The young, old and young at heart were all smiles and some testified of being overwhelmed with joy as pastors, workers, students and church members across the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North Jamaica completed a week of generosity on Oct. 17, 2012.
A health model submitted by the Health Science department at the Adventist-operated Montemorelos University in Montemorelos, Mexico, was chosen as one of the ten best health models following this year’s Global Obesity Forum
The Seventh-day Adventist Church on Wednesday reaffirmed its stance against homosexual activity and same-sex marriage, but also softened the denomination’s position statement to offer compassion toward gays.
Joel Almaguel, president of the church in the North Puerto Rico Conference leans forward while listening to proceedings at Annual…
Jorge Villarreal of the Vértice Seventh-day Adventist Church in Monterrey, Mexico, pauses from tweeting to engage in the worship service…
A pastor with an animated personality took to the platform at the 2012 Annual Council and told what sounded like an unbelievable story: He recalled how he dropped to his knees to pray beside two young men who had died – and after saying amen, the dead men had resurrected.
During the final day of the 2012 Annual Council, delegates approved new outreach initiatives, learned about plans for the denomination’s 150th anniversary, and received updates on other business session items.
The Seventh-day Adventist world church headquarters auditorium Monday became a university lecture hall where hundreds of administrators visiting from around the world studied and reviewed sections of a voluminous book called the Working Policy.
Educational and organizational matters topped the agenda of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s 2012 Annual Council on the afternoon of October 15, with world church leaders voting to reorganize the Chinese Union Mission.
Despite a mainstream decrease in religious charitable giving, Seventh-day Adventist financial officers say they’re not seeing a similar shift in giving patterns among church members.
Following three hours of respectful study and discussion, leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist world church voted to approve a “Statement on Church Polity, Procedures and Resolution of Disagreements in the Light of Recent Union Actions on Ministerial Ordination”
If the religious landscape continues its rapid population shift, funding provided by countries in the so-called Global South will likely overtake the amount given by the Global North within five years.