Thousands of Seventh-day Adventists from all 50 United States and 60 other countries heard a clarion call for holiness and dedication to the movement’s core message on the morning of Sabbath, January 4, as the annual “Generation. Youth. Christ.” (GYC) event reached its zenith in Orlando, Florida.
A Seventh-day Adventist missionary missing in Belize for a week was confirmed deceased on January 2, media reports indicate. Brian Townsend, a missionary living in the Valley of Peace area of Belize, went missing on December 24, 2013.
The world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventists Church has been the victim of cyber theft which has defrauded the church of approximately U.S.$500,000. The theft involved funds that were being transferred on behalf of a denominational entity.