April 11, 2016: Last week the annual awards for the best movies created by Adventist young adults were announced following the Sonscreen Film Festival. The top award as well as two other awards went to The Exquisite Outdoors, a drama produced by Grant Perdew, an international communications graduate of Walla Walla University (WWU). It won […]
From ANN, April 11, 2016: Executive leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination have chosen Rick McEdward, director of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination’s Global Mission Religious Study Centers to serve as president of the Middle East and North Africa Union Mission (MENA). McEdward replaces Homer Trecartin, who served as MENA’s president since the union was […]
A team from Saipan Adventist School in the Pacific island Northern Marianas Commonwealth will compete for the first time in Adventist Robotics League regional challenge event on Sunday (March 10) at Walla Walla Academy in College Place, Washington. Five students from Fifth and Sixth Grade along with their coach, Kindergarten teacher Melanie Strout, left […]
From ANN, April 7, 2016: Religious leaders in the West African country of Côte d’Ivoire are calling for a unified response to violence carried out by Islamic extremists. At a March 18 summit and press conference, held at the Seventh-day Adventist denomination’s regional headquarters in the capital city of Abidjan, religious leaders from […]
From ANN, April 6, 2016: The Adventist hospital in Haiti, Hopital Adventiste d’Haiti (HAH), celebrated 35 years of providing health care services with the inauguration of a state-of-the-art surgical suite, a new laboratory and the installation of a private multi-med clinic, in Diquini, Carrefour, near Port-au-Prince on April 1, 2016. The event drew top […]
Sent in by Carole Derry-Bretsch, posted by D Kovacs, 4-6-16 3ABN’s Kids Time Praise Program is looking for children ages 15 and under, to perform instrumental, or vocal numbers during some upcoming Kids Time tapings the weeks of June 20 through 23. If a child is chosen, they will be contacted and a specific taping […]
Sent in by Carole Derry-Bretsch, posted by D Kovacs, 4-6-16 Join Family Reunion Music Musicians, Jarrod McNaughton, Margie Salcedo Rice, and Sandy Wyman Johnson in this evening of praise. Free of charge! Kettering Seventh-day Adventist Church May 7, 6:00 PM 3939 Stonebridge Rd. Dayton, Ohio
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, April 6, 2016 Based on Acts 9. Act One—a room in a house in Damascus, the home of a Christian disciple, Ananias. God: Ananias. Ananias (jumps, startled): Yes? God: Get up and go to Straight Street, to Judas’ house. Look for a man from Tarsus, named Saul. Ananias (interrupting): But…um…Lord…? God: […]
Koi By S M Chen, posted by D Kovacs, 4-6-16 Readers have expressed their appreciation for faithful contributor Chen’s humorous limericks. Here is another, inspired by a recent visit to a Japanese garden. A wonderful fish is the koi. It does more to please than annoi. What gives me puzzlement Is, […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, April 6, 2016 Three kindergarteners stood on the steps to their school one Monday morning, waiting to go in. One asked the others what they had done that weekend. The second said, “Nothing much. We went to church.” The third little girl, Della by name, gave her friends a puzzled look. “Church? […]
By S M Chen, posted by D Kovacs, 4-7-16 “Good when He gives, supremely good; Nor less when He denies: Afflictions, from His sovereign hand, Are blessings in disguise.” Bro. Lawrence (aka Nicolas Herman) – 1614-1691, Lay brother, Discalced Carmelite monastery I was seven years old the summer our house burned. It was, […]
From ANN, April 5, 2016: The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, is responding to a serious drought affecting countries across southern Africa, where El Niño conditions have caused the lowest ever recorded rainfall between October and December 2015. Countries in the Horn of Africa region […]