Gunmen stormed Garissa University College, located in Garissa, Kenya on Thursday, April 2, leaving an estimated 147 people dead. It is being reported that members of a terrorist group targeted and killed Christian students, including 10 Seventh-day Adventists. Among the dead was Eric Nyumbuto, the leader of the student-led Adventist Church on campus.
Hope Channel has set up a special fund to raise money to rebuild the 53 Adventist churches destroyed last month by Cyclone Pam on the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. “The Adventist Church in Vanuatu needs our help to rebuild,” the Adventist-owned channel said in an appeal on its website. “Give a little to help Vanuatu a lot.”
Scores of people stood in line overnight outside a San Antonio stadium to receive an estimated $10 million in free medical and dental services that Seventh-day Adventist health professionals plan to give 6,000 people over the next three days. Some 2,000 to 3,000 people were waiting outside the Alamodome when its doors opened at 7 a.m. Wednesday, said Daniel Weber, communication director for the Adventist Church’s North American Division, who is co-organizing the event.
A new book on organizing the church for evangelism and discipleship of new members was released recently and aims to provide innovative insight into seeking, winning and conserving new members. Pastor Balvin Braham, author of the Book A Practical Guide to Evangelism How to Win and Keep New Members, says this book is intended to strengthen soul-winning and conservation efforts within the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
April 7, 2015 | Silver Spring, Maryland, United States | Andrew McChesney, news director, Adventist Review Seventh-day Adventist Church official…
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concerns about growing religious intolerance worldwide during a private meeting with Adventist Church leader Ted N.C. Wilson, and he invited the Seventh-day Adventist Church to work with the UN in helping people. Wilson, the first Adventist Church president to meet with a UN chief, noted that the church has long supported religious liberty and said it was willing to team up on initiatives that followed Christ’s ministry of helping people physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America sealed its five-year territory-wide evangelistic initiative called Vision One Million during a three-hour live satellite program from Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Saturday night. The event represented the culmination of thousands of evangelistic campaigns that took place during the last three months throughout the Inter-American Division (IAD) territory.
Inter-America’s Public Campus Ministries will be holding an online program for Adventist university students who study at non-Adventist colleges and universities across the Inter-American Division territory. The online event will take place from the IAD Headquarters Office in Miami, Florida on Saturday, Apr. 11, 2015, at 9:30 a.m. Miami time.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is set to seal its five-year comprehensive evangelistic initiative called Vision One Million during a three-hour live satellite program on April 4, 2015, from Port-of Spain, Trinidad. Top church leaders will highlight the results of evangelism efforts driven by thousands of pastors and active church members across the Inter-American Division (IAD) territory during the last three months as well as intensive community outreach done in the English Caribbean region.
April 2, 2015 | Barquisimeto, Venezuela | David Buenaño/IAD Staff Over the course of only 10 days in March, 2,009…
For the fifth consecutive year, teachers and students throughout schools of the North Caribbean Conference put away their academic activities in their classrooms on Mar. 6, to reflect on God’s blessings, pray, study the Bible and participate in a day of prayer for schools. Education leaders at the North Caribbean Conference said that this year was historic because for the first time all the schools came together to share in the occasion through the software application Skype, where all the schools were able to share in the program while viewing the presentations of the other schools.
The number of Seventh-day Adventist churches destroyed by Tropical Cyclone Pam has risen from 18 to 53 as church leaders count the cost of the March 14 storm on the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. In addition, multiple buildings were destroyed at six Adventist schools, and hundreds of church members lost their homes, including 20 pastors and 100 teachers.