Ron Flowers, the Seventh-day Adventist Church family ministries co-director, said he recently sat in church behind a woman whom he knew was suffering domestic violence. To his dismay the pastor talked about a need for forgiveness and that if a person
President of the Adventist World Church Pastor Jan Paulsen visited Martinique and Guadeloupe last month, the first time in 30 years a world church president has visited this predominently French-speaking region of the Inter-American Division (IAD) territo
During last month’s executive committee meetings of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America, a new field secretary was elected to facilitate the administrative work of the church in the division and to focus on small group ministries.
Ask Evelyn Fischer who vacuums the floors and polishes the pews at the Blooming Grove Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ohio, and she'll tell you without hesitation: "I have a lot of cleaning to do, believe me." But ask Fischer where her tithe goes and she'
The Seventh-day Adventist Church's Elder's Digest magazine editor Jonas Arrais is described by colleagues as an easygoing, funny man -- a native of Brazil, his jokes are accentuated by his colorful English, which is his third language.
As much as Mike Jones enjoys a solitary Sabbath afternoon hike in the mountains surrounding his Portland, Oregon home, he'll be the first to tell you a life without relationships is like a line dance without music: a series of meaningless motions.
What is the image your church is portraying? What is the appearance of the church building? How friendly is the church? How involved is the church in the community?Those were just some of the questions Seventh-day Adventist leaders from the Inter-Amer
Money, emotional unfaithfulness and a lack of communication ended one South African Seventh-day Adventist woman's 15-year marriage. The woman, who asked her name not be used, says she wanted to work things out but her husband was adamant. He wanted to
In less than two months, about 5,000 Seventh-day Adventists from throughout the Inter-American region are expected to gather in Medellin, Colombia for a division-wide Adventist Youth Leadership and Prayer Convention. Adventist youth leaders representing I
It took just 70 hours for hundreds of students at Colombian Adventist University (CAU) to read the Bible from cover to cover. The historic reading, which was streamed live on the internet, was one of many events scheduled this year to celebrate CAU's 70th
Charged with finding real world solutions to real world problems, students from Seventh-day Adventist-owned Northern Caribbean University (NCU) rose to the challenge for the second time. The group beat out 4,000 other registrants in the region's Microsoft
By simply drinking water students at Seventh-day Adventist-owned La Sierra University can help build classrooms, science labs and libraries for villagers in Kalaala, Ethiopia.