News reports from Southwestern Adventist University, La Sierra University, Loma Linda University Health, Australia and Newbold College: From the North American Division (NAD): Southwestern Adventist University (SWAU) has been selected as a recipient for a $90,000 Nursing Innovation Grant Program (NIGP) award under the 2020-2022 RFA (Request for Applications) entitled “Supporting Clinical Learning Experiences to […]
11 November 2020 | The Adventist Today Foundation board voted on November 8 to appoint Paul Richardson as Executive Director (CEO) as of January 1, 2021. Current Chief Executive Officer, Monte Sahlin, announced his retirement at the organization’s September board meeting, setting into motion a successor selection by the nominating committee. Richardson has been a […]
11 November 2020 | Retired professional soccer player, Luther Blissett (pictured above on the right), has announced he will support an Adventist community service center in Watford, England (a town just north of London). Blissett is a former player on England’s national soccer team as well as a number of clubs including Watford FC (football […]
10 November 2020 | In last week’s general election in the United States, the two Adventists who serve in Congress were each easily re-elected. Sheila Jackson Lee represents District 18 in Texas and has served since January 1995. Before first being elected to Congress she served as an elected city council member in Houston from […]
4-year-old Juniper — whose trail name is “Beast” — is believed to be the youngest person to complete the iconic 2,193-mile hike from Georgia to Maine. She’s the youngest member of a volunteer physician family serving in the Northern African country of Chad. The family took a seven-month break to hike the Appalachian Trail. Juniper’s parents, Doctors Olen […]
From ADRA — On October 30, a powerful earthquake struck the Aegean Sea rattling the countries of Turkey and Greece. It was felt as far away as Athens and Istanbul. Turkey and Greece are located on or near many active fault lines, where earthquakes are fairly common in the region, according to the US Geological […]
The family of Heritage Singers co-founder Max Mace (born 1937), announced on Wednesday, November 4, that he had passed to his rest earlier that day. The Adventist musician and his wife, Lucy Mace, founded Heritage Singers in 1971. Extremely popular with Adventist audiences, the gospel group has performed for almost 50 years, putting on over […]
News reports from France; Austria; Shawnee Mission, Kansas; Adventist Community Services relief work in the Western and Southern United States and archaeology news from La Sierra University: From APD – After the recent fatal attacks in France, the national leader of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, Pastor Ruben de Abreu, condemned the acts of violence. “These recent […]
Two aid relief workers employed by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), along with an unidentified person, were released on November 3 by anonymous captors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The three were returning from the Mulongwe refugee camp in eastern DRC’s South Kivu province when they were abducted and held against their […]
North American Division (NAD) Treasurer Randy Robinson’s report on Monday morning, November 2, was one of the more hotly anticipated parts of the division’s 2020 year-end meetings. And, all things considered, the financial news wasn’t that bad. Robinson said 2020 was going well until COVID but painted a positive picture of how the church had […]
by Bjorn Karlman Sunday, November 1, was the first full day of business for the North American Division (NAD) Year-End Meetings. Thursday last week was a shorter day and the only thing scheduled for Friday was evening vespers. After reports from Christian Record Services for the Blind and Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries, NAD president G. Alexander […]
News reports from Australia’s Avondale College, Washington Adventist University, Germany’s Friedensau University, the Pacific Union Conference, Nigeria, the 2020 Virtual Summit on Abuse, the NAD Ministerial Association and some very well-travelled lovebirds!: Avondale College, the Adventist institution in Australia, is more research intensive than some public universities despite receiving no government funding, says a national newspaper. It […]
