14 March, 2015

Mayor of Belize’s largest city praises Adventist education

The mayor of Belize’s largest city praised the Seventh-day Adventist Church for its work in the Central American country and underscored his appreciation for its large network of local schools. Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley, flanked by a vice mayor, welcomed Adventist Church president Ted N.C. Wilson and his wife, Nancy, at the airport upon their arrival Thursday for the start of a six-country tour of the church’s Inter-American Division.

12 March, 2015

Over 2,000 will be baptized in Lake Nicaragua this weekend

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is wrapping up its first major evangelistic campaign in Nicaragua with four days of meetings by evangelist Mark Finley that will culminate with the mass baptism of more than 2,000 people in a lake this weekend. Finley opened his meetings on Wednesday night to a packed hall of more than 3,000 people, most of them non-Adventists, in Managua, the capital of the Central American country.

11 March, 2015

In Inter-America, Church to collect offerings for youth–driven mission projects

Seventh-day Adventist churches across the Inter-American Division (IAD) will collect offerings every second Sabbath of the month for the next four months to go towards youth evangelism outreach projects. The special collection comes after top world church leaders voted to empower young Adventists 25 and younger to be part of the planning, choosing, owning and implementing of life-changing outreach projects in their communities around the world.

11 March, 2015

Adventists in North Colombia pray together for upcoming city-wide impact

Nearly 1,000 Seventh-day Adventists traveled to three main hilltops surrounding the city of Medellin, in Colombia, on Mar. 8, to pray and release solar balloons as they prepare for a city-wide impact next Saturday. The project, coined as the “A Smile for Medellin”, will seek to bring smiles to the people of Medellin with acts of kindness, health expos, hospital and nursing home visitations and more.

10 March, 2015

SAC Interamérica awards communicators for their outstanding work

The Society of Adventist Communicators (SAC) Interamérica announced the winners of its various categories during a short ceremony held at the Inter-American Division headquarters, Mar. 5, 2015, in Miami, Florida. More than 60 communicators and media production specialists listened in as SAC Interamérica President Angela Barrios highlighted the society’s mission. As an initiative of the communication department, in conjunction with the Society of Adventist Communicators of North America, the SAC Interamérica chapter strives to bring communicators and interested professionals together in supporting the mission of the church, said Barrios.

10 March, 2015

Montemorelos University faculty team up to produce television programs in Papua New Guinea

Three of Montemorelos University’s media center employees traveled to Papua New Guinea earlier this year to participate in an initiative led by the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s official television network Hope Channel. The initiative was to produce some 303 television episodes in preparation for the launch of the country’s first free-to-air Christian television channel.

10 March, 2015

In Jamaica, Adventists declare full support for special needs ministry

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica has joined the government and other interest groups in supporting the need for special support and accommodation for the disabled with a special declaration made this weekend. The declaration, the first to be made in the Adventist World Church, was made during a Special Needs Summit hosted by the church from March 6-8, 2015 at Camp Verley, St. Catherine.

10 March, 2015

Jamaican Adventists hold evangelistic series in a bar

Many Christians would not want to be caught dead in a bar. But a group of Jamaican Adventists spent four weeks in a bar — not drinking, smoking, or dancing but praising the Lord. The Duncans Adventist Church organized an evangelistic series in the Logwood Walk Community rum bar after a long search for a suitable venue for the meetings in rural northwest Jamaicia.

8 March, 2015

Church to launch three new television channels across Inter-America

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America is preparing to embark on one of its most ambitious evangelism initiatives with the launch of three new satellite channels to broadcast across its populous territory. The new channels will join the family of the church’s Hope Channel television network around the world in sharing the message of hope and salvation in the three major languages spoken in the Inter-American Division (IAD), Spanish, English, and French.

6 March, 2015

Philippines approves new Adventist medical school

The Philippines has granted approval for an Adventist medical school to begin classes in August, making it the first Adventist medical school in Asia and the denomination’s sixth medical school worldwide. The Commission on Higher Education of the Philippines in December approved the opening of the Adventist University of the Philippines’ College of Medicine, located on campus in Silang in the province of Cavite.

4 March, 2015

New Adventist Church Opens Every 3.5 Hours, the Fastest Rate in History

Seventh-day Adventist churches are springing up around the world at the fastest rate in the denomination’s 152-year history, with a new building opening its doors to worshipers every 3.58 hours, according to newly released figures. A record 2,446 new churches opened last year, helping fuel the largest single-year increase in membership and bringing total membership to nearly 18.5 million, according to the Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research.

3 March, 2015

Church to promote awareness for members with special needs in North Mexico

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North Mexico wants to make sure its special needs church members can better access its church facilities and be included in activities throughout its 10 local church regions. More than 120 church pastors, elders laypersons as well as persons with disabilities, convened during a recent summit in Montemorelos, Mexico, to discuss this need and to strategize about how to cater to dozens of its members with special needs.