3Angels Livable Communities Initiative

Boosting living standards and intellectual development to unlock eternal decision-making

VISION 2025

On February 27, 2015, 3AngelsLCI launched its VISION 2025 in commemoration of Ellen G. White's new strategy she visioned on February 27, 1910. As the 105-year anniversary of that new strategy, February 27 became the key date to launch the VISION 2025 which aims to bring that new strategy to life.

Centers of Influence

Centers of Influence are one part of the Ellen G. White's twin-model strategy of community development and humanitarian endeavors for reaching all cities, towns and villages worldwide. These pictures shows a center of influence in development in Phoenix, AZ.

Outpost Centers

Outpost Centers are the other part of Ellen G. White's twin-model strategy. The services at the Outpost Centers and Centers of Influence are to complement each other.

Community-based Agriculture

This Hub of Influence is demonstrating how home-based agriculture, a key component of Ellen G. White's strategy, can still be implemented within a city, even a desert-city like Phoenix, AZ. Home-based agriculture has various benefits to community well-being including economic empowerment, healthy exercise, access of sunlight and fresh air, environmental conservation, food security, etc.

Feb 16, 2012

The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything (2012) by Linda Holmes

Pages: 4;

"The vast majority of the world's books, music, films, television and art, you will never see."

Yesterday, a friend shared with me a very interesting NPR article. This article convinced me that I should not use my 1-Million-Page Challenge to attempt to read all the great books in the world . I was aware (to a certain extent) of the facts highlighted in this article. However, reading this article helped me to think about these facts very differently. Basically, the author clearly articulates why no one can ever read most of the great books in the world, not even one percent. In fact, even after I read the 2,500 books in 10 years, I would have not read much of the great books in the world. Yes, I would have read much more than the average person but I would have read very little of what the world has to offer.

After reading this article, I'm convinced that I should not try to read all or even most of the world's great books. It's impossible! It can never be done! However, my goal should be to read as much books as I need to read so that I can equip myself to achieve my life goals. If reading all the world's greatest books is impossible (which it is), then I will at least read as much books as I need to read in order to optimize my life. I think reading at least 2,500 books in my lifetime is probably good enough for that, don't you think?

Click here to read the NPR article by Linda Holmes.


Feb 7, 2012

Learning From Toys: Lessons In Managing Supply Chain Risk from the Toy Industry (2001) by M. Eric Johnson

Pages:  20;



M. Eric Johnson writes about the supply chain risks of the toy industry and provides ways to manage these risks. This document suggests that the solutions to manage the supply chain risks for the toy industry can be used by other industries with similarly short product lives.

The author classifies the risks into product demand risks and product supply risks. An example of a product demand risk in the toy industry is short product life and an example of a product supply risk is logistics capacity. The short product life can managed using a rolling mix strategy. Logistics capacity risks can be managed using supplemental outsourcing.


Click here to access the document.

Feb 5, 2012

Global Risks 2012 Report by the World Economic Forum's Risk Response Network


Pages:  64;

The World Economic Forum has published the seventh edition of the global risks report entitled the Global Risks 2012. It first features an insightful section that covers the cases which show the potential catastrophic events that could result because of the interconnectedness of the global risks. The three cases are:
  1. Seeds of Dystopia:  This case highlights how societies worldwide could become chaotic as high unemployment rates among young people persist and as governments fail to maintain social provisions.
  2. How Safe are our Safeguards:  Experts are concerned that our regulatory/governance systems will fail to manage today's complex systems including our financial and political systems.
  3. The Dark Side of Connectivity:  Virtual hyperconnectivity creates enormous personal and organizational risks. Think of cyber attacks and the infamous/famous Wikileaks.

The report features 50 global risks in five categories which experts believe global leaders should be most concerned about. I will list three risks under each category. The first risk under each category is the most frequently chosen.
  1. Economic Risks:  chronic fiscal imbalances, severe income disparity, prolonged infrastructure neglect.
  2. Environmental Risks: greenhouse gas emissions, persistent extreme weather, irremediable pollution.
  3. Geopolitical Risks:  global governance failure, terrorism, critical fragile states.
  4. Societal Risks: unsustainable population growth, food shortage crises, backlash against globalization.
  5. Technological Risks:  critical systems failure, cyber attacks, massive incident of fraud or theft.
Don't miss the section with the special report on The Great East Japan Earthquake (and tsunami) that killed nearly 20,000 people in March, 2011.

Click here to read the Global Risks 2012 report: http://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-2012-seventh-edition.

Feb 4, 2012

Christ Our Righteousness (1924) by Arthur G. Daniells

Pages: 165;

The author argues that righteousness (doing right) by faith through Jesus is today's message for the church and the world. The Third Angel's Message of Revelation 14:6-12 is the message about Jesus Christ our righteousness, according to the author. In essence, Daniells is saying that the Third Angel is going to the whole world to present the only true righteousness which is the righteousness by faith through Jesus; the angel's warning is against those who try to obtain righteousness by any false methods that are not prescribed by God. The author believes that God is calling the church to a higher level of His saving grace. He references Ellen G. White's statement which states,
"Christ imputes to us His sinless character, and presents us to the Father in His own purity. There are many who think that it is impossible to escape from the power of sin, but the promise is that we may be filled with all the fulness of God.We aim too low. The mark is much higher."


Also, the writer presents two parts of righteousness: justification and sanctification. This E.G. White quote from the book summaries those two parts:
"The righteousness by which we are justified is imputed. The righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted. The first is our title to heaven; the second is our fitness for heaven."
 Click here to read Christ Our Righteousness by A. G. Daniells.

Feb 3, 2012

Reading Progress: Slow but Steady!


I started the challenge some time around November, 2011. Currently, I have finished reading 12 books, which total 2,801 pages. That is nowhere close to where I should be. The inertia at the beginning was tough but now that I'm a few months into the challenge, I'm gaining momentum. To stay on course, I need to have read about 200,000 pages (or about 500 books) by December 2012. You can tell I've got a lot of catching up to do. A luta continua!!! (The struggle continues!) Here is the list of the 12 books I finished reading.

Education by Ellen G. White



 Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise by Frederick Funston and Stephen Wagner

Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters: The Perspective from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi by The National Academies


The Fourth Dilemma - P. E. Barkhuizen


Miracles of My Life: Autobiography of J. N. Loughborough


Individuality in Religion by A. T. Jones


Success through Failure: Paradox of Design by Henry Petroski


Welfare Ministry by Ellen G. White


Reaping the Whirlwind by Joe Crews


What Every Adventist Should Know About 1888: An overview of events and issues that made the  Minneapolis General Conference session so important in church history by Arnold Valentin  Wallenkampf


Christ Our Righteousness by E. J. Waggoner


Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don't Know by David Apgar

    Reaping the Whirlwind (1985) by Joe Crews



    Pages:  69

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    Christ Our Righteousness (1902) by E. J. Waggoner


    Pages:  97


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    Education (1903) by Ellen G. White


    Pages:  309

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    Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise (2010) by Frederick Funston and Stephen Wagner


    Pages:  305

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    Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters: The Perspective from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi (2011) by The National Academies


    Pages:  123

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    The Fourth Dilemma (2009) by P. E. Barkhuizen



    Pages:  64

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    Miracles of My Life: Autobiography (1987) of J. N. Loughborough


    Pages:  111

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    Individuality in Religion (1888) by A. T. Jones

    Pages: 156

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    Success through Failure: Paradox of Design (2006) by Henry Petroski


    Pages:  194

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    Welfare Ministry (1952) by Ellen G. White



    Pages:  340

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    Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don't Know (2006) by David Apgar


    Pages :  204


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