28 April, 2016

Crowds line up for free mega-clinic in the “City of Angels”

Crowds lined up at the sprawling Los Angeles Convention Center in the U.S. state of California on Wednesday for the opening of a Seventh-day Adventist-organized mega-clinic that hopes to provide $30 million worth of free healthcare to 10,000 people over 2 ½ days. Separate lines of people seeking dental, medical, and vision services began to form a day early, with several hundred people staying the night to be among the first to enter the complex in downtown Los Angeles when the doors opened at 7 a.m.

27 April, 2016

Adventist humanitarians in Northern Italy combat loneliness through a lunch program

On April 13, a unique outreach project for the elderly organized by Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Italy drew the attention of political figures from the city of Cesena. The local officials, including Stefano Bonaccini, governor of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Paolo Lucchi, mayor of Cesena, Lia Montalti, regional councilor, and Simona Benedetti, municipal councilor, participated in “Pranzassieme” or “Lunch Together,” which reaches older residents in the city who are lonely and in need of social relationships.

27 April, 2016

Adventists to partner with Newseum for unique religious freedom summit

The steady rise in rates of religious persecution around the world in recent years has led Seventh-day Adventists to search for new, more effective ways to advocate for religious freedom. Studies, such as one conducted last year by the Pew Research Center, suggest that some 5.1 billion men, women, and children around the world live in countries where their ability to worship freely is restricted or denied by either an authoritarian regime, terrorist groups, extremist organizations, or by social pressures.

26 April, 2016

In Inter-America, church leaders focus on initiatives and activities for the next five years

Nearly 300 church leaders from across the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Inter-American Division (IAD) met in Miami, Florida, last week to expand on the church’s “Lord Transform Me” evangelism initiative and to go over additional plans and activities to be carried out during the next five years. Leaders from the IAD’s 24 unions, or church regions, took the time to focus on their role in promoting a true transformation only available through God’s Holy Spirit.

22 April, 2016

Britain’s Queen awards Adventist student for work in Papua New Guinea

Queen Elizabeth II has presented a Seventh-day Adventist law student with the Commonwealth Pacific Young Person of the Year award for his efforts to provide scholarships to teens in remote villages in Papua New Guinea. Bal Kama, a doctoral student at the Australian National University College of Law and a member of the Canberra National Adventist Church, was announced as the regional winner of the 2016 Commonwealth Youth Awards for Excellence in Development Work at a ceremony in London last month.

22 April, 2016

Andrews University gets top marks for promoting physical activity

Andrews University has become the first private university in the world to be awarded gold-level status by the American College of Sports Medicine for its efforts to encourage the campus community to engage in physical exercise. The Seventh-day Adventist Church-owned university in Berrien Springs, Michigan, received the recognition after implementing the American College of Sports Medicine’s “Exercise is Medicine on Campus” program, which promotes physical activity among students, faculty, and staff at colleges and universities worldwide.

20 April, 2016

In War-weary Colombia, Adventists look ahead to post-conflict challenges

As the Colombian government and rebel groups move toward ending the country’s long-standing civil conflict, Seventh-day Adventists are seeking ways to support the peace efforts and to help rebuild a society damaged by almost five decades of violence. A two-day peace forum held last month at the Adventist Church’s South Colombia headquarters in the capital, Bogotá, brought together religious leaders, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academics, and others, to discuss strategies for supporting post-conflict reconciliation and rebuilding.

19 April, 2016

In Caracas, 4,012 new believers are baptized into the Adventist Church during historic evangelistic celebration

The Seventh-day Adventist Church baptized 4,012 new members into the church during a historic evangelistic celebration in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 16, 2016. More than 20,000 witnessed the baptisms in the metropolitan city’s Estadio Universitario de Caracas (Caracas University Stadium) marking the culmination of eight-months of intense evangelistic efforts across the East Venezuela Union. Some traveled for more than 36 hours by boat, air, car or busloads to take part in the day’s festivities, recommit to sharing hope in their communities, and offer prayers for government leaders and the people in Venezuela.

16 April, 2016

Inter-America postpones satellite transmission from Venezuela

Inter-America’s satellite program scheduled for today from Caracas, Venezuela, has been postponed for a later date. “We faced some technical issues beyond our control for this transmission,” said Abel Marquez, communications director for the church in Inter-America in charge of overseeing the satellite connection.

15 April, 2016

Tune in to Inter-America’s satellite evangelism celebration from Caracas

Tune in to watch thousands of Seventh-day Adventists from across the East Venezuela region, celebrate the results of their evangelistic efforts so far this year during a satellite event on April 16, 2016, from Caracas, Venezuela. The celebration will gather more than 18,000 church members at the Estadio Universitario de Caracas (Caracas University Stadium) to witness the baptism of more than 4,000 new members.

14 April, 2016

​Mission to cities goals, prayer needs outlined by world division leaders at spring meeting session

Ambitious goals — and audacious prayer requests — were outlined Tuesday afternoon, April 12, by leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's 13 world divisions during the second of three Spring Meeting sessions held at the world church's headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.

14 April, 2016

Church leadership meetings open with evangelism focus

Executive committee members of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists assembled with a focus on evangelism even before the official start of the world church’s 2016 Spring Meetings Tuesday, April 12, in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. During the morning’s devotional period, Italo Osario, an enterprise system architect at the world headquarters spoke about the evangelistic potential found in today's information technologies.