10 August 2018 | Tent City Seventh-day Adventist Church in Portmore, St. Catherine, Jamaica has started mentorship clubs that seek to inspire adolescents to higher emotional, moral and spiritual development. Jamaica’s The Gleaner reported on August 10 that 35 youth had been inducted into the clubs, known as the Girls of Eloquence, Morals and Standards […]
8 August 2018 | On Wednesday night, August 8, the lead pastor and the board of elders at Willow Creek Community Church resigned. The group said that they had made a mistake in not believing women who accused the megachurch’s founding pastor, Bill Hybels, of sexual harassment. Although there have been a number of women […]
7 August 2018 | Two speakers from Coming Out Ministries that were scheduled to present at an Adventist camp meeting in Nova Scotia did not end up coming to the event. Canada’s Maritime Conference of the Adventist Church had been heavily pressured to remove the two speakers that are deemed controversial by LGBTQ advocacy groups. […]
6 August 2018 | A former Shawnee Mission Medical Center director of women’s and children’s services is suing the hospital claiming that male executives ignored her report about hospital birth center understaffing because she is a woman. The lawsuit claims that there was a “boys’ club” atmosphere at the hospital. Margaret Meier says she was […]
5 August 2018 | On August 1, Adventist Health received approval to start leasing Tulare Regional Medical Center from its hospital district. According to the Sacramento Business Journal, the bankrupt hospital closed last October 29 when the Tulare Local Healthcare District board voluntarily suspended the facility’s license. The hospital had acquired $38 million in debt […]
by S.M. Chen | 5 August 2018 | In 2004, the “Oregonian” ran a series about a father and daughter who had lived for 4 years in Forest Park, a 5200-acre public municipal park in the Tualatin Mountains west of Portland, OR. 5 years later, author Peter Rock published a novel, My Abandonment, based on […]
5 August 2018 | A focus on strengthening membership among young people has set apart the 2018 Orlando, Florida-based convention for ASI (Adventist-laymen’s Services & Industries.) For the first time this year, a conference has been embedded in the larger convention, focused specifically on young professionals. Kristi Jensen, ASI’s editor and communications coordinator, dedicated a […]
From ANN, 4 August 2018 | “If we don’t know who we are, we will not know why we are,” stated Pastor David Asscherick in an the opening night sermon at the Global Youth Leaders Congress in Kassel, Germany. As a convert to the Adventist faith he challenged leaders by telling them, “if you don’t […]
By Tysan, 3 August 2018 | Last Friday night (July 27) the “blood moon” eclipse lasted nearly four hours. It was not visible in North America or Europe, but could not be missed in much of Africa, the Middle East, southern Asia and the Indian Ocean region. In the small town in Tanzania where an Adventist […]
2 August 2018 | The first two days of the annual convention for ASI (Adventist-laymen’s Services & Industries) held this year in Orlando, Florida, have featured presentations, panels, networking in an exhibition hall as well as the start of a two-day series of meetings specifically tailored to young professionals and entrepreneurs. The convention this year […]
2 August 2018 | Liberty University plans to release The Trump Prophecy, a film about Mark Taylor, a firefighter who claims God told him in 2011 that Donald Trump would be president. The large evangelical university is teaming up with an independent Christian film maker who has raised $1 million to create the film. Liberty […]
1 August 2018 | Two Adventist summer camp facilities and at least one local church were closed down this week by the widespread fires in California. The Cranston Fire in southern California came within a mile of Pine Springs Ranch, the retreat center and youth camp facility operated by the denomination’s Southeastern California Conference. Camp […]