Connie Jeffery

On May 22, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors honored popular Adventist radio show host Harry Bey for 50 years of service in gang prevention. Bey can be heard every Saturday evening on 790 KABC on The Harry Bey USA Show discussing current events and helping the disadvantaged. In 1968, Bey founded Project G.A.N.G.S., an acronym…

From a YouTube viral sensation at age four to acting and playing drums in the movie “I Can Only Imagine,” 19-year-old Cole Marcus is a young man whose only goal is to glorify God in all he does. Between working in the entertainment industry, composing songs, and recording his first album, Marcus also teaches youth…

This spring, 56 women gathered for the sixth annual Women’s Day event sponsored by the Simi Valley church, in partnership with Southern California Conference (SCC) Prayer Ministry and the Pacific Union Conference. Janet Lui, SCC prayer ministry coordinator, was the main devotional speaker. Her topic? Prayer is the key! “For me, having women’s ministry events…

On Sabbath afternoon, March 17, the Light Above group became a Company of the Southern California Conference (SCC). The recognition and certification ceremony was held at the Foothills Community church, the congregation’s rented facility in Pasadena. In October 2006, 21 believers started a Visayan (Filipino dialect) group which met in a room in Eagle Rock.…

A fourth degree black belt in karate and one of the original pioneers of cage fighting, Nico Hill fought in Russia, Brazil, and the United States. As a martial arts expert, he was known as “Nico the Dragon” and starred in a TV series and many action feature films. Onscreen, he played the tough guy…

Iris Chuah cares about the “humans” in Human Resources. “No entity can operate without people,” Chuah said. “If our mission is to bring people to Christ, it is only appropriate that our institutions have a department that can focus its mission on caring for its employees who are doing God’s work.” Iris’ work experience spans…

What began as one newborn’s struggle to survive in the Newborn and Infant Critical Care Unit (NICCU) of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) more than two decades ago has turned into a ministry of love and compassion for the most vulnerable among us — newborn babies with life-threatening conditions.  Taylor Ligan, Pasadena church, graduated from…