by Bjorn Karlman | 29 October 2020 | Unsurprisingly, leadership decided it would be safest to hold the 2020 North American Division (NAD) Year-End Meetings virtually. Unlike the General Conference Annual Council earlier this month though, top brass opted to physically be at the NAD headquarters for the meetings, they weren’t going to Zoom from […]
29 October 2020 | This week, the Trans-European Division (TED) reported dates that non-ministerial courses at Newbold College will be terminated. The release of this information follows an announcement earlier this month in which the institution stated its intention to focus exclusively on ministerial education going forward. The latest TED report said the Executive Committee […]
28 October 2020 | After news that Steven Arauz, a gay sixth-grade teacher at Adventist-run Forest Lake Educational Center (FLEC) in Longwood, Florida, had been fired, the CEO and president of AdventHealth’s Central Florida hospitals wrote an email obtained by the Orlando Sentinel, saying he was “proud” to welcome workers and patients regardless of sexual […]
ADRA implemented a money transfer to 2,600 households, or roughly 13,000 individuals, to help cover a little more than 13 days of wages according to the minimum salary index set for Haiti. In addition to the money transfer, ADRA distributed educational pamphlets on COVID-19 and 500 wash kits. From ADRA – 26 October 2020 | […]
26 October 2020 | Shortly before coronavirus restrictions stopped in-store shopping in March, Adventist bookstores in Australia launched AdventistBookCentre.com.au, an online store uniting every physical store. The February launch of the online effort concluded a drawn-out process of getting the stores that are independently run in separate conferences, to work together. Since the launch, online […]
From ANN – 22 October 2020 | Those who live in the United States and the United Kingdom can now watch original (Adventist-produced) Feliz7Play productions through Amazon Prime Video. The Galápagos Adventures series and the Renascidos – Novo Coração, Uncertainties and Libertos movies are already in the video service catalog. More titles will be available in these and other countries in the near future. […]
News briefs from the Australian airline Qantas, Advent Health, Littleton Adventist Hospital, Newbold College and research about laughing from Loma Linda University: From ANN – A Seventh-day Adventist chiropractor has been selected as one of Qantas’ “100 Most Inspiring Australians.” 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of Australian airline Qantas. To celebrate this milestone, Qantas chose […]
21 October 2020 | Steven Arauz, a gay sixth-grade teacher at Adventist-run Forest Lake Educational Center (FLEC) in Longwood, Florida, has been fired. The Orlando Sentinel reported today that Arauz was fired after administration discovered his sexual orientation. The teacher “was viewed as a model foster and adoptive parent, a single dad who gave talks […]
20 October 2020 | The Adventist university in Beirut, Lebanon, announced increased enrollment for the start of the 2020-2021 school year. An ANN news story points out the growth for Middle East University (MEU) comes despite an economic crisis in the country as the local currency lost 80% of its value over the last several […]
19 October 2020 | On October 2, Religion News Service (RNS) published an interview with the president of the Adventist denomination’s North American Division (NAD), G. Alexander Bryant. The conversation focused on the idea of leveraging the church’s “strength of diversity.” Bryant was identified as “the second African American to lead his division of the […]
One Humanity: A Human Relations Statement Addressing Racism, Casteism, Tribalism, and Ethnocentrism was addressed in an October 11 presentation to Annual Council. The statement demonstrates the Church’s commitment to adhere to biblical principles and comes after recent events compelled Church leadership to clearly outline the Church’s official stance on these important issues. The October 11 presentation by […]
After collecting over a million signatures for the Every Child. Everywhere. In School. campaign, ADRA and the Adventist Church is entering phase two of the initiative: mobilizing government support for giving every child access to education. The second phase of the Every Child. Everywhere. In School. campaign will engage Adventist church members globally to advocate to policy makers to […]
