ADRA’s Birds and Bees Project to Help Children in India Make Smart Choices About Health and Life Skills
The program features 27 courses designed to address the information gap around young people’s reproductive and sexual health and rights. It aims to provide young people with a comprehensive life skills module that addresses power, protection and pleasure. By 2023, the program aims to reach two million children across government and private schools in six […]
AT1–March 26, 2021
It’s easy to think that we can reason our way out of the circumstances we find ourselves in. We have been given sharp minds by our Creator and we should use them. But what happens when our logic and knowledge aren’t enough for your present challenges? What then? We’re so delighted you’ve found AT1. […]
If Death Is Like Sleep, Do the Dead Dream?
by Stephen Ferguson | 25 March 2021 | The Bible’s favourite metaphor for death is sleep. The analogy is used by Daniel (Dan. 12:2), Job (Job 3:11-17), David (Ps. 13:3), Luke (Acts 7:59-60), Paul (1 Cor. 15:20; 1 Thess. 4:15-17), and a host of other prophets and biblical authors. The most famous user of this […]
News Briefs for March 25, 2021
News reports from Trinidad and Tobago, La Sierra University, Adventist Health, Loma Linda University Cancer Center and Newsweek: The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian reported that Adventists in Moruga (southern Trinidad) organized a Protecting Our Women Motorcade with the message: “Women must never suffer in silence.” According to the Guardian, Robern Castle, the pastor of the […]
Visible Felt (Church) Leadership
by Alvin Masarira, PhD | 24 Mar 2021 | The previous organization I worked for was a global mining company operating both underground and surface mines, as well as ore-processing plants in various parts of Africa, South America and Australia. Mining operations are characterized by activities that pose high risks of injury and even fatality […]
Sharing Scripture for March 21 – 27, 2021
[symple_heading style=”” title=”Rebirth of Planet Earth” type=”h1″ font_size=”40″ text_align=”center” margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”30″ color=”undefined” icon_left=”” icon_right=””] 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 […]
Netflix Docuseries Features Adventist Choir Director
23 March 2021 | Voices of Fire, a Netflix docuseries about gospel music, featured Zina Johnson, choir director at Allegheny East Conference’s Capitol Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church in Washington, D.C. “The series, produced by recording artist Pharrell Williams, follows his uncle, Ezekiel Williams, and a team of gospel leaders as they travel to Hampton Roads, […]
Rocky Mountain Conference Statement on Tragedy in Boulder, Colorado
From the Rocky Mountain Conference – 23 March 2021 | The Rocky Mountain Conference is mourning with the community of Boulder after a senseless act of violence claimed the lives of ten individuals, including a law enforcement officer. We mourn for the families whose mother, father, partner, grandparent, or child had their life snuffed out […]
LLUH Partnership With Black Churches Increases COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Among Historically at-Risk Population
Focused education efforts and an on-site mobile clinic in Black church parking lots resulted in the vaccinations of 417 people, 84% of whom were Black, in San Bernardino County. The education initiative also resulted in increased Black attendance of mass vaccination clinics. The partnership among Black faith leaders, public health officials, and Black medical professionals […]
Churches on Hospice Care
By Linda McCabe | 22 March 2021 | I have spent much of my life in small churches. As a 4th-generation Adventist, I have filled many roles in at least 35 different Adventist congregations. A child, a teenager in an academy church, a typical adult in the pews, 5 years in full-time evangelism, nearly 30 […]