The board of Adventist Risk Management has named Tim Northrop as the new president and chief executive of the company and its affiliated Gencon Insurance companies. Northrop, who has held multiple positions within the company, most recently as senior vice president, replaces Robert E. Kyte, who will retire May 31 to pursue other business opportunities in Idaho.
An unsteady global economy shaved 20 percent off the income received by the General Conference last year, and church leaders are reworking budgetary plans as they prayerfully seek to navigate the uncharted waters ahead. While tithe and offerings remained strong worldwide in 2015, exchange-rate losses linked to the fluctuations of regional currencies against the U.S. dollar cost the General Conference, the administrative body that oversees the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a total of $19.4 million.
Why doesn’t the world see what we see?” The question, raised at the start of one presenter’s presentation during a Horn Lectureship Series conference at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University, encapsulates succinctly the struggle nearly all scholars and laypeople have when dealing with the composition of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible.
Derek Morris, editor of Ministry magazine, has been named president of Hope Channel, the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s international television network with 43 affiliate channels. Morris succeeds Brad Thorp, president of Hope Channel since its inception in 2003, who has been appointed as a field secretary of the Adventist world church, responsible for overseeing the church’s work in major cities.
Seventh-day Adventist volunteers will oversee all medical services at a new refugee camp near Athens after Greece’s military handed over the keys to the camp this week. Adventist Help, a bus-based medical clinic operated by ASI Europe, an Adventist supporting ministry, will be responsible for caring for up to 2,000 refugees at the Oinofyta camp, which will open its doors in the upcoming days.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church will officially launch its five-year territory-wide evangelistic initiative called "Lord Transform Me” during a satellite event on April 16, 2016, from one of its largest city across the Inter-American Division (IAD) territory, in Caracas, Venezuela. Top church leaders will highlight the results of evangelism efforts driven by thousands of pastors and active church members during the last three months as well as intensive community outreach done in Caracas.
Fatima fled Syria with her three young children. Fatima’s husband and her father were beheaded back home. She was on a desperate search for peace and shelter for her children. It was never her choice or desire to be stuck in a refugee transit camp at Hegyeshalom, on the Hungary- Austria border. It was simply her least-worst option.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s official membership has topped 19 million for the first time in history, and the number of local churches has doubled worldwide to more than 80,000 in just two decades, according to newly released figures. The Adventist Church had 19,126,447 members as of Dec. 31, 2015, a net increase of 647,144 people, or 3.5 percent, from the previous year, the church’s Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research said.
The Adventist Hospital in Haiti, Hopital Adventiste d’Haiti (HAH), celebrated 35 years of providing health care services with the inauguration of a state-of-the-art surgical suite, a new laboratory and the installation of a private multi-med clinic, in Diquini, Carrefour, near Port-au-Prince on Apr. 1, 2016. The event drew top Haiti government officials, officials from Loma Linda University (LLU) and Adventist Health International (AHI), Florida Hospital, surgeons, and community members. Many in attendance were witnesses to the hospital’s humble beginnings in the early 1980s.
The Adventist educational system in Guatemala continues to strengthen as leaders invest resources in its infrastructure, school expansions, teachers and ensuring quality Christian education to its thousands of students. Just recently, a large new school was inaugurated in Guatemala City as “Juan el Bautista, Adventist School” (or John the Baptist Adventist School) with a large campus of 34 classrooms and with the capacity for 800 students.
A Bible Café in the Caribbean island of St. Maarten is keeping Adventist young adults interested in studying their Sabbath School lesson every week. For nearly a year now, some two-dozen young adults from the Philipsburg Adventist Church take time to munch on the Word of God together and connect in a friendly environment.
Top Seventh-day Adventist leaders from throughout the Inter-American Division (IAD) prayed recently on the shores of the Jordan River, which borders Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan, as they prepared to bring in over one million new members during the next five-year period. The special prayer ceremony took place after 10 days of training in Israel, which gathered 75 IAD administrators and evangelists last month.