Wearing a dark blue baptismal robe, Tomas Olivera of Peekskill, New York, stepped into the giant pool placed before the platform at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on this afternoon and knew only one thing: he was finally about to be baptized.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Martinique brought together dozens of its lay members during a special festival in Morne Rouge as part of celebrating the Year of the Laity. The event gathered some 1,000 people from four of the 20 church districts on the island and was broadcast through the church’s Radio Esperance.
As a New York City evangelism initiative is in full force, other plans for the Seventh-day Adventist Church to reach major metropolitan areas are in place. Some have begun, while others are waiting for the conclusion of the NY13 outreach initiative.
Seventh-day Adventist humanitarians in northern India are monitoring needs and preparing emergency relief in the wake of an unprecedented monsoon season in the region.
Concerned with the current and future education of its three Seventh-day Adventist universities, top church administrators and Mexico’s regional church leaders met recently in Miami, Florida, to study ways to respond to the increasing educational needs of its growing membership.
On Wednesday, June 19, 2013, the General Conference and North American Division administrations forwarded to the boards of Pacific Press Publishing Association and Review and Herald Publishing Association a request for the two organizations to consider a merger in the near future.
More than 2,000 Seventh-day Adventists marched through the streets of Barquisimeto in west central Venezuela earlier this month to speak out against tobacco and drug consumption.
Scores of Seventh-day Adventists from around the world are learning and sharing ideas for urban outreach at a New York church that’s been turned into a giant classroom this month.
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has offered assistance to hundreds of refugee families fleeing the ongoing conflict in Syria with a targeted focus on un-registered refugees, an agency official said.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in West Venezuela inaugurated a new media center during a special ceremony held recently in the city of Barquisimeto.
Seventh-day Adventist leaders, staff members and their families at the Inter-American Division (IAD) headquarter office began the week reflecting on the book of Haggai and focusing on giving priority to God’s work.
The drenching rains of Tropical Storm Andrea, which deposited two inches of water on the streets of New York’s Greenwich Village, failed to dampen the enthusiasm of people who attended the initial “Revelation of Hope” campaign meeting on Friday evening, June 7.