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Less than 36 hours after the mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, the Forest Lake Seventh-day Adventist Church in the nearby city of Apopka announced on Facebook that it would host, free of charge, funeral services for those killed.
The post said the church “is extending their availability for FREE funeral services for any LGBT victims of the #thePulse shooting.” The church also offered to stream the services live on the Internet for family and friends who could not attend.
June 21, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) released the following statement in honor of World Refugee Day.
This World Refugee Day, there are more than 60 million people around the world who are internally displaced, seeking asylum, or living as refugees in other countries. The United Nations has described the Syrian crisis, which has displaced approximately half of the country’s population, as the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era.
June 21, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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Students from Washington Adventist University cleaned streets, painted houses, and conducted a health screening clinic in Havana, Cuba, marking the first time that a Seventh-day Adventist university in North America has sponsored a humanitarian mission trip on the Caribbean island in living memory.
A group of 11 student and faculty volunteers painted 20 homes and treated 186 people at the health screening clinic during the 10-day visit, the university said this week.
June 20, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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Daniel R. Jackson, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America, issued the following statement on June 12, 2016, in response to the mass shooting at the Pulse Club in Orlando, Florida:
“The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America is heartbroken as we mourn the loss of innocent lives in the deadliest mass shooting in United States history. We extend our deepest condolences and prayers for the 50 people killed, the 53 wounded, their families, loved ones, and friends.
June 13, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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With religious intolerance growing in Brazil, about 500 Seventh-day Adventists gathered on the São Paulo campus of Brazil Adventist University (Unasp) to learn how they could defend religious freedom in their own communities.
The training session was the first of its kind and marks a shift in church strategy by introducing a more practical approach to the issue, said Hélio Carnassale, director of the religious liberty department of the Adventist Church’s South American Division, which organized the event.
June 10, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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The first small-town free clinic organized by Your Best Pathway to Health — which will be held in Beckley, West Virginia, on July 13-15 — is actually the brainchild of the Acceptance Sabbath School class at the Collegedale Seventh-day Adventist Church in Collegedale, Tennessee.
“Several years ago, our mission committee felt that passively writing checks for missions, while good, wasn’t enough,” said Bob Gadd, leader of the class of about 100 members. “We wanted the class members to experience missions as well.”
June 7, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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At a Seventh-day Adventist-sponsored dinner in Washington, D.C, a high-ranking African Union official challenged the international community to step up its efforts to track and respond to religious intolerance and sectarian violence.
Erastus J.O. Mwencha, Jr., deputy chairman of the African Union, told a group of Washington D.C.’s policy makers and thought-leaders gathered for the 14th annual Religious Liberty Dinner on May 24, that there’s no room for complacency when it comes to defending religious freedom.
June 5, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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Hurrying down the rocky path toward the Mudende Seventh-day Adventist Church, my interpreter and I called out our usual greetings and invitations to gawking residents to attend ongoing evangelistic meetings.
Many people replied, “See you there!” with bright smiles. Few of them had ever seen a white person up close in this mountainous corner of Rwanda overlooking the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
June 1, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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Paul Ratsara has resigned as president of the Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division of Seventh-day Adventists in what he described as an effort “to refocus the church that I love, back to its God-given mission.”
The General Conference Executive Committee, voting Tuesday, accepted a request from Ratsara to step aside for possible reassignment as a local church district pastor in his home Indian Ocean Union, which includes Madagascar, Mauritius, and Seychelles.
May 31, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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A Belgian citizen visiting relatives in a corner of Rwanda. A 19-year-old woman who will lose her job. A police officer assigned to protect Seventh-day Adventist Church president Ted N.C. Wilson.
These are among the record-breaking 95,890 people who accepted Christ in baptism during a two-week evangelistic series that wrapped up this weekend, church leaders said Sunday.
May 29, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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