REFLECTIONS . . .

          of some who attended the 2011 Conference

          “Would you rather be sclerotic or arthritic?
It’s best to be neither—spiritually as well as physically.  And for spiritual purposes, the Ohio Conference’s annual Innovation Conference is as fine a preventive medicine as you’ll ever find.  I just attended the 2011 event, and speakers on health and health ministry were farmer’s market fresh.  Then came riveting takes on both the Christian and the specifically Adventist futures.  Both of these look grim—unless an ethos of renewal and innovation kicks in.  On this front, the Innovation Conference is the best place anywhere to renew your hope and energy.”

Dr. Charles Scriven
President, Kettering College
Kettering, Ohio

          “Every pastor needs a time to reflect on new ideas and be challenged by creative ways of thinking. Since its beginning in 2004 the Conference on Innovation has been that time for me.  Each year a new theme and variety of speakers gives me fresh insight and creative tools to help me become a more effective Seventh-day Adventist professional.   The Conference on Innovation has helped renew my faith in the institutional Seventh-day Adventist Church and confirms my belief that innovation can take place within the organizational church.”

Pastor Tim Garrison
Moorpark Community Seventh-day Adventist Church
Southern California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists