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Britain’s Queen awards Adventist student for work in Papua New Guinea

Queen Elizabeth II has presented a Seventh-day Adventist law student with the Commonwealth Pacific Young Person of the Year award for his efforts to provide scholarships to teens in remote villages in Papua New Guinea.

Bal Kama, a doctoral student at the Australian National University College of Law and a member of the Canberra National Adventist Church, was announced as the regional winner of the 2016 Commonwealth Youth Awards for Excellence in Development Work at a ceremony in London last month.

April 21, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by

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Inter-America postpones satellite transmission from Venezuela

Inter-America’s satellite program scheduled for today from Caracas, Venezuela, has been postponed for a later date.

“We faced some technical issues beyond our control for this transmission,” said Abel Marquez, communications director for the church in Inter-America in charge of overseeing the satellite connection.

April 16, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by

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Tim Northrop named president of Adventist Risk Management

The board of Adventist Risk Management has named Tim Northrop as the new president and chief executive of the company and its affiliated Gencon Insurance companies.

Northrop, who has held multiple positions within the company, most recently as senior vice president, replaces Robert E. Kyte, who will retire May 31 to pursue other business opportunities in Idaho.

April 14, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by

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Church leadership meetings open with evangelism focus

Executive committee members of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists assembled with a focus on evangelism even before the official start of the world church’s 2016 Spring Meetings Tuesday, April 12, in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.

During the morning’s devotional period, Italo Osario, an enterprise system architect at the world headquarters spoke about the evangelistic potential found in today’s information technologies.

April 14, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by

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​Mission to cities goals, prayer needs outlined by world division leaders at spring meeting session

Ambitious goals — and audacious prayer requests — were outlined Tuesday afternoon, April 12, by leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s 13 world divisions during the second of three Spring Meeting sessions held at the world church’s headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.

April 14, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by

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Adventist scholars organize key conference on origins of Bible’s first 5 books

Why doesn’t the world see what we see?”

The question, raised at the start of one presenter’s presentation during a Horn Lectureship Series conference at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University, encapsulates succinctly the struggle nearly all scholars and laypeople have when dealing with the composition of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible.

April 13, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by

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Shaky economy costs General Conference millions of dollars

An unsteady global economy shaved 20 percent off the income received by the General Conference last year, and church leaders are reworking budgetary plans as they prayerfully seek to navigate the uncharted waters ahead.

While tithe and offerings remained strong worldwide in 2015, exchange-rate losses linked to the fluctuations of regional currencies against the U.S. dollar cost the General Conference, the administrative body that oversees the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a total of $19.4 million.

April 12, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by

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Derek Morris named president of Hope Channel

Derek Morris, editor of Ministry magazine, has been named president of Hope Channel, the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s international television network with 43 affiliate channels.

Morris succeeds Brad Thorp, president of Hope Channel since its inception in 2003, who has been appointed as a field secretary of the Adventist world church, responsible for overseeing the church’s work in major cities.

April 12, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by

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Adventists to oversee medical care at new refugee camp in Greece

Seventh-day Adventist volunteers will oversee all medical services at a new refugee camp near Athens after Greece’s military handed over the keys to the camp this week.

Adventist Help, a bus-based medical clinic operated by ASI Europe, an Adventist supporting ministry, will be responsible for caring for up to 2,000 refugees at the Oinofyta camp, which will open its doors in the upcoming days.

April 11, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by

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‘We are God’s hands’ in Europe’s refugee crisis

Fatima fled Syria with her three young children.

Fatima’s husband and her father were beheaded back home. She was on a desperate search for peace and shelter for her children. It was never her choice or desire to be stuck in a refugee transit camp at Hegyeshalom, on the Hungary- Austria border.

It was simply her least-worst option.

April 7, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by

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