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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 IADComm
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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 IADComm
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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 IADComm
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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 IADComm
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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 IADComm
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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 IADComm
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The Seventh-day Adventist Church will officially launch its five-year territory-wide evangelistic initiative called “Lord Transform Me” during a satellite event on April 16, 2016, from one of its largest city across the Inter-American Division (IAD) territory, in Caracas, Venezuela.
Top church leaders will highlight the results of evangelism efforts driven by thousands of pastors and active church members during the last three months as well as intensive community outreach done in Caracas.
April 8, 2016 in From the Headquarter, RSS English by IADComm
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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 IADComm
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The Adventist Hospital in Haiti, Hopital Adventiste d’Haiti (HAH), celebrated 35 years of providing health care services with the inauguration of a state-of-the-art surgical suite, a new laboratory and the installation of a private multi-med clinic, in Diquini, Carrefour, near Port-au-Prince on Apr. 1, 2016.
The event drew top Haiti government officials, officials from Loma Linda University (LLU) and Adventist Health International (AHI), Florida Hospital, surgeons, and community members. Many in attendance were witnesses to the hospital’s humble beginnings in the early 1980s.
April 4, 2016 in From the Headquarter, RSS English by IADComm
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The Seventh-day Adventist Church’s official membership has topped 19 million for the first time in history, and the number of local churches has doubled worldwide to more than 80,000 in just two decades, according to newly released figures.
The Adventist Church had 19,126,447 members as of Dec. 31, 2015, a net increase of 647,144 people, or 3.5 percent, from the previous year, the church’s Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research said.
April 4, 2016 in From the World Church, RSS English by IADComm
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