By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (North American Division)

On Sabbath, June 27, 2020, the leadership of the North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is asking its members, churches, ministries, and services to join in a special day of prayer for the deep hurt and frustration that racial injustice and inequity have caused in North America. As the conversations on racism in society and in the church continue to grow, we are urging the 1.2 million church members in the territories of Bermuda, Canada, Guam/Micronesia, and the United…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Ted N.C. Wilson, President, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists)

Editor’s Note: Below is a transcript of a message, posted to You Tube on June 12, from president of the Adventist Church, Ted N.C. Wilson. Elder Wilson will release a new video each week, during the Coronavirus pandemic, which you can view here.
Again we’re together through electronic means. This setting is a challenge in many ways, because we’re not face-to-face in our churches and different places, but God is taking us through. I encourage you to be of good hope—be God’s hands and feet in…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Daniel Matteo)

Spring Beach Youth Camp is an amazing little facility owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church near Orford, in the beautiful south of Tasmania. Tucked away in a pine forest, with a beautiful inlet beach within a stone’s throw, Spring Beach Youth Camp is equipped with a flying fox, kayaks and comfortable dormitory accommodation. It is a very special place where the presence of God’s Holy Spirit is tangible.
The caretakers, Ian and Robyn Dunlop (as well as a number of church members), have been…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Mylon Medley)

The New Haven Seventh-day Adventist Church in Overland Park, Kansas, has helped address food insecurity in the greater Kansas City area since 2011. Over the nine-year span, its food pantry “Renewed Hope” has grown from a literal closet filled with food to give to people in need who happen to drop by the church to a robust operation that has become a community-staple.
“At first it served 10 to 15 people a week, but then the pantry expanded to up to 800 at a time prior to the COVID-19 pandemic,”…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Advent Health Central Florida Division External Communications)

AdventHealth physicians are the first in the world to launch a pioneering treatment targeting certain blood cancers for patients who have exhausted all other types of therapy.
Antigen-Specific T-Cell therapy, which is the subject of a clinical trial at AdventHealth Orlando, uses the immune cells to target cancer cells, and provides what is often the final treatment opportunity for people suffering from certain types of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).
The first…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Taiwan Conference)

A Seventh-day Adventist Church in Taiwan’s high-tech center is reaching students at the city’s top two universities, rated among the best technology schools in the nation.
The Hsinchu Golden Star Seventh-day Adventist Church, which has worked in the city since 2018, began a college outreach the following year. Hsinchu, which has been a “sister city” of U.S. Silicon Valley hub Cupertino, California, since 1993, is a city of 450,000 on the northern coast of Taiwan. The city is home to Tsinghua…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Maclean Jilini/Record staff)

There was much joy and excitement at the dedication of a new Adventist school in Central Kolombangara, Solomon Islands, on May 18. Many locals came to celebrate the dedication service for Patpaele Adventist Secondary School in the western Solomon Islands. The service was organized by Central Kolombangara district leader Kele Hana. Among the attendees was Solomon Islands Mission education director Billy Leta. Dedicatory prayers were offered by pastors Vince David, Mockson Wale and Piuki Tasa. …

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

On Friday, May 22, 2020, the first ever virtual “The Tent” meeting, a collaboration between the Ruth Murdoch Elementary School and Pioneer Memorial Church (PMC) youth ministries, premiered on YouTube and Facebook. “The Tent,” as it is known, has been an evangelistic series put on by junior high students in a large tent on the campus of Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. For the past seven years, the program has occurred every May.
This year the live event had to shift to virtual…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Heather Jackson, Loma Linda University Health News)

A Loma Linda University International Heart Institute interventional cardiologist performed a high-risk heart procedure in 30 minutes, saving the life of a 61-year-old patient whose grim diagnosis of a heart valve infection left her with hours to live.
Bejamina Galicia was diagnosed with severe mitral stenosis of her bio-prosthetic aortic valve while visiting a local hospital for her routine dialysis treatment on February 21. Mitral stenosis is when the mitral valve — a valve located in the…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Tracey Bridcutt)

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) offices in the South Pacific have secured funding of more than $A1.7 million to support communities devastated by Tropical Cyclone Harold.
The cyclone struck Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu in April, leaving many families homeless, destroying schools, medical centers and other community facilities, and damaging water and food sources.
ADRA has been at the forefront of the relief effort, supporting thousands of people by focusing on…

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