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News Briefs for April 22, 2016
Stories from Nigeria, Ecuador, Los Angeles, Australia, Adventist Health System (United States), Zambia, North America and the Philippines Adventists have urged lawmakers to not adopt a proposed law to regulate religious preaching in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Pastor Francis Daria, president of the Northern Nigeria Union Conference, stated that “the proposed law is against the provisions […]
Earthquake in Ecuador Kills More Than 400, Injures More Than 2,500
From ANN, April 21, 2016: The South American country of Ecuador has declared a state of emergency after the 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck at 6:58 p.m. Saturday, killing at least 413 people and injuring more than 2,500. The earthquake caused widespread destruction in the country, including four local Adventist churches. Pedernales, a city of about […]
In Venezuela, More Than 4,000 People Baptized
From ANN, April 20, 2016: The Seventh-day Adventist denomination baptized 4,012 new members during an evangelistic celebration in Caracas, Venezuela, on April 16, 2016. More than 20,000 witnessed the baptisms in the metropolitan city’s Estadio Universitario de Caracas (Caracas University Stadium), marking the culmination of eight months of intense evangelistic efforts across the East […]
Watch Your Step!
Photo by Cheryl Morrow, posted 4-20-2016 by D Kovacs God makes my feet like hinds’ feet and sets me upon my high places. Psalm 18:33.
How Then Shall We Live?
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, April 20, 2016 Acts 11:1-18—a paraphrase Now the leaders and the believers who were in Pure Small Town, where The Blueprint was followed faithfully and all believers were vegans and had a small home and a large garden, heard that the Big City Urbanites, who lived piled on top of each other […]
Deglutition and Divinity
By S M Chen, posted 4-20-2016 by D Kovacs We are indeed ‘fearfully and wonderfully made.’ – Ps. 139:14. One of the important (but by no means salient, in that patients can survive for prolonged time periods by tube feeding) bodily functions is swallowing. Deglutition is a complex process initiated in the brain and brainstem, […]
AMEN Members Serve Refugees in Thailand
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Apr 20, 2016 [Many photos here.] Generally, in this department, I seek out stories of creative, sometimes unusual ministries, but it is worth repeating that there have been three things Adventists as a people have done well from the beginning: education, music, and health and medical ministries of various kinds. My […]
Update on News Story about Sequim (Washington) Adventist School
April 19, 2016: Douglas Allison, the church school teacher in the State of Washington charged with four counts of first-degree child rape and eight counts of child molestation, has been terminated from employment by the denomination’s Washington Conference, according to the Peninsula Daily News. His wife was the other teacher at the two-room, eight-grade school […]
In War-weary Colombia, Adventists Look Ahead to Post-conflict Challenges
From ANN, April 19, 2016: As the Colombian government and rebel groups move toward ending the country’s long-standing civil conflict, Seventh-day Adventists are seeking ways to support the peace efforts and to help rebuild a society damaged by almost five decades of violence. A two-day peace forum held last month at the Adventist denomination’s […]
Budget Shortfall of 20 Percent: GC Committee Meeting
From ANN and APD, April 18, 2016: The instability of the global economy, particularly the weakness of the United States Dollar in currency exchange rates, resulted in the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination receiving about 20 percent less income in 2015, reported Pastor Juan R. Prestol-Puesán, chief financial officer, at the spring meeting […]
News Briefs for April 15, 2016
Stories from the British Isles, Texas, Zimbabwe, Bavaria (Germany), Peru, Takoma Park (Maryland) and Sacramento (California) The nominating committee for the British Union Conference will meet Sunday (April 17) in preparation for the constituency meeting held every five years at which officers, department heads and members of the governing body are up for vote. Five […]