ADRA Continues Aid in St. Vincent and the Grenadines Four Months After Volcanic Eruption
An estimated 23,400 people were displaced to the southern end of St Vincent Island and some neighboring countries due to the April 9 eruption. Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) declared an emergency category two response according to its global emergency response mechanisms and rapidly started providing food assistance to displaced people at nine shelters. […]
Panamanian Adventist Athlete Competes in Tokyo Olympics
6 August 2021 | Nathalee Aranda, a 26-year-old Adventist athlete from Panama, competed in the long jump category at the Olympic Games in Japan, on Sunday, August 1. Although Aranda did not make it past the first round of the competition, the Adventist community has focused on the fact that she qualified for the Olympics. […]
Harvest Ingathering: A Personal History
By Loren Seibold | 6 August 2021 | I landed my first solo pastorate in the far southeastern corner of South Dakota. There are few things that make Yankton, South Dakota, memorable. But there is one I enjoy telling Adventists about: it was in that district where a convert named Jasper Wayne, who owned a […]
AdventHealth Buys Orlando’s Holy Land Experience For $32 Million, Plans To Use Location For Medical Purposes
6 August 2021 | AdventHealth, the Adventist hospital network headquartered in Altamonte, Florida, has purchased The Holy Land Experience, a theme park, for $32 million. AdventHealth plans to convert the theme park into a medical campus to serve Orlando residents. Discussing the purchase, AdventHealth Comms Director Amy Pavuk-Gentry said to the Orlando Business Journal, “it’s important […]
AT1 — August 6, 2021
We’re heading back into unusual times, just when we thought things might be getting better. Our frustration can show up in the words we use with others, or the non-verbal communication that conveys our grief. Jesus invites us to carefully communicate what’s on our hearts. We’re so delighted you’ve found AT1. From our inspirational […]
EUD Addresses Controversial Adventist Attendance of Ecumenical Gathering
From an EUD News release: 5 August 2021 | On June 12, 2021, a ceremony took place in Italy among clerics of different religious denominations, presented by its organizers as a commemoration of the passage of the tenth anniversary of the constitution of the Council of Christian Churches of Marche and the twentieth anniversary of […]
News Briefs for August 5, 2021
News reports from Southern Adventist University, ADRA Bulgaria, Andrews University, Breath of Life Ministries and a Maryland father-and-son sea kayaking team: From a Southern Adventist University press release: Southern Adventist University has expanded the academic options offered in digital fields such as web design and cyber security. Two new degrees and several additional concentrations will […]
The Art of Remembering: How We Tell the Sabbath Story – 7 August ’21
4 August 2021 | Read Dr. Frey’s paper about the Sabbath’s lessons of justice and equality here. The Art of Remembering: It Matters How We Tell the Sabbath Story I remember the girl, 8 years old, trembling beneath a towering, gray-haired madman teacher. To the left of her outstretched arms twenty-four students held their breath. […]
Sharing Scripture — August 1 – 7, 2021
This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS lesson and includes a brief story from current news you can use to introduce the discussion and then a series of discussion […]
The Religious Establishment vs. the Gospel
by Daniel A. Mora | 3 August 2021 | In the prologue to John’s Gospel we find this statement: “He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him” (John 1:11 NIV). On reading that, we first think of the people of Israel—that it was the Jewish people who did […]