The local Seventh-day Adventist Church in St. Maarten and Tortola, in collaboration with the Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA), is helping to provide relief to hundreds of displaced and distressed individuals from Hurricane Irma’s destruction last month. ADRA has already provided over 1,000 hot meals over three days in St. Maarten and food baskets for over 500 families in Tortola, church leaders said.
Hundreds of Seventh-day Adventist Church members in St. Catherine marched in the streets of Portmore on August 26, 2017, calling for the end of violence in the Jamaican society. The march was done in observance of the EndItNow program - “a global initiative by the Seventh-day Adventist Church to raise awareness and advocate for the end of violence around the world.”
A homeless man went from sleeping on the steps of a local Seventh-day Adventist Church in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, to worshipping in the church and spreading the Good News of the Gospel. It took Rudolph St. Clair Knight, 64, over a year of sleeping on the premises of the Faith Seventh-day Adventist Church in Frederiksted, St. Croix, to turn from a lifestyle of drugs, alcohol, and living on the streets, thanks to a breakfast ministry began by church members to feed the homeless and needy in the community.
Junior Roberts, 28, and his 27-year-old wife, Stephanie, ran into trouble when they were baptized and changed the business model for their catering company in Jamaicas capital, Kingston. They stopped serving lobster and liquor, and turned down lucrative contracts on Friday nights and Saturdays. But the married couple said they have never been happier and their business is now flourishing.
Scores of members of the Rastafairan, Nyahbinghi Theocracy Order located in a community in Clarendon, Jamaica, were treated to free health screenings last weekend thanks to the efforts of the Three Angels Pharmacy Mobile Health Clinica clinic owned and operated by Seventh-day Adventist Rohan McNellie.
Sadie McKenzie stood on the porch of her house in a village in the Central American country of Belize. The strangest thing was happening. A young white man walked through an alley toward her. Then he stopped, turned around, and walked away. A few minutes later, the man reappeared and slowly made his way toward her again. Then he stopped, turned around, and walked away. Sadie decided that if he did the same thing a third time, she would stop him and demand to know why he kept turning back.
The university teacher gave Kermyt Torres Castellano and the rest of his class a difficult homework assignment in Puerto Rico. Kermyt and his classmates needed to find someone in need and then help that person. Kermyt liked to help people, but he wondered what he could do for his homework assignment. He spoke with several classmates, and they decided to team up to feed homeless people in their town. One student said, Ill bring rice and beans. Another student offered to bring vegetarian meat, and others said they would bring salad and juice.
Seventh-day Adventist Churchs operated Montemorelos University recently trained dozens of health professionals and enthusiasts during its fourth training session of the I Want to Live Healthy initiative earlier this month, in Montemorelos, Mexico. The I Want to Live Healthy program network, which is comprised of different church institutions, specifically in the North Mexican Region and South Colombia, prepares health promoters to lead the initiative which consists of the eight steps to living a healthy lifestyle: drinking water, keeping a positive attitude, eating salads, exercising, resting, avoiding poor foods, eating a better breakfast, less dinners and promoting happiness.
Hundreds of Seventh-day Adventists filled the streets of two St. Maarten neighborhoods to embrace communities reeling from a sharp increase in crime, illegal drug-use and violence during a March of Witness last month. Leaders and members expressed the churchs loving support for families as they greeted residents during the March of Witness in the Dutch Quarter and Belvedere communitiestwo of the most densely populated communities.
Andrew Carter first fired an automatic weapon at the age of 14 when he joined a street gang in Jamaicas capital, Kingston. He spent the next 15 years talking tough and shooting people as he rose through the ranks to become a leader of a gang engaging in the illegal sales of gasoline and marijuana. Then one evening, several friends were chatting on the porch of Andrews house, and one of them accidentally fired an automatic weapon into the roof. Nobody was injured, but the incident scared Andrews girlfriend, Annette, who fell out of the bed in fright. She pleaded with Andrew to move to her uncles house in another town.
Would God go into a bar? Fermin says He did. Fermin Espinoza Marin grew up in a Seventh-day Adventist home in Mexico, but he left God as an adult. He drank and smoked. He grew to hate his life so much that he longed to die. He told his old friends, If I am found dead one day, dont blame anyone because I wanted it. Then Fermin looked for new friends. He hung out with thieves and other criminals, but he didnt treat them like friends. He yelled at them. He called them bad names. He threatened them. He hoped that they would get angry and kill him.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tijuana, Mexico, unveiled a sculpture representing King Nebuchadnezzars dream as described in Daniel 2 during a special art expo event last month at the Casa de las Flores center in the Xochicalco University in Tijuana, Baja California. The 4.5 meter-high statue, which included the four imperial governments of ancient Babylon, Medo-Persia, Grece and Rome, was created by Alfonso López.