More than 2,500 people attended the European AYC 22 in Lahti, Finland, this August. The Congress app Whova featured chat groups for Adventists looking to explore dating opportunities. The Instagram account AYC22 Memes brought out the humor of looking for love at an Adventist Youth Congress. 21 August 2022 | The European Adventist Youth Congress […]

Russian Adventist church members collected funds and donations for people from the Donbas who were brought to Ostrogozhsk, Russia. More than 1 million people have been evacuated from Ukraine into Russia since Feb. 24, 2022, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in April 2022, reported Reuters news agency. But U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken […]

News reports from Australia, Inter-European Division, Mexico, Southern University, the United States. A New Day Darriel Hoy recently assumed a historic role at two churches in Louisiana, U.S.: the first female pastor at Faith Seventh-day Adventist Church in Baton Rouge and Morning Star Seventh-day Adventist Church in Lafayette. During Hoy’s work with the youth at […]

Andrews University President Andrea Luxton and Pioneer Memorial Church (Andrews University’s campus church) lead pastor Dwight Nelson will be leaving their positions in June 2023. When Nelson leaves, he will have pastored at PMC for 40 years. Nelson said the time had come to turn the congregation over to “a younger leader.” 17 August 2022 […]

New contract between Adventist Health and Anthem Blue Cross is effective immediately, meaning patients will not lose coverage. The agreement follows months of back-and-forth and two negotiation extensions. Adventist Health had said it needed Anthem Blue Cross to pay higher reimbursement rates in order to cover expenses. 16 August 2022 | The Adventist Health healthcare […]

2 Adventist young adults, Angeilyn P. Antivo and Rowell B. Velonza, represented the Philippines, a country where Catholicism is the dominant religion, at the ASEAN Youth Interfaith Camp (AYIC) 2022. Antivo and Velonza gave a presentation on SADFREE (Smoking, Alcohol and Drugs Free), a movement that aims to save young people from the harmful effects […]

Karen Musick is one of the leaders of the Arkansas Abortion Support Network, which seeks to reduce barriers to abortion access in Arkansas through clinic escorting, abortion funding, community outreach, and education, according to its website. Musick was also an escort at the only clinic in Arkansas that performed surgical abortions. Musick attended Adventist schools […]

Opera singer Dae-bum Lee suffered a stroke in September 2020. Although Dae-bum Lee cannot speak, he can still sing. Dae-bum Lee performed “The Lord’s Prayer” via video submission on June 6, 2022, for the GC session. 11 August 2022  |  by MaryEllen Hacko via Adventist News Network: The 61st General Conference (GC) Session of the […]

News reports from Andrews University, Europe, North American Division, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States. Memorial Service for Dan Jackson On Sabbath morning, July 23, 2022, Daniel R. Jackson, former president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America, passed to his rest after several months of battling cancer. He was 73. Condolences […]

New study found that a majority of millennials that engage in digital religious or spiritual activities at least once a month also participate in in-person forms of religion or spirituality once a month or more. Study found that 32% of millennials in the United States and Canada engage in digital religious or spiritual activities at […]

Dozens of women claimed to have been groomed and then sexually abused by Adventist pastors from different churches in Trinidad and Tobago, reported the Loop. Grooming and sexual harassment is also claimed to be prevalent at University of Southern Caribbean. Grooming often starts with friendship. 10 August 2022 | The Loop Caribbean, a news website, […]

Each student chose and researched a female Adventist leader and then wrote and submitted a short biography for the Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists. “Ellen White was actually part of a larger group of women who provided support, evangelism as well as leadership,” said Michael Campbell, new NAD Archives, Research & Statistics director. In the decades […]