by Reinder Bruinsma | 5 February 2025 | In many western countries the most heated political issue right now is, “How can we stop the constant flow of immigrants?” Of course, politicians have other concerns, too: the war in Ukraine, the chaos in the Middle East, the nuclear ambitions of North Korea, the uncertainties in […]
by Björn Karlman | 6 August 2024 | Paris is secular, even for a European capital. People are generally repulsed by or at the very least indifferent to, religion. It’s notoriously difficult to evangelize the city. But that doesn’t stop Christian groups (including Adventists) from trying—especially with the 2024 Olympics in full swing. I was […]
by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 2 August 2024 The Bible has a fair amount of dirt in it. In Matthew 13, for example, is the familiar parable about sowing seed, and the growth in different types of soil. It’s an Adventist favorite. Sometimes it was presented as a cautionary tale: “Be good soil! Be deep, […]
2 July 2024 | Adventist-laymen’s Services & Industries (ASI) and Adventist World Radio (AWR) are gearing up for a mission campaign set to coincide with the upcoming Olympics in Paris from July 26 to August 11. According to their website: “Given that the ‘whole world’ is coming to Paris during the period of the Olympics, […]
by Loren Seibold | 28 June 2024 | Adventists (they weren’t Seventh-day Adventists yet) had a pretty good idea back in the 1830s and 1840s. They believed Jesus was returning, and they wanted to be ready for him. They were wrong—but they were sincerely and innocently wrong. And righteously wrong: they wanted Jesus to come […]
SILVER SPRING, Maryland — In a move hailed as groundbreaking by those nostalgic for the 1980s, the General Conference (GC) has unveiled its latest strategy to spread the Three Angels’ Messages: fax machines. “While everyone else is distracted by the internet and social media, we’ve decided to take a bold, unprecedented step backwards,” said GC […]
22 May 2024 | The “PNG for Christ” evangelistic series going on now in Papua New Guinea continues to astonish with reports of numbers baptized. Early estimates were that 98,000 people had been or were prepared to be baptized. But a new report from General Conference president Ted Wilson extrapolates that number far beyond the […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 22 September 2023 | (Read part 1 of this series here, “The Most Extensive Evangelistic Outreach in Adventist History?”) The Christ for Europe initiative kicked off with a two-week evangelistic crusade in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The campaign was conducted by none other than Ted N.C. Wilson, the […]
by Reinder Bruinsma | 21 September 2023 | Adventist World announced in its July/August edition that an “unprecedented evangelistic initiative” would “run across Europe.” Duane McKey, the president of Adventist World Radio (AWR) and one of the main people behind this venture, declared that this Christ for Europe project involves dozens of countries in Europe […]
by Shelley Curtis Weaver | 10 August 2023 | My mother was the women’s ministry director when I was a young adult. I’m not sure exactly how that position came to be. During my childhood, there were only women at the helm of children’s divisions and the Dorcas Society. By the time our young family […]
11 July 2023 | Hope Channel International (HCI) has launched a new evangelistic department, Hope Studios, aimed at producing cinematic content for diverse platforms, with an evangelistic focus, according to an article on the ANN site. Derek Morris, president of HCI, and Vyacheslav Demyan, HCI vice president for programming, emphasized that this initiative seeks to […]
From ANN/Columbia Union Visitor, April 27, 2016: While distributing flowers, hugs and balloons on April 16 at the Columbia Town Center in Columbia, Maryland, volunteers gave a child a balloon and two women tulips. The older woman said, “Wow, you must have come from God because we were just talking about tulips.” Leaders from […]