Adventist News Network

United States: Adventists Aid Hurricane Survivors

Hurricane Katrina's devastating effects can be seen in the flooded streets and homes of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi as residents try to recover from one of the worse hurricanes ever to hit the United States.

Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Aug 31, 2005

Peru: Lake Titicaca Floating Church Nears Completion

In just a few months from, prayers, songs, sermons and community activities will take place in a new church building nestled in the midst of the world's highest navigable lake. Its construction is the realization of a decades-old dream.

Lake Titicaca, Peru

Aug 30, 2005

Also In The News

Young people from all over the South Pacific will talk with Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church on Sept. 5.

Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Aug 30, 2005

Solomon Islands: Archipelago Residents Seek Adventist School, Church

After long resisting Seventh-day Adventist efforts to establish a church on the Shortland Islands, part of the Solomon Islands, residents are now welcoming an Adventist church and school. Jones Jama, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor has spent the last eight years as leader of the Adventist Church in the Western Solomon Islands, part of an archipelago that dots the blue waters of the southern seas.

Gizo, Western Province, Solomon Islands

Aug 30, 2005

World Church: Paulsen, in Adventist World interview, Calls for 'Church of the Open Door

Pastor Jan Paulsen, world president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, recently gave an interview to the new Adventist World magazine in which he said he wants the church to be known as the "church of the open door."

Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Aug 29, 2005

Kenya: Mission Encounters in a Land of Red Dirt

In a remote, Northeastern corner of Kenya, a visiting group of volunteers left an unfinished building project, but plenty of completed visions and 80 new lives in Christ.

Meru, Kenya

Aug 29, 2005

Friends We Met in Kenya: Volunteers Tell Personal Stories

Three volunteers who went to Kenya on a mission project share personal stories of encounters with people there.

Meru, Kenya

Aug 29, 2005

Also in the News

Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee, is ranked one of the "Best Comprehensive Colleges -- Bachelor's" in the South by the U.S. News and World Report's 2006 edition of America's Best Colleges.

Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Aug 23, 2005

Chad: Medical Missionaries Confront the Extremes

If you go to the hospital, you'll die. That's what many in the Béré region believe because, as Dr. James Appel explains, they go to the witchdoctor or "nurse" in their neighborhood who "treat" people out of a house, or they buy medicine in the market, and will only come to the hospital as a last resort. Such as when their baby is about to die.

Béré, Chad

Aug 23, 2005

World Church: New 'Seventh-day Adventists Believe' Book Published

Six weeks after world church leaders voted a new fundamental belief statement, Seventh-day Adventists can now consult a 446-page reference volume offering a deeper explanation of what Adventist Christians believe, and why

Nampa, Idaho, United States

Aug 22, 2005