After six Sabbaths of meeting by Zoom, the congregation of Lillehammer, Norway, longed for a more personal worship experience during lockdown. As with all other churches in Norway, the building was shut due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Their simple solution was “drive-in” church. On Saturday, April...
Seventh-day Adventist youth, along with students from the local Adventist academy, made a positive impact recently in Imperatriz, the second-largest city in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão. Its population of 250,000—like the rest of the nation—has been hard hit by the global pandemic. In one...
The Seventh-day Adventist community on St. Croix was in solidarity with the leaders and members of the Peter’s Rest Adventist Church on May 5, 2020, as they watched their state-of-the-art church building consumed by fire. The building, located at a strategic location in the Peter’s...
A group of young people, who had planned to participate in March’s Youth Rush program, but were unable to do so due to the coronavirus outbreak, came up with a new idea called Daniel Rush. Youth Rush is a student literature evangelism program of the Japan...
While many Adventists in Lae have found COVID-19 restrictions distressing and limiting to their faith journey, Akaly Vetalis and Numan Asine—young people from Bumbu Sand church, a community of nearly 400 people—have treated the restrictions as an opportunity for ministry. Vetalis and Asine visited Micah Akui,...
The Victorian Conference, in partnership with Hope Channel and the South Pacific Division, have collaborated to create an integrated online evangelistic campaign designed to reach new secular audiences and funnel them into local church communities. Commencing on May 8, “Predictions of Hope: Beyond Corona” is the...
Just as Tennessee state officials started enforcing social distancing guidelines encouraging people to stay home due to COVID-19 in March, It Is Written began airing a weekly Sabbath School Bible study and sermon series for its viewers. The It Is Written TV Sabbath School program features John Bradshaw, speaker/director...
Two Seventh-day Adventist hospitals in California again received national recognition for patient safety and quality, independent watchdog organization The Leapfrog Group announced. Both Loma Linda University Medical Center and its East Campus hospitals received “A” grades for spring 2020. The designations are widely considered one of...
Some 13,500 Seventh-day Adventists across the church in the Inter-Oceanic Mexican region received food and essential items for their families as the country continues its quarantine regulations. The families selected were among the most needy across eight states comprising a church membership of more 203,400. “Many...
A special Sabbath is being planned—like no other Sabbath in the history of the South Pacific Division (SPD) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. On this special Sabbath, thousands of Adventists from around the Division will be united in a way they have never been before. Whether...