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July 3, 2005
[photo by Northern-Asia Pacific Division]
Northern Asia-Pacific Division Report
The Seventh-day Adventist Church may divide the world into thirteen regions, but in terms of population, the church's Northern Asia Pacific area claims a full quarter of the world's people. More...
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[photo by Volker Henning]
Euro-Asia Division Report
This evening in the Edward Jones Dome, St. Louis, Missouri, a presentation by Seventh-day Adventists from the Euro-Asia region held the audience of the world church's business session attendees spellbound. More ...
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[photo by Reger Smith]
July 3 Photo Gallery
[photo by Volker Henning]
Evening Devotional - Transformed for Healing
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[photo by Richard Dower]
World Church: First Woman Vice President, Regional Presidents Voted In
In a historic vote, delegates to the 58th General Conference Session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church elected veteran educator Dr. Ella Simmons as a general vice president of the church. This is the first time a woman has been elected to this position. More ...
Voted General Vice Presidents
- Lowell C. Cooper
- King-Yi Eugene Hsu
- Gerry D. Karst
- Armando Miranda
- Michael L. Ryan
- Ted N. C. Wilson
- Pardon Kandanga Mwansa
- Mark Finley
- Ella Simmons
Voted Division Presidents
- East-Central Africa Division - Geoffrey G. Mbwana
- Euro-Africa Division - Ulrich W. Frikart
- Euro-Asian Division - Artur A. Stele
- Inter-American Division - Israel Leito
- North American Division - Don C. Schneider
- Northern Asia-Pacific Division - Jairyong Lee
- South American Division - Ruy H. Nagel
- South Pacific Division - Laurie J. Evans
- Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division - Paul S. Ratsara
- Southern Asia Division - D. Ronald Watts
- Southern Asia-Pacific Division - Alberto C. Gulfan Jr.
- Trans-European Division - Bertil A. Wiklander
- West-Central Africa Division - Luka T. Daniel
Adventist World News - July 3
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[photo by Gary Burns]
Youngest Delegates Part of an Exclusive Club
Mark Howard the student president of Oakwood College, in Alabama, United States and Aira Arina a church planter from Latvia are the youngest delegates attending the 58th Session Meeting of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Both 20-years-olds reflect a church membership that conservative reports place at 60 percent young people. They and 33 others make up the small group of young people under age 30, out of 2,000 delegates. More ...
[photo by Volker Henning]
The Church and Spiritual Life, Leaders Discuss Major Challenge
Can we move a world for God when half of our church membership does not have a deep spiritual life? More ...
[photo by Gerry Chudleigh]
Adventist Leaders Should Have Humility, Integrity and Vision
Pastor Jan Paulsen inaugurated a series of presentations aimed at "profiling" Adventist leadership with a July 3 presentation on the characteristics essential to Adventist leadership.More ...
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World Church: Spirit of Prophecy Resolution Voted, Points Church to Bible
Delegates to the 58th General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church voted July 3 to approve a resolution acknowledging the writings of Ellen G. White, a pioneering founder of the church, as something that has "richly blessed" the movement and that continues to have an important role in nurturing the life of the church. More...
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[photo by Larry Turner]
New Technology Improves Church Meetings
Wireless computer networks, electronic voting systems, barcode scanners and 300 "official" cell phones all form an integral part of the running of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's 58th business meetings in St. Louis, Missouri this week. More ...
[photo by: Richard Dower]
Put Your Fist in the Air
The General Conference Session has a general tone of celebration. The reports from church leaders and regions around the world do note challenges, but focus more on how these challenges are being overcome and how the work of the church is progressing in its many facets. More ...
[photo by: Kelly Butler Coe]
Upper View: Invite them In!
Nearly 30 years ago I was the deputy head teacher of a school in England. Beyond the main school building were a number of remote classrooms, including the music room. The school stood between a popular local bar and an area of housing that provided students for the school. Lunchtime drinkers at the bar would often take a shortcut through the school grounds and pass the music room. More ...
[photo by Kelly Butler Coe]
Morning Devotional - Transformed through His Life of Service
Hiskia Israil Missah, D. Min.
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