10 March, 2016

Adventist Church in the Cayman Islands hosts national service on International Women’s Day

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Cayman Islands hosted this year’s national service to launch Honouring Women Month kick off at the Kings Seventh-day Adventist Church in Grand Cayman, on Mar. 5, 2016. The Honouring Women Month, comprises a month-long program of activities organized in conjunction with the observance of International’s Women’s Day. Premier of the Cayman Islands Hon. Alden McLaughlin praised women for being “the most powerful prayer warriors,” he said. “Prayer develops powerful thinking.”

8 March, 2016

In Nicaragua, Adventist School is first secondary school in nation to integrate digital technology

A Seventh-day Adventist school in Nicaragua was featured on national television as the first secondary school in the nation to integrate digital technology in the classroom. Students at Colegio Vocacional Adventista de Nicaragua, or Adventist Vocational School in Nicaragua, (COVANIC) began using digital boards, and tablets as the school year began earlier last month. Channel 2 News Media, one of the largest television stations in the country, featured the story in a 5-minute report.

7 March, 2016

Thousands of Adventists fight Zika virus in Brazil

As global alarm grows about the Zika virus, hundreds of thousands of Seventh-day Adventists in one of the most affected countries, Brazil, decided to respond with their hands and feet. The Adventist Church in Brazil kicked off the Zika Project, a national campaign to raise awareness, prevent new infections, and mobilize people to act against a virus that the World Health Organization has declared a global public health emergency.

4 March, 2016

Southern Adventist University takes steps over racially charged App posts

Southern Adventist University has blocked a social media app and organized a series of open discussions on race after insensitive comments were posted during a campus worship service led by an African-American seminary student. The anonymous comments appeared on Yik Yak as Corey Johnson, an Oakwood University graduate and seminarian at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University, spoke at a Friday evening vespers on Feb. 26.

2 March, 2016

Adventist Risk Management CEO to step down

Robert E. Kyte, president and chief executive officer of Adventist Risk Management, has announced his retirement from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Kyte will retire on May 31 to pursue other business interests in Idaho, according to Adventist Risk Management, or ARM, which offers insurance and other solutions for minimizing risks within the Adventist Church.

1 March, 2016

Andrea Luxton named president of Andrews University

Andrea Luxton has been named as the next president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s flagship Andrews University, offering what colleagues call a stellular track record in leadership as she joins a growing number of female presidents at Adventist institutions of higher education. The Berrien Springs, Michigan-based university announced Tuesday that its board of trustees had elected Luxton, the university’s provost since 2010, to replace Niels-Erik Andreasen when he retires after 22 years as president at the end of the current academic year.

25 February, 2016

It Is Written celebrates 60 years after an initial failure

When the Seventh-day Adventist Church first asked George Vandeman to try to use television as a means of reaching people with the gospel, the project failed. It was the late 1940s, and people were unsure how to use television for Christian programming. Not everyone was convinced that the new technology had a future.

23 February, 2016

Cycle for hope

Seventh-day Adventists ride their bicycles on the main avenues in Mexico City as part of youth activity to promote health…

23 February, 2016

Pilot Gilbert Cangy offers flight around world on Global Youth Day

Gilbert Cangy, youth director for the Seventh-day Adventist world church, will fly around the world in 24 hours next month — and he is inviting you to accompany him on the trip. Cangy will don a pilot’s uniform and embark on a 24-city tour that starts in the Fiji islands and soars through Australia, India, the Middle East, and Norway before touching down in the United States at the end of Global Youth Day on Sabbath, March 19.

23 February, 2016

Open palms

Seventh-day Adventists take a moment with open palms before prayer during a Sabbath School Congress focused on the "Lord Transform…

22 February, 2016

ADRA Distributes Aid After Record Storm Batters Fiji

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) scrambled to distribute emergency aid after the most powerful storm in Fiji’s history tore through the South Pacific nation, killing at least five people and causing widespread damage, including to staff housing at a Seventh-day Adventist college. Authorities were assessing the damage Sunday after Cyclone Winston slammed into Fiji overnight with heavy rainfall and winds of more than 200 miles an hour (320 kilometers an hour).

20 February, 2016

Brad Thorp, Hope Channel’s visionary president, steps aside

Brad Thorp, who has steered the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Hope Channel from its origins as a NET satellite uplink in the 1990s to becoming a global television network, is stepping aside as president. Thorp told a meeting of Adventist world church leaders on Thursday that he felt that he had led Hope Channel to the best of his ability over the past 22 years and wanted his successor to take it to the next level, according to those present.