Church leaders are encouraging Seventh-day Adventists to dig deeper into the meaning of “religious freedom” as the global church prepares to commemorate Religious Liberty Sabbath on January 20. Dr. Ganoune Diop, director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty department, says that, for Adventists, religious liberty has always been about more than just legal principles or constitutional philosophy.
A group of students and leaders from Andrews University recently spent a day clearing out fallen walls, fallen branches and debris from the largest Seventh-day Adventist Church on St. Thomas, destroyed by Hurricane Irma last year. The group of more than 50 stepped out of a cruise-mission trip in the Caribbean to tidy up the Philadelphia Adventist Church, nestled in the capital city of Charlotte Amalie. The church has been closed since the storm tore up the roof and walls in September.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America through its Communication Department will introduced its new website portal through a special online program on Jan. 25, 2018. The live one-hour session, coined as “CommSessions”, will review the new changes and browsing sections that will seek to engage more online visitors so that they can learn more about the Inter-American Division and its gospel mission.
La Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día en Interamérica, por medio de su Departamento de Comunicaciones, presentará el portal de su nuevo sitio web durante un programa especial en línea el próximo 25 de enero de 2018. La sesión en vivo de una hora de duración, denominada “CommSessions”, efectuará una revisión de los nuevos cambios y secciones de navegación que buscarán la participación de un mayor número de visitas en línea, para que así puedan saber más de la División Interamericana y su misión evangélica.
L’Eglise Adventiste du Septième Jour en Inter Amérique par le biais de son Département de Communication présentera le nouveau portail de son site Web à travers un programme spécial en ligne le 25 janvier 2018. La session d’une heure diffusée en direct, baptisée « CommSessions, » passera en revue les nouveaux changements et les sections de navigation dont l’objectif est d’amener plus de visiteurs en ligne afin qu’ils puissent en apprendre davantage sur la Division Inter Américaine et sa mission évangélique.
Hundreds of board members from across Seventh-day Adventist unions, conferences, missions, and educational and health institutions in Inter-America will have the opportunity to take part in a special online training on Wednesday, January 24, 2018. Inter-American Division (IAD) top church leaders will conduct the orientation event from the headquarter office stationed in Miami, Florida, United States.
Thousands of Seventh-day Adventist young people around the world are learning to be the hands and feet of Jesus, to “Be the Sermon,” as the Global Youth Day (GYD) theme states. Through coordinated efforts in each of the 13 World Church regions, youth are recapturing a vision for service and learning there is more to faith than simply going to church. This initiative began in 2013 under former Seventh-day Adventist Youth Director Gilbert Cangy’s leadership. It is one day set aside for youth (primarily ages 15-25) to specifically focus on doing acts of kindness in their communities.
The first adult bone marrow transplant has been successfully completed at Loma Linda University (LLU) Health. The patient, Merlin Decoud, from Moreno Valley, was successfully transplanted on Dec. 7, 2017. “Every step of the way we could not have asked for better people here,” Decoud said. “Cancer is a terrible thing to experience but Loma Linda has been a great experience.”
It’s an unusually hot December day when Janelle Glass walks by the row of yellow school buses lined up outside of the Phoenix Convention Center, the scourging heat tanning her Tennessean winter skin. It’s Friday at the annual GYC convention, to veteran “GYC’ers” also known as outreach day. A bus stops at the valet section, and Janelle hops on, finding a spot on the front seat. “The first time I went door to door I was in Washington state for the Youth Rush [literature evangelism] program,” she says. One of the books she sold was The Great Controversy, which is the same book she has with her today, one copy for a divine appointment.
“Seventh-day Adventists are not fundamentalists,” said Andrews University Church History professor Nicholas Miller in the opening plenary of the “Situating Adventist History” conference on the campus of Washington Adventist University in Takoma Park, Maryland, United States, on Jan. 8. The Association of Seventh-day Adventist Historians event, sponsored by the Office of Archives, Statistics, and research and Washington Adventist University, brought dozens of Seventh-day Adventist historians, researchers, and professors together for two days of presentations, Q&A sessions, and discussions.
Top Seventh-day Adventist leaders and staff members at the Inter-American Division (IAD) Office in Miami, Florida, officially welcomed the new…