30 May 2020 | Dr. Ricardo Graham, president of the Pacific Union Conference of the Adventist Church, addressed George Floyd and the tragic realities of his death in the statement below. It was released today: But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! — Amos 5:24 (NIV) George Floyd must live […]
29 May 2020 | The North American Division (NAD) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has issued a press release addressing racism in recent events. The statement references the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. It requests prayerful consideration of how we interact with those in our communities, and asks that Adventists “speak […]
29 May 2020 | The Trans-European Division (TED) has released a Bible study challenging an idea advanced by Dr. Walter Veith and others that sets the year of Jesus’ return to be 2027 or by that date. This date recently became a popular conversation among Seventh-day Adventists through a video Veith participated in with Martin […]
28 May 2020 | The CEO of the Minnesota Council Of Churches (of which the Adventist denomination is not a member) has called for the prosecution of four police officers in Minneapolis who were involved in the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody. Floyd, 46, died Monday. Video […]
News reports from the denomination’s new digital missionary campaign; the Lake Union Conference; Public Campus Ministries; Iquitos, Peru; and Loma Linda University Health: Earlier this week, the Adventist Church announced an international digital evangelism initiative. The denomination is hoping to recruit 5,000 digital missionaries by May 31. “There are millions of people searching for answers […]
The 2020 Sonscreen Film Festival was supposed to be held April 2-5, 2020, at the Loma Linda University Church in California. The event was initially canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By April 13 the festival moved online and was attended by 250 online participants. At the festival’s conclusion, more than 450 film block entries […]
ADRA will provide food and medical supplies worth $2.4 million to the North American Division’s Adventist Community Services (ACS). The supplies will go to families and essential workers in the U.S. who are impacted by and responding to the COVID-19 crisis. From ADRA – 26 May 2020 | The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), […]
25 May 2020 | Adventist Today has learned the General Conference (GC) asked the North American Division (NAD) to delay electing vice presidents and department directors until June/July 2021. Sources close to the current conversations between the denominational entities said the GC wants their newly elected officers and directors to meet with NAD leadership and […]
24 May 2020 | Kenya’s Standard Digital reported on May 19 that a 76-year-old man was charged with maliciously damaging property belonging to the West Kenya Union Conference of the Adventist Church. Agal Achom allegedly destroyed the union’s concrete perimeter fence and its gate on January 10, 2020. He is accused of bulldozing the wall, […]
Fear too often fuels our interactions with others. Why do they have such crazy ideas? Why are they so physically/psychologically threatening? What do they think of me? These questions, and so many more, derail our healthy quest to understand each other. What does Jesus say to our fears? Here are supplemental materials you may […]
Loma Linda University Health is currently treating eligible COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma. Patients are treated through a transfusion of serum containing virus-neutralizing antibodies, which were removed from a recovered individual’s donated blood. A study published in April showed encouraging results from 10 severe adult cases who received the convalescent plasma, maintained or increased the […]
News reports from Kettering Health Network; Simi Valley Church in Southern California; Fresno, California; NAD Children and Family Ministries, Harvard University and Pacific Union Adventist Community Services: Dayton Daily News reported that Kettering Health Network employees were given 200 snow globes in honor of the May 10-16 National Hospital Week. The globes had notes thanking […]