It will soon be easier for the deaf and hard hearing impaired in Jamaica to ‘hear’ the Advent message as Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica progresses plans to establish a church for the deaf in Portmore, St. Catherine.
The plans were announced during the first ‘Day of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing’ organized by the Jamaica Union (JAMU) at the Portmore Adventist Church in St. Catherine, July 9, 2016.
The Good Samaritan Inn (GSI), which has been serving the needs of street people for the past 12 years, opened a new health center last week at its headquarters in Kingston, Jamaica.
The health center, which will provide free maternal and dental care, including pediatric dental services to the public in parishes of Kingston and St. Andrew, was made possible by a 13th Sabbath School Offering from the Adventist World Church collected in 2014. The facility is to be built in two phases which when completed will cost approximately US$397,000 dollars.
One loyal listener to the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s daily radio program stepped into the church for the first time last month in Bayamo, Cuba. Maria del Carmen Ramirez, 51, wanted to know more about the church that had provided hope and peace every day for nearly 10 months.
After winning an audition for a summer scholarship to the Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Massachusetts, Jose Ignacio Santos, 23, scored a full scholarship to the prestigious institution.
As a clarinet player, Santos always dreamed of pursuing a music degree at Berklee.
Government officials from the British Virgin Islands recently praised the work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for its positive impact on the youth on the islands at a recent weekend celebration for Adventist Youth, and the Pathfinder and Adventurer clubs from across St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas and Virgin Gorda.
The celebration took place at the Sports Complex in Tortula, May 27-29, 2016. The event marked the 40th year anniversary of its Pathfinder ministry.
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Colombia recently delivered 52 tons of humanitarian aid in La Guajira–one of the most remote regions in the northeastern part of Colombia. La Guajira is an arid state stricken by a severe drought that has claimed the lives of hundreds of children and livestock during the last five years.
“The crippling drought added to the closure of the border between Venezuela and Colombia and has greatly influenced the tragedy that this area has been suffering for lack of food and water, so we worked to extend assistance to families in need there,” said Gabriel Villarreal, ADRA Colombia director.
Representatives from the Ministry of Health from the city of Monterrey, Mexico, stood next to Seventh-day Adventist leaders in North Mexico to sign a memorandum of understanding, last month. The group of leaders agreed to work together in promoting health across the more than 300,000 homes where more than one million people live in the metropolitan city, during a ceremony held at the España Park, May 23, 2016.
It is the first large-scale memorandum of understanding that the church has signed with the city to promote a healthy lifestyle, with the church’s “I Want to Live Healthy” program. The “I Want to Live Health” program centers around the health message, which focuses on the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of the person.
Seventh-day Adventist leaders in North Mexico are rejoicing for the first opportunity the church had to gather Adventist students enrolled at Antonoma University of Tamaulipas, a public institution, for a special program last month.
The four-hour gathering at the university’s auditorium brought the church’s public campus ministries leaders, professionals and students together for the historic meeting which officially launched the beginning of the ministries on the campus.
She saw homeless children. She saw troubled young people. She saw the forgotten elderly. These were heart-breaking scenes that moved Fulbia Castrellón as she passed the run-down community park in Concepcion la Vieja–a neighborhood in Panama City, Panama.
What could she do to bring hope and make a difference in their lives? Her idea was simple: Soup. That was the spark that drew the interest of women’s ministry leaders across the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Panama City.
Pharmacologist and Dental Surgeon, Dr. Lincoln Edwards, is the new president-elect of Northern Caribbean University (NCU). Dr. Edward was elected yesterday, during a meeting of the Board of Governors of the Seventh-day Adventist-owned institution at the church’s headquarters in Mandeville, Jamaica.
Dr. Edwards, who is a native of Jamaica and graduate of the University of the West Indies and Loma Linda University has served as an assistant professor in the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry at Loma Linda University, and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, School of Dentistry in Houston.
