5 September 2024 | News from Ghana The General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church West Central Africa Division (WAD) has distributed electrocardiogram machines in 22 African countries to address rising heart-related attacks. The machines were offered at the opening of the Health Ministries International Conference through the 500,000 WAD Heart Health Project. Full story […]
4 September 2024 | Conrad Vine’s well-publicized sermons at the Northern Maine Camp Meeting have continued to cause problems for the popular right-wing anti-vaccination speaker. The latest organization to ban him from their pulpits is the one where he lives: the Michigan Conference. In a 3 September letter, conference president Jim Micheff wrote, During a […]
3 September 2024 | In 2020, it was determined that over 70% of deaths in the Solomon Islands are due to non-communicable diseases, mainly diabetes. Due to this statistic, the health ministries at the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church established The 10,000 Toes Campaign, which, according to their website aims to: Equip […]
2 September 2024| The Faculty of Engineering and Business at the Adventist University of Chile (UnACh) has launched a project called the Agro-Photovoltaic System (AgroPv), focused on a dual purpose: generating electrical energy using solar radiation and developing fruit orchards under photovoltaic panel structures. Photovoltaic panels use photovoltaic cells to convert sunshine into voltage which […]
30 August 2024 | In a letter to Adventist Today, in response to our report about his Northern Maine Camp Meeting sermon, AFM (Adventist Frontier Ministries) president Conrad Vine wrote that we had misunderstood his message. He explained that he was trying to keep tithe for the church, not divert it. He wrote In this […]
30 August 2024| The Disability & the Church Conference occurred in Orlando, Florida, on May 1-3, 2024. Hosted by Key Ministry, the conference had speakers and exhibitors from across North America and various denominations and ministries to discuss practical ways to create inclusive worship environments for those with and without disabilities Rosemary Graham was the […]
29 August 2024| News from London “The Geoscience Research Institute (GRI) 2024 European Conference on Faith and Science recently convened in the city of London, drawing an enthusiastic and diverse group of over 50 participants comprising students, recent graduates, guest scientists, and researchers from the GRI. Attendees brought a global flavor to the meeting, representing […]
28 August 2024| The following press release was written by Tina Frist Smith Southern Adventist University’s communication manager At the largest ever hands-on blacksmithing event for young people in the United States, the Southern Smiths introduced the art of shaping metal with fire to more than 800 participants at a booth offering the Blacksmithing Honor, […]
27 August 2024| Voice of Prophecy is continuing MindFit, a four-part mental health series focused on providing practical and spiritual resources to the public. The event premiered last spring at nearly 200 Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) churches across North America, with record numbers of congregants and laymen collecting to participate. The event consisted of a 30-minute […]
26 August 2024 | Queer filmmakers in West Philly have created an artistic adaptation of The Great Disappointment which occurred during the Millerite movement. Filmmakers Chani Bockwinkel and Ty Burdenski were drawn to the nuance of the event, specifically the feeling of anticipation and using the desire for the end of times to ask deeper […]
23 August 2024 | The Northern New England Conference, where the Northern Maine Camp Meeting of last week took place, has made a response—though a decidedly tepid one—to the controversial sermon by Conrad Vine, president of Adventist Frontier Mission. The letter praises the camp meeting, though making clear that it was “…not organized by the […]
23 August 2024 From a story from Adventist News Network: The South American Division is addressing child sexual abuse in local Adventist churches. “It is our responsibility to protect our children, guaranteeing them the love, security, and help they need,” says Jeanete Lima, educator and coordinator of the Basta de Silencio project for the South […]