By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Brenton Stacey)

A faculty restructure and the introduction of a research fellowship are the first two markers on Avondale University College’s road map to sustainable transformation.
The restructure will reduce the number of faculties from two—Education, Business and Science, and Arts, Nursing and Theology—to one. The fellowship, offered at different levels, will see staff members apply for, rather than receive, research funding.
Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Kevin Petrie announced the decisions in…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Jarrod Stackelrot)

“Ah, you’ve got jungle fever.” I’d just told this individual that my girlfriend was a Pacific Islander. I knew they were joking, that they often had a cheeky, irreverent wit. I don’t remember how I responded but, 13 years later, I do remember the comment.
When I wrote an editorial about cross-cultural marriage, I received a letter telling me that I should keep my marriage because God requires no divorce, but that we should never have children, because—I don’t remember the exact words—“half…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Laurie Falvo)

Sarah is a Global Mission pioneer who works in a large city in Southern Asia. When her husband left her four years ago, she knew she had to find a way to support herself. But she didn’t know where to look for a job.
She prayed for direction and God impressed her to share His Word with the people living around her.
Sarah began visiting her neighbors in their homes. “I prayed for the sick, and they got well,” she said. “I prayed for those who had evil spirits, and the spirits went away. I prayed…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Pieter Damsteegt)

Every summer, Adventist Muslim Friendship Association (AMFA), a North American Division-based initiative located near Chattanooga, Tennessee, provides a summer school for children of refugee families in the area. According to AMFA, the goal is to help integrate refugee children into the United States in a godly way.
In 2016, around the same time that AMFA’s summer classes for children started, AMFA leaders began discussing activity options for the mothers that brought their children to the…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Sheyla Paiva)

Seventh-day Adventists in Paraguay continue to carry out evangelistic activities in 2020, despite the challenges of a global pandemic and quarantine. The Church there recently launched “Acts 29,” a project designed to carry forward the outreach of the first Christians, as described in the biblical book of Acts, to the present day.
Adventist Church departments of Personal Ministry, Children’s Ministry, Youth Ministry, and radio/TV network Nuevo Tiempo Paraguay are involved in the eight-week…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Kimberly Luste Maran)

On July 9, 2020, the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s General Conference Executive Committee met virtually to receive the name of G. Alexander Bryant, the recommendation for division president, from both the North American Division’s nominating committee and executive committee. Bryant was confirmed in a vote of 153 to 3.
Ted N.C. Wilson, General Conference president and, as policy indicates for the vote of division president, chair of the NAD nominating and executive committees held on July 6…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Libna Stevens, Inter-American Division News)

This year’s Segment Leadership Development (SeLD) Conference opened with a record number of Seventh-day Adventist church administrators, department heads, pastors, and institutional leaders across the territory in attendance. More than 3,300 leaders tuned in via video conference on Monday, July 6, as the opening ceremony challenged leadership to reflect on their relevance and effectiveness in their ability to rise to the challenges of the times.
Pastor Elie Henry, president of the church in…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Libna Stevens, IAD News)

Seventh-day Adventists across the Inter-American Division (IAD) sealed the Adventist World Church’s 100 Days of Prayer initiative today after completing a 24-hour prayer relay across the territory. The prayer relay concluded with an online program highlighting unified efforts since March to engage members to pray for the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit to be poured out on the Church, and to empower members for mission during the coronavirus pandemic.
Adventist World Church President…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Leandro Silva)

Adelaide’s world turned upside-down when her partner died in 2011. In 2014, she suffered another blow when she lost her father. She began wondering where God was in her life and had questions about what had become of her partner and father after their deaths.
One day, while Adelaide was flicking through the channels on TV, she stumbled upon Hope Channel. She had never heard of Hope Channel before, and she decided to watch a few minutes to see what it was all about. She was instantly hooked.
“I…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Pastor Ron Genebago, SSD Youth Director)

To embrace the prayer revival brought about by the 100 Days of Prayer initiative, the Southern-Asia Pacific Division (SSD) Adventist Youth Ministries (AYM) Committee has voted for the organization of prayer networks. The prayer network is an aggregation of Seventh-day Adventist young people distributed in 14 countries within the SSD territory whose goal and activities are to pray for each other, to embrace a prayerful life until Jesus comes, to emulate Jesus Christ’s prayer lifestyle, to…

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