World Church: Sahly Accepts Home Study International/Griggs University Presidency
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [ANN Staff] ... Donald R. Sahly, Ed.D., a Seventh-day Adventist Church educational administrator for 38 years has accepted an invitation to become president of Home Study International and Griggs University which provide independent study and distance education programs from pre-school to higher education. Sahly is currently president of Southwestern Adventist University in Keene, Texas.
"[We] feel that God is directing us back to the East coast," Sahly says.
Sahly has served in a broad range of academic settings from elementary schools to colleges in the United States and in Asia. Sahly also worked at the Adventist Church world headquarters, from 1997 through February of 2002, as an associate director of education, an associate secretary of the world church and as a general field secretary.
Throughout his years of educational leadership, he established a strong reputation as a spiritual, academic, and financial leader.
Mongolia: Country's President Presents Award to ADRA
Ulan Bator, Mongolia ... Natsagiin Bagabandi, president of Mongolia, recently recognized the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Mongolia for teaching and training people in that country to work for their own change.
Llewellyn Juby, director of ADRA Mongolia, accepted the Friendship Medal, which is given to foreigners who have made a significant contribution to the welfare of Mongolians.
ADRA has provided development and relief work in Mongolia for 10 years. "We have built up a team of amazing colleagues," said Juby. "Although I accepted [the award] from the President of Mongolia, it was really on behalf of ADRA and our team in Mongolia that I did so." [ADRA Mongolia]
Adventist Church in Southern Asia Starts Feeding Program
Silang, Cavite, Philippines ... The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Southern Asia-Pacific region launched a new feeding program in San Miguel II to help malnourished preschool children.
Through the program underweight children are fed healthy meals three times a week. A training component taught mothers how to feed their children inexpensive, but nutritious food.
"This two-month feeding and training program is aimed at improving the health of the community," said Irene Duroe, liaison officer for the church. [Adventist News Dispatch]
Hundreds Complete ADRA-UK Half Marathon for Good Cause
Hyde Park, London, England ... More than 700 people walked, jogged, ran, cycled or skated their way around Hyde Park on March 20 for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency -- United Kingdom's "13 Miles for Good" half-marathon. People of all abilities and ages participated to raise money for the cause.
The event, now in its third year, was organized jointly by the Personal Ministries and Youth departments of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in South England.
Last year the half-marathon raised an estimated £20,000 (about U.S. $37,472), part of a larger sum used by ADRA-UK to support disaster relief in Sudan, Liberia, Zambia, the Caribbean and Bangladesh. Money raised this year is expected to exceed last year's figure and will support the special needs of children in the UK as well as projects in Peru, Nepal, Kazakhstan, South Sudan, Rwanda and Pakistan. [Jacqui Grant/ANN]
Andrews University Research Center Receives Historic Library Collection
Berrien Springs, Michigan, United States ... A collection of 2,500 items that document Adventist history through rare books, tracts, periodicals and early advent charts have been moved from the Review and Herald Publishing Association offices in Hagerstown, Maryland to Berrien Springs, Michigan.
The items are now a part of the Review and Herald Editorial Library collection in the James White Library on the campus of Andrews University, an Adventist tertiary institution. The collection was dedicated March 5, and is believed to have been started with the publishing house in the mid 1800s by James White, one of the church's founders. The collection has been added to throughout the years.
"The most exciting thing [about the collection] is the stories," said Merlin Burt, director of the Center for Adventist Research. "It's not just dusty old books. There's a story of faith connected with it that is remarkable and thrilling." [Bev Stout/Andrews University/ANN]
Indonesian Leaders Visit IRLA Headquarters
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States... Two Indonesian leaders visited the headquarters of the International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA) in Silver Spring, Maryland seeking to understand how religious freedom works in the United States on March 20.
Chofifah Parawansa, national chairperson for the Muslimat Nadhlatul Ulama and Zuhairi Misrawi, program officer of the Emancipatory Islamic Network, toured the country under the auspices of the State Department's International Visitor Program, in order to learn about multiculturalism in a democratic society.
In the town of Aceh, Shari'a law (Muslim law) has been approved by the central government and is currently implemented there, said Parawansa and Misrawi.
"The challenge for us" said Misrawi "is to know how to promote a culture of peace and respect."
A non-denominational organization, the IRLA has worked to promote religious freedom worldwide since 1893. [Viola Hughes]
Silver Spring, Maryland United States,
Compiled by ANN Staff
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [ANN Staff] ... Donald R. Sahly, Ed.D., a Seventh-day Adventist Church educational administrator for 38 years has accepted an invitation to become president of Home Study International and Griggs University which provide independent study and distance education programs from pre-school to higher education. Sahly is currently president of Southwestern Adventist University in Keene, Texas.
"[We] feel that God is directing us back to the East coast," Sahly says.
Sahly has served in a broad range of academic settings from elementary schools to colleges in the United States and in Asia. Sahly also worked at the Adventist Church world headquarters, from 1997 through February of 2002, as an associate director of education, an associate secretary of the world church and as a general field secretary.
Throughout his years of educational leadership, he established a strong reputation as a spiritual, academic, and financial leader.
Mongolia: Country's President Presents Award to ADRA
Ulan Bator, Mongolia ... Natsagiin Bagabandi, president of Mongolia, recently recognized the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Mongolia for teaching and training people in that country to work for their own change.
Llewellyn Juby, director of ADRA Mongolia, accepted the Friendship Medal, which is given to foreigners who have made a significant contribution to the welfare of Mongolians.
ADRA has provided development and relief work in Mongolia for 10 years. "We have built up a team of amazing colleagues," said Juby. "Although I accepted [the award] from the President of Mongolia, it was really on behalf of ADRA and our team in Mongolia that I did so." [ADRA Mongolia]
Adventist Church in Southern Asia Starts Feeding Program
Silang, Cavite, Philippines ... The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Southern Asia-Pacific region launched a new feeding program in San Miguel II to help malnourished preschool children.
Through the program underweight children are fed healthy meals three times a week. A training component taught mothers how to feed their children inexpensive, but nutritious food.
"This two-month feeding and training program is aimed at improving the health of the community," said Irene Duroe, liaison officer for the church. [Adventist News Dispatch]
Hundreds Complete ADRA-UK Half Marathon for Good Cause
Hyde Park, London, England ... More than 700 people walked, jogged, ran, cycled or skated their way around Hyde Park on March 20 for the Adventist Development and Relief Agency -- United Kingdom's "13 Miles for Good" half-marathon. People of all abilities and ages participated to raise money for the cause.
The event, now in its third year, was organized jointly by the Personal Ministries and Youth departments of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in South England.
Last year the half-marathon raised an estimated £20,000 (about U.S. $37,472), part of a larger sum used by ADRA-UK to support disaster relief in Sudan, Liberia, Zambia, the Caribbean and Bangladesh. Money raised this year is expected to exceed last year's figure and will support the special needs of children in the UK as well as projects in Peru, Nepal, Kazakhstan, South Sudan, Rwanda and Pakistan. [Jacqui Grant/ANN]
Andrews University Research Center Receives Historic Library Collection
Berrien Springs, Michigan, United States ... A collection of 2,500 items that document Adventist history through rare books, tracts, periodicals and early advent charts have been moved from the Review and Herald Publishing Association offices in Hagerstown, Maryland to Berrien Springs, Michigan.
The items are now a part of the Review and Herald Editorial Library collection in the James White Library on the campus of Andrews University, an Adventist tertiary institution. The collection was dedicated March 5, and is believed to have been started with the publishing house in the mid 1800s by James White, one of the church's founders. The collection has been added to throughout the years.
"The most exciting thing [about the collection] is the stories," said Merlin Burt, director of the Center for Adventist Research. "It's not just dusty old books. There's a story of faith connected with it that is remarkable and thrilling." [Bev Stout/Andrews University/ANN]
Indonesian Leaders Visit IRLA Headquarters
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States... Two Indonesian leaders visited the headquarters of the International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA) in Silver Spring, Maryland seeking to understand how religious freedom works in the United States on March 20.
Chofifah Parawansa, national chairperson for the Muslimat Nadhlatul Ulama and Zuhairi Misrawi, program officer of the Emancipatory Islamic Network, toured the country under the auspices of the State Department's International Visitor Program, in order to learn about multiculturalism in a democratic society.
In the town of Aceh, Shari'a law (Muslim law) has been approved by the central government and is currently implemented there, said Parawansa and Misrawi.
"The challenge for us" said Misrawi "is to know how to promote a culture of peace and respect."
A non-denominational organization, the IRLA has worked to promote religious freedom worldwide since 1893. [Viola Hughes]
Silver Spring, Maryland United States,
Compiled by ANN Staff
