North American Division Ministerial Association associate director Dave Gemmell greets the scores of Adventist professors, researchers, and graduate students who met for the annual joint worship of the Adventist Theological Society and the Adventist Society for Religious Studies, this year in San Antonio, Texas, on November 19. (center) and Dave Gemmell, minutes before the beginning of the Scholars’ Vespers on November 19. įrom left to right: Southwest Region Conference president Carlton Byrd, and North American Division Ministerial Association associate directors José Cortés Jr. Members of the Adventist Theological Society and the Adventist Society for Religious Studies chat and greet each other before beginning the joint worship service at Laurel Heights Seventh-day Adventist Church in San Antonio, Texas, United States, on November 19, 2021. In 2021, ASRS met in San Antonio, Texas, November 18-20 under the theme “World Disrupted, World Revealed: Ecology and Theology in an Age of Pandemic.” Meetings are typically held around the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). In 2021, the program theme was “Wealth and Poverty.”ĪSRS, on the other hand, which usually meets in the same or a nearby city as the ATS event, discusses a separate theme its own board has chosen for that particular year. With a historical and, to a certain extent, theological affinity to ETS, the ATS event usually uses the same theme ETS has chosen and provides a biblical Adventist approach to it. The 2021 Friday joint worship service took place at Laurel Heights Seventh-day Adventist Church in San Antonio, Texas, on November 19.Įvery year, ATS members gather on the sidelines of the larger Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) annual conference, which in 2021 met in Fort Worth, Texas, November 16-18.

The scholars, most of them professors at Adventist seminaries and universities around the world, are members of the Adventist Society for Religious Studies (ASRS) and the Adventist Theological Society (ATS). The worship service draws dozens of distinguished Adventist theologians and scholars for moments of praise, prayer, and reflection. Once a year, a Friday evening worship happens at a Seventh-day Adventist church somewhere in the United States that differs from all the rest.

DecemAdventist Scholars’ Joint Worship Highlights the Unifying Power of Jesus Professors, researchers, and graduate students gather annually to sing, pray, and reflect.

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