James A. Cress, 60, Ministerial Secretary for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists since 1992, died on the evening of November 26, 2009 at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
The traveling Bible made its final Mexico stop on Nov. 20 after covering three of the four major church regions in the country. The two-week travel in Mexico was the first segment of a ten-week journey the unique Bible will make through Inter-America.
Since 2006, three of the church's administrative regions in Inter-America have each selected a local young Adventist to help represent his or her fellow church members at annual regional business meetings.
An Adventist University on the Caribbean island of Jamaica received a nearly US$120 million software grant yesterday for the engineering school, the largest grant of its kind in the island's history.
A Seventh-day Adventist student missionary who was teaching at the Adventist school on the Pacific island of Yap was found dead on Wednesday, the victim of an apparent homicide off the school's campus, church officials said.
As the fast growth of the church in the Inter-American Division (IAD) continues beyond 3.2 million members, top church leaders are turning their attention to the impact and quality of education in the territory. Education was a major concern addressed at
The global EndItNow™ campaign recently launched to oppose violence against women and girls is receiving widespread support now in three of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's 13 world regions.
Puebla, Mexico was the third stop the traveling Bible made during its first week in Mexico and its journey through Inter-American soil.
The traveling Bible arrived in Mexico City on Nov. 12, the second stop in the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Follow the Bible initiative. As church leaders from North Mexico delivered the unique Bible at the capital city's airport, there was a parade of f
Seventh-day Adventist leaders in the Central American country of El Salvador are still assessing the damage caused by Hurricane Ida's torrential rains early this week. Flooding and mudslides destroyed roads, and bridges and buried homes. Of the more than
Dr. L. Herbert Fletcher, a Seventh-day Adventist former educator and leader in Inter-America, died in Miami, Florida on November 5, 2009, from health complications. He was 79 years old.
The traveling Bible, the focal point of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Follow the Bible initiative, arrived in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, on Nov. 6, 2009, to begin its journey through the Inter-American Division (IAD) territory.