Children between the ages of 10-15 elected as pastor, treasurer, and elders at local churches. Department or ministry leaders were also elected. Participants organized church activities for the week, including visiting church members and counting tithe and offerings. Children also elected as conference leaders. As such they held meetings, proposed initiatives, took calls, and more. […]
Herbert Blomstedt has had to cancel birthday concerts in Germany due to a fall. The veteran conductor turns 95 on July 11. A known Adventist, Blomstedt is noted for not holding rehearsals from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset. 08 July 2022 | Herbert Blomstedt, the veteran Swedish conductor, who turns 95 on July 11, suffered […]
News reports from Canada, Colombia, Guyana, Jamaica, Nigeria, United States. Flagged The presence of the Vatican flag at the 61st General Conference (GC) Session in St Louis, Missouri, U.S., on June 11, 2022, generated heated debate on social media platforms, even drawing the attention of Jamaican newspaper The Gleaner. While some defended the display of […]
6 July 2022 | by Jim Walters When I began teaching bioethics to medical students in 1980 I thought the abortion debate would soon end (as Roe was then seven years old), and we’d fully engage new right-to-die issues such as termination of treatment for patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). I was wrong. […]
3 people won $20,000 each for their ministry ideas: Taurus Montgomery, Nitza Salazar, Dustin Serns. Some of the ideas included a pop-up, plant-based restaurant that leads to an evangelistic event, a “Sabbath experience” gift box that members can share with friends and neighbors, a ministry designed to equip Pacific Islanders for sharing the gospel, and […]
NCU theology student Kevar Brown had a heart attack during his aunt’s funeral and later died on the way to the hospital. Brown had only one semester left to complete his degree at NCU. He worked abroad canvassing to help pay his school fees instead of finishing his last semester. Brown was the ninth of […]
by Frank Merendino | 4 July 2022 | “Supreme Court sides with high school coach over 50-yard-line prayers. The justices’ decision found that the school system infringed the coach’s religious freedom and freedom of speech rights by seeking to block him from engaging in public prayers on the field.” —headline, Politico I am not an […]
Changes to Adventist Hymnal include the removal of 230 hymns. Words that over time have fallen into disuse or have acquired other meanings were replaced. Musical pitch of hymns adjusted so more people can sing comfortably in their vocal range. 01 July 2022 | Keep a song in your heart—but maybe not in the hymnbook. […]
Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) concerned about what Stephen Bohr teaches, especially about male headship theology. RMC prohibiting its entities from inviting Bohr to speak at any official events, nor is Bohr allowed to use any of RMC’s facilities or use the name of any RMC entities in any of his promotional materials. Bohr also not […]
Lawsuit alleges Glendale Adventist Academy and Southern California Conference knew about sexual abuse that was happening on campus but intentionally ignored and/or concealed it. In the past 9 years, two teachers at Glendale Academy have been convicted for child sexual abuse, with some of the abuse taking place on campus. Lawsuit also alleges that in […]
News Briefs from ADRA, Brazil, Croatia, North American Division. Founder of Breath of Life Ministries Passes Away Walter Eugene Arties III, a Seventh-day Adventist singer and pastor known as the founder of Breath of Life Television Ministries, died from an acute neurological condition on June 26, 2022, in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. He was born […]
2 women jailed, charged with murder after having stillbirths at Adventist Health Hanford hospital in California, U.S. The charges of both women were later overturned. Advocates are warning that increased criminalization of broader pregnancy losses will be the result of overturning Roe v. Wade. 27 June 2022 | In early 2018, Adora Perez was arrested […]