In Jamaica, visually impaired Adventist appointed senate president
Floyd Morris made history in Jamaica’s Parliament last week when he became the first visually impaired person appointed president of the Jamaican Senate, Parliament’s upper house.
Inter-America to celebrate lay champions and longstanding church members
Top Seventh-day Adventist leaders of the Inter-American Division (IAD) plan to celebrate the most active church members in the territory during a series of meetings that start today.
Redesigned adventist.org set for launch in October
The redesign of the Seventh-day Adventist world church’s website, adventist.org – scheduled for launch in October – will offer major enhancements in style and information architecture, say church Communication leaders.
Four new unions created in West-Central Africa Division
The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s West-Central Africa Division this year will create four new union administrative units, an action that underscores membership growth in the region and a need for more strategic planning in local fields.
Marching to end violence
Dozens of children of the Bethany Adventist Church Adventurer Club in Petionville, Haiti, marched through the streets of Port-au-Prince on…
Danish Union suspends all ministerial ordination until 2015
Seventh-day Adventist church officials in Denmark voted this week to halt the ordination of all new ministers until the General Conference Session in July 2015.
First European Health Conference sees renewed interest in health outreach
Seventh-day Adventist medical experts and health advocates want to better understand and share the ministry of healing they say the church is called to embrace. Six hundred of them met in Prague last month for the first European Health Conference.
Nicaragua: Maranatha builds Adventist school in Nueva Guinea
The Seventh-day Adventist community in Nueva Guinea, Nicaragua, is living the realization of their long-time dream: building a school for the community.
Guatemala: Hundreds of young people march with anti-smoking messages
Hundreds of Seventh-day Adventist children and young people marched through the main historic streets of Guatemala City last month to spread anti-tobacco messages.
Colombia: Church celebrates evangelism impact throughout northern cities
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North Colombia ended its multi-city community evangelism impact with a celebration gathering event held recently in Barranquilla, Colombia.
In China, renewable energy project tackles growing waste problem
The humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is moving forward with plans to construct biomass power plants in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in southwest China.
Church Chat: Building up overseas volunteers
The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s North American Division continues to send the most volunteers of any of the denomination’s 13 world divisions. But in recent years, the number of university student missionaries (SMs) has slipped.