Resources for LEAP' students: Videos

Founding pioneers of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Joseph Bates, and James and Ellen White played pivotal roles in establishing the importance of the 7th-day, or the Sabbath. It memorializes God's creation of the earth in 6 days.

In this program, Dennis Wholey has a conversation about the Seventh-day Adventist Church with Elder Roscoe J. Howard III, secretary of the Church’s North American division. Topics of discussion include key figures in the history of this Protestant denomination; the reasoning behind the faith’s Saturday Sabbath; typical elements of a Seventh-day Adventist Sabbath service; the doctrine of investigative judgment by God; and an in-depth explanation of the Second Coming of Christ. In addition, Senior Pastor Ron Halvorsen, Jr., tours viewers through Sligo Church in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Joan Sabate has found that vegetarian Seventh Day Adventists live longer than their meat eating counterparts. Heart surgeon Ellsworth Wareham retired at age 95, and says a plant based diet is responsible for his longevity.