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Bert Williams

Articles by Bert Williams

  • An Idea Whose Time Had Come – Part 3

    An Idea Whose Time Had Come – Part 3

    Changing Times, Changing Laws     That was then, this is now. Randy Hill, who spent part of 1985 working as a Taskforce youth pastor in the Simi Valley church in California, is now vice president for youth and young adult ministries for the Pacific Union. Hill recently provided an update.  “The term Taskforce is…

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  • An Idea Whose Time Had Come part 2

    An Idea Whose Time Had Come part 2

    What do Sandra Roberts, executive secretary of the Pacific Union Conference; Tony Anobile, vice president for church ministries of the Southwestern Union, and Ray Tetz, director of communication and community engagement for the Pacific Union Conference, have in common? They were all Taskforce volunteers! Begun in 1973 as a North American Division program assigning Adventist…

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  • An Idea Whose Time Had Come – Part 1

    An Idea Whose Time Had Come – Part 1

    As she and her dad traveled in the old blue Nissan sedan along Michigan State Highway 46, Sandra Roberts was trying to imagine what lay ahead. It was the late summer of 1980. She was to assume work as the assistant girls’ dean at Cedar Lake Academy (now Great Lakes Adventist Academy).  Roberts had recently…

    Bert Williams