Adventist Church President Ted N. C. Wilson cuts the ribbon at the opening ceremony of the new headquarters building of the denomination’s Puerto Rican Union in Mayaguez on February 12. Local church and government leaders were on hand to inaugurate the building, which was named after Alberto Fischer, who in 1901 was the first Adventist missionary to Puerto Rico.
Adventist world church President Ted N. C. Wilson, left, speaks to thousands of Adventists at the Coliseo Rubén Rodríguez in Bayamon, Puerto Rico during the church's spiritual revival launch on February 11. Israel Leito, president of the church’s Inter-American Division, translates the message.
Blasious Ruguri, president of the East-Central African Division, preaches to 2,000 people at Juba Adventist Church in South Sudan last month. Church delegates from all 10 states in the newly-formed country of South Sudan came together for the first South Sudan Fields Joint Session. The denomination has three local fields in the country.
Delegates of the Adventist Church meet with the president of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, during his invitation last month to meet with leaders of religious groups in Poland. There are nearly 6,000 Adventists in Poland.
Motorcyclists from Fortaleza help deliver hundreds of copies of book The Great Hope, an updated version of The Great Controversy, to communities along state boundaries in Ceará, Brazil. Local church members helped distribute the book, which is being distributed worldwide by the denomination this year.
Adventist World Church President Ted N. C. Wilson appeals for personal and corporate revival and reformation in a Sabbath sermon to thousands of church leaders and members in Mandeville, Jamaica, on February 4. The televised event was the launch of the Inter-American Division’s third phase of implementing the denomination’s Revival and Reformation initiative across the territory.
Boys scoop rice onto serving trays in the kitchen at Blind School, which educates and houses 279 blind children in grades 1 through 12 in Bobbli, Andhra Pradesh, India. The school sits on 12 acres of land and is sponsored by Asian Aid International.
Church employees and members in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, unpack hundreds of copies of the book The Great Hope, a simplified reprint of church co-founder Ellen G. White’s The Great Controversy. The Adventist Church in South America is gearing up for a mass distribution of the book next month.
Chis works the sound board at St. Mary’s Church in Westminster, London, where 1,200 Adventist youth met January 28 for a day of fellowship and worship. Nearly 30 made a decision to join the church through baptism.
In Argentina, the news agency Digital Territory reported January 18 about the work of ADRA volunteers Mirna and Anna Cesario, who have helped more than 400 children receive school supplies and toys in the Misono province along the border region. They plan to return later this year to help inaugurate two schools in the area.