12 November 2019 | An Adventist congregation in the Holloway area of London has led an anti-knife crime protest through local streets. According to the Islington Gazette, the November 2 march was led by the Holloway Seventh-day Adventist Church youth and featured the congregation’s Pathfinder Drum Corp. The march was intended to make a public […]
11 November 2019 | Oakwood University and Ross University School of Medicine (RUSM) have entered into a partnership aimed at helping more African Americans to attend medical school. According to a Business Wire news story, African American currently only make up six percent of American physicians. The educational pathway program makes it easier for students […]
10 November 2019 | The California Department of Health identified seven violations in a September 19 investigation of Adventist Health Tulare. According to the Visalia Times-Delta, the violations include improper handling of a powerful narcotic, improper storage of a placenta, serving out-of-date food and operating a dirty kitchen. In addition to the above, the Tulare […]
8 November 2019 | Adventist Health is seeking $27 million in damages from Pacific Gas & Electric Co. after last year’s Camp Fire destroyed part of Adventist Health Feather River in Paradise, California. PG&E transmission lines were identified as the source of the fires by Cal Fire investigators. The health system will hear on December […]
We are delighted to be able to share videos and an extensive picture gallery of the Inaugural AT1 gathering that was held in Portland from October 4-6, 2019. The theme of our grace-focused weekend was Christ Challenges Culture. Enjoy the videos and pictures and please share them with your friends. This marks the start of […]
News reports from the West-Central Africa Division; Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital; ADRA Philippines; Porter Adventist Hospital and Andrews University: Adventist News Network reported the deaths of two former leaders of the West-Central Africa Division, Luka T. Daniel and Robert J. Kloosterhuis. Daniel, 76, was originally from Nigeria. He served as Union secretary, Union president, […]
6 November 2019 | The food and dietetics director for Hong Kong Adventist Hospital has done an analysis of nine different burger patties to look at their nutritional pros and cons. He spoke to the South China Morning Post about his findings. Wong Chi-Wing, a vegetarian, looked at both plant-based and real meat burgers. Each […]
by Stefani Leeper | 6 November 2019 | Last year marked the 50th year of the Madaba Plains Project, the longest-running archaeological dig in the Middle East—and, more interestingly, the first to be initiated by Adventists. The excavation spans three sites, known as Tal Hisban, Tal al-’Umayri, and Tal Jalul. “Their goal was to find […]
by Loren Seibold | 5 November 2019 | There were a lot of short reports today from various departments, most of which I’m going to ask you to read at Adventist Today‘s twitter feed. I think it is the full fatness of these reports, their glorious professionalism, the reach of all that the North American […]
5 November 2019 | WalletHub, a personal finance site, has listed Southwestern Adventist University on its Best Colleges List. The school was listed as No. 255 on the list out of 1000 US institutions compared across 33 measurements. According to the Cleburne Times-Review, Southwestern ranked No. 251 in student selectivity; No. 393 in cost and […]
5 November 2019 | The writers for Grey’s Anatomy, the longest-running ABC drama, recently received expert guidance from a Loma Linda University Health physician who visited the set of the show. Laren Tan, MD, medical director for hyperbaric medicine at Loma Linda University Health (LLUH), explained to the writers the process in which doctors “dive” […]
by Loren Seibold | 4 November 2019 | Yesterday General Conference (GC) lawyer Karnik Doukmetzian pulled me aside to say that I had misled some folks on Friday with my description of how the division president is selected. I had already discovered my mistake and corrected it, but I am most apologetic for getting it […]