By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Janelle Ringer)

Loma Linda University Medical Center’s Diabetes Treatment Center was recently awarded the prestigious Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognition for a quality diabetes prevention program, a designation that underscores the facility’s expertise in delivering a proven diabetes prevention lifestyle changes for patients.
The recognition affirms the center’s ability to help patients make lifestyle changes designed to help them lose weight, reduce blood glucose levels and control…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Felicia Tonga)

During the first weekend of June 2019, almost 600 people from across the U.S. gathered for the bi-annual North American Division’s Myanmar Multilingual Convention held at Timber Ridge Camp in Spencer, Indiana. Organized by Samuel Ngala, an Indiana pastor and church planter, speakers included John Kitevski, evangelist, elder, and one of the leaders at Gateway Congregations in Melbourne, Australia; Tony Anobile, North American Division (NAD) Multilingual Ministries; Rahel Wells, Andrews University…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Felicia Tonga)

During the first weekend of June 2019, almost 600 people from across the U.S. gathered for the bi-annual North American Division’s Myanmar Multilingual Convention held at Timber Ridge Camp in Spencer, Indiana. Organized by Samuel Ngala, an Indiana pastor and church planter, speakers included John Kitevski, evangelist, elder, and one of the leaders at Gateway Congregations in Melbourne, Australia; Tony Anobile, North American Division (NAD) Multilingual Ministries; Rahel Wells, Andrews University…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Vania Chew)

Are you feeling lonely? You’re not alone.
A 2018 survey conducted by the Australian Psychological Society and Swinburne University has found that one in four Australian adults are lonely. One in two (50.5%) Australians feel lonely for at least one day in a week, while one in four (27.6%) feel lonely for three or more days. And high levels of loneliness are associated with a number of other alarming symptoms such as higher social anxiety, poorer psychological wellbeing and lower quality of life….

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

The Seventh-day Adventist Church leadership in the Inter-American Division (IAD) wants all of its administrators, pastors, lay preachers, Bible instructors, small group leaders and church members to focus on a comprehensive plan to baptize more than 200,000 new believers by the end of this quinquennium, which ends in June 2020. For that to take place, the church at all levels needs to stay focused on evangelism initiatives and activities in the weeks and months to come, top church leaders said…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Andrew McChesney)

Rorive Vinga introduced a friend to Christ when he was only a boy.
Father, a soldier in the Gabonese military, was stationed in the eastern city of Koulamoutou. So, Rorive moved into a new home there with his parents and four younger brothers and sisters.
But they had a problem. There were no other Seventh-day Adventists in the city. There was a church, but it had been closed for many years because no one worshipped there anymore. The building was old and falling apart.
Father called Rorive…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Maritza Brunt)

1. Romans 15:7* Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.
2. Zechariah 7:9,10 This is what the Lord Almighty said: “Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.”
3. Job 31:32 But no stranger had to spend the night in the street, for my door was always open to the traveler.
4. Luke 10:36,37 [Jesus asked,] “Which of these…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (tedNews, EUDNews and ADRA Europe)

We would rejoice if there were NO World Refugee Sabbath – because there were NO refugees. Sadly that is not the case, so for the fourth year running, the Trans-European Division, in partnership with the Inter-European Division and ADRA Europe, is highlighting the needs of refugees and migrants in Europe. Our focus this year is Hospitality, based on the words of Hebrews 12:2 “Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers…”
Watch our documentary film that brings you fascinating reports from…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Becket Media Relations)

Barry C. Black, 62nd Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, has been named Becket’s 2019 Canterbury Medalist for his honorable defense of religious liberty for people of all faiths. The Canterbury Medal, Becket’s highest honor, recognizes an individual who has demonstrated courage and commitment to defending religious liberty in America and around the world. In carrying out a tradition that goes back to the first Continental Congress in 1774, Chaplain Black honors his position just as the founding fathers…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Timothy Standish, senior scientist, GeoScience Research Institute)

A quarter of a century has passed since the world stood by, while approximately one million Rwandans were slaughtered by their neighbors and fellow citizens. How can such an outburst of undiluted evil ever be explained? Like all evil, there is no real sense to be made of it, but the influence of theories about race and a view of humans very foreign to what the Biblical record reveals are clearly evident in this tragedy.
As a church, we have to wrestle with the fact that there were many who…

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