Honduras: Adventist hospital staff and volunteers provide medical care
More than 30 people representing the four hospitals of Adventist Midwest Health traveled to Honduras to provide medical care and assistance to the residents there.
La Sierra University receives presidential award for service
La Sierra University was one of five educational institutions named a Presidential Awardee in the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest honor a college or university in the United States can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.
IRLA joins call for pastor’s release from Iranian prison
The International Religious Liberty Association has joined more than a dozen religious groups and human rights advocates calling for the release of American pastor Saeed Abedini, who was imprisoned in Iran in September for his religious beliefs.
Wilson affirms Indonesia president’s religious freedom commitment
In a meeting with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Seventh-day Adventist Church president Pastor Ted N. C. Wilson affirmed the nation’s goal of upholding religious freedom in the Southeast Asian country.
Remembrance: Venden’s preaching, books focused on righteousness by faith
Following a period of spiritual struggle, Morris Venden went on to bring a renewed perspective of Jesus and salvation through faith to the Seventh-day Adventist Church beginning in the 1970s.
In North America, a renewed focus on addiction recovery
Seventh-day Adventists battling addiction and compulsive behavior are not alone in their struggle. That’s a message Adventist health professionals are promoting as a new phase of the church’s addiction recovery ministry finds traction in North America.
Network, standards growing for Adventist security professionals
When Lewis Eakins learned about the mass shooting at Virginia Tech in 2006, he wanted to increase the level of preparedness for his campus safety officers at Oakwood University.
Seventh-day Adventist Church emerged from religious fervor of 19th Century
When Baptist preacher William Miller said Jesus was coming back on October 22, 1844, many Americans weren’t just surprise that he had set a date.
In Brazil, Adventists coordinate blood drive following nightclub tragedy
Seventh-day Adventist young people in Brazil rallied this week to donate blood in the wake of the world’s deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade.
Adventist volunteers replace storm-ravaged school in Curaçao
Six months from the initial request by the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, Maranatha Volunteers International completed a One-Day School campus for the Mahuma Sur Primary Adventist School in Curaçao.
First religious liberty symposium in Guadeloupe spurs civic engagement
Seventh-day Adventist public affairs leaders heralded the church’s first religious liberty symposium here in Guadeloupe as a model for more civic engagement at local regions worldwide.
Theology of Ordination Committee ends first session
Members of the Theology of Ordination Study Committee (TOSC) ended their first session – held January 15-17 at a meeting site near the church’s world headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States – on an optimistic note.