Center for Creative Ministry A research organization and research center for Seventh-day Adventist pastors and their congregations
The Covenant and the Blueprint
Due to an unexpected illness, this week’s author was unable to write for Sharing Scripture. We thank you for understanding as she takes this week off to rest. This week’s Scripture texts have been included above for your personal study. Additionally, please read the below update composed by our executive director Paul Richardson. Thank you again for your understanding and God bless!
~ Stefani Leeper | Content Coordinator
Center for Creative Ministry Update
Let me start by thanking Stefani Leeper for coordinating and editing this newsletter single-handedly these past three years while I was a pastor at the Walla Walla University Church. Stefani has done an amazing job and I know you join me in offering to her our heart-felt thanks.
Stefani will still be actively involved in the ministry of the Center, but now she will have my help since I retired from full-time employment. We are both trying to adjust to not having Monte Sahlin’s participation in our content creation since he passed away in March, 2025. We share in the Sahlin family loss and wish them the abundant comfort of Heaven as they (and we) grieve his loss.
To that point, I met a colleague in Ohio last month and with Monte’s family we packed up over 100 boxes of his library that will become a lending library for theology and sociology students at Washington Adventist University in Takoma Park, Maryland. We also curated Monte’s papers and e-files, including several unfinished book manuscripts, that we will be prepared for publishing in keeping with the way he wrote and lived his life of compassionate service.
Monte guided the Center for Creative Ministry as its board chair for 38 years and we are honored to have as part of our mission to keep his legacy alive through the media resources we have available and will develop in the future. There will be more information to come, but for now, we want you to know we will not forget Monte and the legacy he left.
Paul Richardson | Executive Director
The Center for Creative Ministry is fully recognized by the North American Division (NAD) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church; it is also a 501c3 nonprofit organization which makes donations tax deductible in the U.S.
