Adventist Peace Fellowship, a Seventh-day Adventist supporting ministry, is introducing steps for university students to organize their own APF chapters and receive APF grants.
The Seventh-day Adventist leaders in Chiapas, Mexico, inaugurated a new union headquarter office during a special ceremony held on October 27, 2013.
The Inter-American Division Publishing Association (IADPA), one of two publishing houses overseen by the Inter-American Division (IAD), crowned three student winners during its grand finale editorial contest held on Oct. 22, 2013, in Miami, Florida.
Seventh-day Adventist world church officials today released a statement regarding a local conference that recently elected as president a person who is not recognized by the world church as an ordained minister. Ordination is one of the criteria for being a conference president.
Seventh-day Adventist world church leaders are increasingly turning to prayer and divine power in the face of what they say is a seemingly impossible task—sharing the church’s message of hope in a secular, urban world.
Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders have established a plan to encourage and assess mission to urban areas, a step that comes amid an ongoing call from the denomination’s president to conduct more ministry in large cities.
The most extensive research ever conducted on the attitudes, beliefs, experiences and spiritual practices of Seventh-day Adventists reinforced some long-held assumptions about worshippers’ positive affirmation of the denomination, yet revealed an emerging trend toward secularization that is worrisome for some church leaders.
Halfway through his Secretariat report on Sunday, Executive Secretary G. T. Ng felt attentions wane throughout the Seventh-day Adventist Church world headquarters auditorium. The light was dim as he showed his 30th slide featuring statistics, graphs and charts.
Attention dwindled in the auditorium of Seventh-day Adventist world church headquarters on the final day of Annual Council, as some delegates bid farewell to colleagues and others considered the logistics of wedging hefty agenda binders and a week’s worth of handouts into already bulging carry-ons.
Annual Council delegates today approved the next step in a five-year process to better articulate the church’s core beliefs, using clearer—and frequently more inclusive—language.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church unveiled a major redesign to its website Wednesday and urged regional leaders to make similar upgrades to ensure the denomination has a more consistent global online identity.
Devir Magaad uses his own strength to operate a pedicab – a tricycle with a large seat for passengers and cargo – through the streets of Cagayan de Oro City, capital of the southern province of Mindanao in the Republic of the Philippines. For that arduous work, he makes perhaps US$5 per day.