by AT News Team Last Sabbath (November 3) the New York City metro area was emerging from Hurricane Sandy; this Sabbath it will be blasted with snow and freezing winds. Not only are Adventists gathering for worship despite the weather, they are also caring for suffering neighbors in the communities where congregations are located. […]
by AT News Team Six strategic goals for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America and more than a million dollars of relief for the survivors of Hurricane Sandy were voted during the annual meeting this week of the North American Division (NAD) governing body. The NAD executive committee began its meeting Friday, November 2, […]
by AT News Team Dr. Denis Fortin has announced that he will return to full time teaching at the end of the current academic year. He has served as dean of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University for the last six years and associate dean prior to that. In a statement released […]
by Michael D. Peabody On Tuesday (November 6) voters in many states had the opportunity to make decisions on state laws through ballot measures. Voters in Maine, Maryland, and Washington voted in favor of measures that would legalize same-sex marriage. Voters in Minnesota rejected a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, and voters in North […]
by AT News Team Update at the end of the story. Vindalee Smith, age 38, who attended the New Dimension Seventh-day Adventist Church on Winthrop Street in the Brownsville neighborhood in New York City, was found murdered yesterday morning (October 20) in her apartment, according to the New York Times. She was eight months pregnant […]
by AT News Team A random sample of faculty and staff at Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities in the United States reveals that they are about as divided and confused as the general public. Adventists clearly do not have a well-defined political view, at least on the hot issues of this election year. About […]
by AT News Team The executive committee of the Southern California Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has voted to submit the names of two women employed as pastors for approval by the Pacific Union Conference for ordination. Myriam Salcedo-Gonzales and Janet L. White have both been credentialed as Commissioned Ministers for some time. […]
by AT News Team The Seventh-day Adventist Church recently published a 75-page book designed to introduce denominational leaders around the world to basic concepts and best practices designed to improve the integrity of policies and operations. Entitled Transparency and Accountability, the publication was sponsored by the denomination’s in-house audit agency, the General Conference Auditing Service […]
by AT News Team Hundreds of Adventists are volunteering to help the millions of families from Virginia north to Connecticut swamped by Hurricane Sandy. They include local volunteers in centers handling relief supplies throughout more than a dozen states, as well as college students from Nebraska and adults from Tennessee with mobile kitchens from Tennessee. […]
by AT News Team The annual meeting of the governing body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church ended Wednesday with announcements of a number of new ministries and projects, confirmations of organizational adjustments in some parts of the world, and a revision of the denomination’s position regarding homosexuality. Although the existing statement on the topic was […]
by AT News Team Evidently concerned that there is too much variance in the way church administrators understand the 900-page General Conference Working Policy, an entire day of the annual meeting of the denomination’s governing body was devoted to a class on “Working Policy 101.” General Secretary G. T. Ng was also evidently concerned that […]
by AT News Team After weeks of anticipation, the Seventh-day Adventist Church governing body finally saw the much-rumored response to three union conferences that voted earlier this year to discontinue gender discrimination in ordination to the gospel ministry. The carefully nuanced, not to say confused and contradictory statement was adopted by a secret ballot, 264 […]