1 February 2012

Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1] Christian Observer Highlights for February 2012

[2] San Diego, California, Biotech Firm Using Kidney Cells from Electively Aborted Babies to Develop New Food Sweeteners PepsiCo, Nestles and Kraft Foods Division Cadbury Adams LLC

[3] Evangelical Reformed Church of Angola Conference Urges Women to Use Condoms to Prevent HIV/AIDS and to Get Blood Tests

[4] Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, Appoints the Rev. Reddit Andrews as Assistant Professor of Practical Theology

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[1] Christian Observer Highlights for February 2012

New articles in the Christian Observer for January 2012 include:

-- Our Nation's Present Moral Situation – An editorial from the Christian Observer of 10 October 1951, when Harry S. Truman was U.S. president, the U.S. Senate had recently released a report on organized crime and its ties to government officials, more than eighty West Point cadets had been expelled for cheating, and the sacred and secular press was calling for moral reform; and,

-- The Cheating in Our Public Schools – by Christian Observer Contributing Editor Dr. Joe Renfro – The outcome of rampant cheating in schools by students, teachers, and administrators;

Plus, regular features including weekly Sabbath School Lessons and Westminster Shorter Catechism lessons by Christian Observer Assistant Editor Dr. Robert LaMay, and Daily Devotionals by T.M. Moore, dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe.


+ Christian Observer, Post Office Box 1371, Lexington, Virginia 20110, christianobserver@christianobserver.org


[2] San Diego, California, Biotech Firm Using Kidney Cells from Electively Aborted Babies to Develop New Food Sweeteners PepsiCo, Nestles and Kraft Foods Division Cadbury Adams LLC

San Diego, California, biotech firm Senomyx is using kidney cells from electively aborted babies in the development of sweet food additives for companies such as PepsiCo, Nestles, and Kraft Foods Division Cadbury Adams LLC. The food companies pay Senomyx to develop the food additives, then continue to pay royalties on the products sold.

Oklahoma Senator Ralph Shortey recently introduced a bill to ban food products developed using aborted fetal material from being sold in Oklahoma. The mainstream media responded with a barrage of articles feigning disbelief and personally attacking Senator Shortey.

Children of God for Life has mounted a worldwide boycott of PepsiCo products after PepsiCo owned up to sponsoring Senomyx research using kidney cells from aborted babies. Thirty U.S.-based pro-life groups have joined in the boycott.

Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director of Children of God for Life, commented:

PepsiCo has the ability to request that Senomyx use one of the morally acceptable cell lines available…Unlike Campbell Soup who listened to the public and severed ties with Senomyx, PepsiCo has referred to the research as the “gold standard” for the industry; they have openly misled the public and created a public relations nightmare for themselves!...We stand firmly and proudly behind Senator Shortey who had the courage to step forward and protect the people of his State who have a right to know about these products. Shame on those in the mainstream media who never bothered to check the facts before they began assaulting his good name.


+ Children of God for Life, 4613 Barfield Crescent Road, Murfreesboro, Tennessee 37128, 615 898-1070, info@cogforlife.org

+ Senomyx, Inc., 4767 Nexus Centre Drive, San Diego, California 92121, 858-646-8300, Fax: 858-404-0752, info@senomyx.com

+ PepsiCo, Inc., 700 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, New York 10577, 914-253-2000, Contact Page

+ Kraft Foods Inc., Three Lakes Drive, Northfield, Illinois 60093, 847-646-4538, news@kraft.com

+ Nestlé USA Headquarters, 800 North Brand Boulevard, Glendale, California 91203, 818-549-7131, Fax: 818-549-5884, laurie.macdonald@us.nestle.com


[3] Evangelical Reformed Church of Angola Conference Urges Women to Use Condoms to Prevent HIV/AIDS and to Get Blood Tests

A 29 January 2012 Angola Press Agency article titled “Women Urged to Use Condoms to Prevent HIV Contamination” reports that the Evangelical Reformed Church of Angola recently held a workshop for empowering rural women at the denomination’s Luanda, Angola, headquarters titled “The Social Responsibility of the Church, Fight Against AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases,” where Maria Antonio of Angola’s Health Ministry told the assembled women to use condoms to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, and to voluntarily submit to blood tests to determine their “serological state.”


+ Angola Press Agency, Contact Page

+ Evangelical Reformed Church of Angola, Rua Rainha Ginga 75; Andar 4, Apartment 1, 2 e 16, Caixa Postal 2594 C, Luanda, Angola, 244-222-39-4586, Fax: 244-222-39-4586, iera_cdg@yahoo.com.br


[4] Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, Appoints the Rev. Reddit Andrews as Assistant Professor of Practical Theology

The Reformed Theological Seminary Board of Trustees announced 30 January 2012 that the Rev. Reddit Andrews, senior pastor of Soaring Oaks Presbyterian Church (Presbyterian Church in America) in Elk Grove, California, has been appointed to the faculty of Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, (RTS Jackson) as assistant professor of practical theology.

Mr. Andrews has a B.A. in Biblical Studies from Trinity International University, and a Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. As a student, Andrews founded Coram Deo, a student fellowship that ministered to halfway houses, rescue missions, and prisons throughout South Florida.

Mr. Andrews will begin at RTS Jackson on 1 June 2012, focusing on homiletics, but additionally teaching other courses in the practical theology department.


+ Reformed Theological Seminary - Jackson, 5422 Clinton Boulevard, Jackson, Mississippi 39209, 601-923-1600, Contact Page

+ Presbyterian Church in America, 1700 North Brown Road, Suite 105, Lawrenceville, Georgia 30043, 678-825-1000, Fax: 678-825-1001, ac@pcanet.org

+ Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2065 Half Day Road, Deerfield, Illinois 60015, 800-345-8337, tedsadm@tiu.edu