It started a few years ago when The Bethel SDA Church, with a focus of health and healthy living, launched what became known as The Midnight Walk. It was really an endurance activity, the first one being a 20-mile fitness walk from the Layou River Bridge to the northern town of Portsmouth. The hikers walked through the night, beginning at 9:30pm and arriving at their destination, the SDA Secondary School at Portsmouth, before 4:00am in the morning. Walking through the night was tough but achievable. A daytime walk along the west coast of Dominica would be almost impossible when one considers the associated sun and heat. This walking victory gave rise to the planning of an annual walk, with the second (one year later) covering 27 miles. In 2012, the focus changed from fitness and andurance to fitness, endurance, evangelism and rebranding of the activity to The Habakkuk Walk based on chapter 2, verse 2 of the Book of Habakkuk. The first Habakkuk Walk took off from Canefield on the night on August 4, 2012 and crossed four communities before ending 10 miles away on the lovely beach at Mero where the hikers-turned-campers slept out the remainder of the night on the open beach. Hundread of tracts and booklets were distributed along the walk. In preparation for a lay crusade about mid-2013, the church will again hike and distribute the Word of God.
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Pasa Graphe' Theopneustos Kai Ophelimos (Greek) is one of the most often-repeated passages from the Scriptures, ie, the Bible. The passage appears in the heading of our Facebook page. But what does it say to us in our various tongues? Well, for those of us who speak English, this passage is a bold testimony from the pen of one Paul, a first-century scholar from the Isrealite tribe of Benjamin. It is also a statement steeped in the thelogy of the Biblical narratives. So, Paul wrote to a young ethnic Jew named Timotheus: "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable......"
At the time Paul wrote those words, there was not yet a codex known as the "New Testament." The scrolls of papyrus on which were written the Scriptures are what we call today the "Old Testament." In its immediate and limited interpretation, Paul is saying that the messages in the Old Testament are inspired by God. That being so, who is the man who would say that the record of the flood in Noah's day was simply an allegory, and not an historical account?
At the time Paul wrote those words, there was not yet a codex known as the "New Testament." The scrolls of papyrus on which were written the Scriptures are what we call today the "Old Testament." In its immediate and limited interpretation, Paul is saying that the messages in the Old Testament are inspired by God. That being so, who is the man who would say that the record of the flood in Noah's day was simply an allegory, and not an historical account?
