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A Homecoming like no other

Friday, August 28, 2020

Restricted from attending in person, alumni featured more personally and prominently as Avondale presented its 40th annual Homecoming entirely online for the first time.

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Hymns and Songs of Praise

Saturday, August 24, 2019

In by Brenton Stacey

Celebrate the Christian tradition of hymn and song singing with Dr Lyell Heise and the Institute of Worship as part of Avondale Alumni’s Homecoming.

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A music minister

Friday, August 9, 2019

From an early age, Lyell Heise experienced the capacity to make and respond to music and witnessed in his family a strong commitment to Christianity. Combining the arts with an expression of faith has since defined the career of Avondale Alumni’s 2019 Alumnus of the Year.

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Only about music?

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Seventh-day Adventist worship, and therefore the Institute of Worship, is indeed “about music.” But in celebrating the music, it is also about much, much more.

The real thing

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Disappointment over the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church’s decision not to include on the agenda of its most recent session the ordination of women as ministers has not only renewed interest in the issue but also challenged the concept of the ceremony itself.