings of the work in Rwanda, Wilson and Hesron Byilingiro, president of the church in Rwanda, unveiled a plaque in front of the building to commemorate the legacy of Henri Monnier, the Swiss missionary who brought the Adventist message to Rwanda in 1923 and was the first to translate the Bible into the local Kinyarwanda language.