News reports from Uganda, Washington D.C., Jamaica, Columbia, Maryland; Yuba County, California; Thailand, Southern Adventist University and Loma Linda University Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni addressed a gathering of thousands of Adventists in the country last Saturday. In the presence of Elder Ted Wilson, the president of the General Conference headquarters of the Adventist denomination, Museveni […]
23 February 2018 | Esmond Bradley Martin, 76, an American conservationist who was stabbed to death in his home in Nairobi, Kenya, is said to have been in a legal battle with a powerful government minister before he died. British daily The Times, reported earlier this month that Martin had been battling efforts by Fred […]
by S.M. Chen | 23 February 2018 | I don’t know if Donald Trump reads USA TODAY. The back page of the first section of the 2/13/18 issue caught my attention. Someone named Tom Blair took out a full page ad entitled “Mr. President,” with the subheading: “In anticipation of Presidents’ Day (February 19) consider […]
21 February 2018 | Billy Graham, one of the most influential evangelists of the 20th century, passed away today at the age of 99. He died at his home in Montreat, North Carolina. Graham is estimated to have preached to hundreds of millions internationally over the course of his 60-year ministry. Tributes to the evangelist […]
21 February 2018 | A press release has announced the closing of Atlantic Union College, bringing to an end the last struggling gasps of a tiny and unaccredited college program that had never really recovered since AUC lost its accreditation in 2011. According to the press release: At the February 2018 committee meetings, both the […]
20 February 2018 | During a sermon last Saturday in Uganda, Elder Ted Wilson, the president of the General Conference of the Adventist Church, called on Ugandan Adventists to reject Western cultural influence on family values. “Family is the cornerstone of society. Western culture has tarnished the whole meaning of family,” said Wilson according to […]
19 February 2018 | Uganda’s The Observer newspaper reported that the Ugandan president has pledged to consider abolishing Saturday examinations in schools after a personal appeal from the president of the General Conference of the Adventist denomination, Elder Ted Wilson. Wilson made the appeal to Yoweri Museveni, the Ugandan head of state, during an in-person […]
February 19 through 21 the denomination’s North American Division (NAD) evangelism visioning and leadership team is meeting and will be live-streamed on Facebook. You can listen in as NAD leaders, local pastors and institutional leaders talk about ways to collaborate to reach, retain and reclaim the people of North America with Christ’s mission and message […]
18 February 2018 | Hacksaw Ridge, the Mel Gibson-directed World War II epic about Adventist medic, Desmond Doss, has won the Best Foreign Film award at Bestsellery Empik 2017, a prestigious Polish award ceremony. The film beat out other box office successes such Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Bridget Jones 3 at the […]
15 February 2018 | W. Derrick Lea, the director of Adventist Community Services Disaster Response (ACS DR) has mobilized the service to help those reeling from the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Seventeen were killed and 14 were injured in the shooting. The Office of Communication of the […]
News reports from Uganda, Ghana, Southern Adventist University, Loma Linda University, Jamaica and the Bahamas The website for television network NTV Uganda reported today that Uganda’s State Minister for Information and Communication Technology, Idah Nantaba, urged Ugandan Adventists to get involved in politics. He made the remarks at a dinner to welcome Elder Ted Wilson, […]
15 February 2018 | After 32 gatherings in Australia, Denmark, England, Finland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and the United States, the pastors and university chaplains who began The One Project gatherings and resources that raised the supremacy of Jesus in the Adventist denomination, announced that the February 11-12 event earlier this week, was the last […]