News reports from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); Huntsville, Alabama; two stories from Loma Linda University Health; and Time For Equality in Ministry: According to HR Dive, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed Sept. 17 (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Frito-Lay, Inc., No. 9:20-cv-81689 (S.D. Fla., […]
On September 29, 2020, the ADRA Board of Directors unanimously elected Michael Kruger as its new president, effective immediately. Kruger was elected president in October 2019 to complete the five-year term of former president Jonathan Duffy. The ADRA Board of Directors selected Kruger after a global executive search for a permanent president. From ADRA – […]
29 September 2020 | Earlier today, the Ellen G. White Estate shared a series of photos of Elmshaven, Ellen White’s final home, and its surroundings. The Facebook photos showed the St. Helena, California, home unscathed while surroundings had burned. “The fires reached Elmshaven and miraculously it was spared,” said the White Estate Facebook post. Echoing […]
28 September 2020 | Pacific Union College has evacuated due to the Glass Fire in Napa County. A Facebook update from the college posted 23 hours ago stated there was no threat to the school so far but the school had evacuated, “following local evacuation orders for safety due to wildfire in Napa County.” The […]
From Adventist Health – 27 September 2020 | Out of an abundance of caution, Adventist Health St. Helena is temporarily suspending patient care services and evacuating all patients, due to the Glass Fire, President Steven Herber, MD, announced Sunday morning. All patients will be transferred to other hospital locations in a safe and orderly manner, and […]
ADRA is is piloting a cryosurgery cancer treatment for persons with albinism in Tanzania. The project focuses on cancer prevention, detection, and treatment by the use of cryosurgery technology. Cryosurgery uses liquid nitrogen to remove precancerous lesions from the skin of people with albinism before they develop into cancer. From ADRA – 24 September 2020 | The […]
News reports from La Sierra University; LangeTwins Family Winery in Lodi, California; Tuolumne (California) County Superior Court and Southern Adventist University: Adventists continue to conduct one of the largest Biblical archaeology projects in the world: the Madaba Plains in Jordan. An update on this project as well as others will be shared during the annual […]
23 September 2020 | West Kenya Union President Samuel Misiani is facing accusations he awarded a lucrative construction project to Achera and Partners Limited, a firm associated with his brother, Charles Achera. The contract is worth Sh300 million, over USD 2.7 million. It is for the construction of a staff housing project to be built […]
22 September 2020 | The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings have identified Adventist-run La Sierra University as the most diverse university in the country. Diversity in this ranking is based on criteria including the percentage of Pell Grant recipients (awarded to students from low-income backgrounds), the racial and ethnic diversity represented in students […]
21 September 2020 | Heidi Butler, 38, until recently an employee of Adventist Health Sonora, is in custody after being accused of a murder-for-hire plot. The Union-Democrat reported Butler was allegedly targeting her husband. Her attorney argues that Butler suffered a mental health breakdown due to her high-pressure front-line role as a nurse. Butler was lead […]
20 September 2020 | Jey Reis, an Adventist teen in Bahia, Brazil, has launched a career on the video platform TikTok where she has 1.2 million followers. According to an Adventist News Network (ANN) story, Jey Jey (her social media identity) has posted over 300 videos, all of them about Jesus. The videos have garnered […]
17 September 2020 | In a September 16 statement released by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the denomination apologizes for racism among members and church entities. The statement is titled “ONE HUMANITY: A HUMAN RELATIONS STATEMENT ADDRESSING RACISM, CASTEISM, TRIBALISM, AND ETHNOCENTRISM.” Halfway through the third paragraph of the statement comes the acknowledgment and […]
