2 June, 2015

Adventists promote health and spread hope in North Colombia

Governor of Colombia’s North Santander state Edgar Jesús Díaz, commended the work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for its health impact across the city of Cúcuta during a two-day impact earlier last month. During the event, more than 20,000 books on health and hope were distributed, a health expo on the eight natural remedies was held, dozens of disabled individuals raced on their wheelchairs and dozens of fruits and grain sacs were distributed on May 9-10, 2015.

1 June, 2015

Thousands baptized in major outreach effort in Zimbabwe

Thousands of people were baptized across Zimbabwe on Sabbath as one of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s biggest initiatives to share Jesus resulted in the unified efforts of many groups, including ADRA, ASI, Light Bearers, and scores of church members who gave Bible studies. Baptismal numbers were trickling into the Zimbabwe Union Conference’s headquarters on Sunday, but preliminary estimates indicated that church leaders had met their goal of baptizing 30,000 people during a two-week evangelistic meeting that ended Sabbath, May 30.

29 May, 2015

GC Session 101: Discovering the delegates

The world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is abuzz with preparations for the upcoming General Conference Session. The 60th meeting of its kind in the 152-year history of the denomination will take place in San Antonio, Texas and will see as many as 60,000 people from more than 170 countries gather in the Alamodome.

29 May, 2015

‘Revelation of Hope’ drinking water sells briskly in Zimbabwe

In Zimbabwe, you can buy “Revelation of Hope” drinking water bearing the portrait of Seventh-day Adventist Church president Ted N.C. Wilson. Hundreds of thousands of plastic bottles appeared on store shelves in the run-up to the two-week “Revelation of Hope” evangelistic series that ends on Sabbath, May 30, with an expected 30,000 baptisms.

29 May, 2015

In the Dominican Republic, hundreds of ministers compete during territory-wide Bible competition

The Seventh-day Day Adventist Church in the Dominican Republic crowned three of its ministers as top winners of their first nation-wide Bible boom competition last week. The event, which gathered 12 finalists from across six of the church’s regions, climaxed with a special grand finale program at the Piantini Adventist Church in Santo Domingo on May 17. Contestants were tested on 1 and 2nd Timothy and Titus, as well as the church’s Bible Commentary on those books.

28 May, 2015

Warren Judd, visionary Adventist Media leader, dies

Warren Judd, former CEO of the Adventist Media Center in California, died after a struggle with cancer on May 26. Daniel R. Jackson, president of the North American Division, offered condolences on behalf of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

28 May, 2015

In the Amazon, thousands celebrate religious freedom

More than 7,000 people gathered in Manaus, Brazil—the largest city in the Amazon—to express thanks to the government for protecting religious liberty. The event, held Saturday, May 23, was the third religious liberty festival to be held in Brazil, and was organized by the South American chapter of the International Religious Liberty Association (IRLA). Dr. John Graz, Secretary General of the IRLA, was one of the international speakers featured at the festival.

27 May, 2015

Evangelistic meetings take Zimbabwe by storm

Zimbabwe is abuzz about Jesus as the Seventh-day Adventist Church enters its final week of evangelistic meetings and the health minister, overwhelmed at the sight of thousands of people receiving free healthcare at an Adventist-organized clinic, asked the church to consider building a hospital. Tens of thousands of people are gathering nightly for a two-week evangelistic series in several hundred churches and other venues.

25 May, 2015

Andrews University students build a tiny house

Rather than travel to South America on the usual mission trip to build housing, an Adventist professor tasked his class with constructing one of the world’s smallest homes. The result — a fully-functional and livable miniature house measuring a mere 148 square feet (13 square meters) on an 18-foor (5.5-meter) flatbed trailer — provides a model that the Andrews University students plan to replicate and build for underprivileged people in the community.

22 May, 2015

Free Adventist healthcare wins hearts in volatile Mexican community

An Adventist university in Mexico’s poorest state is finding that free root canals and eyeglasses are softening the hearts of a neighboring community that was once so hostile toward the school that it seized a chunk of its land. Some 135 teachers and students from Linda Vista Adventist University treated hundreds of people in Rincón Chamula, a community of 1,500 people located 1.5 miles (3 kilometers) from the campus.

21 May, 2015

Adventists celebrate Mother’s day with oldest Jamaican

Violet Moss Brown, the oldest Jamaican had a group of Seventh-day Adventists spellbound with century old stories as they celebrated Mother’s day and praised God for her long life. The approximately twenty individuals, who came from the Seventh-Adventist Church in Duanvale, Trelawny - the same community where 115 year-old Mrs. Moss Brown was born - were all amazed with her wit and sharp mind.

20 May, 2015

Your guide to the GC Session agenda

The 60th General Conference session will offer several firsts: electronic voting, a mobile app, an electronic agenda for delegates, and, most crucially for the rest of us, an opportunity to review the agenda in advance. Usually the General Conference Secretariat, which sets the agenda, provides the information only to the delegates. But for the first time it is making details of the plan available to the world church before the July 2-11 business meeting starts at the Alamodome stadium in San Antonio, Texas.