Loma Linda University School of Behavioral Health will provide financial assistance to 42 doctoral-level psychology students whose backgrounds include economic or educational hardship. A grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has made available $2.97 million in scholarship funds to the LLU students. Eligible students will receive up to $30,000 […]
29 June 2020 | The Adventist Laymen’s Services & Industries (ASI) National Convention, scheduled to take place in Orlando, Florida, July 27–August 1 this year, has been canceled. The ASI Convention is one of the largest Seventh-day Adventist events in North America each year. The event usually has many thousands of people attending and major […]
28 June 2020 | Adventist Today recently reached out to Andrews University to learn more about financial decisions taken by the university in light of the coronavirus crisis. In an email response to Adventist Today, Stephen Payne, the institution’s Special Assistant to the President for University & Public Affairs, acknowledged “limited layoffs” as part of […]
The $10 million in stimulus funds will be funneled to conferences via unions. The amount was determined after consideration regarding the “current and future financial health of the North American Division.” The funds would be split into two rounds of funding for conferences and an additional funding source for NAD ministries. From the NAD – […]
News reports from Southern Adventist University, Adventist Community Services & ADRA, Loma Linda University Health, Andrews University, the Southeastern California Conference, the North American Division, ADRA Europe and Watford, England: Southern Adventist University has installed enhanced air filtration systems in buildings throughout campus to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus as students return in […]
24 June 2020 | A woman represented by women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred has filed a lawsuit against California Correctional Institution (CCI) and Adventist Health after what she describes as sexual battery and violation in September 2019. The woman claims she went to visit her husband at a California Correctional Facility and was abused by […]
On June 4, 2020, Oakwood University established a George Floyd Memorial Scholarship to support students. The scholarship came as a response to a challenge by President Dr. Scott Hagen of North Central University in Minneapolis, MN, to establish a George Floyd Memorial Scholarship at every university in the United States. From Oakwood University – 23 […]
22 June 2020 | ABC10 reported today that Adventist Health Lodi Memorial has stopped taking non-COVID-19 patients as the facility has seen a spike in the number of staff members with the virus. The Lodi, California-based hospital did not put a figure on the number of staff with coronavirus but said it was less than […]
21 June 2020 | Jeff Pippenger, a former Adventist disfellowshipped for his extreme and bizarre prophetic predictions, is linked to a highly controversial anti-Islam ad run in The Tennessean newspaper. Run this Sunday, the ad, citing the Bible and the Seventh-day Adventist Church, warned Nashville, Tennessee, residents that a nuclear bomb would be detonated by […]
18 June 2020 | In a statement to Adventist Today, Dave Ferguson, director of church relations for Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International, shared his take on the June 15 U.S. Supreme Court ruling backing protection for LGBT workers. Ferguson also spoke to a response to the ruling by the General Conference and North American Division of […]
News reports from Kettering Adventist Church; Newbold Church; Loma Linda University Health; the GAiN Europe Uncertainty project; Denmark; Rocklin, California; Greater New York Conference and Argentina: Pastor Andrea Jakobsons has been chosen as the new senior pastor at the Kettering Adventist Church in Kettering, Ohio. Jakobsons has been serving as youth, collegiate and young adult […]
18 June 2020 | Julius Bichanga, president of the South Kenya Conference of the Adventist denomination, has been removed from office. Bichanga had repeatedly been accused of having a child outside wedlock – a charge against which he had successfully defended himself. Kenya’s The Star reported on June 15 that Bichanga was asked to leave […]
