By AT News Team, May 27, 2015: More than half the households in Delmont (South Dakota) have been helped by the resource center set up in the American Legion Hall two days after a tornado hit the small town on Mother’s Day (May 10). It is managed by Adventist Community Services (ACS), the relief agency […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, submitted May 27, 2015 Here is something special for Trinity Sunday… Once upon a time, there was a nice little planet called Flataxia. Everything and everybody was flat. You see, Flataxia was a two-dimensional world. They had length and breadth, but no depth. Just a lot of flat little people sliding around […]
Photo by Debbonnaire Kovacs, submitted May 27, 2015 For You have been a defense for the helpless, A defense for the needy in his distress, A refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; For the breath of the ruthless Is like a rain storm against a wall. Isaiah 25:4, NASB.
By AT News Team, May 22, 2015: Sunday evening a massive evangelism campaign began in the cities of Zimbabwe with the goal of baptizing 30,000 converts to the Adventist faith, stated the Adventist Review. On Monday leaders of the Adventist denomination met with Phelekezela Mphoko, vice president of the central African country, and he thanked […]
From News Release, May 21, 2015: A new program to train young adults in urban mission skills launches next month in Philadelphia. The REACH Columbia Union Conference Urban Evangelism School will provide a unique learning experience, a practical immersion in reaching the unreached in one of the largest cities in North America. Like other evangelism […]
Photo by Cheryl Morrow, Paris, Ontario; submitted 5-20-2015 “He makes my feet like hinds’ feet, and sets me upon my high places” Psalm 18:33, NASB. Sometimes, all you have to stand on is trust.
By S M Chen, submitted May 20, 2015 Laura was born and raised in San Francisco. Unlike many residents and visitors, she disliked it there. The hilly terrain, which she had to walk from home to school and back again, and damp cold, which never relented, were but two […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, submitted May 20, 2015 It’s a dream. It has to be a dream. And you shouldn’t have had the pizza! There you are, in the middle of a valley, with no idea how you got there. At first, you just accept it; it’s one of those odd dream-things. Then you look around, […]
From News Release, May 18, 2015: The relationship between Loma Linda University (LLU) and Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital in Hangzhou, China, has led to a number of requests for similar assistance, reports Dr. Richard Hart, president of the leading Adventist health institution. “Many other enterprising businessmen and hospitals have been coming to our door, […]
By AT News Team, May 17, 2015: Pastor Ron Halvorsen Sr., the well-known evangelist who baptized more than 11,000 converts during his career, died Friday after battling cancer. He had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma last November. On three previous occasions over his life he had been successful in fighting off cancer and he “believed […]
From News Release, May 14, 2015: The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, was helping Nepalese communities recover from April’s 7.8 earthquake when the country was hit by a 7.3 earthquake on May 12. ADRA president Jonathan Duffy said in an email that the “new disaster […]