March 2008 Archives
Six Sigma for the church? Brantley on the role of assessment
Paul Brantley wants the Seventh-day Adventist Church to be the world's best-run organization. It's now his job to help make that happen. Brantley, a former education and healthcare consultant, is director of the church's new Office of Assessment and Program...…March 31
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As Adventist Church in Brazil grows, so do schools
With a 37 percent increase in schools over the past decade -- now 318 -- Seventh-day Adventist education in Brazil is booming. Adventist-run schools are deemed some of the country's most competitive, drawing significant non-Adventist enrollment, and are positioned to...…March 28
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Let the community be the pulpit, Adventist Church president says
Don't confine spirituality to the church pew, Seventh-day Adventist world church president Jan Paulsen told a group of church leaders yesterday during remarks meant to kindle more deliberate community involvement by Adventists, who -- despite recent marginal improvements -- still...…March 28
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2007 sees record increase in 13th Sabbath Offering
The Seventh-day Adventist Church saw a 10.4 percent increase in 13th Sabbath Offerings last year, according to figures released this month by the church's world headquarters. This continues a trend started two years ago when mission giving kept up with...…March 25
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Adventist University press will publish first study Bible
An international editorial team of Seventh-day Adventist Bible scholars began work on a new study Bible this month, the president of Adventist-owned Andrews University announced March 4. The Andrews Study Bible, to be published by the university's press, is the...…March 20
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For Arabs, Adventist TV finally speaks their language
An amateur crew of volunteers flown in from Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus and Lebanon produced the first Arabic language broadcast for the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Hope Channel on March 19. Working under the Hope Channel's director of outside broadcasts, Andrew Hunt,...…March 20
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Also In The News
India: Adventist students allowed to take exams after Sabbath Two Seventh-day Adventist students from the Seventh-day Adventist Boarding School in Kottarakara won a court ruling in Kerla, India allowing them to take their exams after 6 p.m. on Saturday. The...…March 18
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In Africa, Adventists promote new tools for outreach
Seventh-day Adventists in Africa might soon receive more messages of hope from their computer screens than from the pulpit. The continent is among the top world regions for Internet growth in the past decade. To capitalize on that potential and...…March 17
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Italy: Political, church leaders celebrate 20 years of religious freedom
Seventh-day Adventist representatives met with Italy's prime minister and officials March 6 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the agreement between the government and the Adventist Church. Once signed into law, it legalized relations between the church and the Italian...…March 14
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World church leader reaffirms Adventist Church's noncombatant position
Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the global Seventh-day Adventist Church, has reiterated the church's long-held position on noncombatancy in an article published in the March issue of Adventist World, the church's international journal. In the article, "Clear Thinking About Military...…March 11
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Dominican Republic: Church targets commuters with modern screen ads
Commuters in Santo Domingo are being greeted with a 10-second message about freedom several times a day courtesy of the Seventh-day Adventist Church there. On March 5 the Adventist Church in the Dominican Republic began projecting electronic billboard screen ads...…March 11
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World health leaders tout merits of vegetarian diet
A vegetarian diet not only protects personal health, but may also help conserve the environment, world health leaders concluded at a conference on vegetarianism hosted by Seventh-day Adventist-owned Loma Linda University in California. Organized 25 years ago by a group...…March 11
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London: Three men found guilty of swindling fellow church members out of millions
A London court has found three men guilty of swindling the equivalent of millions of dollars out of fellow Seventh-day Adventist Church members. The Southwark Crown Court sentenced ring leader Lindani Mangena, 24, to seven years in jail on March...…March 10
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Mongolian Adventist reestablish presence after 60 year absence
The Mongolian Seventh-Day Adventist Church has recently celebrated increases in its church members and in parish priests since the church was reestablished in 1993. …March 07
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Full court press: Adventist basketball team has law on its side
Susan Long cheered courtside as her son Jeremy scored 19 points on the Portland Adventist Academy basketball court Thursday night, February 28, helping secure his team's first Oregon state playoffs win in five years. "I was just happy to play...…March 07
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Passing the plate: Global Tithe Index collects stats on Adventist giving
Yen, euros, rubles and francs -- the currencies members of the global Seventh-day Adventist Church use to return their tithes and offerings vary as widely as do their lifestyles and the financial footing of their respective countries. All that incongruity...…March 05
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Doing time: A year at Adventist halfway house fuels transformation
In his quiet Gainesville, Florida neighborhood, Jeffery Cobb is known as the guy who convinced a bunch of former felons to trade their guns for weed whackers, hedge trimmers and a whole lot of respect. The crew maintains nearly 200...…March 04
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