The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America celebrated its Year of Non-Formal Education with a special live program from Willemstad, Curacao, on Oct. 25, 2014. Nearly 200,000 active church members, pastors and administrators were awarded certifications for completing specialized training to better serve the church and the community throughout the territory.
An Adventist Pastor was killed after returning home from leading an evangelistic campaign last week in Guatemala. Noe Alfredo Gonzalez, 54, had just finished preaching in the three churches in the Hierbabuena Village, in Chiquimula, in the east region of Guatemala on Oct. 23, 2014, when he and his wife were attacked by masked assailants while driving home on their motorcycle.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Women’s Ministries department this month released the Woman’s Bible, the first study Bible specifically designed for women by the Adventist Church. The Woman’s Bible, published by Safeliz Publishing House, is a New King James Version of the Bible that offers more than 100 commentaries, study materials and profiles on major and lesser-known female biblical characters.
Two Seventh-day Adventists in Jamaica were conferred and awarded, with national honors during a Ceremony of Investiture and Presentation of National Honours & Awards held on the lawn of Kings House on National Heroes Day, Oct. 20, 2014.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America will wrap up its Year of Non-Formal Education with a special live program from Willemstad, Curacao, on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2014, at 3:00 p.m. Curacao Time (or Eastern Daylight Time). Thousands of laypersons, pastors and administrators will be awarded certifications for completing specialized training to better serve the church and the community.
Seventh-day Adventists across hundreds of churches in the Inter-American Division (IAD) put on their exercise clothes and took to the streets of their communities to promote a healthy lifestyle on Oct. 5, 2014. The activity was part of a territory-wide initiative run by IAD’s Health Ministries Department called “Let’s Move to Live” where churches organize an exercise program for the membership, and invite the community to promote health, said Belkis Archbold, health ministries director for the church in Inter-America.
Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders and others who support religious liberty will participate in marking Monday, October 27 as International Religious Freedom Day (IRFD). The Adventist Church has promoted religious freedom since its founding and continues to highlight the freedom of conscience.
October 22, 2014 | Kingston, Jamaica | Nigel Coke/IAD Approximately two hundred pensioners from the Washington Gardens and adjoining communities…
Dozens of regional Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) directors, administrators and university leaders from throughout Mexico gathered for greater coordination in project development in communities throughout the country during three days of training in Riviera Maya, Mexico, last month.
Delegates at the 2014 General Conference Annual Council this week agreed to amend some chapters of the Church Manual, including adding new details to further specify the reasons that members can face discipline. The 13 reasons for which members can be disciplined—such as disloyalty to the church and physical violence—did not change. But the section that deals most closely with extramarital relationships was expanded to include details on specific definitions relating to sexual conduct.
A Seventh-day Adventist Church administrative unit in Central America will be reorganized into two sections, a step that underscores Church membership growth in the region. Church leaders approved the change yesterday on the final day of Annual Council, a meeting of the Executive Committee, at the denomination’s headquarters.
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Colombia recently distributed food to some 530 indigenous families in northern region where a deadly drought has claimed dozens of lives and livestock during the past few months.