Last year in Canada several of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's administrative units attempted to entrench annual performance evaluations for pastors into the Church Manual, the church's policy handbook. But many clergy balked, becoming openly defensive
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) joined the international community June 20 in observing World Refugee Day, a day that honors the courage, persistence, and strength of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) around the world.
Each year over two hundred students graduate from Montemorelos University, a Seventh-day Adventist run institution in the Inter-American Division (IAD) territory. But this year saw a couple of students graduate from one of the university's newest programs
Church membership records at the Phoenix Camelback Seventh-day Adventist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, top out at a weighty 1,000. But weekly head counts in the pews reveal an average Sabbath worship service draws only between 350 and 400 mem
The June 9 discovery of diesel fuel leaking into the water supply of the Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies has left the campus without water now for a week and a half. A fuel filter on a generator that had been vandalized was found as
Jeffrey K. Thompson was working as a photojournalist in the Bahamas in 1975 when he decided to join the Seventh-day Adventist Church - an award presentation for a government official in Nassau he was covering was actually the first night of an Adventist e
For the second consecutive year, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) for Inter-America arranged for a medical specialist to perform ear surgeries on more than a dozen patients in Montemorelos, Mexico. The surgeries took place last month dur
Ron Flowers, the Seventh-day Adventist Church family ministries co-director, said he recently sat in church behind a woman whom he knew was suffering domestic violence. To his dismay the pastor talked about a need for forgiveness and that if a person
President of the Adventist World Church Pastor Jan Paulsen visited Martinique and Guadeloupe last month, the first time in 30 years a world church president has visited this predominently French-speaking region of the Inter-American Division (IAD) territo
Ask Evelyn Fischer who vacuums the floors and polishes the pews at the Blooming Grove Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ohio, and she'll tell you without hesitation: "I have a lot of cleaning to do, believe me." But ask Fischer where her tithe goes and she'
The Seventh-day Adventist Church's Elder's Digest magazine editor Jonas Arrais is described by colleagues as an easygoing, funny man -- a native of Brazil, his jokes are accentuated by his colorful English, which is his third language.
During last month’s executive committee meetings of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America, a new field secretary was elected to facilitate the administrative work of the church in the division and to focus on small group ministries.