The treasurer of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Juan Prestol-Puesán said that the financial turnaround the church headquarters experienced in 2016 is nothing less than God’s intervention. Prestol-Puesán made his remarks as he presented the Treasurer’s Report on the first day of the General Conference Executive Committee Spring Meeting, one of the two major annual business meetings of the church.
Amid shouts, sprinting flag bearers and synchronized waves across the breezy outdoor amphitheater in Santo Domingo, thousands of pathfinders from hundreds of local Seventh-day Adventist Churches in the Inter-American Division (IAD) territory set an energetic tone to the official opening of Inter-America’s 4th Pathfinder Camporee last night.
Thousands of Seventh-day Adventist young campers and their leaders began setting up camp and rolling out their sleeping bags in anticipation for Inter-America’s Pathfinder Camporee set to begin in less than 24 hours at Mirador del Este Park, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
“A pathfinder camporee is a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” says Thais Erazo, a single mother of two from Venezuela who has done the impossible to make sure her 13 and 15 year-old sons could take part in Inter-America’s fourth territory-wide pathfinder camporee in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Erazo, a business professor at the Venezuela Adventist University in Nirgua, West Venezuela, always dreamed of attending a camporee so she began raising funds two years ago. With the devaluation of currency in Venezuela, the costs of three airplane seemed impossible.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s top leadership voted on Tuesday to approve a new identity system during this week’s Spring Meetings, held at the Church’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. The Spring Meetings are one of two annual gatherings of the world leadership; the other, Annual Council, takes place in October.
Top Seventh-day Adventist leaders in the Inter-America Division (IAD) emphasized the value of Ellen G. White’s writings and its relevance and importance to the church today, during a Spirit of Prophecy Online Conference, held yesterday.
On March 22, 2017, two former Kellogg employees made their appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit after a lower court found insufficient evidence that the two Adventist plaintiffs were treated unfairly when they were fired for failing to work on Sabbath. A decision from the court of appeals, located in Denver, Colorado, is expected in approximately three months.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North Mexico, which has spearheaded the “I Want to Live Healthy” initiative across churches, schools and communities in North Mexico and other countries, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the French National Academy of Medicine. The memorandum was signed at the headquarters of the French National Academy of Medicine, in Paris, France, on Mar. 17, 2017.
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Colombia is providing assistance to the victims of the devastating landslides that killed 273 people in the southern part of the country last week. Hundreds more were injured and about 2,000 were displaced. Heavy rain caused three rivers in Mocoa, Putumayo, to overflow causing landslides, which, in addition to the human casualties, destroyed homes and bridges.
Thousands of Seventh-day Adventists in Veracruz, Mexico, celebrated the culmination of intense evangelistic efforts during a live satellite event from the city of Minatitlán, last weekend. A crowd of about 8,000 filled the Minatitlán Convention Center on Sabbath, April 1, to worship, witness the transformation of new believers and recommit to nurturing them into the life of the church. Another four sites gathering over 30,000 believers across the Inter-Oceanic Mexican Union held hundreds of baptisms on the same day. More than 6,000 were baptized in the region during the day.
The top leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America will highlight the value of the gift of prophecy to the church with its first Spirit of Prophecy live program this Saturday, April 8, 2017. The seminar presentations during the three-hour live event, themed “Believe His Prophets”, will fill a great need in the field for information about Ellen G. White’s ministry, church leaders said. White was a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America will hold its annual baptismal celebration this Sabbath with a special live satellite event from Minatitlán, Veracruz, Mexico. The live event, coined as “Lord Transform Me”, will be the culmination of a six-month-long evangelism effort by thousands of pastors and active church members across the Inter-American Division (IAD) territory.