July 2006 Archives
Let's Talk Heads to Africa
When Seventh-day Adventist world church president Pastor Jan Paulsen says "Let's Talk," it's much more than a catchphrase. With a reported 75 percent of the global church membership comprised of young people, church leaders recognize that continued candid dialogue with...July 31
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World Church: Loma Linda Researchers Help Save Endangered Turtles
Larry and Carol Stevenson may not have planned to become advocates for endangered sea turtles. But, in 2004, they realized many endangered sea turtles were being harvested for consumption from the waters around Roatan in the Bay Islands of Honduras....July 28
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Lebanon: Despite Challenges of War ADRA Reaches Out to Internally Displaced Persons
Hundreds of thousands are pouring out of Southern Lebanon trying to escape violence there. They arrive in the North of the country often with nothing and nowhere to go. Some are receiving help and finding shelter from the Adventist Development...July 28
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Israel: Adventist Churches Shelter Rocket Attack Refugees
"The situation in Northern Israel continues to be difficult," reports Richard Elofer, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Israel. Many Adventists and Jews celebrated this Sabbath in bomb shelters with frequent interruptions by blaring sirens and explosions of fired...July 25
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Malta: Nearly 50 Years After First Outreach, Adventists Have a Church on Historic Isle
Nearly a half-century after the first Seventh-day Adventist literature evangelist visited the island where the apostle Paul was shipwrecked in AD 60, Malta has a Seventh-day Adventist Church with its own building and 17 members.Pastor Ulrich Frikart, president of the...July 25
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Lebanon: Amid Crisis, Sabbath Services Continue
Despite the current crisis in Lebanon, Seventh-day Adventist Christians continue to meet for Sabbath worship at approximately five locations every week, church leaders say.Although Adventist facilities in Beirut have not suffered any damage, and, as far as is known, church...July 25
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Kenya: Bus Accident Claims Six As Group Travels to Remote Orphanage
A tragic bus accident on the evening of July 21 claimed the lives of a bus driver and five women from the Central Seventh-day Adventist Church in Nairobi, Kenya. They were part of a group en route to an orphanage...July 24
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United States: 100-Year-Old Grandfather Baptized as an Adventist
Baptism in the Seventh-day Adventist Church isn't for infants - the church generally will baptize those who have reached an "age of accountability," and who are fully aware of the solemn step that immersion represents.But while most of those baptized...July 24
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Middle East: Adventist Leaders Call For Peace; Lebanese School Houses Refugees
Joining earlier calls from Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in Israel and other parts of the Middle East, Pastor Bertil Wiklander, president of the church's Trans-European region, said the current crisis must not endanger the hope for peace."I share the alarm...July 20
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Indonesia: Tsunami Hits Again ... Almost two years after a deadly tsunami left parts of South Asia devastated another tsunami pounded the Indonesian island of Java on July 18. The most recent tsunami breached the shores of Pangandaran and Cilacap,...July 18
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World Church: Leaders Reprioritize Tobacco Control at Global Summit
Delegates from Cambodia to California met on the campus of Columbia Union College and Washington Adventist Hospital from July 14 to 16 for a Global Tobacco Control Summit organized by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Their objective? To reprioritize flagging Adventist...July 18
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Middle East: Church Postpones Headquarters' Relocation To Beirut
Leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist church in the Middle East voted Monday, July 17 to postpone the much-anticipated September relocation of its headquarters offices to Beirut, Lebanon. An emergency meeting of the executive committee was called at the present headquarters...July 17
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World Church: Adventist Theologians Affirm Role of Bible, Call for Theological Unity
Theologians, scholars and administrators of the Seventh-day Adventist world church closed the organization's Second International Bible Conference in Ephesus, Izmir Province, Turkey, on July 15 with a call for theological unity.In a "consensus statement" passed by a show of hands...July 17
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Reflection: Conference Participants Sense Unity, Cherish Fellowship
A mélange of languages wafts through the lobby of the Sürmeli Hotel Ephesus, in the province of Izmir, Turkey, as holiday makers mingle on a Sunday night before their return to the "real world." But for one group of travelers...July 17
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World Church: Southeastern European Adventists Seek Unity at Bible Conference
"Growing together in unity and hope was evident during this conference," said Miodrag Zivanovic, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in South-East Europe, of a recent 6-day Bible conference that drew some 700 Adventists from Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Macedonia, and...July 14
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Israel: 'Be Makers of Peace,' Adventist Leader Urges
Seventh-day Adventists in Israel are encouraging peace in the midst of the recent escalation of violence in Israel, the Gaza Strip and Lebanon."We condemn the killing of innocent people in any area of our region," said Pastor Richard Elofer, president...July 14
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Lebanon: Rocket Attacks Near Beirut Adventist School
Subsequent to the recent upsurge in regional violence the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Middle East is calling for restraint on all sides of the conflict and between various factions in Lebanon and Israel.Early on Thursday morning,...July 14
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World Church: 70 Years of Protecting Church Assets
Passed off as "Acts of God" by insurance companies, last year's hurricanes not only affected infrastructures, businesses, families and their homes but also churches. It's true churches are not beyond hurricanes, floods, earthquakes or any other such catastrophes that come...July 12
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North America: Dog sleds and Determination Deliver Bibles to Arctic
Add near insurmountable financial and logistical obstacles to the very inhospitable Arctic climate (think a frigid -15 degrees Celsius in the summer!), and many might have let the initiative to lug two tons of Bibles to the North Pole freeze...July 11
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United States: Fire Strikes Adventist School ...Honolulu firefighters fought a three-alarm fire for more than two hours on Sunday morning, June 18, to put out a blaze at Hawaiian Mission Elementary and Intermediate School, a Seventh-day Adventist school in Makiki....July 11
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West Indies Union: Centennial Celebration Begins at First Adventist Church in the Area
One hundred years after the Seventh-day Adventist Church was established in the West Indies the church has grown to be one of the largest in the region. Adventists living on the islands of the Bahamas, Cayman, Jamaica and Turks and...July 11
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World Church: Fourth Annual Internet Evangelism Forum to Convene in August
"How relevant are we?" This question, aimed at the Seventh-day Adventist church, is one communication delegates hope to answer in the affirmative at the fourth annual Global Internet Evangelism Forum. The event--slated for August 31 through September 3 in San...July 11
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World Church: In Ephesus, Bible Conference Begins With Call to Future
"Our future is what beckons us and challenges us. And we must walk into that future without distancing ourselves from the 'wall' at our backs. We must feel its support constantly," Seventh-day Adventist world church president Pastor Jan Paulsen said...July 10
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Ghana: Adventist World Church Secretary Gets National Honor
He has received three honorary degrees and the leaders of Kenya, the Gambia and Malawi have given him awards for service. But to Seventh-day Adventist Pastor Matthew Ango Bediako, born in rural Ghana, the award he received from John Agyekum...July 05
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India: Adventist Hospitals Network to Expand Resources
Boasting first-rate facilities, a large campus and a nursing school, the Seventh-day Adventist-owned Giffard Memorial Hospital in Andhra Pradesh, India has a significant Adventist presence in the local community of Nuzvid. Yet most of its 100 beds lie empty due...July 03
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World Church: New Sabbath School Curriculum to Target Young People and Their Teachers
"Reading the Bible can sometimes feel like walking into a fog to them," said Kathleen Beagles, Sabbath School Bible study guide editor for the headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist church, of the many young people who feel alienated from the...July 03
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