9 August 2021 | Orange County, Florida, has been under a state of emergency due to rising COVID-19 hospitalizations but that didn’t stop the in-person 2021 Adventist-laymen’s Services and Industries (ASI) International Convention from going ahead August 4-7. As of July 27, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that even vaccinated […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
2 August 2021 | A press release from Adventist Health: ROSEVILLE, California – Scott Reiner, the visionary Adventist Health CEO who has led the nonprofit, faith-based company to reimagine the future of healthcare, is leaving at year end to establish a family foundation that is focused on global health and well-being, Board Chairman Dr. Ricardo […]
30 July 2021 | The pastor of the Adventist church where missing 5-year-old Summer Wells attended church with her family has protested social media attacks targeting his members. Summer has been missing for over a month. Earlier this month, Pastor David Ryder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kingsport, Tennessee, told News Channel 11 the […]
30 July 2021 | An independent Adventist ministry in Jamaica has put up billboards in several neighborhoods of Kingston (the country’s capital) to warn that the government is getting ready to introduce a Sunday Law nationally. Vincent Hoo and Wilhelm Lecky, leaders of FTB Ministries, are behind the billboard that warns “Sunday worship will be […]
30 July 2021 | AdventHealth hospitals in Central Florida are approaching an all-time record high of coronavirus cases “This is clearly what has been described as a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” said Dr. Victor Herrera, AdventHealth Orlando’s chief medical officer this week according to Daily Commercial. “Over 90 percent of patients that are in the […]
30 July 2021 | A news release from Northeastern Conference Communications: General Conference President Ted Wilson, accompanied by North American Division President Alex Bryant led out in the ribbon cutting ceremony for a new Northeastern Towers Annex, a 158-unit affordable housing complex sponsored by the Northeastern Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, on July 21, 2021. The […]
