April 2008 Archives
Review of Adventist flagship journal turns out awards
The flagship journal of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Adventist Review, continues to win awards from North America's oldest interdenominational press association. The Associated Church Press, a community of Christian communication professionals, awarded the Review for its noteworthy articles and Web...…April 29
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Adventist Church extends AIDS Ministry to Masai Land
An unbalanced diet among the Masai -- a small, semi-nomadic people group living in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania -- could compromise the survival of those infected with HIV and AIDS, doctors say. The Masai diet of mostly milk and...…April 28
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Church bonds strengthened, members remember after disaster
Carolina Hernandez Cruz doesn't go to school anymore. She's suffering post-traumatic stress after losing her father and two sisters in a landslide during last year's flooding in Southeast Mexico, one of the worst disasters in the nation's history. The 17-year-old...…April 25
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New memorial scholarship for women in communication
The Communication and Women's Ministries departments at the Seventh-day Adventist world church headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland are honoring a beloved co-worker's memory and helping women get an education at the same time. The two departments introduced the Lynn Friday...…April 25
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Adventists among survivors of Congo plane crash
A Seventh-day Adventist missionary family survived a plane crash yesterday, emerging from the wreckage just moments before it exploded. Barry and Marybeth Mosier of Dodge Center, Minnesota, and two of their young children were aboard a DC-9 passenger jet headed...…April 17
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Adventists join world faith, aid agency leaders against poverty
Linking poverty to economically fettered women, world faith, aid agency and government representatives said April 13 that it's no coincidence an estimated 70 percent of the 1.2 billion people who subsist on just US$1 a day are women and girls....…April 16
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West Indies: Adventists call for a ban on smoking in public places
Seventh-day Adventists are lobbying to snuff out smoking in public places throughout the Caribbean islands. Victor Roach, president of the International Commission for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Dependency (ICPA) Caribbean Bloc, made a public plea to area governments...…April 15
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Adventist university degree goes the distance with new partnerships
As fledgling free market countries capitalize on the global economy, English language degrees -- often available through partnerships with United States-based universities -- are indispensable for students with international business ambitions. Such affiliations with public universities are a chance to...…April 15
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Adventists continue exploring partnerships with international health organizations
The Pan American Health Organization is seeking to engage in partnerships with Faith-Based Organizations, including the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Health Ministries, as part of their effort to connect with FBOs who deliver as much as 40 percent of health care...…April 14
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Dominican Republic: President donates land to Adventists
The Dominican Republic national leader donated 31 acres of public land -- already used by Seventh-day Adventist young people for annual retreats -- to the church last month. During the March 28 donation ceremony, he applauded the church's work and...…April 11
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Peru: ADRA helps women, small farmers start businesses, increase sales
Handmade fabrics manufacturing, producing chocolate goods, milk and cheese and a laundry service are all micro-businesses that the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) helped native Peruvians develop and sustain. The businesses came from two separate ADRA projects designed to...…April 11
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Amazing Facts, Weimar Institute announce joint venture
Roseville, California-based Amazing Facts announced April 7 its agreement to oversee operations of nearby Weimar Institute. "It is our firm conviction that this cooperative venture will ultimately save resources while strengthening the primary ministries of evangelism, education, and health," Amazing...…April 11
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Kenya: Adventists oppose six-day workweek proposal
Seventh-day Adventists in Kenya are criticizing a government six-day work week proposal that would require civil servants to work on Saturday, the biblical Sabbath and day of rest for the nearly 16 million-member global denomination. Kenya's minister of state for...…April 10
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Zambia: Adventist Church leader dies of sudden illness
Seventh-day Adventists in Zambia are mourning the death of their country's church leader who passed away unexpectedly last week. Cornelius M. Matandiko, 48, who had served as the Adventist Church's executive director in the southern African nation since 2004, died...…April 08
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'One-day' church project to help Adventists keep pace with housing members
A congregation of Seventh-day Adventists in Ecuador used to moving from rental to rental for church services will be worshiping in a permanent church building by the end of the month. Their church will arrive as ready-to-assemble steel beams in...…April 08
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Adventist leaders close Spring Meeting with focus on mission
Despite the challenges awaiting the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Adventists should not take a "defeatist attitude," world church president Jan Paulsen told nearly 150 church officials at the close of Spring Meeting yesterday. Instead, he challenged Adventists to be "positive" and...…April 08
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Regional outreach plans to tackle church's unfinished mission
To address the Seventh-day Adventist Church's unfinished mission, church officials voted at Spring Meeting yesterday to develop creative and financially accountable plans to reach the unreached people groups in their respective territories. Spring Meeting delegates learned in an April 6...…April 08
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Mission giving, extraordinary tithe grow church's budget
Despite the turbulent world economy, the Seventh-day Adventist Church continues to grow financially, world church treasurer Robert E. Lemon reported to church leaders Sunday. "Not only have tithes and offerings increased," Lemon said, "but the church was blessed to receive...…April 07
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Adventist university students win national quiz bowl
The questions ranged from science to pop culture, and "multiple sclerosis" was the $50,000 answer for students from Seventh-day Adventist-owned Oakwood University competing in a national college bowl. The Huntsville, Alabama-based Oakwood team joined more than 320 college students from...…April 03
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'Esther' author offers training for Adventist writers
Sharpen your pencils. The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia is promoting training for its wordsmiths. Last week, writing seminars in three locations across the country attracted more than 80 writers for training and encouragement from an Adventist author who challenged...…April 03
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Uganda: Bugema to Host 2011 University Games
BUGEMA University will host the 2011 National Inter University Games, according to the Vice Chancellor, Pastor Christian Aliddeki.…April 01
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