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June 25, 2020 In News By PrayzFM

North American Division Votes $10 Million COVID-19 Stimulus Package

On June 23, 2020, the North American Division (NAD) Committee voted a stimulus package of $10 million to provide financial assistance to the division’s conferences through its unions. This comes at a time when COVID-19 has impacted many Adventist members and entities. “The North American Division...

June 24, 2020 In News By PrayzFM

ADRA unites with Adventist Community Services to help feed families in the U.S

In partnership with Adventist Community Services (ACS) of the North American Division (NAD), the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the global humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has provided funding to expand the services of more than 200 Adventist food pantries across the...

June 24, 2020 In News By PrayzFM

Religion in a slice of tahini bread

Are you a believer?” the man asked. My husband nodded. “And you too?” I also nodded. The man was busily folding individual sized pizza boxes for the next order, his white apron matching his neatly cropped salt-and-pepper hair. “I used to go to church, but...

June 24, 2020 In News By PrayzFM

Ecuador trains missionaries to bring hope

The Adventist Voluntary Service is in charge of training and motivating young people or adults who can give a part of their time, with the aim of serving society and sharing a message of hope anywhere in the world. The missionaries are involved in various activities,...

June 22, 2020 In News By PrayzFM

Adventist humanitarian agency has helped more than 840,000 refugees

Every day, about 40,000 people are forced to flee their countries due to persecution, conflict, or widespread violence. Today, approximately 79.5 million people are displaced from their places of origin. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in December 2019 it was...

June 22, 2020 In News By PrayzFM

A vicious cycle: Stuck in isolation . . . stuck in your head

Curdled milk sits in the breakfast bowl, remnants of yesterday’s dinner. It’s raining again today. You load the clothes into the dryer and turn on the news, searching for some semblance of normal. The monotone warnings and humdrum rhythms bring strange comfort, wordless lyrics to...

June 22, 2020 In News By PrayzFM

Adventist Church in North America Issues Response to Fringe Group Newspaper Ad Mentioning Church

On June 21, 2020, the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s North American Division issued the following statement after a full-page advertisement was published by a fringe organization on the same day in the Nashville Tennessean, a Gannett-owned newspaper. “The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America is deeply disturbed by...

June 21, 2020 In News By PrayzFM

Loma Linda University Health Experts Suggest Plans for Resuming Physical Activity Following COVID-19 Infection

Loma Linda University Health experts recommend a staged plan for people wanting to start high-impact physical activity following lung or heart damage as a result of a COVID-19 infection. A patient’s phased plan can range from a couple of weeks to several weeks of delayed...

June 21, 2020 In News By PrayzFM

Dozens of young people donate blood in Cuyo

In the framework of Donor Week and World Blood Donor Day, Adventist youth from Cuyo, Argentina, joined the solidarity campaign for blood donation Vida por Vidas (Life for Lives), supporting different hemotherapy centers and hospitals in the region. At the Regional Hemotherapy Center of the Province of Mendoza,...

June 21, 2020 In News By PrayzFM

Five biblical tips for surviving a financial crisis

At different points in our lives, we will face financial challenges. Some of these will be so severe as to reach crisis level. We might not know where the financial crisis will come from or how long it will last—but one will come, and we...