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The treasurer of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Juan Prestol-Puesán said that the financial turnaround the church headquarters experienced in 2016 is nothing less than God’s intervention. Prestol-Puesán made his remarks as he presented the Treasurer’s Report on the first day of the General Conference Executive Committee Spring Meeting, one of the two major annual business meetings of the church.
April 13, 2017 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s top leadership voted on Tuesday to approve a new identity system during this week’s Spring Meetings, held at the Church’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland.
The Spring Meetings are one of two annual gatherings of the world leadership; the other, Annual Council, takes place in October.
April 11, 2017 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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On March 22, 2017, two former Kellogg employees made their appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit after a lower court found insufficient evidence that the two Adventist plaintiffs were treated unfairly when they were fired for failing to work on Sabbath. A decision from the court of appeals, located in Denver, Colorado, is expected in approximately three months.
April 6, 2017 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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Twenty-five deaf people were baptized in the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s first deaf baptisms in Burundi as church members step up efforts to share the gospel with the hearing impaired across East Africa.
A total of 27 people were baptized during a joyous ceremony at the Kamenge Seventh-day Adventist Church in Burundi’s capital, Bujumbura, on March 25. In addition to the 25 deaf people, the baptismal candidates included a blind person and a hearing person.
March 28, 2017 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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A Seventh-day Adventist school archaeology center will be directly involved in the development of a long-planned, state-of-the-art museum in an ancient town with biblical significance. Douglas Clark, director of the Center for Near Eastern Archaeology Center in La Sierra University, an Adventist-operated school in Riverside, California, United States, recently signed on a grant that will launch the project in the Jordanian town of Madaba.
March 25, 2017 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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Seventh-day Adventist college and university student leaders and church leaders in the North-American Division (NAD), or church region, met in the first Facebook Live Event on the campus of Union College, in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, on March 14.
The 100-minute Q&A session with NAD president Daniel Jackson and executive secretary Alexander G. Bryant, entitled “Is This Thing On?” brought together Union College students and Adventist Intercollegiate Association (AIA) student leaders from across the division, who had traveled to Nebraska for the 2017 AIA Convention.
March 23, 2017 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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Women in rural communities from across the East-Central Africa region are now closer to becoming experts in the art of vegetable farming and evangelism after attending a recent one-week training event at the Northern Tanzania Union Conference, or church region, headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania. Hosted by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Africa in partnership with the East-Central Africa Division (ECD) women’s ministry department, the one-of-a-kind event looked for ways to equip women with essential skills for self-sufficiency and poverty eradication in their rural communities.
March 21, 2017 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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Thousands of Seventh-day Adventists impacted their communities in more than 100 countries on Saturday, March 18 during the annual Global Youth Day event.
As pictures and videos were shared on social media with the hashtag #GYD17, the campaign generated an impact of more than 137 million impressions across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. This sets a new Seventh-day Adventist social media record.
March 20, 2017 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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A Seventh-day Adventist science teacher and educational administrator was recently named “Environmental Educator of the Year” by an organization supporting restoration and environmental education efforts in the State of Maryland, United States.
Ophelia Barizo, a science teacher and current Vice-president for Advancement and STEM at Highland View Academy (HVA), a Seventh-day Adventist secondary school based in Hagerstown, Maryland, United States, received the honor awarded by the Chesapeake Bay Trust, a non-profit organization that has funded environmental education at HVA since 1999.
March 15, 2017 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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Instead of unwrapping gifts at his birthday party, Ulysses Hsu, 9, of Eastvale, California, United States, was taking donations forLoma Linda University Children’s Hospital(LLUCH), a Seventh-day Adventist healthcare institution in Loma Linda, California.
At his ninth birthday party, Hsu told his friends that he wanted to help support “Vision 2020: The Campaign for a Whole Tomorrow,” and by doing so he raised over $1,600.
March 14, 2017 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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