Robert S. Folkenberg, an innovative church administrator and mission advocate who led the Seventh-day Adventist Church for nine years, died Dec. 24 after a lengthy struggle with cancer. He was just days from his 75th birthday. Folkenberg felt that Adventists had an exciting message to share and the Internet was a great way to expand the church’s reach.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church has signed a landmark protocol with Romania’s government that gives it a voice in the country’s education system for the first time. Marius Munteanu, representing the Adventist Church in Romania, signed the protocol on educational collaboration with Education Minister Sorin Mihai Cîmpeanu and Victor Opaschi, the state secretary for religious affairs, at a ceremony in the East European country’s capital, Bucharest.
physician from Yakima, Washington, who went missing while on a Seventh-day Adventist health training visit to the country in 2013. Although DNA tests have not been completed, police said it appears Sloop’s body was recovered from a building next to the park where he went missing on Tuesday, May 14, 2013.
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced a significant discovery last week: the first seal impression of a Judahite king ever found by archaeologists in Jerusalem. The impression says, “Belonging to Hezekiah [son of] Ahaz, king of Judah.”
A group of 10 people traveled by minibus from the Newbold College of Higher Education for a “harrowing, appalling, and humbling” visit to a migrant camp in Dunkirk, France, as Seventh-day Adventist volunteers expanded efforts to make a difference in Europe’s migrant crisis. Seven students and three faculty members made the two-hour trip across the English Channel to distribute food, sleeping bags, clothing, towels, blankets, toiletries, and other donated goods to some of the 2,000 migrants living at the camp.
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A Seventh-day Adventist believer who miraculously escaped a mass shooting in southern California with nonlife-threatening head, arm, and leg injuries says she hopes the tragedy will somehow alert people that Jesus is coming soon. Amanda Gaspard was overseeing a conference and holiday luncheon organized by the San Bernardino County Health Department at a social services center in San Bernardino, California, when two assailants went on a shooting rampage Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 17.
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Brazil has mobilized efforts to help meet the needs of more than a quarter of a million people in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais who are without drinking water as the state continues to face what national leaders are calling an “environmental catastrophe.”
There is only one reference to Moslem, Muslim, Mohammed, or Mohammedianism (as the Islamic faith was referred to in her day) in her writings. It is found in The Home Missionary, September 1892, paragraph 4: “The Saviour has said, ‘He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.’ He says again, ‘And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.’
Delbert W. Baker, a veteran Seventh-day Adventist administrator and former general vice president of the world church, has assumed leadership of the Adventist University of Africa near Nairobi, Kenya. Baker said he had accepted an invitation to work as the university’s vice chancellor, a position akin to president, and was moving there with his wife, Susan M. Baker, a physical therapist, educator, and administrator.
Regional conference presidents and other leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church are studying how they might use health centers, vegetarian restaurants, community services and other outreach methods to expand efforts to share Jesus with urban centers and inner-city residents after holding key talks with General Conference and North American Division leadership.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church and its members worldwide offered prayers and support for Paris after a series of shootings and explosions killed scores of people. France declared a state of emergency and closed its borders after at least 80 people were reported killed in a concert hall and 50 others died in attacks on restaurants and near a stadium on Friday night.