When Dr. Ying “Lucy” Zhou attended Hinsdale Adventist Academy’s (HAA) international festival last October, she was impressed by the celebration of diversity on display.

Across Southern Illinois, God is opening new doors for outreach, and the Thompsonville Seventh-day Adventist Church is stepping forward in faith to walk through them.

I was listening to a book while I mowed my lawn recently which emphasized the anthropological distinction between spaces and places. Spaces are structured, bounded, measurable, like a city or an empty warehouse; places are spaces with meaning. It's the difference between an empty room in a house and that same room once you've added the art and furniture that turns it into a place that represents you, like that Roman armor in the corner that never fails to provoke a conversat