Loma Linda University Health is making a large-scale effort to vaccinate the community against COVID-19, currently with two vaccine clinic sites and the potential to expand in the future. San Bernardino County residents who fall in all tiers of phase 1A or are 65 years of age or older are eligible to get vaccinated. Appointments […]
29 January 2020 | Kenya’s Nation news site reported that a fire destroyed a dormitory building belonging to Tonga Omonuri Adventist Primary School in the country’s Nyamira South Sub-County on Wednesday night. According to Nation, the sub-county education quality assurance and standards officer, Seje Sylvance, said the fire broke out at the boys’ dormitory around […]
The December 17-19, 2020, anti-bullying camp trained youth aged 12 or older in ways to prevent bullying. Participants were also shown what to do if they themselves were bullied. Biblical principles of self-esteem and boundaries were explored. 29 January 2021 | From Adventist News Network (ANN) and the the Euro-Asia Division’s news site: The youth department […]
News reports from Washington Adventist University, Mozambique, Loma Linda University Health, Adventist Community Services and the Center For Youth Evangelism: Victory Sports Network reported that the Takoma Park, Maryland-based Washington Adventist University Athletics Department, has decided that it will not have intercollegiate athletics competitions in spring sports during the 2021 season. The university cited health […]
27 January 2021 | A major location change for the next International Pathfinder Camporee was announced yesterday The event that has been held in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, since 1999 will now move west to Gillette, Wyoming, for the next camporee, which is scheduled to take place August 5-11, 2024. A Pathfinder press release about the location […]
26 January 2021 | “The United States of America’s reputation as a shining light for the international community has been dimmed in recent years. The world has watched as our country repeatedly withdrew from positions of global leadership and turned inward,” said Michael Kruger, president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in the […]
The 2020 Excellence in Healthcare Award from the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) recognized top performance on clinical quality, patient experience, and cost measures. It also recognizes physician organizations that perform in the top 50% in all three major AMP areas: clinical quality, patient experience, and total cost of care. From LLUH – 25 January 2020 | […]
22 January 2021 | Yesterday, the Daily Beast news site referenced the Seventh-day Adventist Church in an article, citing it as evidence that disproven conspiracy theories would not necessarily be the end of the far-right QAnon movement. QAnon followers were thrown into disarray when now-US President Joe Biden was sworn in at his inauguration this […]
20 January 2021 | “The Secret to a Better and More Prosperous Life” was the theme of a week of presentations aimed at the Chinese population in the Inter-American Division (IAD) this month. Speakers tackled “social issues with a biblical perspective within the Chinese worldview,” according to an IAD news report on the outreach effort. […]
News reports from Adventist Health, Indonesia, South Carolina, Massachusetts and Colorado: From Adventist Health (edited for length): Roseville, California – Healthcare lost a larger-than-life figure when Frank F. Dupper passed away December 31, 2020 – 22 years to the day after he retired as president of Adventist Health – culminating a storied, three-decade career with […]
ADRA has donated 500,000 masks to La Sierra University to help combat the spread of the coronavirus in communities in the Riverside, California, area. La Sierra’s Zapara School of Business and students from the university’s Enactus program will coordinate the half-a-million 3-ply mask distribution to churches, schools and other establishments. ADRA’s humanitarian relief allies Partnership […]
19 January 2021 | On Sunday, a batch of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines that was considered more likely to elicit allergic reactions was administered by Adventist Health and public health personnel in Mendocino County, California. No severe reactions were recorded to the batch. “It should be noted, the reactions associated with this bad batch have been […]
