March 20, 2017: A Southwestern Adventist University trustee has made a $170,000 donation to renovate facilities for a university sports field. Timothy Bainum made the $170,000 gift in honor of his mother, Evea Bainum. She graduated from the Keene, Texas-based institution in 1941 and also served on its board of trustees. The funds will […]
March 19, 2017: A virtual storm of social media updates erupted as Adventist youth around the globe flooded the online world with their experiences of Global Youth Day 2017. Youth volunteered in various practical community-based service projects in an effort to “be the sermon” on Saturday, March 18. Using the hashtag #GYD17, Adventist youth […]
March 16, 2017: A dilapidated home on Adventist-owned property in Brunswick, Georgia was torched on purpose by firefighters on March 12. The building was in serious disrepair and Brunswick Seventh-Day Adventist Church decided it was cheaper to burn the building on its property down than to pay for its demolition. Georgia’s lower coast newspaper […]
March 15, 2017: A Ghanian Adventist has sued the Ghanian government over two projects of a religious nature. James Kwabena Bomfeh Jr.’s suit has reached Ghana’s Supreme Court. The case focuses on what Bomfeh describes as excessive entanglement of the state in religious practices. The first of these cases handles government involvement in organizing […]
March 14, 2017: Healogics, the largest wound care management company in America, selected the Wound Care Center at Porter Adventist Hospital as its Wound Care Center of the Year. Porter Adventist Wound Care Center also was designated as a Center of Excellence according to a March 14 report from the Business Wire news service. […]
March 13, 2017: Indian-American entrepreneur Dr. Kiran Patel and his wife Dr. Pallavi Patel have made a $5 million donation to Florida Hospital Carrollwood. The gift is a sizable portion of the $21 million the Tampa-area hospital needs to build a new Catherization Lab and expand its Emergency Department. Kiran Patel owns medical insurance […]
March 13, 2017: A graduate of Loma Linda University Medical School is gearing up to oust the member of the United States Congress from her district in Utah. Kathryn Allen, a Democrat, hopes to unseat Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican, in 2018. Allen graduated from Loma Linda with a medical degree in 1984. She […]
March 9, 2017: NPR affiliate Michigan Radio published a report of 6-year graduation rates for African American students in Michigan. The report originally came from an advocacy group called The Education Trust. The group advocates for high academic achievement, especially for ethnic minorities and low-income students. Of the schools listed, Andrews University was the only […]
March 8, 2017: A March 3 Kenyan Court of Appeal ruling has given Adventists in the country a major victory. Kenya’s The Standard newspaper reported that Adventist students at state schools will no longer be required to attend classes on Saturday. The court ruled that forcing Adventist students to study on Saturday was an […]
March 7, 2017: An Adventist mentoring program targeting 7,000 at-risk inner city youth is set to launch in Western Jamaica. The program is designed to tackle the soaring crime rate in this part of the country. It pairs young Adventist mentors with youth in the church that have been identified as showing antisocial behaviors […]
March 6, 2017: A major addition to the Emergency Department at Adventist Health’s Simi Valley Hospital recently opened. The Thakkar Family Emergency Pavilion came with a $41 million price tag. Its opening was celebrated with a dedication ceremony on March 2. An additional 5,500-square-feet were added to the emergency medicine services of the hospital, […]
March 5, 2017: American-born Swedish maestro and Adventist icon Herbert Blomstedt is 90 years old and will conduct more than 90 concerts this year with the best orchestras in the world. A February 20 New York Times interview with the conductor profiled the intense pace of activity that the conductor maintains. This year his […]
