By Debbonnaire Kovacs, March 23, 2017 In the five years I’ve written for Adventist Today, I have “met” (online or by telephone usually) many, many amazing people, and sometimes researching an AT story even makes me cry. Amistad International is one of those. “Amistad” is Spanish for “friendship” and that’s what it is—the kind of […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, posted July 14, 2016 [Photo: children sign “I love you.” Pixabay, public domain] The Australian Union Record reports that the Adventist church, for the first time, will be broadcasting a weekly church service signed in AUSLAN (Australian Sign Language). A church plant at Quaker Hill in the west of Sydney, in […]
Adventist Today Executive Editor Loren Seibold talks with two innovative leaders in the North American Division (NAD)–Mike Cauley and Dave Weigley–about plans to redesign the organizational structure of the church in the NAD.
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Nov. 12, 2015 Dr. Lee Berk, MPH, DrPH, a specialist in preventive care and lifestyle health at Loma Linda, started getting interested in the health field in about sixth grade. It’s not that unusual to find a sixth grade boy interested in “being a doctor when he grows up,” but young Lee’s […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Oct. 29, 2015 On a busy street in the small town of Java, South Dakota stood a bank. People passing by on this day in 1927 were startled to see a very small girl (three years old, in fact) standing before the bank, singing happily. Some began offering her coins, and before […]
By Briana Pastorino, Media Relations Specialist, Loma Linda University Health; posted October 21, 2015 [Editor’s note: We have written about Loma Linda’s PossAbilities Program for differently abled athletes before (here and here). Here is a story sent to me about a pro-surfer who knows what it’s like to have your life turned upside […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Oct 14, 2015 “I hope this program will inspire new and innovative ideas we have never seen before. I don’t even know what those will be! Students will be coming with their own creative minds and innovations, and the Holy Spirit working on their own hearts with ideas that will be new […]
By Jordan Langston, Oakwood University Senior, posted October 7, 2015 Editor’s Introduction: In the three and a half years I’ve been Features Editor here at Adventist Today, I’ve had the privilege of interviewing (almost always by telephone) dozens of fascinating people seeking to follow wherever God leads. Sometimes we can’t get together by phone, so […]
Posted by Debbonnaire Kovacs, Sept. 30, 2015 [Editor’s Note: Last year we ran a feature on the Caesura Youth Orchestra, which you may like to peruse for more detailed information. This short piece links to an announcement of this year’s Fall Fundraiser Concert, and also brings to light several other musical ministries of the Glendale […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Sept 24, 2015 On Sunday, April 12, 2015, Kettering College of Medical Arts in Dayton, Ohio had its sixth Spring into Health 5K run, an annual event that began in 2009 and was organized largely by the Kettering Physician Assistant Program, many of whom run in the race. The race is a […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, posted Sept. 16, 2015 [Editor’s Note: You can help Kim Carter and her Time for Change Foundation help more women by clicking on her CNN Hero video clip here. Watch every day and help women with no effort on your part. But don’t stop there. Read this article and be inspired to […]
By Debbonnaire Kovacs, Sept 9, 2015 I recently read a novel called What You Want, by Canadian author, Trudy Morgan-Cole. It is her first self-published novel (though not by any means her first novel), and I found it completely engrossing. I felt I’d gone on the road trip on Route 66 with the heroine and […]