A Seventh-day Adventist missionary missing in Belize for a week was confirmed deceased on January 2, media reports indicate. Brian Townsend, a missionary living in the Valley of Peace area of Belize, went missing on December 24, 2013.
Thousands of Seventh-day Adventists from all 50 United States and 60 other countries heard a clarion call for holiness and dedication to the movement’s core message on the morning of Sabbath, January 4, as the annual “Generation. Youth. Christ.” (GYC) event reached its zenith in Orlando, Florida.
The world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventists Church has been the victim of cyber theft which has defrauded the church of approximately U.S.$500,000. The theft involved funds that were being transferred on behalf of a denominational entity.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church, one of the fastest-growing Christian denominations in the world, has recorded more than 18 million baptized members. There were 18,028,796 Seventh-day Adventists worldwide as of September 30, according to the church’s Office of Archives, Statistics and Research.
A winter storm that dumped three to five inches of snow and slush on the sidewalks of New York, not to mention its roadways, didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of hundreds of Seventh-day Adventists who braved the elements to attend three events marking a year of evangelism in America’s largest metropolis.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church yesterday filed an amicus, or “friend of the court” brief in support of an American woman whose claims she was denied a job because her head-covering violated company policy.
As a Christmas gift this year, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency is suggesting nails, rope or a machete. For those wishing something even more unusual, the agency suggests a cow, goat or bees.
December 03, 2013 | Silver Spring, Maryland, United States | Author: Vania Chew/SPD/ANN staff Seventh-day Adventist human rights advocates are urging church members worldwide to send encouragement in the form of Christmas cards to three members in prison on what church officials say are false charges. More than a year and a half has passed […]
More of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s 13 world divisions are preparing their recommendation to the world church’s Theology of Ordination Study Committee.
Isai Bautista couldn’t read a word—“nada,” he says—when he transferred to the Bronx-Manhattan Seventh-day Adventist School in the third grade. Now he’s graduating from eighth grade with honors, thanks, in part, to a dedicated teacher who worked with him every day after school.
