16 November, 2016

Southern Hosts Mentoring Event for Filmmakers

Four days of mentorship and learning for student filmmakers at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee, called “The Roundtable” recently marked 15 years of the church-owned school’s Film Production program, which is based at Southern’s School of Visual Art and Design. The series, the first of its kind at the university, featured more than 25 alumni as presenters, discussing such topics as Finding the Passion,” “The Real World,” and “Putting It All Together.”

14 November, 2016

No more Sabbath classes for nursing students in Bangladesh

Seventh-day Adventist students who wish to become nurses will no longer face a Sabbath conflict with the opening of the church’s first nursing school in Bangladesh in January. Adventist Church president Ted N.C. Wilson joined other church leaders in cutting the red ribbon Friday at a dedication ceremony for the three-story facility that will house the Bangladesh Adventist Nursing School at Bangladesh Adventist Seminary and College in Gowalbathan Kaliakoir, a town located a two-hour drive from the country’s capital, Dhaka.

10 November, 2016

Paperback telling Desmond Doss story logs 1 million in print in weeks

Hero of Hacksaw Ridge,” a paperback book containing a biography of Desmond T. Doss, Sr., the Seventh-day Adventist who was the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor, as well as an essay on the faith that shaped his life, has topped 1 million copies in print. The milestone, rarely achieved by any book on any subject, comes less than a week after the premiere of “Hacksaw Ridge,” a motion picture drama starring actor Andrew Garfield and directed by veteran actor-director Mel Gibson.

9 November, 2016

Important responsibility in following voted World Church actions

“Seventh-day Adventist Church policies are decided through a lengthy process involving multiple committees and councils, and it is the sacred responsibility of the General Conference president and all other church leaders everywhere to follow, according to policy, what the world church has voted,” General Conference president Ted N.C. Wilson said. Wilson, quoting extensively from the General Conference Constitution, Bylaws, and Working Policy, made the comments in a detailed response to a recent question submitted to his Q&A column

2 November, 2016

NAD Executive Committee votes continued support of World Church

After three hours of discussion, 2016 NAD Year-End Meeting delegates voted on two motions pertaining to the General Conference (GC) Unity in Mission document. The discussion was broken into two segments, one on Oct. 28, and the second on Oct. 31. The first motion was made near the conclusion of the Oct. 28 session. Randall Wisbey, president of La Sierra University, commented on how the GC has not included Sandra Roberts, president of the Southeastern California Conference, in the church’s yearbook.

20 October, 2016

Leather-Clad Adventist bikers share Jesus in Argentina

The long-haired, weather-beaten man wearing a biker’s vest and boots dropped in unannounced for Sabbath worship at a newly dedicated Seventh-day Adventist church in the central Argentine town of Crespo. The Crespo North church, the second Adventist church in the town of 18,000 people, had just morphed into a full-fledged congregation after being opened as a center of influence offering health talks and vegetarian-cooking classes to the community. Despite its unorthodox beginnings, the sight of seasoned motorcyclist Carlos Román was uncommon in the mostly mainstream congregation.

19 October, 2016

Adventist students share water in Mexico and scarves in Israel

Distributing free bottles of drinking water in Mexico. Clearing roadside trash in the United States. Staging a musical concert in the Philippines. Passing out hand-knitted hats and scarves in Israel. These are among the acts of kindness performed by thousands of Seventh-day Adventist students and young professionals last weekend as part of Global Public Campus Ministries (PCM) Weekend, a first annual event organized by the Adventist world church’s public campus ministries department.

19 October, 2016

Adventist Church presented with unique opportunity to reach out to the world’s Muslim population

In a presentation to the Executive Committee during the 2016 Annual Council, Petras Bahadur, director of the Global Center for Adventist Muslim Relations (GCAMR), talked about opportunities that exist through Centers of Influence such as hospitals, and schools for Seventh-day Adventists to reach out to Muslims in their community. On October 10, Bahadur discussed the needs and challenges of reaching out to the Muslim community and how the Adventist Church can meet those needs. GCAMR seeks to build bridges, bringing the two religions to a better understanding of one another, and present a different approach of expressing love and embracing the Islamic world while introducing Jesus.

19 October, 2016

St. Louis picked to host 2025 General Conference Session

General Conference Session will return to the U.S. city of St. Louis in 2025 after city leaders offered the Seventh-day Adventist Church free use of a convention center and heralded a multibillion-dollar upgrade of its downtown district and airport. World church leaders voted for St. Louis, Missouri, over Indianapolis, Indiana, after hearing presentations from representatives of both cities and a General Conference selection committee during Annual Council.