Southern Adventist University Denies That They’ve Approved a Turning Point USA Chapter on Campus

18 October 2025 |

Southern Adventist University (SAU) has denied a report by the website Fulcrum7 that there is a new chapter of Turning Point USA on its campus.

Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is a political organization founded by the late Charlie Kirk “to educate young people about the importance of limited government, free markets, and freedom.”

On October 15, Fulcrum7 wrote that

“Apparently there is a new TPUSA startup at Southern Adventist University—perhaps in the wake of Charlie’s assassination. From the new Chapter: ‘We’re a new startup at Southern Adventist University and we’re excited to join the tpusa community! We are fighting for free speech and freedom on a college campus!'”

The Southern Accent, SAU’s student newspaper, said on its Instagram page that

“Turning Point USA is NOT opening an official chapter at Southern Adventist University, according to Dennis Negrón, vice president for Student Development.”

The announcement on TPUSA’s website listed the two officers of the new chapter: Noel Hendrickson, president and treasurer; Izabel Sigulinski, vice president and secretary. Some commenters say these are former students, not current ones, though Adventist Today wasn’t able to confirm that. According to the handbook for student organizations at SAU, all student organizations must be approved by the university. Officers must be current students, and go through a registration process with the student development office.

“Until an organization is registered, it cannot operate on behalf of Southern or take advantage of any privileges granted to registered Southern Student Organizations.”

A note from a SAU employee:

“I looked up the President and secretary/treasurer you mentioned for the reported upcoming chapter in our people finder for you. They are both listed as alumni, which would render them ineligible to start an official chapter here.”

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Transgender Student At Southern Threatens Legal Action if School Policy Requires Students to Dress And Use Bathrooms According to Birth Gender

Transgender Student At Southern Threatens Legal Action if School Policy Requires Students to Dress And Use Bathrooms According to Birth Gender

February 15, 2022 NewsHound




According to the Southern Accent (the Southern Adventist University student newspaper) transgender student Austin Bates had a meeting with the school sexual integrity official. In that meeting he was told that the school is still developing a Sexual Integrity Policy and parts of it will require that students dress according to their birth gender and use bathrooms that correspond with their birth gender. That’s basic biblical Christianity.

He said in the interview,

“If the policy were to go into effect as it has been communicated, in order to protect myself and any trans student that comes out after me, I would be forced to proceed with legal action.”



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Southern is trying to uphold biblical distinctions between male and female, and they are to be commended for that.

Southern is a little late to the game in developing a biblical sexuality policy, but they are working on it through the slow grind of multiple committees. Part of the reason is the Seventh-day Adventist church has not been at the forefront of cultural sexual issues, naively assuming over the decades that biblical sexual norms would remain the dominant worldview. We were wrong, and now we must catch up during a time of fierce attack.

The fellow is clearly threatening Southern Adventist University, while simultaneously demanding to remain a student there. This kind of reprehensible blackmail should be met with automatic dismissal from the University. You can be excused, Sir.

He should also be dismissed for claiming to be LGBTQ. This is a Christian institution, Sir.

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Southern Adventist University Partners With The Salvation Army For “Street Store” Service Project On MLK Day

Friday, January 13, 2017






Southern Adventist University is hosting a “Street Store” in partnership with The Salvation Army at 10:30 a.m. on Monday on the sidewalk in front of the Salvation Army, 800 McCallie Ave. If it rains, the store will move inside The Salvation Army. .

"Street Stores are sidewalk pop-up shops that offers a personal shopper to assist the homeless with free clothes, providing them with a dignified shopping experience as they try on and select their own garments," organizers said.

Shoppers will also be provided with soup, sandwiches, and entertainment at the end of their shopping experience. Approximately 100 Southern students, along with Salvation Army staff, will be volunteering at the event to assist with clothes and hand out free lunches for the “shoppers.” To watch a video about Street Stores, visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDw0JtwQU8A.

This year marks the third year of the Chattanooga Street Store Project. The Salvation Army has been serving the homeless for 123 years in the Chattanooga area.



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Perils of the Emerging Church by Steve Wohlberg

Perils of the Emerging Church



White Horse Media


Published on Oct 18, 2013


Pastor Steve Wohlberg speaks on the controversial topic of the Emerging Church, revealing the dangers that exist in the core teachings of the Emerging Church, how they are diametrically opposed to the Three Angels' Messages of Revelation 14:6-14 (which represent God's last message of warning to a perishing world before Jesus returns), and how this threat has entered many Protestant churches today.

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Night of Worship

4/1/13

CHATTANOOGA, TN—With standing room only, 540 people packed into the Hamilton Community Church in Chattanooga, Tenn., and came together for one purpose: worship. It was the vision of Rick Anderson and Brooks Pruehs to bring the community together through worship in music. “No One Higher” was the theme for their second Night of Worship, strategically planned to generate interest in the community to look only to ONE, to lift voice and heart to ONE who alone can change lives.

Members of the Hamilton Community Church invited their neighbors, co-workers, family, and friends to come experience one hour of powerful praise. Many Southern Adventist University students attended and brought friends as well. About half of those who came were non-members.

Dave Ketelsen, Hamilton Community Church pastor, gave a 10-minute stirring message reminding us all how we need to move from a behavior-centered religion to a Savior-centered relationship, where doing good by not doing bad is not good, and being right by not being wrong is not right—because it’s not about performance or behavior, it’s about connection and relationship with our Friend, Jesus Christ.

On Sunday, Ketelsen received a call from a young man who had come because his girlfriend invited him. He’s not a member of any church and knows very little about Adventists, but he asked if he could join the church; he’s now preparing for baptism and going through studies.

A Sunday pastor, who has been attending the Hamilton Community Church, also went to the Night of Worship.

“This was one of the most inspirational worship services I’ve ever been to,” he said. “Next time, I’ll invite more friends to come."

Written by Dave Ketelsen, Hamilton Community Church pastor
Photos by Grady Sapp

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Intimacy with God is nourished by prayer, study and application of the Word, public and private worship, and faithful stewardship that strengthen a personal commitment to serving Jesus as Savior and Lord.

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Southern Adventist University Flash mob 2011

From: SDAToday Mar 19, 2011

Southern Adventist University Flash Mob and Dances, with dye hair, with drum music, and more


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Castro’s daughter speaks at Southern Adventist

Friday, Oct. 8, 2010


By: Perla Trevizo
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Staff photo by Dan Henry/Chattanooga Times Free Press - October 07, 2010. Alina Fernandez, the daughter of Fidel Castro, speaks to students at Southern Adventist University about Cuba on Thursday. Fernandez, an outspoken critic of the Cuban communist regime, fled her home country in 1993 and now lives in Florida.

Alina Fernandez remembers a January morning in 1959 when Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck vanished from her television screen forever and were replaced by bearded men in military outfits.

It was the day Fidel Castro, whom she later learned was her father, took control of Cuba.

Fernandez, an outspoken critic of her father and the Cuban communist regime, spoke Thursday morning to more than 1,500 students at Southern Adventist University. The event was hosted by the Latin American Club.

When she gives speeches, she combines her personal story with her country’s history, hoping to further the understanding of Cubans, she said after her presentation.

“I don’t have a specific message,” she said in Spanish. “What I want is for an exchange. A lot of people don’t understand the influence Cuba has had; a lot of people don’t understand what Cubans have lived; a lot of people don’t understand why some unkempt people come in rafts trying to get into the United States.

“I want to defend my community,” added Fernandez, who currently has a radio show in Miami.

For Trevor Silva, a freshman majoring in history at Southern Adventist, Fernandez’s story was inspirational.

“It showed that people care once they leave [Cuba]. It shows the country is united,” he said after he had a friend take a photo of him with Fernandez.

In her presentation, which she gave in English, Fernandez joked about how her mother, Natalia, met Fidel Castro when both were married to other people.

She attributed Castro’s attraction for her mother to her curves, which resembled a Coca-Cola bottle, she told a chuckling group of students.

She wasn’t the first one in her family to escape from Cuba. In 1964, her stepfather and stepsister fled to the United States, becoming “worms” and “traitors,” as the Cuban regime called those who left the country.

“One of Cuba’s tragedies is that you become the enemy when you don’t think the way they think and they treat you like [an enemy],” she said.

As she grew older, she saw how her country changed, how families were being separated and she didn’t agree with it.

“Religion disappeared ... cultural life suffered a terrible hit,” she said.

In 1989, she publicly joined the political dissidents and four years later fled Cuba disguised as a Spanish tourist. She had to leave behind her daughter, 16 at the time, but after strong media and international pressure, her daughter was able to join her several weeks later, she said.

Fernandez said she is pleased to see that people care about Cuba because, when change comes, “we are going to need all the solidarity and help possible.”

And though she doesn’t doubt change is coming to her home country, she can’t say when.


ABOUT ALINA FERNANDEZ REVUELTA

* Born in Cuba in 1956

* Daughter of Natalia Revuelta and Fidel Castro, who took control of Cuba in 1959

* Fled Cuba in 1993

* Wrote an autobiography in 1998

* Currently lives in Florida with her daughter Alina, 33.

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