Free camel rides. A Bedouin tent. An iPad giveaway.
Homer Trecartin, leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Middle East and North Africa, batted back and forth these ideas at a brainstorming session with his communication coordinator, Chanmin Chung.
The leader of the Adventist Church in Nepal said overwhelming fear gripped the capital, Kathmandu, after a major earthquake struck on Tuesday, two weeks after another earthquake killed more than 8,000.
Umesh Pokharel, president of the Nepal Section, part of the Southern Asia Division, asked for Adventist believers worldwide to pray for the country.
Adventist Church leader Ted N.C. Wilson has embarked on a South American tour that will see him speak 26 times in 11 days as he attends baptisms, parades, and building inaugurations from Peru to Easter Island.
The frenetic pace will keep up after the trip ends. Days after returning to Adventist world church headquarters in the U.S., Wilson will depart for a two-week evangelistic series in Zimbabwe.
As the 2016 United States election cycle begins, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is aware of the increased interest in the presidential candidacy of Dr. Ben Carson.
Dr. Carson’s story is well known to most Adventists, and he is a well-respected physician.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Hungary and a breakaway group of hundreds of former Adventists has agreed to put aside past grievances and work toward healing a 40-year schism.
The Hungarian church split in 1975 amid a protest by young pastors and other members over local church leaders’ collaboration with the Council of Free Churches, a body formed to represent the common interests of small Protestant denominations that later become a tool of the communist state.
Ernesto Olivares Miranda, a Seventh-day Adventist from Chile, is a member of a team of mountaineers who were on Mount Everest when the 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal on Saturday, April 25.
“We were at the base camp when it began to tremble. The glacier sounded with movement and cracking. The clouds that covered the surrounding mountains did not allow us to see much.
A senior U.S. senator said religious freedom was under threat in the United States and around the world and praised the Seventh-day Adventist Church for playing a major role in defending it.
Senator Orrin Hatch, speaking at an annual religious liberty dinner sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, criticized the situation with religious freedom in countries such as China, Iran, Nigeria, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.
An ADRA emergency response team arrived in Nepal on Tuesday to step up efforts to provide food and shelter to scores of people left destitute by a deadly earthquake last weekend.
The April 25 disaster killed more than 5,000 people and left another 10,000 injured, Nepalese authorities said.
The president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Nepal appealed for urgent help Monday for scores of church members who lost everything in a devastating earthquake over the weekend.
Members are in immediate need of warm clothing, drinking water, and tents to cope with living outdoors in cold, sometimes rainy weather after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on Sabbath, April 25, killing more than 4,000 people and injuring 7,000, said Umesh Pokharel, president of the Nepal Section, an attached field of the Adventist Church’s Southern Asia Division.
Seventh-day Adventist Church President Ted N. C. Wilson issued the following statement today in regarding the 7.8 magnitude quake which struck in Nepal on April 25, 2015:
“On the day that the world is remembering Chernobyl, the nuclear accident that occurred 29 years ago, Nepal is facing its worst earthquake in the last 80 years. The human suffering breaks our hearts and moves us with deep sympathy for the thousands of families who have experienced loss.
