For data enthusiasts, the NAD Executive Secretary’s report is always anticipated. When his slides are released, we will have them available on our website. One of the major themes of G. Alexander Bryant’s presentation was excessive bleeding taking place at the congregation level with members leaving for good, or taking a break from church attendance. […]
by Loren Seibold, Sunday, 29 October 2017 Each year when I come to these meetings—both of them in the autumn—it’s impossible not to notice how dramatically they differ. The General Conference annual meeting is solemn, stiff, and tense. There is a low-grade anxiety that hovers over the room. The departmental reports, however good they may […]
From ANN, October 29, 2017: What is the legacy of the Reformation for Europe in the 21st century? For Pastor Raafat Kamal, president of the Adventist denomination’s Trans-European Division (TED), it is a legacy that must not end. Together with mainly Lutheran theologians, church historians and other religious leaders, Kamal was invited to speak to […]
by Paul Richardson, 27 October 2017 The second day of the North American Division’s Year-end Meetings has continued with ongoing excitement for the grand opening of the Division’s new headquarters.. The first NAD president, Charles E Bradford and his wife Ethel, were interviewed at the morning meeting. In their inimitable style, they […]
October 26, 2017: Solusi University authorities called riot police to disperse a crowd of students protesting a fee hike at the Adventist university in Zimbabwe on Thursday, October 19. According to Zimbabwe’s Chronicle, Solusi students had boycotted classes last week in protest of the raised school fees. The students at the Adventist institution were […]
October 26, 2017: The Adventist denomination’s North American Division (NAD) officially opened its new office in Columbia, Maryland, this morning. Several hundred people gathered in the parking lot to observe the ribbon-cutting ceremony. John Wilkinson, the Secretary of State for the State of Maryland presented a state flag and the Pathfinder Drum Crops from the […]
October 25, 2017: Pastor Edner Eloi of the Novato Haitian Seventh-day Adventist Church spoke at an immigration rights rally on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on Friday, October 20. According to local news platform Hoodline, Eloi joined a group of Bay Area residents from Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. The group […]
By Tysan, October 25, 2017: A second attempt at electing a president in Kenya is scheduled for tomorrow (October 26) after the nation’s Supreme Court invalidated the original balloting on August 8. As Adventist Today has previously reported, three of the key players in this national crisis are Adventists; the chief executive of the elections […]
October 24, 2017: The Anglican Communion News Service reported that the Adventist Church in Burundi has joined an interfaith effort in the country to call on other nations to restore strong diplomatic ties with the country. The Adventist Church joined the Roman Catholic Church, the National Council of Churches of Burundi, the Council of […]
October 23, 2017: Nine former students of Adventist-run Miracle Meadows School have filed lawsuits against the closed boarding school. Two other former students filed similar lawsuits earlier this year. In lawsuits filed from October 13-17, the nine students claim they suffered intense abuse due to a “culture of silence and secrecy” on the part […]
On Monday, 23 October, the North German and South German Unions released a joint statement on the 2017 Annual Council document, “Procedures for Reconciliation and Adherence in Church Governance: Phase II”, a document generated by General Conference leaders that asked presidents of all unions to sign a loyalty oath that would oblige them to resist […]
by Sharan Bennett, 23 October 2017 I am supine, the only motionless individual in this large, bright room. Around me hover blurry figures in blue “scrubs” and puffy caps; they seem to move purposefully; all extraneous conversation has ceased. My head is in a brace—not uncomfortable, really, but authoritative. At my left side, a pretty woman […]