17 September 2021 | Ariel Henry, Haiti’s Prime Minister and the brother of Pastor Élie Henry, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America, has been banned from leaving Haiti amid an investigation into his alleged connection to the killing of the former president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse on July 7. On Monday this week, […]
The online-only school was launched by the Education Department of the Western Russian Union. Classes are streamed from the Istok Christian School in Nizhny Novgorod. About 70 children and parents from Russia’s Kaliningrad to the Far East joined the live dedication of the school on September 1. From a Euro-Asia Division/ANN press release: On September […]
News reports from Loma Linda University Medical Center, Zambia, Australia, the South Pacific Division and Southwestern Adventist University: From a Loma Linda University Health Press Release: Physicians at Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) have completed 200 left atrial appendage closure procedures, more than any other healthcare institution across the Inland Empire. “It’s a sign […]
15 September 2021 | The Adventist Church in Jamaica is struggling with a vocal faction of the membership agitating against COVID vaccination. Jamaica’s The Gleaner reported this week that “conspiracy theories and anti-vaxxer sympathies are reportedly making inroads within the most populous denomination in Jamaica, chipping away at confidence in the national vaccination drive.” The […]
13 September 2021 | According to a news report from the Mid-America Union (MAUC), an overwhelming majority of constituency session delegates have voted in favor of allowing pastoral credentialing of both men and women as ordained ministers. The constituency meeting was held yesterday. “The MAUC Executive Committee first voted “to support the ordination of women […]
13 September 2021 | La Sierra University Church released a video announcement late last week from lead pastor Chris Oberg, announcing her intention to step away from her role at the congregation. Her last day in the role is November 1. “This is among the most difficult decisions in my journey and it’s not come […]
A press release from NAD News: Charles E. Bradford, first president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America (NAD), passed away on Thursday, September 9, 2021, in Huntsville, Alabama. He was 96. In 1979 Bradford was elected to succeed Neal C. Wilson as president of the NAD. Wilson, who served as a vice president […]
10 September 2021 | The Northern Asia-Pacific Division (NSD) of the Adventist Church is actively training missionaries to serve in North Korea. Most recently, a group of 30 young people received online training on August 19. According to an NSD news report, the trainees were “mostly composed of enthusiastic college students, with some high school […]
10 September 2021 | Three Loma Linda University Health Team PossAbilities athletes competed in the August 24 – September 5 Tokyo Paralympics. According to its website, PossAbilities is a free, Loma Linda University Health (LLUH) non-profit community outreach program. The goal of the program is to “provide those with permanent physical disabilities and veterans support […]
Acevedo became the first Seventh-day Adventist woman to be promoted to lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve. In 2001, Acevedo became the first Seventh-day Adventist woman to enter any military chaplaincy program in the United States Army. There are currently only six women chaplains throughout all the branches in the U.S. military. Acevedo served […]
News reports from Jamaica, Newsweek, Southern Adventist University, Loma Linda University Health and Ireland: According to the Jamaica Observer, Dr Newton Cleghorne, a vice president of Adventist-owned Northern Caribbean University (based in Mandeville, Jamaica), passed away Friday last week. “He died at age 67 reportedly of complications associated with COVID-19,” reported the newspaper. Cleghorne was […]
From AT innovation content partner site, AdventInnovate: 7 September 2021 | The leaders of the Adventurer and Pathfinder clubs at a church in southern Indiana recently decided to create TikTok content. “All the kids were on TikTok,” said Sabra Johnson, the Adventurer director for Jasper Church, explaining why she and her (Pathfinder leader) husband, Nick, […]
