A senior Adventist official challenged 1,150 people at a Geneva health conference on Wednesday to evaluate their own eating and exercise habits — and then he practiced what he preached by performing a vigorous workout on stage.
During the FIFA World Cup, thousands of Seventh-day Adventists in Brazil are participating in the Church’s local “Hope Brazil” initiative to offer ministry outreach and service to international football fans and tourists visiting during the tournament.
A senior public health official appealed to the Seventh-day Adventist Church on Tuesday to share its expertise on healthy lifestyles with the rest of the world, saying at a conference that the health of the world’s population was going from bad to worse.
During a recent outreach activity, Seventh-day Adventists in the city of Cututa in northeast Colombia took to the main streets of the city to highlight the biblical story of creation and the Sabbath as a day of rest.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church will gather some 5,800 youth delegates from across the 37 countries and islands that comprise the Inter-American Division (IAD), for the largest ever territory-wide youth congress. The five-day conference will be held at the Mega Auditorium in San Cristobal, Guatemala City, Guatemala, from July 29 to August 3, 2014.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s General Conference Session is set to begin one year from today, July 2, 2015, and run through July 11, 2015. The 10-day meeting will be held at the 65,000-seat Alamodome and the adjacent Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s world headquarters sponsored several international scholarships to a philanthropy conference in an effort to promote the profession’s best practices in more denominational institutions.
The Seventh-Day Adventist Theological Seminary, the preeminent training ground for the Church’s religious leaders at Andrews University, has chosen its first woman to serve as associate dean, a development that comes the same month that the university named a woman as its lead chaplain.
The president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Euro-Asia Division is calling on all Adventists to pray for peace in Ukraine and has urged church members across the division to give a freewill offering in support of people who have lost their belongings in the unrest.
The Seventh-day Adventist church in Panama recently signed an agreement with the University of Panama in Panama City to develop initiatives to counter the growing violence in the Central American country.
The Ministry of Health, as part of its overall plan to have a smoke-free society has engaged the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica to assist in its smoking cessation (quitting smoking) drive with their “Breathe Free” program.
The Adventist-affiliated group AIDLR got a welcomed boost in visibility this month by organizing its first event at the United Nations office in Geneva, organizers said.