SDA's pull La Sierra University from status of approved SDA University.

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Spectrummagazine.com and EducateTruth.Com are reporting that the Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists executive committee has voted to remove La Sierra University from its “list of Adventist Colleges and Universities which qualify for employee subsidy” on Tuesday. Both websites have published a letter by Jay Gallimore, president of the Michigan Conference that was emailed to them by a Michigan Conference employee.

Adventist conference employees receive a subsidy when their children attend Adventist institutions, thus this removal would mean that children of the Michigan Conference will no longer receive this subsidy when attending La Sierra.

Some teachers at La Sierra, an Adventist institution, have been accused of teaching evolution which some leaders believe is contrary to the principles of the church. Evangelist David Asscherick wrote an email to General Conference Leadership protesting the teaching of Evolution at La Sierra in 2009 which started a lot of the agitation over the issue.

“With sorrow we feel it is our spiritual responsibility to notify Michigan Conference members that we do not believe that La Sierra can currently be trusted to be supportive of Seventh-day Adventist spiritual values especially in reference to faith in the biblical understanding of creation, and thus the authority of Scripture in the life and practice of the believer,” said the statement from Gallimore.

The statement defended Adventist Higher Education, but felt that all Adventist Education should be based in “the principles of Scripture AND the Spirit of Prophecy.” The Spirit of Prophecy is seen by many Adventists as including the writings of the Adventist prophet Ellen Gould White.

Finally, the statement called for the upcoming 2010 General Conference session to support fundamental belief number 6 which calls for a “literal, recent, six-day Creation” by requiring all Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities to support and defend “creation science,” which according to the statement is “seven ordinary, literal, historic, consecutive, contiguous twenty-four hour days of divine creation and rest as described in Genesis.”
La Sierra Removed From Michigan Conference Approved Seventh-Day Adventist Universities | Power News Network

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Dark_Lite said:

I hope they either A) don't have a biology program or B) aren't accredited for biology if they do have one. Well, I suppose once they start teaching science then they can get accredited...

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Metherion said:

Ignoring the whole crevo aspect of this article, let's make sure we pray for any employees with children that need the subsidy but will stop receiving it, possibly stranding either the kids with only part-done degrees or saddle parents with debts that can ill afford in the current economy for their kids to finish schooling.

Metherion

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