About Us

Sabbath School Net (SSNET) is operated by lay members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who volunteer their time so that Bible students around the world can study the Bible online and/or participate in the Bible Study held in Seventh-day Adventist churches (also known as Sabbath School) every seventh-day Sabbath (Saturday), no matter where their location.

With the launch of our blog in June 2011, we added an avenue of dialogue that is a bit broader than the email discussion lists which are largely focused on the weekly lesson study. Besides providing opportunity to discuss the current lessons, the blog also deals with doctrinal and lifestyle issues that are relevant to Adventists around the world.

Currently several individuals volunteer their time and efforts to make the Sabbath School Network a thriving community:

SSNET web site and blog volunteers

  • Inge Anderson – General administrator of the Sabbath School Net and editor of web content.
  • Peter Wannemacher is our new coder for the HTML version of the Sabbath School lesson. (Bob Hanson prepared his last set of lessons for the second quarter of 2012. Send him a note of thanks through our contact link if you appreciated the online lessons of previous quarters.)
  • Derek Roux from South Africa assists Peter in the preparation of the HTML version of the lessons, particularly in preparing the Inside Story and in proof-reading.
  • Michelle Malveaux – Faithfully prepares the Daily lessons from the HTML files, finding and inserting suitable illustrations into each one. Send her a note of thanks through our Contact link, if you appreciate the Daily lessons on the blog.
  • Freeman Senzani from South Africa is now preparing the lesson Helps which consist of Bible references and Ellen White quotes for each quarter. You can see these by clicking “Helps” at the top of any lesson.
  • Jason Alexis – Technical guru and creative genius who is behind many of our blog innovations is currently acting as occasional consultant.
  • Jane Sirignano -
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    Jane Sirignano

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    Seminar participants sampling Jane’s cooking

    Moderator for the blog. In her other life Jane is a cooking instructor with The Cancer Project for three years and enjoys helping people learn about the choices they can make to improve their health. She teaches her Food to Live For nutrition and cooking classes at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and food shopping tours at local supermarkets. She has a diploma in nutrition, has been a cook in a natural foods restaurant, and managed a natural foods store.

  • Maurice Ashton – Helps determine the direction of Sabbath School Net by advising, moderating the blog, contributing posts and valuable comments. He is a New Zealander who has been living in Australia for about 50 years. Married to Carmel, they have two adult children, Brenden and Toni, and two grandchildren. I was a lecturer at Avondale College for the past 27 years and is now (supposedly) retired. He also managed Avondale’s Moodle system (LMS) (moodle.avondale.edu.au for the curious)

    Maurice is a computer scientist with a special interest in transaction mechanisms in persistent systems, but he has taught in the area of IT. He also has a degrees in Physics and Chemistry and Education.

    Maurice’s main interests are:

    Maurice first started taking part in SSNET in 1997 and joined the moderating team for the discussion list around 2003, weathering most of the storms and hearing most of the main arguments several times over. He is an active member of the Avondale College Church where he lead a small, creative visuals team for 15 years.

  • Tyler Cluthe – did the lion’s share of the moderation for the blog for about a year, and he still prepares the Teachers’ helps for publication and does a lot of other useful work behind the scenes.
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    William Earnhardt

    Moderator for the blog, as well as writing weekly posts related to the Sabbath School lesson. He assures us that he’s not nearly as mean as he looks in this picture. ;) He writes, “While I have many passions such as friends, golf, kayaking, photography, etc., my greatest passion is God and His great love.”

    For the last eight years he has kept busy as a Bible Instructor-Lay Pastor at the Tampa First SDA Church, giving personal Bible studies, evangelism seminars, and working with small groups and growth groups,  training people to give Bible studies and hold seminars.

SSNET email discussion group volunteers

  • Inge Anderson – Moderator team coordinator, from British Columbia, Canada. (Actually, our moderators work so well together they “coordinate” themselves.)
  • Andrew C. Anderson III – Discussion list moderator from Texas, USA (Andrew’s website)
  • Maurice Ashton – Discussion list moderator from Australia (You can search for Maurice’s page at Avondale)
  • Andrew S. Baker – Discussion list moderator from New Jersey, USA. (Studying the Word of God, Talking Out Loud with ASB are just two of his many websites.)
  • Daniel Bidwell – provides technical support for the majordomo software at Andrews University (Dan’s personal page)

Teachers’ Helps Volunteer Writers

Michael Fracker

A retired school teacher in the Department of Corrections, State of Michigan, where he taught for  for 35 years, Michael has given hundreds of personal Bible studies and has seen many people baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

We are pleased that Michael has consented to share his Teacher Outlines with Sabbath School Net readers, because they are ideally suited for people who may not have teaching background but want to make their classes informative and relevant.

Michael was involved in Sabbath School Action Units and Sabbath School Revitalization working with Calvin Smith and Jonathan Kuntaroff from the General Conference. He wrote the Teacher’s Helps for the SS Quarterly for second quarter 2000. He was a Charter Member of the Michigan Conference Sabbath School Steering Committee for over fifteen years and wrote many for Sabbath School Leadership, Teach, and Action Magazines.

Michael spent time training in personal ministry and  door-to-door evangelism in the US, Canada, Russia, Ukraine, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Japan and worked with Calvin Smith for Voice of Prophecy Bible School for six months answering difficult questions people asked. He was a lay member on the Destiny Board of Directors in the Michigan Conference with Henry Feyerabend.

He also preached hundreds of sermons across the US and Canada and preached over 50 sermons in other countries of the world. He held evangelistic meetings several times in the US and In Cuba with Changing People’s Lives, and twice in the Philippines – once with Voice of Prophecy and once on our own.

On a little different note, Michael also led out in church building projects twice in the Philippines in San Vicente and Ft. Magsaysay.

Joyce Griffith

Joyce is a woman of many talents, as you will see if you check out her list of blogs. But the one thing that stands out is that Joyce is a creative wordsmith. We have been blessed by both her creativity and writing talents for many years now in the form of “Thought Starters” for Sabbath School lesson discussions — first on our email list for teachers and now on our blog. Check out a few of her “Thought Starters” for yourself.

The email list is indebted to Andrews University and Dan Bidwell insofar that the computer which hosts SSNET is physically housed at Andrews University and runs smoothly under Dan Bidwell’s management. We are indebted to the General Conference Sabbath School Department and Pacific Press for permission to publish the Adult Bible Study Guide online in HTML format and for providing an electronic version of the contents. However, SSNET is not officially sponsored by either Andrews University or the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Note: Please use the “Contact” link under “About Us” to write to any staff members.

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