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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Adventist global campaign against domestic violence launched in three world territories

Europe, East Africa and Southeast Asia now 'championing cause'

November 19 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist student missionary murdered in Yap, Micronesia

Teacher went missing after morning jog off campus, officials say

November 19 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

El Salvador mudslides claim lives of dozens of Adventists

Second landslide claims two dozen lives in Tanzania

November 16 San Salvador, El Salvador

Church Chat: Ng on why 'hundreds' of more missionaries still needed

Better education can help illuminate 'mission blind spots'

November 12 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Korean Adventist language school celebrates 40 years

H1N1 virus slows enrollment temporarily, but online course enrollment soars

November 11 Seoul, South Korea

Treasurer, a native son, dismisses a poverty mindset in West-Central Africa

Adventist leaders encourage self-supporting goal; still, major challenges remain

November 10 Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Adventist Church growth rate trends higher in United States, Canada, Bermuda

Nearly 1.1 million now members, regional secretary reports

November 10 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Maranatha marks 40 years of church, school construction worldwide

One-Day Church, Ultimate Workout among most successful programs

November 10 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist-led anti-gender violence campaign in line with new UN initiative

United Nations encourages grass-roots, community action

November 10 New York, New York, United States

Adventist writer honored with lifetime communication award

Reporter, author Roth source for Adventist news during Vietnam War

October 29 Newport Beach, California, United States

Perceptions vary on Adventist Church's communication commitment, effectiveness

Finances, finding qualified professionals among challenges, spokesman says at 20th annual communicators workshops

October 28 Newport Beach, California, United States

Adventist churches worldwide hold creation emphasis day

Celebration promotes literal creation amid greater evangelical acceptance of evolution; Loma Linda hub for denomination's discussion

October 26 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Commission established to review Adventist Church's Griggs University

Distance-learning institution at technology, financial crossroads

October 23 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Surgeon Bailey reflects 25 years after 'Baby Fae'

Baboon's heart in infant created media storm; documentary set for release

October 21 Loma Linda, California, United States

President of Adventist insurance, risk management services dies

Sweezey 'honored' to play role in protecting church's assets, colleague says

October 19 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Distribution of one million meals marks Adventist response to World Food Day in Inter-America

Meals collaborative effort between regional church and ADRA offices

October 16 Mexico City, Mexico

Adventist Church Manual revisions move forward

Questions on role of women in ministry remain, however

October 15 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Session theme song, offering among agenda items voted this week

Delegates approve offering to fund outreach in historic Silk Road region, hear presentation on new study Bible

October 15 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist Church votes guidelines for mission unity, contextualization

Statement urges core beliefs in outreach to other faiths, cultures

October 14 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist church, ADRA launch campaign to stop violence against women

EndItNow signatures will go to UN

October 14 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist Church's calendar of special days approved for 2010

Days of emphasis promote healthful living, outreach

October 14 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Health statement positions Adventist Church to lobby on global issues

Follows July meeting with World Health Organization

October 14 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Dominican Republic, other Adventist administrative regions become self-supporting

Status change highlights Inter-America church growth

October 13 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist businessman updates leaders on 'One-Day Church' project

Easily-assembled kit providing church structures for congregations worldwide

October 13 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Conservative investing helps church weather economic downturn, Adventist treasurer says

Wage, hiring freezes help keep operations within budget

October 13 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Delegates move 2010-2015 'Tell the World' plan to G.C. Session

Vote to be held in Atlanta on strategy to 'Reach Up, Reach Out, Reach Across'

October 11 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist Church adds 1 million members sixth year in a row

Leaders encourage honest look at records; cite membership audits as catalyst for growth

October 11 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Reconciliation, unity, involvement are Paulsen's Annual Council themes

World church president emphasizes cross of Christ as central to Adventist message

October 10 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

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Friday, October 9, 2009

Adventist media center, humanitarian organization recognized for impact

ADRA, Russian media center receive top ranking

October 09 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist Church in Atlanta recognized for innovation

Membership, tithe return growth seen as church focuses on community impact

October 09 Columbus, Ohio, United States

Adventist President Paulsen calls Obama's peace prize 'surprising,' 'courageous'

Says award was 'signal' for Obama to maintain course

October 09 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

In Southern Africa, Adventist evangelism focuses on discipleship

Program helps maintain membership growth, leaders say

October 08 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Church's autumn business meetings set for launch

Revised church manual, administrative region status updates on agenda

October 08 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Equal recognition of faith groups urged at Colombian religious liberty meeting

National president's presence boosts cause, Adventist freedom of religion expert says

October 07 Bogotá, Colombia

Adventist Church launches YouTube video series

'Adventists About Life' expected to widen church's traditional sphere of influence

October 06 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Baptism 101: Adventist ministers-to-be take to the tank on training day

Negotiating narrow tanks, muddy ponds; Tshimanga rides the river wild--underwater

October 05 Berrien Springs, Michigan, United States

ADRA workers kidnapped, one killed in Congo

Gunman attack two humanitarian workers in civilian convoy

October 05 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

ADRA hits ground after quakes, tsunami

Relief on the way for Samoas, Indonesia

October 01 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

ADRA, local churches distribute emergency supplies to flooded Philippines

Hundreds of deaths, millions in losses in wake of Tropical Storm Ketsana

September 30 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Let's Talk encore: D.C. young professionals talk change with Adventist Church president

Paulsen's advice on politics, church involvement; historically race-based conferences addressed

September 29 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Study shows bans on tobacco curb heart attack rates

No butts: Adventists still needed in anti-smoking effort, church cardiologist says

September 29 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Former Adventist Communication director, Chase, dies at 89

Founded department, sought efficiency in corporate ministry

September 29 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

In Germany, all Adventist households to receive church magazine free

Move will connect members, strengthen unity, leader says

September 28 Lueneburg, Germany

'Creation Sabbath' set for end of October

Themed Sabbath likely first in series of emphasis days, organizer says

September 22 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

In Paraguay, approval for first Adventist university pending in congress

School expected to quicken pulse of nursing field in country with one nurse per 10,000 people

September 21 Asuncion, Paraguay

Religious freedom association forming in Mongolia

Supporters urge implementation of constitution's religious freedom guarantee

September 18 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Adventist Church's Griggs University graduates first Vietnamese MBA students

Distance-learning partnership offers values-based approach to business, church officials say

September 14 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventists in U.S. slower to adopt new personal technology than public, study reveals

Global Internet conference shows benefits of Web integration for church outreach

September 11 Orlando, Florida, United States

Reject defamation of religions laws, panel of experts advises

Hate speech legislation could be enforced unequally, religious liberty advocates say

September 08 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

New media course in South Africa teaches video, audio production with outreach focus

Program intended to train new leaders, organizers say

September 08 Cape Town, South Africa

Adventist Church in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay moves toward self-administration

Goal to reach 'full potential' for growth, church leaders say

September 01 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist evangelist and civil rights advocate E.E. Cleveland dies

Friends, coworkers remember his commitment to diversity

August 31 Huntsville, Alabama, United States

First Adventist college in North Brazil opens

Regional church membership boom makes local school imperative

August 27 Pará, Belém, Brazil

'Video missionaries' to film reality show on medical workers

Students spend a year in African country, document lives

August 27 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist anti-abuse message faces mixed results in reaching local churches

ANN correspondents report from local churches worldwide August 22, church's Abuse Prevention Emphasis Day

August 25 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Standish appointed new UN liaison for Adventist Church

Religious liberty expert hopes to secure church a 'seat at the table'

August 25 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist diplomat becomes U.S. ambassador to Suriname

Nay cites Christian education, student missionary work as influences

August 25 Washington, D.C., United States

Adventist women must stand up for each other, church leader says

International Women's Congress teaches skills, leadership

August 20 Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria

As Adventist student missionaries return to school, native culture can shock

Most see new perspectives on home after a year away; irked by the supermarket

August 18 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Typhoon ravages Taiwan coast, more than 100 killed

Several Adventists among missing, dead

August 17 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

35,000 Pathfinder camporee is largest five-day Adventist event

Regional airport becomes city this week for honors, spiritual fellowship

August 14 Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States

Master's degree program at African Adventist university graduates first class

Hopes are pinned on trailblazing students, church leaders say

August 13 Nairobi, Kenya

Salary, hiring freeze still in place at Adventist Church headquarters

'Enough working capital' to withstand recession, says church treasurer

August 11 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Arabic television show on women's issues wraps up tapings

Middle East Adventist ministry to air on church's Hope Channel

August 11 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Second Adventist youth congress raises money for underprivileged adolescents

Young adults gather in Munich, reach out to city

August 11 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Jamaican Adventists pray with neighbors, bring moments of peace

Annual day of prayer kicks off "sustained" community outreach

August 06 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Drug-resistant TB threatens disease control in Peru, ADRA officials say

New project targets stubborn strains, educates population

August 04 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist officials investigate student unrest in Uganda

Two shot when police opened fire on rioting students

July 29 Kampala, Uganda

Jamaican Adventists widen 'Day of Prayer' scope

Members to spend Aug. 1 building community; focus on crime

July 29 Kingston, Jamaica

First religious liberty festival in Jerusalem draws hundreds

Freedom of belief experts address diversity, discrimination in region

July 28 Jerusalem, Israel

Global Mission donations up despite economic downturn

'Encouraging' 13 percent growth part of upward trend among religious charities

July 28 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

In Honduras, church activities continue in wake of ousted president

Leaders remain cautious as situation develops

July 23 Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Prisoners in Botswana can now watch Adventist Church's Hope Channel

Church, government partnership an offering of rehabilitation, leaders say

July 23 Gaborone, Botswana

Delegate selection begins for Adventist Church's international business session

More than 2,400 voting members expected to gather in Atlanta in 2010; push for younger delegates

July 23 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Andrews University provost to lead Pacific Union College

Heather J. Knight chosen as college president

July 22 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Learn English, Adventist world church leaders say

Language proficiency leads to more resources, outreach opportunities

July 20 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Potential Adventist Church-WHO collaboration looks promising, leaders say

Partnering would give church 'larger goals, strategies'

July 14 Geneva, Switzerland

Adventist Church moves to strengthen partnerships with health organizations

Denomination's health focus can contribute to world heath goals, church president says

July 07 Geneva, Switzerland

Adventist elected to historically state-church led organization

Norwegian Bible Society Chair overseeing translation, distribution in country

July 07 Oslo, Norway

'Ward o' Scripture' gets local rewrite in Scotland

Scottish Adventists say copying out verses gives Scripture impact

July 03 Crieff, Scotland

Adventists join public health, faith groups in commending U.S. anti-smoking bill

Legislation aims to curb underage smoking

June 30 Washington, D.C., United States

German church Twitters sermons live during service

Goal to create "close relationship with God"

June 25 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Paulsen speaks on issue of origins

Adventist position on creation affirmed by church president

June 19 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Continued activism urged at annual religious liberty forum in Washington

Congressman Cleaver calls for focus on commonalities instead of differences

June 19 Washington, D.C., United States

Former Adventist Church president for West Indies region knighted by Queen

Sir Patrick Allen joins the Order of St. Michael and St. George

June 15 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Religious freedom festival in Peru receives national endorsement

Supreme Court president, minister of defense address 40,000 at National Stadium

June 15 Lima, Peru

Nigeria's Adventist university commended for exemplary educational standards

Integrity and spirituality hallmarks of Babcock University, statesmen say

June 09 Abuja, Nigeria

ADRA aids survivors of cyclone in Bangladesh, India

Relief workers providing food, water purification tablets

June 04 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Sri Lanka: ADRA responds in wake of civil war

Homeless flood displaced persons camps, straining resources

June 03 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

In Mexico, Adventist churches, institutions resume normal operations

No cases of H1N1 reported among church members or students

June 02 Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Romania receives accreditation for family center

ADRA House for women offers shelter, legal aid

June 02 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Former division president, temperance leader Watson dies

Son of missionaries visited former church members

May 28 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Ireland's 'blasphemy law' worries religious liberty proponents

Proposed legislation may restrict freedoms of expression

May 26 Dublin, Ireland

Korean Adventists 'continuing with zeal' anti-tobacco programs

UN World No Tobacco Day is May 31

May 26 Seoul, South Korea

Paulsen commends changes in China

Adventist president says Christian community growth expresses freedom

May 22 Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Hospitality marks outreach effort in South America

Thousands of Adventist families to share a meal, message of hope with community members

May 19 Brasília, Brazil

Thousands left homeless after weeks of severe flooding in Brazil

ADRA providing food, personal items to families

May 19 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist president's visit to China first by a top church leader in decades

Hub congregations support nearly 40,000 Adventists

May 18 Shenyang, China

Church president calls Chinese Adventist faith 'vibrant'

Church delegation discusses ministerial education

May 14 Wuxi, People’s Republic of China

Relief work continues for millions affected by India floods

ADRA providing livestock, safe water for thousands of families

May 12 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Church Chat: The Adventist Church's 'neutral' response on stem cells

Reece serves on the National Academies' stem cell advisory committee, chairs national medical school deans council

May 11 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Tolerance urged at Dominican religious liberty congress

Region's first Festival of Religious Freedom draws thousands

May 05 Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Adventist Church cancels mid-year meetings for Inter-America region

Swine flu concerns halt travel

May 05 Miami, Florida, United States

Photo exhibit highlights Myanmar recovery efforts

Adventist NGO documents one year after cyclone

May 04 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

'Understanding Islam' conferences to amp Adventist interfaith outreach

Areas of cooperation include mutual effort against alcohol, other drugs

May 04 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist Church's Hope Channel debuts on DirectTV

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April 29 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

In Mexico, Adventists cancel church services in wake of swine flu outbreak

Services set for Internet, television; schools also closed

April 29 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Interfaith group collaborating efforts against malaria

Adventist Church's 'Together Against Malaria' among initiatives

April 28 Washington, D.C., United States

Adventist Church's North Philippine region gains new status

Financial, leadership gains cited as region shifts from 'mission' to 'conference'

April 28 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist appointed religious liaison for Obama administration

Office will engage faith communities in policy discussions

April 28 Washington, D.C., United States

Church brings stewardship focus to West Central Africa

Tithes, offerings more than money; the result of a 'partnership with God,' Adventist leaders say

April 21 Accra, Ghana

Baptism not the end of the road, Adventist Church leader says

Ng on honesty in the numbers; church growth statistics

April 20 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

ADRA sponsors seminar presented at U.N. commission on women

Video documentation gives voice to victims of gender-based abuse

April 16 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist Church sets 'Creation Sabbath' for October 24

Day to emphasize God as Creator

April 14 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Student riot closes Adventist school in Uganda

Lack of national standards, administration negligence cited; 17 students injured

April 13 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventists join relief efforts for Italy quake victims

ADRA, local churches aid in recovery process

April 13 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventists reaffirm mission focus; saving relationships with Christ

'Roadmap to Mission' document defines end goal of church's outreach

April 09 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Efficiency of Adventist publishing operations in U.S. reviewed

'Market competitiveness,' 'surplus printing capacity' cited

April 09 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

French edition of Adventist Church's journal for pastors debuts

Sauvagnat selected as associate editor of new language edition

April 07 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist Church finance report highlights giving patterns, economy's impact

Headquarters hiring freeze continues as tithe drops in fourth quarter of 2008; significant milestone for giving outside North America

April 07 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist Church selects Doukmetzian as General Counsel

ARM VP, former general counsel for church in Canada to replace outgoing Kyte

April 06 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Oakwood University repeats as Honda All-Star champions

While keeping Sabbath, Oakwood team again wins academic competition

April 06 Orlando, Florida, United States

Church executives learn growing scope of Adventist witness

Delegates share regions' unique strengths, outreach methods

March 31 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Global clergy seminar for ministers of all faiths

Continuing education opportunity set for April 21

March 31 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist jargon alienating, church executives say

Proposed church style-guide to sensitize exchanges with other faith groups

March 31 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventists gather for yearly business meeting

Delegates to vote policy issues

March 31 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist world church leaders to review mission, publishing at business session

Meeting moved back to headquarters after financial cutbacks

March 31 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Church Chat: Adventist flagship hospital expanding despite economic times

Loma Linda CEO Fike on China partnership, community outreach; her gun in Vietnam

March 30 Loma Linda, California, United States

New UN 'defamation of religion' measure troubling, religious liberty experts say

Protective measure could backfire against individual expression

March 27 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

In Venezuela, questions still remain 40 days after missionary plane's disappearance

Plane's locating transmitter was working, mechanic says

March 27 Gran Sabana, Bolivar, Venezuela

Adventist Church television network breaks ground on new studio

Expansion of world headquarters will increase Hope Channel quantity, quality, leaders say

March 24 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

In U.S., three Adventist families are Montana plane crash victims

On way to ski trip, plane crashes in cemetery

March 23 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist business owners toughen against recession

When profits flounder, faith anchors business, many say

March 19 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist university in Caribbean receives radio license

Student-run station tool for training, community building

March 19 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist TV station licensed to broadcast in Germany

Hope Channel offering programs on health, education, spirituality

March 18 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Evangelism in Euro-Asia impacting through satellite outreach

Half of potential new members are young adults

March 17 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist aid organizations to honor World Water Day

1 billion live without access to clean water

March 17 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist leaders, Romanian ambassador affirm commitment to freedom

After decades of human rights restrictions, country enjoys full religious liberty

March 12 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Baptists, Adventists meet to underscore common values

Both denominations share 'passion for religious freedom,' Adventist official says

March 12 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

In Romania, Adventist schools shape educational landscape

Petrescu makes case for church-run education

March 12 Bucharest, Romania

First Adventist broadcast slated to hit Israeli radio soon

Team of lay volunteers trained to produce programming

March 11 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

First Adventist Farsi congregation impacts Persian community

Southern California church producing, broadcasting radio programs to Middle East

March 09 Glenndale, California, United States

First Adventist woman in Philippines earns ministry doctorate

Former civil engineer researched church growth among Chinese; two additional women receive religion doctorates

March 06 Manila, Philippines

American radio legend Harvey's death ends unique era of radio news

Longtime friend of Adventist Church goes off air at age 90

March 05 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

In Guatemala, Adventists mourn murdered pastor

Church members, community affected by increasing violence as Mexico cracks down on drug cartels

March 04 Guatemala City, Guatemala

Adventist pastor steps into role as chief of state

Allen, Jamaican of humble origins, now governor-general

February 27 Kingston, Jamaica

Adventist Church's television network signs deal with new carrier

Satellite-based DIRECTV expected to increase Hope Channel viewership

February 27 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Birthplace of Seventh-day Adventist Church turns 150

Battle Creek, Michigan celebrates sesquicentennial

February 26 Battle Creek, Michigan, United States

In Venezuela, Adventists continue search for missing medical plane

National aviation authority ceases search after 72 hours; church hiring rescue service

February 19 Gran Sabana, Bolivar, Venezuela

Rebel attack postpones church visit to Equatorial Guinea

Country's capital part of Adventist officials' tour of West-Central Africa

February 18 Douala, Cameroon

Adventists hold outreach meetings in war-torn region of Sudan

Church leaders reaching out to returning refugees

February 18 Juba, Sudan

Former president for Adventist Church in Asia Pacific dies

Eldridge, 94, served church for 40 years

February 17 Loma Linda, California, United States

Adventist Church controlling costs during global financial challenge

Hiring freeze continues, most capital projects on hold

February 17 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Unites States: tornado destroys Adventist school in Oklahoma

Classes to resume in nearby church

February 13 Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States

In Orissa, Christian-Hindu relations still tense

Adventists who fled from violence have not returned, church leaders say

February 12 Orissa, India

In Kenya, effects of post-election violence remain

A year later, thousands still displaced; Adventists help returning refugees

February 11 Nairobi, Kenya

Thoughts on origins continue to evolve 200 years after Darwin

Bicentennial celebration of scientist's birth, what his work means to Christian faith

February 11 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

ADRA educational center integrates Roma children into Albanian society

School for underprivileged students teaches reading, writing

February 10 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist conference highlights new ways Christians can improve society

Academics, church members share perspectives on merging Christian faith, lifestyles

February 05 Cooranbong, Australia

New Adventist TV show addresses church and social issues

'Intersection' to serve as discussion starting point

February 04 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Tuesdays are reconciliation days over Rwandan airwaves

Adventist journalist went from refuge to radio; helps nation seek healing

February 04 Kigali, Rwanda

Traveling Bible inspires events in 20 Romanian cities

Exhibitions of rare Bibles, dedication ceremony at 'Giant Bible' convention

February 03 Bucharest, Romania

Ghanaian president commends Adventist education, relief work

Mills pledges to provide 'avenues' to churches, NGOs

February 02 Accra, Ghana

Former Adventist church secretary in Jamaica elected president

Bignall calls predecessor Allan 'transformational' leader

January 30 Mandeville, Jamaica

Ben Carson memoir to air on TNT

Cuba Gooding Jr. to portray Adventist doctor in television movie

January 28 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Adventist singer Phipps says impact of inauguration far-reaching

Recording artist sings 'Amazing Grace' at Presidential Inaugural Prayer Service

January 27 Washington, D.C., United States

Adventist receives British civilian honor for midwifery

Morgan-Isaac commended for work with pregnant teens

January 27 London, England

How to pastor 24 churches -- nap on boats

Minister on the go in rural North Brazil; move the church, sand dune's-a-comin'

January 26 Barreirinhas, Maranhão, Brazil

ADRA radio drama in Malawi wins award

Program emphasizes responsible behavior to fight AIDS

January 22 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Historic inauguration preserves tradition of prayer

U.S. Senate chaplain on spirituality of nation's leaders; an Adventist's privilege

January 20 Washington, D.C., United States

Adventist Church assisting in aftermath of Costa Rican quake

No church members reported among dead; Adventist university damaged

January 13 Alajuela, Costa Rica

Adventist church official named Jamaica's new governor general

Allen brings commitment to restorative justice to country's highest post

January 13 Kingston, Jamaica

Missionary pioneer, union president Currie dies at age 90

Served internationally for nearly 50 years

January 09 Yucaipa, California, United States

Adventist Mission DVD now in four languages

Quarterly mission update adds French, Portuguese, Spanish

January 06 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Church Chat: Andreasen on leading an Adventist university in the 21st century

Shift from subsidies to endowments; what brings high enrollment

January 06 Berrien Springs, Michigan, United States

ADRA responds to war-related losses, food scarcity in Democratic Republic of Congo

On-going project tackles food security, property rights for women

January 05 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, United States

Fire damages Adventist Church office in Washington state

No serious injuries or fatalities reported

December 30

ANN Holidays: What would Jesus want for Christmas?

Children share their picks, add a few wishes of their own

December 16

ADRA responds to volcano eruption in Colombia, cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe

Food, medicine distributed to regions

December 16

ANN Holidays: Do you hear what I don't?

Little lamb drowns out shepherd boy; With live nativities come manger mishaps, directors say

December 15

Housing project to secure endowment for Avondale College

Returns expected within 5 years, developer says

December 15

Active faith at core of Adventist Church president's holiday address

Paulsen calls for 'positive, constructive engagement' in community

December 15

Church Chat: ADRA President says charitable giving stable despite tough economy

The global humanitarian organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church saw an unanticipated rise in donations this past year.

December 09

Adventist Church in Serbia requests protection from international community

The latest acts of violence came after a year of escalating crimes against Adventists in Serbia, according to a statement released by church leaders in the South-East European region.

December 05

New building, new identity in Ukraine

After decades of struggling with limited religious freedoms, Adventists say last month's opening of the Podol Adventist Church in Kiev marks their place in the Orthodox country.

December 04

Church Chat: Finley on 2009 Year of Evangelism

More outreach meetings, tools for churches part of increased emphasis

December 02

Church Chat: Finley on 2009 Year of Evangelism

More outreach meetings, tools for churches part of increased emphasis

December 02

Adventists condemn violence in DR Congo

Tutsi general not a church pastor, statement says

December 02

Adventists condemn violence in DR Congo

Tutsi general not a church pastor, statement says

December 02

Church elects new leadership for Euro-Africa, West-Central Africa, Southern Asia

Vertallier, Wari named new regional presidents

November 25

Church elects new leadership for Euro-Africa, West-Central Africa, Southern Asia

Vertallier, Wari named new regional presidents

November 25

Church Chat: South Korean Adventist health food company weathering economic storm

Sales still strong, new chairman Park says; FÃ¼r Elise in the warehouse

November 25

Church Chat: South Korean Adventist health food company weathering economic storm

Sales still strong, new chairman Park says; FÃ¼r Elise in the warehouse

November 25

In meeting with Adventists, Mozambican president commends partnership to combat poverty

Mozambicans should join in church's efforts to improve communities, Guebuza says

November 25

In meeting with Adventists, Mozambican president commends partnership to combat poverty

Mozambicans should join in church's efforts to improve communities, Guebuza says

November 25

ADRA offers resources for 20th annual National AIDS Day

15 million children around the world infected with HIV

November 25

ADRA offers resources for 20th annual National AIDS Day

15 million children around the world infected with HIV

November 25

Sao Paulo passes religious freedom charter

Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders and religious freedom proponents in Brazil say the passage this month of the Brazilian Charter of Religious Liberty helps galvanize freedoms of belief already established by the country's constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights....

November 25

Adventist call center serves swath of church's media ministries

Building relationships and far-out requests; director on fulfilling center's potential

November 18

Adventist call center serves swath of church's media ministries

Building relationships and far-out requests; director on fulfilling center's potential

November 18

ADRA helps Chilean women escape poverty, illiteracy

Skills training, reading part of goal to make indigenous women self-reliant

November 17

ADRA helps Chilean women escape poverty, illiteracy

Skills training, reading part of goal to make indigenous women self-reliant

November 17

Four Adventist students die in car accident

Pacific Union College community gathers to offer prayers, support

November 17

Four Adventist students die in car accident

Pacific Union College community gathers to offer prayers, support

November 17

Adventist Church tightens its belt

Financial restraints include hiring freeze at world headquarters, travel budget reduction; goal of no staff cuts

November 17

Adventist Church tightens its belt

Financial restraints include hiring freeze at world headquarters, travel budget reduction; goal of no staff cuts

November 17

Fire destroys Adventist headquarters for UK, Ireland

The Seventh-day Adventist Church's headquarters for the United Kingdom and Ireland continues to smolder this morning following a fire that gutted much of the building yesterday afternoon, regional church officials report. The fire, which began during maintenance work at the...

November 17

ADRA preparing for Congo relief

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is preparing emergency relief for tens of thousands of displaced persons who fled their homes near Goma along the border between Congo and Rwanda. The aid is coming after an outbreak of violence...

November 10

Top Adventist leaders in Southern Africa tested for HIV/AIDS

Seventh-day Adventist Church leadership in Sub-Saharan Africa were counseled and tested for HIV on November 2 in a public statement that the HIV/AIDS pandemic requires practical attention in the community. "It's good to know my status," said Paul Ratsara, president...

November 04

ADRA wraps up three-year lifestyle education project in Malawi

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has wrapped up a three-year project involving nutrition and agricultural education to 4,200 low-income families in the southern districts of Mwanza and Mulanje of Malawi. The country has the eighth highest HIV/AIDS prevalence...

November 04

Vietnam grants Adventist Church official recognition

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Vietnam received official recognition last month, granting the church in the Southeast Asian nation legal status to operate, church officials said. Leaders met in Ho Chi Minh City October 22 to 24 to elect officers...

November 03

Korean Adventist language school receives 2008 'Best Brand Award'

The Seventh-day Adventist-run SDA Language School in Seoul received a 2008 Best Brand Award in the 'Language Education Category' last month based on a countrywide consumer survey involving more than 1.5 million Koreans. The award makes the language school a...

October 28

Spain: Romanian president attends Adventist church in Madrid

Romanian national president Traian Basescu visited a Seventh-day Adventist Church in Madrid, Spain earlier this month, drawing attention to the country's significant Romanian immigrant population -- 6,000 of whom are Adventists. "While the Romanian Adventist community in Madrid is loyal...

October 28

Mozambique: More than four hundred adults learn to read, write

Hundreds of previously illiterate Mozambican adults are reading and writing after completing the first part of a four-level literacy program last week. Held in 22 churches built by Maranatha Volunteers International, a non-profit construction group run by the Seventh-day Adventist...

October 28

Adventist Union president for North Pacific region dies at 61

Jere D. Patzer, North Pacific Union Conference president since 1996, died October 26 following a lengthy battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was 61. Patzer was known for his commitment to evangelism -- the veteran church leader personally conducted major outreach...

October 27

Inter-America: Adventist volunteers feed nearly 1 million in single afternoon

For 20 of his 35 years, Vladimir Gomez has lived on the streets of Bucaramanga, Colombia, struggling with a drug addiction and begging for money and food. But on October 11, Gomez was among nearly one million needy people throughout...

October 21

Hillsboro Spanish named 2008 Innovative Church of the Year

The Hillsboro Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church of Portland, Oregon was named 2008 Innovative Church of the Year by the North American region's Church Resource Center October 6 during the fourth annual church-sponsored Conference on Innovation. Hillsboro Spanish offers health fairs,...

October 14

Slovenia: Adventist Church celebrates 100 years

Hundreds of Seventh-day Adventists in Slovenia gathered in their country's second largest city, Maribor, last month to mark 100 years of Adventism in the Central European country. Celebrations began in January with an exhibition at the City Museum in the...

October 14

India: ADRA aiding millions affected by flooding

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is continuing to provide relief to the northeastern state of Bihar, India in response to heavy monsoon rains that flooded the region in September, killing more than 235 people and affecting nearly 5...

October 09

Georgia: ADRA delivers food, supplies to help refugees survive winter

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is continuing to assist internally displaced Georgian refugees who are facing severe conditions with the onset of winter and temperatures that could dip to 14 degrees Fahrenheit (-10 Celsius). The South Ossetia conflict...

October 07

Innovators meeting to help reinvent worship, outreach

Raj Attiken wants ideas. The more unconventional, the better. The Seventh-day Adventist leader in Ohio is calling for a "culture of innovation" within the church that encourages and applauds relevant and effective ways to worship and do outreach. Attiken worries...

October 03

Religious liberty making headway, challenges remain, world report says

While religious liberty remains tenuous in many countries and nonexistent in others, religious liberty proponents worldwide continue to protect religious minorities and secure increased freedom of belief, a report released by the Seventh-day Adventist world church last week indicates. Compiled...

September 30

Church Chat: Loki on repairing human rights in Kenya's Masai land

A goal of Christian women in Nairobi, Kenya to help girls in the rural Masai tribe is turning into a success story in the heart of Masai land, some 75 miles from the country's capitol. From its early days in...

September 30

India: Aftermath of violence leaves scars on Orissa

Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in India have reported at least 27 Adventists dead from anti-Christian brutality that developed in the eastern India region of Orissa in late August. Church leaders said there are still violent outbreaks in the area despite...

September 29

Croatia: Parliament limits Sunday shopping

The Croatian Parliament ruled in July that stores must close on Sundays, an act carried out in deference to the wishes of the Roman Catholic Church. The law will go into effect Jan. 1, 2009. The Catholic Church makes up...

September 23

Adventist communication award honors Smith

Reger C. Smith Jr., a veteran Seventh-day Adventist musician and designer who served as the world church's associate communication director for public relations, was honored posthumously last week with the church's Bridge Award. At a September 18 memorial ceremony for...

September 23

Cyprus: Coastal town's 'Meeting Point' to provide spiritual, public services

Seventh-day Adventists in the Mediterranean resort town of Limassol have converted a former seafront taxi office into a ministry center. "Our purpose is to meet the needs of the surrounding people, many of whom are immigrants and tourists," David J....

September 22

Romania: First official gathering of Adventist Roma builds community

Hundreds of participants gathered for the first Seventh-day Adventist National Roma Congress in Romania, a meeting that organizers hoped would create a sense of unity in the scattered ethnic group and foster understanding between Roma and non-Roma Adventists. The congress,...

September 18

Market declines won't affect Adventist Church's investment strategy, leaders say

Seventh-day Adventist Church finance officers say they are not currently considering a change in investment strategy in light of recent economic declines, a move they say is "prudent" considering their long-term focus. As major U.S. investment banks fold during a...

September 18

Turkmenistan: Regional Adventist leader visits after eight-year visa wait

Church leaders are calling Seventh-day Adventist regional president Artur Stele's visit to Turkmenistan last week a sign that the Central Asian country is beginning to relax its stance on religious minorities. Stele, who leads the church in Euro-Asia, and his...

September 17

ADRA: Hurricane aid headed for Gulf

The Adventist and Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), along with Adventist Community Services (ACS), is sending $80,000 in aid to Hurricane Ike victims after the storm hit the Texas coast last Saturday. "ADRA supports ACS to respond to this new...

September 16

Voice of Prophecy selects Kinsey as new director

Seventh-day Adventist Church spokesman Fred Kinsey was selected earlier this month as the new speaker/director of the church's Voice of Prophecy broadcast, succeeding E. Lonnie Melashenko, who spent 17 years in the role. Kinsey will also continue to serve in...

September 16

ADRA: Supplies, farming lessons to ease India famine

Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is responding to recent rice shortages with an initiative to provide food and education in India's northeastern state of the Mizoram region. Called MIZOFAM, the emergency food project will last 11 months and assist...

September 16

Defamation of religions laws should be rejected, experts recommend

Religious liberty experts are voicing concerns over proposals to regulate free speech and establish defamation of religions laws. Meeting in Bucharest, Romania, September 8-10, the 10th conference of the International Religious Liberty Group of Experts -- consisting of academics, practitioners...

September 15

Former Oakwood president Millet dies

Garland J. Millet, 95, the fifth president of what is now Oakwood University and a former associate secretary of the Adventist world church Education department, died September 7 at his home in Huntsville, Alabama. A native of Oakland, California, Millet...

September 12

Adventists in Atlanta gear up for church's next business session

Preparations are underway for the 2010 Seventh-day Adventist world church business session in Atlanta, Georgia, according to a press statement released September 10 from the church's headquarters. The business sessions -- held every five years -- are organized by the...

September 11 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Puerto Rico: Adventists march in campaign against domestic violence

Senator Orlando Parga told hundreds of Seventh-day Adventists gathered outside their country's capitol building August 30 that their prayers and example could help Puerto Rico overcome a steady rise in violence against women, children and the elderly over the past...

September 11

Church Chat: A literature evangelist in every congregation?

Literature evangelists already sell books door-to-door on behalf of thousands of Seventh-day Adventist churches. But Howard Faigao wants one for every congregation worldwide. All 63,000 of them.The Adventist world church's Publishing director knows it won't be easy. Support from administration...

September 10

Texting @ church, u?

Michael Campbell had to pause and choke back tears during his sermon when he started talking about his late grandfather. He then noticed on his cell phone an encouraging text message from someone in the audience: "Praying 4 u." Then...

September 09

United Kingdom: Airport church takes off

At Gatwick-Horley Seventh-day Adventist Church, members worship each Saturday to the muffled sound of airplanes flying overhead. The reason? Gatwick-Horley is a scant 300 yards from Britain's second largest airport. St. Michael and All Angels Church, where the Gatwick-Horley congregation...

September 08

South America: Live With Hope project targets millions

Seventh-day Adventist church members across South America this weekend will pass out millions of pamphlets and magazines focusing on the second coming of Jesus in an effort to reach one third of the population. The project, called Live with Hope,...

September 04

New communication software to connect members globally

A Web-based communication software platform launched yesterday at Seventh-day Adventist world church headquarters is expected to help connect an estimated 16 million members and marks the latest development in the global Protestant denomination's use of technology. Developed by Three Angels...

September 03

Adventist relief workers respond to Hurricane Gustav

Local Seventh-day Adventist Church relief volunteers are providing aid after Hurricane Gustav hit the Gulf Coast of the United States Monday. Adventist Community Service Disaster Response (ACS DR) workers are passing out food, clothing and personal care items and organizing...

September 03

Caldwell tapped as Adventist Church's PR director

Garrett Caldwell has interviewed Seventh-day Adventist world church leaders, outspoken theologians and engaging church members for television. Now the church is selecting Caldwell, who combined a communication degree with his pastoral studies in college, to serve as its chief public...

August 28

Kenya: Visit from Adventist president bolsters unity

Seventh-day Adventist world church president Jan Paulsen called for forgiveness and reconciliation during his first visit to Kenya since violence fueled by contested presidential elections erupted there in January. Acknowledging the ethnically driven conflict, Paulsen said while the church cannot...

August 28

India: Mob kills Adventist pastor

Hindu extremists are being blamed for the beheading of a Seventh-day Adventist pastor in Orissa, India late last week, local church leaders reported. Since then, at least 15 Adventists have been reported killed. Samuel Naik, pastor of the Phulwani Adventist...

August 27

Adventist Lithuanian poet's fifth collection draws acclaim

A Seventh-day Adventist poet's fifth collection of poetry is drawing acclaim among religious writers in her native country of Lithuania. Lifting subject material from nature, Scripture and personal spirituality, Zita Kazimiera Kirsnauskaite writes passionately in "On the Wings of an...

August 26

Adventist to direct U.S. religious freedom panel

A veteran Seventh-day Adventist religious freedom advocate announced last month that he has accepted the top staff post of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. James D. Standish, Esq., director of Legislative Affairs at the Seventh-day Adventist Church...

August 21

Antigua prime minister salutes Adventist Pathfinder movement

A Caribbean island nation's leader is now a second-year honorary member of the Pathfinder club, a Seventh-day Adventist youth service organization. Antigua Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer received the ranking last Saturday during a gathering of more than 3,000 Pathfinders from...

August 21

Euro-Africa Adventist Church president announces retirement

Ulrich W. Frikart, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Euro-Africa since 1995, announced his retirement in an August 12 letter to world church president Jan Paulsen. Frikart, 67, said his early retirement on December 31 would eliminate the need...

August 20

Church Chat: The innovative dental dean

Loma Linda University joined such institutions as Harvard and New York University earlier this year during an award ceremony for dental schools.Since 2000, school officials have worked to provide interactive teaching aids that are now used in dental schools nationwide....

August 19

Internet convention in Kenya meets to discuss Web use, strategies

Seventh-day Adventist Church technology leaders in Africa this week addressed challenges such as local resistance to technology, reaching target groups effectively and maintaining church standards. In a regional meeting of the world church's Global Internet Evangelism Network (GIEN) held August...

August 19

ADRA responds to Georgia fighting

Following the recent outbreak of fighting in Georgia, in the eastern European Caucasus region near the Black Sea, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is preparing to respond to the needs of thousands who fled from the violence. More...

August 18

Adventist West-Central Africa president announces retirement

Luka Daniel, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's West-Central Africa Division, announced his retirement August 15. Daniel will officially leave office at the end of December 2008. Daniel became president of the region in 2003. He previously served as president...

August 18

Adventist laypeople quadruple giving at annual convention

Adventist-laymen's Services and Industries (ASI) members donated $8 million during the organization's August 6 to 9 weekend convention, quadrupling last year's offering. The marked upswing in giving is spurred largely by interest surrounding the One-Day Church project, ASI officials said....

August 15

ADRA provides aid to Ukrainian flood victims

After thousands of Ukrainians lost their homes to severe flooding, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is distributing food and personal items to more than 1,300 survivors. Torrential rains hit western Ukraine last month, leading government officials to call...

August 08

United States: First Adventist woman commissioned to serve as Navy chaplain

Adrienne Townsend accepted the oath of office and was officially sworn in July 24 as the first Seventh-day Adventist woman to serve as an active duty chaplain in the United States Navy. Lieutenant Junior Grade Townsend said her four years...

August 08

Church Chat: Why the church can't slacken its abuse-prevention message

Excuses cannot be part of the church's message against abuse. So says Heather-Dawn Small, the no-nonsense Trinidadian who helps craft the world Seventh-day Adventist Church's formidable yet sensitive approach to abuse prevention.Since she began directing Women's Ministries for the world...

August 08

Adventist Southern Asia church president Watts resigns

Ron Watts, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Southern Asia Division, resigned from his position last month due to family health concerns. He is currently residing in the United States with his wife Dorothy. "With deep regret, with counsel and...

August 07

Adventist storefront church leading community-based evangelism

What downtown Carnegie needed four years ago, Andrew Clark remembers, wasn't an Adventist church but a café. In the wake of Hurricane Ivan, which flooded Carnegie in 2004, locals who waded it out petitioned businesses afterward to move downtown to...

August 05

ADRA provides food for Guatemalan flood victims

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is providing food for more than 1,000 families in Guatemala displaced by recent flooding in the central and eastern regions of the country. Weeks of heavy rain have destroyed homes, roads and crops,...

August 04

Church Chat: Could artifacts spur the next generation of evangelists?

Some people collect stamps. James Nix says he collects Adventism.Nix, 61, who has served as director of the Ellen G. White Estate since 2000, doesn't separate hobbies from work. Fun for him is collecting old newspapers with references to the...

August 01

Jamaica: Adventists marshal 'Day of Prayer' to address violence

Responding to climbing murder rates in Jamaica, hundreds of Seventh-day Adventist churches there are set to participate in a national day of prayer this weekend. The August 2 Day of Prayer comes soon after Jamaica's prime minister announced a list...

July 30

St. Kitts: Adventist Church partners with Ministry of Health to offer community health screenings

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July 30

United States: New religious discrimination guidelines aid Sabbath keepers

Seventh-day Adventists in the United States will have some support from the federal government as they seek to observe the biblical Sabbath, a religious liberty leader said. On July 22, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued a compliance manual...

July 30

Western Australia: New e-ministry links Adventist men

A new monthly e-newsletter is linking Seventh-day Adventist men in Western Australia, church leaders there report. The Western Australian Conference Men's E-News (WACMEN) is expected to encourage men to be "partakers" rather than "spectators" in the pews, says Danny Bell,...

July 28

Lithuania: Government recognizes Adventist Church

The Lithuanian government granted the Seventh-day Adventist Church's application for state recognized status on July 15, qualifying the church for state subsidies and certain tax exemptions, as well as excusing theology students and clergy from military service. "State recognition for...

July 28

Religious liberty celebrated in Honolulu

Representatives from more than a dozen religious communities gathered in Honolulu, Hawaii July 12 to 13 for the first Festival of Religious Liberty held in the United States. Sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Festival celebrated religious freedom through...

July 24

Mexican youth trained in multimedia for adding content to church Web sites

Brother Lozano's traveling media training show made a five-city tour earlier this month. Seventh-day Adventist Church communication leaders trained nearly 130 of the church's young people to produce news articles and videos for the Web in a series of one-day...

July 21

Guatemala: Adventist Church celebrates 100 years, commits to community impact

Thousands of Seventh-day Adventists from across Guatemala gathered in the country's capital on July 12 to celebrate the church's 100 years in the Central American nation and to pledge to further community involvement. "I hear, I see your commitment clearly...

July 21

Bookmarks: Is radical conservatism key to reaching younger generations?

Seventh-day Adventist theologian Jon Paulien uses his latest book, "Everlasting Gospel, Everchanging World," to make the case for a different attitude toward evangelism. There are two analogies used to describe spreading the gospel: the "city on the hill" and the...

July 21

Norway: Church literature sales up

Sales at the Seventh-day Adventist publishing house in Norway climbed 20 percent the past five weeks, due largely to 55 student booksellers hired this summer as part of its program to support students from developing countries, literature evangelists there say....

July 16

Ghana: Adventist university president receives nation's highest civilian honor

Valley View University (VVU) President Seth Abang Laryea recently received one of Ghana's highest national awards given to private citizens, the Order of Volta, in recognition of his contributions to college-level education. Formally called Adventist Missionary College, VVU was established...

July 15

Australia, New Zealand poll: many not familiar with Adventism

Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in the South Pacific say that research should be integral in shaping the church's message after a recent poll indicated about 50 percent of Australians and New Zealanders know nothing about the church beyond its name....

July 14

Adventist Internet pioneers honored at evangelism forum

A group of Seventh-day Adventist Internet pioneers were honored by the Communication Department of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists during the 2008 Global Internet Evangelism Forum held here July 11. At the same time a separate award program offering...

July 14

Church Chat: Why mission tales are still needed

Dan Weber will go for a week without showering to get a good story.The video producer travels far and often to update the world church on its mission projects, sometimes to places well off the beaten path.But whether traveling to...

July 09

Angola: rebuilding country promotes freedom of belief

Some 45,000 Angolans gathered at a sports stadium in Luanda June 28 to celebrate freedom of religion in their country, which is rebuilding in the aftermath of a 27-year civil war that ended in 2002. The festival, the largest to...

July 08

Digital immigrants to study native habits at 6th Internet technology conference

At a technology conference last year, a presentation of technology uses among the under-30 crowd was lacking something: young people themselves. So this year, organizers are making a point to bring in a group of young presenters who can speak...

July 08

Adventist Church president continues call for involvement of women, youth in leadership

President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Pastor Jan Paulsen, brought the latest episode of his live, televised dialogues with pastors to South America yesterday, encouraging local churches to include women and young members in leadership. Paulsen spoke through a translator...

July 02

Church Chat: Freedom of belief still an 'urgent' matter in Russia, Adventist religious liberty leader says

In Russia, Protestant denominations are biding their time. "We are waiting for the future," says Viktor Vitko, the Seventh-day Adventist Church's religious liberty leader for Northern Asia and Eastern Europe. Vitko believes Russia -- which recently elected a new president,...

July 01

Ecuador: Adventists worshipping in first One-Day Church

Seventh-day Adventists in Valle Hermoso, Ecuador last month were the first recipients of a One-Day Church, a new Adventist Church and lay sponsored ready-to-assemble church that can be built within a day. Maranatha Volunteers began construction on June 19 at...

July 01

Environment an 'Adventist' issue?

The Seventh-day Adventists are being urged by their top leader to develop an approach to environmental issues that is consistent with the church's historical values. World church president, Pastor Jan Paulsen, writing in the July issue of Adventist World magazine,...

July 01

Last Adventist military support facility to close this month

Seventh-day Adventist Chaplain Gary Councell remembers a church-run military support center was once a spiritual oasis amid secular military life. For decades, soldiers could depend on food, a clean cot and fellowship with likeminded Adventists during the Sabbath hours at...

June 25

Adventist chorale, Cambridge choir to release 'Sound of Freedom'

Seventh-day Adventist chorale singers in London say collaborating with the Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge is a chance to forge both musical and spiritual bonds. The London Adventist Chorale spent three days in April with the Cambridge University-based choir...

June 24

Want to change a church's culture? Empower the women

Gender may keep some 70 percent of the Seventh-day Adventist world church's membership out of many church leadership positions, but here in Southern Mexico altering that tradition is transforming some churches. Though they're not ordained as such, many women are...

June 24

Melashenko to leave Voice of Prophecy

Lonnie Melashenko, a veteran Seventh-day Adventist pastor and broadcaster, announced June 16 that he will leave the Voice of Prophecy as speaker/director on July 31, officials of the Adventist Church's North American region said. Melashenko will become vice president of...

June 20

Adventist Neurosurgeon receives U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom

A Seventh-day Adventist pioneer in pediatric neurosurgery who overcame childhood poverty and achieved worldwide renown received the highest civilian award bestowed by the United States government today. Dr. Benjamin S. Carson Sr. was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom...

June 19

Church Chat: New mentality needed to combat AIDS, Adventist VP says

Pardon Mwansa wants to change people's thinking about AIDS -- both people who care for AIDS patients, and those who could contract the disease. One of nine general vice presidents for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Mwansa recently granted ANN an...

June 17

Ray Turner, bass in original King's Heralds, dies at 99

Ray Turner, the bass in the original King's Heralds Quartet, a singing group long supported by the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Voice of Prophecy radio ministry, died May 15 at a care facility in Killeen, Texas. He was 99. While a...

June 16

'Critical' for nations to reaffirm religious freedom, U.S. legislator Franks says at annual religious liberty event

International standards of religious freedom must be reinforced, a U.S. legislator said yesterday in a speech marking 10 years since the United States passed the International Religious Freedom Act, a bill recognizing the importance of freedom of belief in foreign...

June 13

Bible students discover mobile study of Scripture

Discovery Bible Guide students can now use their cell phones to learn more about God during downtime at the bus stop or on the subway. The Discover Bible Guides -- produced since 1942 by Voice of Prophecy, a supporting media...

June 10

London Adventist youth march against violence

Mark Prince stepped up to the microphone during a rally in Kennington Park last Saturday to address some 5,000 youth who had just marched throughout London with a message of positive living to combat street violence. "We are the answer...

June 10

Church Chat: New church official still sends out SWAT teams

Pastor Patrick Vincent was once so desperate for his parishioners to evangelize their unchurched friends that he resorted to paying them. The episode is one he now remembers with some embarrassment, but his passion for evangelism led him to keep...

June 05

North America: Adventist Church to recognize innovative churches

The Seventh-day Adventist Church's North American region (NAD) is seeking to recognize churches impacting their communities by pioneering new outreach methods and adapting old ones to a changing ministry environment. The NAD Church Resource Center is accepting nominations for the...

June 04

Adventist's art a tribute to character of living golf legend Palmer

Golf icon Arnold Palmer entered the revamped United States Golf Association museum yesterday and stood in front of a unique portrait of himself, with the picture's creator standing by. Both he and Seventh-day Adventist artist James David Chase came close...

June 04

United States: Adventist University granted online graduate degree accreditation

Faculty at Seventh-day Adventist-owned Andrews University hope their new accreditation to offer online graduate programs will help them reach a wider student base. The Higher Learning Commission granted Andrews accreditation April 28 to administer two online graduate programs, including a...

June 02

'Historic' Adventist Church business meeting in North Korea

Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in Northern Asia held their mid-year Executive Committee meeting in the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea last month, the first such meeting there since the country closed its borders in 1953. Meeting for one day...

June 02

Mongolia: First religious liberty meeting draws government, international religious freedom leaders

International religious liberty leaders joined members of Mongolia's government and major religious communities May 30 for the nation's first religious liberty symposium, meant largely to lay groundwork for a full-scale freedom of religion conference next year. "This is an historic...

June 02

Mexico: Adventist Church establishing more inroads in once hostile communities

Consuelo Santiz had to contend with an angry mob when she joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church. At first her new faith meant holding church secretly in her home at night. Later, as the Roman Catholic community learned a new denomination...

May 30

Church Chat: Nepal's Adventist Church co-founder Shrestha on reaching his fellow believers

Bhaju Ram Shrestha was kicked out of his house nearly 40 years ago for becoming a Protestant Christian in a Hindu majority country. Despite suffering for his faith, the 57-year-old has dedicated his life to the church in his native...

May 29

Minister to the community, Adventist leader says in conversation

Churches need to tailor ministry to the community, and members who intend to spend eternity together ought to begin by getting along in the pews, Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, said in a live May...

May 29

Adventist churches in South Africa open for refugees during xenophobic attacks

Seventh-day Adventist churches in South Africa are opening their doors to serve as refugee centers while calling for an end to xenophobic attacks occuring throughout the country in recent weeks. More than 30 churches are working with government officials to...

May 28

Former Adventist Review editor Wood dies at 90

Kenneth H. Wood, for 16 years editor-in-chief of Adventist Review and 28-year chairman of the board of the Ellen G. White Estate, died Sunday, May 25, 2008 in Potomac, Maryland. He was 90 years old and had been ill in...

May 27

Researcher says California Adventists are America's 'Blue Zone'

Reach for the pistachios, not the Doritos. Volunteer. And keep filling that glass, so long as it's with water. It's seemingly simple lifestyle choices such as these that researcher and author Dan Buettner thinks can add a good 10 years...

May 27

Women's Ministries Day an opportunity for more involvement, church leaders say

Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders hope this year's Women's Ministries Emphasis Day will motivate local churches to involve more women in worship services. The June 14 Sabbath celebration of women is also a chance for churches worldwide to honor the accomplishments...

May 23

United States: Adventists urged to vote against Maryland slot machines

Seventh-day Adventist Church members should join concerned Maryland residents by voting against a referendum on their November ballot to authorize 15,000 slot machines across the state, church officials agreed in a leadership meeting this week. In a May 22 editorial...

May 22

Adventist Church's humanitarian agency expands aid in China, Myanmar

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency is stepping up its assistance to the survivors of two natural disasters in East Asia earlier this month. ADRA workers were the first to deliver aid to stranded survivors in Myanmar's isolated Pyinsalu Islands...

May 21

Inter-America: A breather for overburdened pastors

More than 1,500 Seventh-day Adventist church members in Mexico call Magdiel Garcia "pastor." The number might not seem remarkable, but those members are scattered among 24 churches in the country's southern state of Chiapas. Each congregation sees Garcia on a...

May 20

Health leaders urge churches in Jamaica to serve as counseling centers

Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in Jamaica are welcoming a call from health officials to train pastors in counseling individuals as the nation faces continued social problems. Speaking at a drug addiction seminar hosted by the Adventist Church in Kingston May...

May 20

Iraqi president affirms Christian presence, roots

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani invited the Seventh-day Adventist and other Christian churches to a formal dinner at his residence last month to affirm their unique role in Iraq's historical and cultural heritage. Baghdad Adventist Church Pastor, Fawzi Benjamin, represented the...

May 20

ADRA effort continues amid concern over aid distribution

Adventist Development and Relief Agency efforts in Myanmar continue despite international claims that the country's government is mishandling the distribution of some outside aid two weeks after a cyclone decimated the nation's coastal regions, an ADRA spokesperson said. "The shipping...

May 19

Chinese church leaders call for prayer, help after earthquake

Despite some congregations losing their churches in a May 12 earthquake, some Seventh-day Adventists in China are still planning to meet for worship this Sabbath, church leaders said. Adventist leaders are also calling for prayer after the 7.9 earthquake in...

May 15

Religious freedom association to launch first symposium in Mongolia

Religious freedom proponents are hoping Mongolia's first symposium on religious liberty later this month will increase awareness and lead to a large-scale religious liberty conference next year. The May 29 symposium, co-sponsored by the Mongolia's Council of Religious Affairs under...

May 15

ADRA expands relief effort in Myanmar

More than a week after Cyclone Nargis slammed the coast of Myanmar, Adventist Development and Relief Agency officials report that aid efforts are progressing, due in part to the humanitarian agency's longstanding presence in the Southeast Asian country. From its...

May 13

World No Tobacco Day pushes for Tobacco-Free youth globally

Saving the next generation from tobacco addiction is the focus of the upcoming World No Tobacco Day, which takes place May 31. The Seventh-day Adventist Church and its humanitarian agency, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, are offering resources in...

May 13

Adventist Church president to host final 'Let's Talk' youth dialogue

Seventh-day Adventist world church president, Pastor Jan Paulsen, will host two live, unscripted broadcasts later this month, continuing his series of conversations with Adventist youth and ministers. But this 19th segment of the "Let's Talk" youth dialogues will be his...

May 13

England: Adventist college appoints new principal

Political Science professor Dr. Jane Sabes was appointed principal of Seventh-day Adventist-owned Newbold College in a May 11 vote by the college's board. Sabes, a professor at Adventist-owned Andrews University since 1999, has focused her teaching career on public policy...

May 12

Adventist cooking show stirs recognition

A vegetarian cooking program aired on the Seventh-day Adventist-owned Hope Channel was among the finalists to win a bronze award during the 29th annual Telly Awards this month. "Cooking Vegetarian," led by Adventist chef Sualua Tupolo, won in the "Education"...

May 12

Adventist Church associate communication director Smith dies at 54

Reger C. Smith Jr., a Seventh-day Adventist musician and designer who served as the world church's Associate Communication Director for Public Relations, died May 8 following a lengthy illness at his home in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was 54. Smith...

May 08

New Adventist Chaplaincy director plans more training, recruiting

On the surface not much has changed for Colonel Gary Councell since he became director of Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries on May 1. The retired Army chaplain still gets up at 4 a.m. to get to the office between 5:15 a.m....

May 06

ADRA to assist Myanmar cyclone survivors

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency is joining other aid organizations in responding to survivors of Tropical Cyclone Nargis, a 10-hour storm that killed an estimated 22,000 people and left more than 40,000 unaccounted for when it slammed Myanmar last...

May 06

No pulpit, no problem: New Adventist lay training center wants 'spiritual entrepreneurs'

"Don't worry," Ken Norton tells uncertain church members during his guest-preaching gigs. "I have my license." He means his driver's license, not his ministerial credential. The 36-year-old lay evangelist might joke about his youthful looks, but he wastes no time...

May 06

Can you text me now?

The text capital of the world will soon have the option of a distinctly Adventist tone. Members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Philippines are teaming up with Globe Telecom, Inc., a major telecommunications provider in the Philippines, to...

May 02

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

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

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

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

Seventh-day Adventists fined in Uzbekistan

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April 21

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Number of Adventist pastors in Mongolia up 50 percent

The number of ordained Seventh-day Adventist pastors in Mongolia rose from four to six with the February 23 ordination of two Korean pastors. Park NoYoung and Park SangBum were ordained to ministry in a dedication service at the Ulaanbaatar Central...

February 29

Adventists often stay Adventist, Pew survey shows

Roughly 60 percent of Americans reared in what it defined as the "Adventist family" of churches, a grouping of Protestants dominated by the Seventh-day Adventist, remain in that family as adults, a landmark survey released February 25 revealed. Based on...

February 28

United States: Adventist colleges receive national recognition for service

The Nebraska state legislature this week passed a resolution commending Seventh-day Adventist-owned Union College for accomplishments that include community service and increasing enrollment from around the nation and the globe. Legislative Resolution 248 recognized the college for having received the...

February 28

Ministers' continuing education to emphasize preaching

Clergy around the world can brush up on their preaching skills while earning continuing education credit during the Seventh-day Adventist Church's 10th annual professional growth seminar for ministers set for April 22. "There are about 5 million clergy around the...

February 26

Loma Linda board names Hart Adventist university's new president

Dr. Richard Hart, MD, DrPH, current chancellor and chief executive officer of Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center, will assume the duties of LLUAHSC president on March 24, university officials said today. The search committee assigned to replace former...

February 25

Malaysia: Upcoming Saturday elections to lock out Adventist voters

Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in Malaysia are voicing concerns that the country's upcoming general election could leave out Adventist voters. This year's election on March 8 falls on a Saturday, a day considered holy by Adventists around the world. Lesaya...

February 21

Adventist, top neurosurgeon Carson encourages risk-taking

The word "risk" often implies choosing for a moment or a lifetime reckless and dangerous abandon. But for Dr. Ben Carson, world-renown chief of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, too many...

February 21

Pedal-preachers: Wheels in the ministry keep on turning for Sudanese pastors, Bible workers

Visiting church members and preaching sermons might mean a quick drive across town for some ministers, but for Seventh-day Adventist pastors in Northern Sudan, ministry can involve days of trekking through desolate countryside. For 26 of the region's pastors and...

February 20

Ghana: American Adventist institutions invest in Ghana's education infrastructure

A transatlantic partnership between several Seventh-day Adventist institutions in the United States has made possible a new academic building on the campus of Adventist-owned Valley View University (VVU) in Ghana. The university celebrated the completion of health-themed Columbia Union Hall,...

February 20

Church's first leadership development conference trains future Adventist leaders

Responding to the urging of church leaders around the world, the Seventh-day Adventist world church held its first leadership development conference in Slovenia from February 11 to 12. "Our church leaders see leadership development as one of the major issues...

February 19

Sabbath observance rooted in Africa, says Adventist historian

A study of Black history reveals that Christianity in Africa might more closely reflect an Adventist view of the seventh-day Sabbath than previously thought, according to one Adventist historian. Bertram Melbourne, an Adventist pastor and Interim Dean of Howard University...

February 15

Puerto Rico, Jamaica: Adventists forgo church for community ministry

Seventh-day Adventist churches in separate efforts on two Caribbean islands closed many of their doors for one Sabbath this month to minister to communities in the wake of violence. Hundreds of Adventist Churches closed in Puerto Rico February 2 and...

February 14

United States: Adventist representative testifies before Congressional hearing

American workers can unswervingly follow their consciences and fulfill job requirements under newly proposed workplace freedom legislation, said James D. Standish, Esq., Legislative Affairs representative for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, during testimony before a United States Congressional hearing. "Enough American...

February 14

Adventist humanitarian organization ranked among most trusted charities

For the third year in a row, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International has earned a coveted four-star rating from the largest independent evaluator of charities in the United States. Only nine percent of the more than 5,000...

February 14

'Don't be a bystander,' Adventist leader advises young people

Getting involved in the local church is the best way to impact the global Seventh-day Adventist community, world church president Pastor Jan Paulsen told two groups of young people gathered for the first Let's Talk broadcasts in Asia. Urging active...

February 12

Jamaican billionaire donates additional J$105 million to NCU

A sizable donation to a Seventh-day Adventist school puts it well on the way to expanding its nursing program. Michael Lee-Chin, listed in Forbes Magazine as one of the world's 500 wealthiest people, recently donated J$105 million (approximately US$1.48 million)...

February 12

Jamaica: Two church members shot leaving church meeting

Two members of the Bethel Town Seventh-day Adventist Church in Westmoreland, Jamaica were shot on February 7 while leaving a meeting at the church. "Junior McKenzie was helping to direct Corporal Peter Salkey as he backed out on to the...

February 11

Church Chat: Mbwana on Adventist effort to quell Kenya's post-election turmoil

As Kenya wrestles with remittent violence following the disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki, one Seventh-day Adventist leader says the country's more than 600,000-strong Adventist community is politically savvy and positioned to influence reconciliation efforts. Geoffrey Mbwana, leader of the...

February 11

Cameroon: Adventist students escape bus crash unharmed

Forty students at the Seventh-day Adventist College of Yaoundé, Cameroon escaped unharmed from a bus crash on February 6. The students, ages 10 to 15, were heading to the zoo as part of a series of youth week activities. According...

February 08

Adventist Church president to appear on international television network show

Seventh-day Adventist world church president, Pastor Jan Paulsen, is scheduled to appear as a guest on the February 11 edition of Night Talk with Mike Schneider, a one-hour program airing on Bloomberg TV. This is the first time the church's...

February 07

United States: Adventist representative to promote workplace freedom before Congress

Seventh-day Adventist Church representative for Legislative Affairs, James D. Standish, Esq., will join other witnesses in testifying before a U.S. Congressional hearing February 12, urging legislators to sponsor the lately reintroduced Workplace Religious Freedom Act. "Americans don't accept bigotry in...

February 07

Chad: Adventist leader urges peace, calls for prayers amid rebellion

A Seventh-day Adventist Church leader in Central Africa called for peace and stability during an interview with state-run Cameroon Radio Television February 2 following a bloody rebel assault of the Chadian capital of N'djamena. Allah-Ridy Kone, president of the church...

February 06

Doors close for Christian college at health institute

Citing financial reasons, board members of Weimar Institute of Health & Education in Northern California announced in a statement last month that the self-supporting Christian college known internationally for its eight-step, 18-day NEWSTART health recovery and disease prevention program will...

February 05

Adventist financial officers to review church's appropriations

For decades, history dictated how the Seventh-day Adventist Church's world headquarters divvies up funds among its now 13 world regions, or divisions. But for the five church officials on the newly created Appropriations Review Committee, "because that's how we've always...

February 05

Church Chat: Mission possible for flautist, academic turned manager

With his passion for mission, theologian Ganoune Diop is well-qualified to oversee the five Seventh-day Adventist Church global study centers, whose mission is to build bridges to other religious groups. It also helps that he's comfortable in 10 languages. Raised...

February 04

Adventist Church president to host televised youth dialogues in China, Philippines

Seventh-day Adventist world church president, Pastor Jan Paulsen, heads to East Asia this week for two regional installments of his Let's Talk live televised dialogues with youth. Paulsen will host Let's Talk in Manila, Philippines on February 7 and in...

January 29

Adventist elected judge of international criminal court

A Seventh-day Adventist law professor was sworn in as one of the 18 judges of the International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands, on January 17. Dr. Daniel D. Ntanda Nsereko, most recently a professor of law at the University of...

January 23

Study to examine omega-3 deficiency, teenage depression link

Whether low omega-3 levels trigger the doldrums is the focus of a new joint research project between the Sydney Adventist Hospital-based Australasian Research Institute and the University of New South Wales. Studies touting omega-3 as the holy grail of health...

January 22

Chile: Adventist media guru keeps country on communication edge

Ewaldo Bustos' enthusiasm is contagious as he describes how media has changed the Seventh-day Adventist Church's image in his country over the past decade. As director of programming and production for the church's communication center in Chile, Bustos has overseen...

January 18

Leading Adventist surgeon, medical missionary dies

Dr. Thomas Zirkle, 71, a Seventh-day Adventist surgeon, medical missionary and an associate director for the world church's department of Health Ministries, died January 11 in Loma Linda, California from an unrelated medical event a week after he underwent bypass...

January 17

Goodbye to Postum

Kraft Foods, the makers of coffee alternative Postum, recently announced they will no longer make the once popular beverage. The drink had a small but loyal following among some Seventh-day Adventists who believe that caffeine negatively affects health and some...

January 17

U.S. court upholds Adventist's religious discrimination ruling

A United States federal appeals court yesterday upheld a ruling that a Seventh-day Adventist worker was discriminated against for not working on Sabbath. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a former driver for United Parcel Service (UPS),...

January 16

Kenya: Adventist university re-opens after post-election violence forced evacuation

Some faculty, students and staff are returning to the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton after post-election violence in Kenya forced a January 6 evacuation of some 280 people from the campus. The school reopened Monday January 14 with classes starting...

January 16

Church Chat: Brillhart on the church and community action

While soup kitchens and clothing drives are hallmarks of community outreach for many churches, Pastor Rebecca Brillhart says teaming up with other faith groups can do more to improve lives. Brillhart, discipleship pastor for the Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church in...

January 15

United States: Nevada primary election may leave out devout Sabbath-keepers

Presidential candidates may be the only ones vying for party nomination this Saturday in Nevada, but civic duty and religious conviction are on the ballot in many voters' minds. Some Seventh-day Adventists and Jews are voicing concern over their state's...

January 15

Adventist Church looks to build Internet ministry in emerging African markets

Techies unite. The Seventh-day Adventist Church is examining how to best use new media in Africa, a region in which the church has yet to capitalize on mobile Internet access. Church communication leaders, technicians and broadcasters will meet for an...

January 10

WHO seeks Adventists among faith-based groups for renewed partnership

The World Health Organization has asked Seventh-day Adventist health leaders to join its initial consultations as it prepares to renew partnerships with faith-based organizations. After 30 years of shying away from such affiliation, WHO, under its new director-general, is actively...

January 09

Kenya: Workers at Adventist university evacuated as national conflict continues

Church leaders evacuated 280 students, staff and international workers from Seventh-day Adventist-owned University of Eastern Africa, Baraton to Nairobi on January 6. More than 100 staff members had earlier taken refuge at a local police station amid violence fueled by...

January 07

Robbery at Maranatha-rented warehouse leaves guard dead

A Seventh-day Adventist security guard was killed December 30 when thieves broke into a Maputo, Mozambique, warehouse rented by Maranatha Volunteers International, a Christian lay organization that builds churches and schools for the Adventist Church worldwide. The guard, Adrian Chissano,...

January 03

Adventist leader appeals for calm in Kenya

Seventh-day Adventists are joining the international community in expressing concern over violence in Kenya that has reportedly left 300 people dead and 100,000 displaced in the wake of presidential election disputes. In a January 3 statement, Adventist world church Executive...

January 03

Arrested Oakwood students suspended for semester

All 16 students arrested during a clash with police at Oakwood University last month are suspended for the Spring 2008 semester, college officials said Wednesday. The announcement came after the school's three-week internal investigation of a December 9 melee that...

January 02

Adventists Hope to see Jesus in the New Year

Church and community are on the minds of many Seventh-day Adventist Church members looking forward to the New Year. When Adventist News Network asked what some church members hope for most in the New Year the theme of Advent...

December 18

Brazil: New record for nationwide Christmas food collection initiative

A nationwide Christmas celebration brought tears of joy and shouts of excitement from volunteers and national celebrities during the December 15 culmination of a Seventh-day Adventist Church initiative to help those in need. "Tonight we did the unexpected and broke...

December 18

Live communion service to link Adventists across North America

Seventh-day Adventists will unite in sharing the sacred act of communion through a live televised program that will transcend the boundaries of church buildings and join hundreds of thousands of church members across North America. Pastor Don Schneider, president of...

December 18

Chile: Adventist university catalogues concert manuscripts of famed pianist Arrau

A complete catalogue of 6,000 concert manuscripts used by Chile's most famous pianist Claudio Arrau (1908-1991) was developed by a Seventh-day Adventist professor and donated to a museum celebrating the musician's life and work in the central Chilean city of...

December 18

World church president says Christ is 'true hope' of the holidays

With a strong focus on the hope that inherently comes from a relationship with God, Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, recorded greetings for the season for the nearly 16 million church members worldwide. Acknowledging the...

December 17

Azerbaijan: Adventist congregation questioned, told to suspend church services

Five Seventh-day Adventists and three visitors were allegedly questioned, fined and warned not to meet again after what the small congregation is calling a government "raid" on their meeting hall in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku Saturday. The church members...

December 14

Former church treasurer dies

Frank L. Jones II, 81, a retired pastor and a former associate treasurer for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, died November 28, 2007, at his home in Huntsville, Alabama, following a brief illness. Jones served at the church's world...

December 14

Church Chat: Proctor clears the air on Adventist anti-smoking campaign

The Seventh-day Adventist Church might be losing a piece of its image as a leader against tobacco in some parts of the world. And Stoy Proctor, MPH, is OK with that. Proctor, an associate Health Ministries director for the Adventist...

December 14

Loma Linda University president announces retirement

Longtime president of Seventh-day Adventist-owned Loma Linda University Dr. Lyn Behrens announced her retirement December 13 to board members of the Loma Linda, California-based Health Sciences Center. Behrens, who acted as Chief Executive Officer for the institution and presided over...

December 13

Brazil: Church's media center director dies

Members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in South America are mourning the December 13 death of Milton Souza, director of the Adventist Media Center in Brazil. Souza, 51, had been receiving treatments at the Hospital do Câncer in São Paolo,...

December 13

College officials 'regret' confrontation with police on campus

Administrators of Seventh-day Adventist-owned Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, say they "regret" a confrontation between students and city police on campus the evening of December 8. Police arrested 14 students and two other people after a crowd surrounded...

December 12

Church leaders call for greater emphasis on fundamental human rights

Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders today called for a greater emphasis on fundamental human rights, both in society and in the church. Jonathan Gallagher, the church's liaison to the United Nations, spoke at the launch of Human Rights Day in New...

December 10

Indian Christians protest plan to build technology center on private land

Christians in India's northeastern state of Manipur are fighting government plans to build a technology institute on 300 acres of land where four churches and a synagogue are currently located. Kim Gangte, a Seventh-day Adventist and a former member of...

December 10

England: Adventist woman receives national honor

A Seventh-day Adventist woman has received the queen of England's recognition for her community service. Joan Saddler, a member of the Hampstead Adventist Church and the London Adventist Chorale, received the Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II...

December 07

Brazil: annual food collection contest wins recognition

A contest brainstormed over dinner by Sérgio and Marli Azevedo in the Seventh-day Adventist couple's home almost 14 years ago now regularly generates thousands of tons of food across the country every December. Called Christmas Mutirão -- Sharing Hope, the...

December 07

Church leaders, religious liberty advocates address faith freedoms in Europe since 9/11

A one-day conference at Seventh-day Adventist-owned Newbold College addressed responses to anti-terrorism laws -- including privacy and hate speech law proposals -- that could affect freedom of religion in the workplace and society. Church leaders and religious freedom experts met...

December 06

New Adventist Arabic-language channel set for December 11 launch

A supporting Seventh-day Adventist Church ministry will launch the denomination's first Arabic-language television program on December 11. The new channel, LLBN Arabic, will begin broadcast December 18 through the Loma Linda Broadcasting Network and is scheduled to include spiritual programs...

December 05

Adventists Around the World

Seventh-day Adventist Church-owned Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, will become Oakwood University starting January 1. Constituents of the historically black educational institution voted the name change December 2. School administrators said the board of trustees had considered the...

December 04

Mozambique: partnership between Adventist Church and government to battle illiteracy

Under a new literacy education program, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Mozambique is partnering with national leadership to address the country's abysmal illiteracy rates, including among new Adventists. An agreement signed November 20 by the church's Education director, Miguel Simoque,...

December 03

Dominican Republic president meets with church leaders

Top Seventh-day Adventist leaders met with Dominican Republic's President Dr. Leonel Fernandez Reina on November 22 to discuss the church's work on the island and worldwide. The one-hour private meeting at the National Palace was the first such meeting between...

December 03

ADRA expands response for survivors of Bangladesh cyclone

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency is expanding its response to meet the immediate needs of nearly 20,000 additional survivors after Cyclone Sidr made landfall over the low-lying coast of Bangladesh on November 15. United Nations officials report that more...

November 30

For Cambodian fishing families, an effort to hook a healthier future

In Cambodia, small talk -- much like life in the monsoon-drenched Southeast Asian country -- is mired in the rice fields. Locals are likely to ask each other, "How's your crop this year?" Not so for the nearly 20,000 Cambodian...

November 27

Adventists Around the World

Adventist Church pioneer to Albania dies Flora Sabatino-Lewis, persecuted for sharing the Seventh-day Adventist message in 1940s communist Albania, died at age 93 on November 19 in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Daniel Lewis had already pioneered the Adventist...

November 27

Adventists around the world

ADRA update: Responding to Bangladesh cyclone, Chile earthquake ... The Adventist Development and Relief Agency is responding to the needs of survivors of a cyclone that hit Bangladesh November 15 killing at least 3,100 people, officials said. From its office...

November 20

ADRA to observe World AIDS Day December 1

Some 800 young people in the West African country of Mali are learning basic anatomy and health principles along with teamwork and leadership skills through a project that uses sports to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS. Organized by the Adventist...

November 19

Romania: Adventist national ad campaign declares Bible reading a must

Beatrice Lospa never imagined a nationwide initiative to make reading the Bible attractive and accessible to every Romanian would be so popular.A coordinator of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Bible reading clubs, Sola Scriptura (Latin for "Scripture only"), Lospa eagerly tells...

November 19

Zimbabwe: Adventist university's food supplies dwindling

Students at Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities in North America are raising funds to provide immediate assistance to a fellow university in Zimbabwe that church leaders say is running out of food. Adventist-owned Solusi University near Bulawayo, in the Southern...

November 16

Adventist students average higher than national norms academically, study says

Academic achievement levels for students in Seventh-day Adventist schools in North America are above national norms, according to data from the first year of a three-year study.Preliminary results from the study say Adventist elementary and high school students rank in...

November 15

Oliver nominated as new president for church's South Pacific Division

Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in the South Pacific nominated Barry Oliver to serve as president of the church's South Pacific Division, filling a vacancy left by current president Laurie Evans, who announced his retirement on November 13.The nomination will be...

November 13

Adventists around the world

Tanzania: Two Adventist leaders die in traffic collision ... Two Seventh-day Adventist church leaders in East Africa were killed in a traffic accident Saturday, November 10, church officials said. William Mutani, president of the church in southwest Tanzania, died in...

November 12

Adopt a Clinic program to team churches with South Pacific clinics

Kukuku Clinic, an isolated Seventh-day Adventist healthcare center in the Solomon Islands, is the poster child for a new initiative by the Health Ministries department in the Adventist Church's South Pacific region. Five years ago, the then meagerly staffed and...

November 12

Cuba: Standing room only for 'House of Light' dedication; world church president visits island

When church officials and guests joined a 500-strong crowd for the opening of a new house of worship in Buey Arriba, it was Raul Alvarez who received the loudest applause. A recently retired pastor, Alvarez was given a hero's welcome...

November 09

Polish Adventists join other Protestants in denouncing posters attacking Luther

Protestant leaders in one of Poland's largest cities have condemned a poster campaign denouncing Martin Luther, the 16th century German Protestant leader, as a blasphemer and heretic, a November 7 news release by Ecumenical News International reported. "What would happen...

November 07

Adventists around the world

ADRA update: California wildfire, Caribbean flooding survivors to receive aid ... The Adventist Development and Relief Agency is joining local aid organizations to assist some 20,000 people who remain in shelters throughout Southern California after 20 wildfires destroyed more than...

November 06

Urban population overtakes rural areas; Adventist Church focusing mission

Populations in urban areas now outnumber those in rural areas, United Nations Population Fund officials said in an announcement earlier this year. But as Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders create strategic plans, leaders say the church's presence in urban areas remains...

November 05

Healthful living reduces cancer risk, study says

A report on the link between cancer and diet, physical activity and weight is providing more evidence that healthful living fights disease.After a mega-study of 7,000 previous studies, scientists have offered 10 recommendations for avoiding preventable cancer, including maintaining a...

November 02

Kenya: elections planner caters to Adventists, Muslims

Kenyans won't have to choose between worship services and civic duty during this year's presidential elections, according to remarks made by Samwell Kivuitu, chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya, during a press conference earlier this month. To accommodate the...

November 01

Jamaican national leaders commend church's integrity, community visibility

Jamaican leaders commended Seventh-day Adventists for their integrity and leadership role in the island nation during a recent visit to the country by the world church's President Jan Paulsen.Governor-General Kenneth Octavius Hall thanked the church for its "committed public citizenship"...

October 30

Jamaica: Adventist world church president stresses personal empowerment in dialogue with young people

Seventh-day Adventist world church president Pastor Jan Paulsen gave a resounding endorsement of Adventist young people October 27 -- even offering a "yeah mon!" in Jamaican slang -- during Let's Talk Caribbean, the 17th such program in a series of...

October 29

Activists celebrate 25 years of trumpeting women leaders in ministry

In spite of strides made to include women in ministry within the Seventh-day Adventist Church during the last 25 years, more needs to be done to include the demographic that comprises 70 percent of membership, some church members say.Members of...

October 29

'Objective criticism' of religion deemed a human right

Following intense debate at the United Nations over what constitutes religious defamation, U.N. special rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief, Asma Jahangir, said "objective criticism" of religion is a human right. But, she said, there is a difference between...

October 26

Mission to Africa: a need to rethink methods?

Evangelism and external aid alone will not solve the problems affecting the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Africa, church leaders said during a discussion regarding mission.While per capita incomes have risen in India and China by the efforts of their own...

October 26

New digital channel a 'biggy' for Adventist video

A digital video hub -- à la YouTube -- has introduced professional Seventh-day Adventist-produced videos to a vast and largely untapped Internet audience. In August, a partnership between BiggyTV and the Adventist Church in North America launched the first religious...

October 24

Colombia: nationwide Adventist effort feeds 80,000 in two hours

Thousands of Seventh-day Adventist volunteers prepared and delivered boxed dinners to Colombia's neediest communities, feeding more than 80,000 in two hours on October 13, the Saturday before World Hunger Day. Each church member donated $1.50 to cover the cost of...

October 23

Taking church from pews to couches

Elizabeth Carter joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church two months ago after attending a home church in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Born into the Roman Catholic Church, Carter started attending the home service after working with the pastor on community service projects."It's very...

October 22

Adventists around the world

Abuse addressed in church's flagship magazine ... An article in the October 11 issue of the Adventist Review, the official magazine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, addresses the misconception that abuse doesn't happen in Adventist homes. The article referred to...

October 22

Adventist Church approves 10-year initiative for Central Asia

The Adventist Mission Committee of the Seventh-day Adventist Church recently approved a 10-year initiative for the 60 million indigenous people of Central Asia. The five countries of Central Asia--Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan--represent a highly challenging area to Christian...

October 17

Media, training church members key to growth initiative

Gone are the days of Seventh-day Church members depending on pastors and public evangelism alone to share the church's message of hope. Seventh-day Adventist lay people, evangelists, pastors, medical professionals and colporteurs are telling the world about Jesus through publishing...

October 14

Saturday night's alright for ministering: English Street Pastors provide calm amid chaos

Last Saturday night Susanna Matthan left her husband and 10-year-old daughter at their rural home in Billinghay and drove 20 miles to the county's nightlife hotspot in the city of Lincoln. Her plan to stay out until 4 a.m. didn't...

October 11

Sudan: ADRA responds to flooding

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is responding to the needs of flood survivors in Sudan after extended heavy rains over the past several months have caused excessive flooding and the destruction of thousands of homes throughout the East...

October 10

Jamaica to host church president's dialogue with youth

Seventh-day Adventist world church president, Pastor Jan Paulsen, will host an open dialogue with Adventist young people in the Caribbean during a live broadcast on October 27.Paulsen's 17th unscripted "Let's Talk" forum will be held at the church's Northern Caribbean...

October 10

Monument dedicated to Adventists killed during Stalin regime

Seventh-day Adventists and community members in St. Petersburg, Russia, dedicated a monument on October 7 to Adventists killed during the Great Purge political repressions under Soviet Leader Josef Stalin in the 1930s. About 100 people, including a representative of the...

October 09

Adventist Risk Management will outsource to health care contractors

Adventist Risk Management, Inc., the risk management and insurance organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America, announced last week it will outsource major functions of its health care operations and customer care services. Health care claims processing and...

October 09

Church's radio ministry to launch television series

A group of Tibetan residents recently trekked on foot for four days along the Nepal border to be baptized in a rocky, isolated mountain stream outside of Katmandu -- far from anti-Christian radicals -- after learning about God on the...

October 09

Uzbekistan: court fines two Adventist pastors for home church meeting

Two Seventh-day Adventist pastors were sentenced September 27 by a court in Tashkent for "unduly organizing and holding worships," Adventist Church officials in the region said.The ministers, whose names were withheld, were each fined 80,000 soum, or about half a...

October 04

Mission trip blinds young people for 24 hours

Caitlin Delaney wasn't born blind, but the 20-year-old recently learned what it's like for those who are. For 24 hours, Delaney and nearly three-dozen other teenagers and young adults experienced total darkness. Her group visited the Asian Aid School for...

October 03

International Adventist magazine goes online

With the October 1 launch of its online home, Adventist World -- the international magazine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church -- now offers speedier access to articles and features that help connect the global church's 15-million members. Adventist World joins...

October 02

'Pumpkin Lady' plans to pick 'em 'til the end of vine

Called the "pumpkin miracle church" by locals, the Marripalli Seventh-day Adventist Church in Southeast India is one of 11 churches in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh paid for by pumpkins from Maranatha volunteer Cheryl Erickson's 1.5-acre backyard patch. "These...

October 01

Morocco grants ADRA official status

Following a preliminary authorization in August, the Moroccan government is expected to grant the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in that country permanent official association status by early October 2007.As a government-recognized association, ADRA Morocco will operate for the...

September 28

Church Chat: Koenig seeks link between religion and health

When Dr. Harold G. Koenig began researching the link between spirituality and health in the mid 1980s, like others in the field, he was going it alone with little backing. Only in the last 10 years, he says, have well-funded...

September 27

Zimbabwe: Youth bonding event proceeds despite country's food shortage

A nation-wide food shortage in Zimbabwe resulting from government mandated price controls didn't hinder an Adventist youth training conferences for delegates from five Southern Africa countries last month. Two months ago the Zimbabwe government ordered 50 percent price cuts to...

September 25

Mozambique: Prayer lays foundation for orphanage

In the small village of Vanduzi, roughly 600 miles from Mozambique's capital of Maputo, 42-year-old Páscua Chale is building an orphanage on prayer.Chale, a Seventh-day Adventist and a widow, saw poverty, AIDS, malaria and other diseases leaving many children as...

September 24

Adventist college rescinds radio station sale negotiations

A Seventh-day Adventist college in the Washington, D.C. area has decided not to sell its radio station, an asset seen by many church leaders and members as a ministry in the region."The motivation to rescind came from church leaders and...

September 21

England endorses faith school funding as force to promote tolerance

Faith groups in England and the British Ministry of Education released a joint statement September 10 outlining the role of the country's faith schools in promoting understanding among students of all faiths. Under the so-called "tolerance pact," nearly 7,000 private...

September 19

Adventists Around the World

Kenya: Thousands of sites in Africa tune in for first Swahili evangelism series ... A broadcast evangelism series is being presented for the first time in the Swahili language in Eastern Africa. About 6,500 sites in Africa are receiving the...

September 18

Mozambique: Church urged to organize, seize outreach opportunities

Paul Ratsara couldn't hide his enthusiasm when speaking to Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in Maputo last month. His face beamed and he gestured with excitement when talking about the church's coordinated outreach opportunities in the southeastern African nation of 20...

September 18

Religious liberty experts call for increased understanding among faith groups

Addressing the perception that religion can chisel away at good relations among faith groups, members of the International Religious Liberty Association's Board of Experts agreed at a September 9 to 13 meeting that religion must be recast as a means...

September 17

Zambia Adventist University graduates first class with new government accreditation

Zambia's minister of education this month urged graduates of Seventh-day Adventist-owned Zambia Adventist University to put their degrees to work in the country, particularly in areas of economic development. Minister Geoffrey Lungwangwa said the graduates' good academic standing was of...

September 17

Include young adults in church, women in ministry, says Adventist Church president

Pastors play an important role in including young adults in church life and encouraging women employed in ministry, Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, said in a live September 13 telecast.Paulsen received comments and addressed questions...

September 14

This train is bound for Manila, this train: Trio shares faith through song on Philippines public transport

Heads turned when the sound of a hymn filled the crowded Metro Rail Transit train running through the heart of Manila.A singing trio on their way to perform at the Manila Central Seventh-day Adventist Church hadn't had time to practice...

September 13

Mission DVD gives Adventist musicians international exposure

Adventist musicians are gaining international exposure as an unintended result of appearing on the quarterly Adventist Mission DVDs. Launched in May of 2006, each DVD features video mission stories from around the world and also includes music videos of mission-themed...

September 11

Nicaragua: Hurricane Felix Claims Five Adventist Lives, Church Assesses Damage

Seventh-day Adventist leaders in Nicaragua are concerned for the thousands of church members affected by Hurricane Felix, the Category 5 storm that hit the Central American country early on September 4. Felix swept away entire communities in Nicaragua's northern region...

September 10

Church president addresses Ghanaian emigrant community in Europe

A group of Ghanaian Seventh-day Adventists now living throughout Europe welcomed church president Jan Paulsen to the 13th Annual Ghanaian-Euro Seventh-day Adventist Camp meeting in De Bron, Netherlands last month. Members at the annual gatherings evaluate activities from the previous...

September 07

Adventist, Presbyterian delegates affirm common beliefs

Delegates of the Seventh-day Adventist Church met with leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) at the Presbyterian Church's national headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky August 22 to 24 to affirm common beliefs and dispel stereotypes. The meeting marked the second conversation...

September 06

E-tithing expands church's donor base

When the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kettering, Ohio, United States decided to accept donations through the Internet, treasurer Ed Mann noticed contributions from people who hadn't usually given. The increase came mostly from college students away at school who maintained...

September 05

First Adventist ministerial doctorates graduate in Inter-America

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America reached a milestone last month when 19 Adventist pastors received a doctorate in ministry from the Miami-based Inter-American Theological Seminary during a ceremony at Montemorelos University in Monterrey, Mexico.Montemorelos was the first of nine...

September 05

Adventist Church President to meet with pastors in live satellite broadcast

Nine local church pastors from across North America will meet with Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, on September 13 for a live, unscripted broadcast. The broadcast, Pastors: In Conversation, will provide an opportunity for Pastor...

September 04

A college by any other name: Adventist school in Washington State follows 'university' trend

Just in time for fall semester, Seventh-day Adventist-owned Walla Walla College joins a number of other Adventist educational institutions around the world by declaring itself a university. Members of the College Place, Washington-based school's constituency unanimously voted to change Walla...

September 04

Philippine ambassador affirms Adventist Church for community impact

Next year the Seventh-day Adventist world church is taking its annual planning session on the road.Plans are underway to hold the church's Annual Council in Manila in October of 2008. Philippine Ambassador Willy C. Gaa said he was pleased to...

August 30

Austria: Adventist Literature Evangelists Celebrate Centenary

Seventh-day Adventists publishers last week celebrated a century of literature evangelism, 100 years after Austria's first Adventist bookseller, South German native Ferdinand Prauhart, traveled to Austria in August 1907 to sell Bibles, Christian literature and books about health.About 350 Adventist...

August 29

Adventists Around the World

United States: Church treasurer Robert Osborn dies ... Longtime Seventh-day Adventist Church finance officer Robert Osborn, whose service included overseeing the world church's investments as associate treasurer until his 1993 retirement, died August 24 at age 85 in Maryland. Osborn...

August 28

Uh, the customs agent took my homework: Adventist school on U.S., Mexico border celebrates 70 years

It's 7 a.m. and high school senior Miguel Borquez is just a few blocks from school. He can see the campus but it could be half an hour before he's in class. Using his F1 student visa granted by the...

August 28

Church professional network reaches 25 partners, nears 14,000 members

A database connecting Seventh-day Adventist institutions with potential employees and other opportunities has now gained 25 sponsoring partners and crossed the 14,000-member mark.Launched in 2000, the Adventist Professionals' Network (APN) helps Adventist institutions reach professionals with targeted announcements in specific...

August 24

Should Pastors' Spouses Be Compensated?

Some church members in one church in the United States balked when a new pastor's wife seemingly spent more time pursuing her education and career than she did teaching Sabbath School classes or cooking potluck entrées. For many pastors' spouses,...

August 23

Certification plan for Adventist communication professionals unveiled

Church communication leaders announced today a certification program as part of a plan to strengthen communication skills of professionals serving the Seventh-day Adventist church. Certification will be available in up to six specialties, including media relations, journalism, Web communication, public...

August 21

Ministry trumps maintenance: Southern California church could move, slash overhead by 74 percent

When the Seventh-day Adventist Crosswalk Church in Redlands, California moves at the end of October, it won't be for the first time. The 600-member church relocated several years ago when it outgrew an auditorium and established a full-fledged church in...

August 21

U.S. civil rights pioneer Irene Morgan Kirkaldy remembered for courage

Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, a black Seventh-day Adventist woman who won a landmark United States Supreme Court case against segregated seating on interstate buses after refusing to give up her own bus seat in 1944, died August 10. She was 90.Hundreds...

August 20

Peru earthquake damages churches, schools

Seventh-day Adventists are struggling with recovery and grief while assisting survivors after a magnitude-8 earthquake struck off the coast of Peru 90 miles southeast of the capital, Lima, on August 15. The earthquake has killed at least 500 people and...

August 16

Discipleship program puts parents, not pastors, in charge of kids' spirituality

A spiritual growth program for kids is steadily gaining popularity in North America, and even faster in Australia and parts of Europe.The Kids In Discipleship program, launched in 2002, is taking hold in many Adventist churches and is growing rates...

August 15

Adventist musician looking to live what he sings

Lennox Roger Fleary doesn't read music, nor does he know the names of most of the guitar chords he plays. He doesn't even expect his songs will change listeners -- that's God's job, he says. Writing music, says Fleary, who...

August 14

Adventist Church expects joint statement with World Evangelical Alliance

The Seventh-day Adventist Church and the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) are expected to announce a joint statement within the next few months identifying the common goals and results of theological discussions between the two institutions, delegates from both organizations announced...

August 13

Australia: Church hosts its first National Indigenous Women's Convention

A conference to address issues facing indigenous women of Australia is being called "long overdue" by some Seventh-day Adventists. The Women at the Centre conference, running August 8 to 12 in Uluru, is the church's first national meeting for indigenous,...

August 10

Help Wanted: Adventist evangelism in South Korea could double with more English teachers

Valerie von Stitt, a 29-year-old Seventh-day Adventist, says she always wanted to be a missionary but didn't know what to do about student loans and bills. "'Go to South Korea,'" a friend told her. "'They'll pay you to do missionary...

August 09

Adventists Around the World

Europe: Camp Meeting Discusses Reaching Postmoderns .... More than 1,200 people met for one of Europe's largest Christian camp meetings at Friedensau Adventist University in Friedensau, Germany July 31 to August 5. "We're trying to link our gospel with postmodern...

August 07

Adventist headquarters in Middle East moves to Lebanon

The Seventh-day Adventist Church's headquarters in the Middle East is moving from the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus back to its original headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. Office contents were shipped July 26 to a new facility on Sabtieh Hill, Beirut...

August 07

Immigrants sustaining Adventist Church membership in some regions

Like many other members of his church, Michael Mbui came to England from Kenya to attend school. Today, 15 years later, he pastors four small Seventh-day Adventist congregations with members who, like him, immigrated to England searching for a better...

August 06

Romanian inmate trades parole for prison witness

A Romanian criminal, once labeled the country's fourth most dangerous, is choosing to forgo parole after becoming a Seventh-day Adventist -- he would rather stay in prison to share his new-found faith.Valeriu Curin, 33, was a household name in the...

August 03

Church Initiates Colombia's First Nationwide Blood Drive

Thousands of Seventh-day Adventists and community members donated more than 2,000 units of blood in Colombia's first nationwide blood drive July 21 and 22. Church youth leaders promoted the Adventist Church-sponsored event in 15 major Colombian cities for several months...

August 02

Indonesia: hundreds of group Bible studies lead to citywide baptisms

Following a series of small group Bible studies dotting the city of Jakarta one of the largest baptisms took place there Saturday, July 28 as 1,637 people joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church. "The dent isn't huge in a wider megalopolis...

August 02

Church Chat: Krause on Getting Out the Mission Message

Seventh-day Adventists used to contribute more to world mission offerings, but following decades of declining contributions, the church revamped its missions promotion strategy and giving has once again increased, though modestly.Office of Adventist Mission director, Gary Krause, in an interview...

July 31

Cuban Youth Permitted to Attend Leadership, Prayer Convention

Forty-four young Seventh-day Adventist Cubans joined more than 5,000 Adventists gathered July 26 to 28 in Colombia for the church's Inter-American Youth Leadership and Prayer Conv

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