The Development of Adventist Youth Groups and Ellen White’s Empowerment of Youth in Evangelism and Service

How did youth work begin in the Adventist church? Did it start with “professionals”? What was the point of Adventist youth groups originally? And what is the point today? This provocative paper may generate some discussion with your youth and leadership team –and maybe even re-focus your ministry

Ellen White\u27s Counsel To Leaders: Identification And Synthesis Of Principles, Experiential Application, And Comparison With Current Leadership Literature

Ellen G. White’s counsel to leaders on both spiritual and practical themes, as well as her personal application of that counsel, has on-going relevance in the twenty-first century. The author researched secondary literature, and Ellen G. White’s published and unpublished works. She surveyed current leadership literature to compare and contrast with Ellen G. White’s leadership principles and constructed a theological foundation for Ellen White’s unique leadership world view. Ellen White’s leadership principles relating to knowing God, authority, visioning, and human relations may still inspire compassionate action and a deepening commitment to Jesus Christ in today’s Christian leader

Influence of the Response Delay on the Assembling Technique Based on the Statistical Feed-forward Control Model

AbstractIn contrast to classical assembling techniques for high variation processes, the novel approach presented here, based on the Statistical Feed-Forward Control Model (SFFCM), takes into account the dynamic evolution of the variation over time. It is, then, interesting to discover how the presence of response delays affects its effectiveness. By means of simulating the production of assemblies made of two components having high dimensional variation and whose resulting length is the variable to control, sets of experiments were designed to discover the influence of response delays in combination with different side factors. Simulation results revealed that depending on the delays’ magnitude the average mean shift of the resulting assemblies’ length increased between 5% and 64% whereas the average standard deviation increased between 3% and 33%. This fluctuation, independently from the side factors, is arguably attributable to the presence of response delays which, in practice, represent an obstacle for SFFCM