By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Ted N.C. Wilson, president, Seventh-day Adventist World Church)

Today, July 16, is the 104th anniversary of Ellen White’s death in 1915, and we are still here. By God’s grace, I hope we will soon be in heaven. However, the Lord has given us such amazing instruction in the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy to help us in daily living, our mission outreach, and our focus on Christ’s soon coming. I want to encourage each of you to participate in the reading of the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy as you engage in “Believe His Prophets.” I urge you to pick up the…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Ted N.C. Wilson, president, Seventh-day Adventist World Church)

Today, July 16, is the 104th anniversary of Ellen White’s death in 1915, and we are still here. By God’s grace, I hope we will soon be in heaven. However, the Lord has given us such amazing instruction in the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy to help us in daily living, our mission outreach, and our focus on Christ’s soon coming. I want to encourage each of you to participate in the reading of the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy as you engage in “Believe His Prophets.” I urge you to pick up the…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Lawrie Henry/IAD News Staff)

More than 120 residents of the Lilliput Community were treated to a free health fair on July 7, 2019. The fair was organized by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica through its Global Adventist Internet Network (GAiN) Conference and held in Montego Bay, Jamaica, July 4-6, 2019.
The health impact was a collaborative effort with the WJC Transforming Lives Foundation Ltd., Three Angels Mobile Clinic and the Lilliput Seventh-day Adventist Church, as a way to give back to the community,…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Adventist Community Services)

As was reported by the Los Angeles Times, a way that a Seventh-day Adventist Church in Blythe, California (part of the Southeastern California Conference), has addressed community needs is by setting up a shelter at their church. The church, which starting helping the homeless in 2018, has been doing this for several months, and local Adventist Community Services Disaster Response (ACS DR) leaders have requested assistance.
“The city of Blythe has been taking in refugees during the last three…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission)

Tomasz Karauda, a 28-year-old Seventh-day Adventist physician in Poland, was asked to sign the death certificate of a woman who was still alive.
A nurse wheeled the woman over to the respiratory unit where Tomasz was doing his hospital residency.
By all appearances, she was dead. She had lung cancer, brought on by years of smoking. Rigor mortis was setting in, with the blood settling in her lower back. Her skin, usually pink as oxygen-filled blood flowed through her capillaries, had turned…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Silver Spring, Maryland, United States)

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the faith-based international humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has created a one-of-a-kind humanitarian pin for pathfinders to add to their uniforms. This pin will be offered for a limited time only at the 2019 International Pathfinder Camporee at Oshkosh, Wisconsin from August 12 to 17.
The ADRA pin was designed in the shape of a star with three-pronged points symbolizing the mental, spiritual, and physical elements of a…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Orion Hunter, Adventist News Network)

From July 9 to July 13, 2019, the Health Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventist World Church will host its third Global Conference on Health and Lifestyle at Loma Linda University. The first Global Conference was held in Geneva in 2009 and has grown since. This will be the first time the conference will be held in the United States.
There are a number of characteristics that will distinguish this year’s conference from those in previous years. One of them is the university’s…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission)

How do you reach an enormous city like Kolkata, India?
That was the dilemma puzzling local Seventh-day Adventists.
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, is the cradle of Adventism in India, with the first Adventists arriving in 1893. But today the bustling city has only several hundred members in a greater population of 15 million.
Undaunted, local church members got to work. The result: an unprecedented, four-year initiative culminated in June with church attendance nearly doubling and 123…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Victor Hulbert)

How do you instill community and joy in your children when you live in one culture, but come from another? The answer for Judith Nyirenda is simple: “Write a book.”
Judith is from Malawi but has lived in the UK since she was 19. She originally studied at Newbold College of higher educationbefore diversifying in her career path, including being the mother of three children. Having worked in journalism and marketing, she wondered how she could show her children to be proud of their home culture;…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Tracy Wood)

The 2019 Adventist Christian Fellowship (ACF) Institute was hosted at the University of California, Berkeley, on May 20-25. About 80 students from the U.S. and Canada attended. Some had attended previous years, but most of them were new to the ACF Institute. The theme for this year is “Be the Difference.”
The second annual Public Campus Ministers Conference was also held at the same location. Attendance increased from eight in 2018 to 45 this year from across the NAD.
ACF helped host the…

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