The Philippines is set to activate church resources to improve lifestyle of its citizens, according to Jonathan C. Catolico, Seventh-day Adventist Church spokesman in the region.
Manila, Philippines
Developing a new generation of leaders is at the top the Seventh-day Adventist Church in East Africa's agenda, reports Jules K K Lumbu, spokesman for the church in the region.
Eldoret, Kenya
Following the recent terrorist siege at a local school in Beslan, North Ossetia, the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the local government are continuing efforts to help neighbors in the region.
Beslan, Northern Ossetia, Russia
"There is such a devastation here; [the] people need everything; people are dying, they need food, water, clothing and medicines," said Pastor Etzer Obas, president of the Adventist church in Haiti while assessing the aftermath of hurricane Jeanne which flooded and leveled parts of his country.
Gonaives, Haiti
With just one look at Ashley, you see joy in her expression. Ashley is with her friends--smiling, laughing, and together they share their experiences of horseback riding, swimming, water skiing, biking and meeting new friends. Ashley, who has attended Christian Record Service's National Camps For Blind Children/Adults (NCBC) for years, has learned to see things a little differently than most.
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Some 170 pastors and chaplains working in Myanmar and Indonesia received training in crisis intervention in two separate venues between Aug. 31 and Sept. 7. The first seminar was held in conjunction with the Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries' retreat at an Adventist university in Manado, in terror hard-hit Indonesia, while the other was at the Adventist headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar.
Silang, Cavite, Philippines
The first Pathfinder camporee in the West-Central Africa Seventh-day Adventist church region saw some 3,000 young people from 22 countries assemble Aug. 22 to 28 in Lomé, Togo's capital city.
Lomé, Togo
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
At a time when world leaders, including U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, are focusing their attention on a looming genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, a soft-spoken Seventh-day Adventist pastor, Carl Wilkens, told an audience of congressional staffers and human rights advocates that standing against the 1994 genocide in Rwanda "was the right thing to do."
Washington, D.C., United States
As reports of more than 600 deaths in Haiti following Tropical Storm Jeanne begin to arrive, Seventh-day Adventists in the Caribbean are cleaning up after last week's weather disaster, Hurricane Ivan.
Miami, Florida, United States