| | September 17, 2018 ♦ Issue 6 |
| Pursuing an Unexpected Passion “A year ago, if someone would have told me I’d be here, I would have said, ‘No way!’” said Teresa Ferreira, who recently assumed a trifold role with Canada’s Maritime Conference as executive secretary, education superintendent and director of Camp Ministries. “But when I received the call, I was humbled,” she added. “[My husband and I] prayed and stepped forward in faith.”
Growing up on a farm in New Brunswick, Ferreira planned to become a lawyer, but later felt called to education. And more than once, when she felt ready to leave that field, “God sent people to encourage me to stick with it,” she said. |
| | "Too often we are hard-hearted and soft-headed, but we need to be hard-headed and soft-hearted ... ." |
| | Her work led her to Asia and eventually to Alberta, where she most recently served as principal of Coralwood Adventist Academy.
“I have a vision for Adventist education and the spiritual development of each child,” she said.
Because service to the Lord is her soul’s lifeblood, along with a passion to keep conference parishioners on fire for God, she challenges others to remember Acts 2, which discusses the gifts God bestows, and Psalm 16:8, which admonishes unwavering faith.
“Too often we are hard-hearted and soft-headed, but we need to be hard-headed and soft-hearted—grounded in biblical principal and able to stand for truth, but everything we do and say should be bathed in love,” Ferreira said of leadership. |
| | — Written by Elizabeth Anderson (Republished with permission.) |
| | Meditations
"I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With Him at my right hand, I will not be shaken." — Psalm 16:8, New International Version |
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