By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Heather Jackson)

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 activity start, depending on the extent of organ injury.
There are more than 2 million COVID-19 cases in the United States as of June 15, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In May, a report published…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (American Adventist News Agency)

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, Pastor Marcelo Coronel and a group of young people participated in the solidarity initiative.
“Donating blood is sharing life, sharing hope,” said one of the young participants.
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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Jarrod Stackelroth)

“I’m having a hard time getting my head around that,” said the young person I had been sharing with. “I just don’t feel like it’s true.” We were not discussing some mystery of the universe or the nature of God. It wasn’t some win-every-argument apologetics trick or a scientific principle. The concept was that he was valuable.[1]Infinitely valuable.1 He couldn’t get his head around his intrinsic value. Not that his will or his contribution or his race had value in and of itself, especially more…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Gina Taggart)

For many of us, memorizing the weekly Adult Bible Study Guides (ABSG) memory texts can be quite a mental challenge. A small group of musically-minded folk from several churches in Canterbury, New Zealand, have been working to make this process easier by putting the ABSG memory texts to music.
This creative team desires not only to make the memory texts easier to memorise, but to make the word of God more meaningful and beautiful.
The group originally began with a choir and a recording studio,…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Vanessa Arba)

A recent survey of 1,930 members and patrons of the Adventist Church in the Brazilian Central Planalto region showed that 82.3 percent have regularly followed, over the past three months, the services and online programs of their churches or other Adventist churches. In this period, these remained closed due to social isolation. Now, with the gradual return of face-to-face activities, some questions arise: Will this audience, which has adapted to a virtual church, gather again on-site? Will…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Larry Becker)

Andrea Yaeger has honored 16 Loma Linda University Health employees who helped her daughter Jackie receive ongoing rehabilitative care. Her gift of $35,000, raised from family and friends, has provided upgraded software to therapy equipment and will also support patient scholarship.
Jackie, a young attorney at a prominent Riverside, California, law firm, suffered a brain hemorrhage before coming to Loma Linda University Health. She had first felt sudden, severe pain in her jaw and visited an…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Glenn Townend)

The local church elder on the phone was a friend: “I cannot wait to get back to the church building for worship so I can talk with people face to face.” Earlier in the week I had talked to another friend, “The COVID pandemic has helped me get my Sabbaths back—instead of leading in programs, I am doing Bible studies with my family and spending time in reflection with God in nature. I’m not sure I want to be in the church building as much.”
Another friend emailed, “I like meeting in small groups…

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

Mary left her husband when she was 30.
She had biblical grounds for the divorce, but she didn’t say a word to anyone because she didn’t want to publicize private matters. Moreover, her former in-laws were respected members of the local Seventh-day Adventist church, which she still attended.
Church members didn’t understand why Mary’s marriage had ended, and they blamed her. Several bluntly told her that she had forfeited salvation by leaving her husband.
Mary, who had been raised in the…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Fabiana Lopes and adviser to the Blood Bank Santa Teresa (Petrópolis))

Blood donations in Rio de Janeiro fell by 60 percent in April, at the beginning of the pandemic, according to the National Cancer Institute (INCA). This is the fourth year of decline in the number of donations in Brazil. In 2019, there was a 2.5% decrease in the number of blood bags collected across the country.
For this reason, the Ministry of Health launched on the 12th the campaign “Be supportive. Donate blood. Donating is an act of love ” to reinforce the importance of maintaining blood…

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

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Fiji is celebrating a significant milestone—25 years of serving the community.
From small beginnings with just one worker, the agency has grown into a dynamic team of more than 40 dedicated individuals who are making a real difference in the lives of people around Fiji.
Over the years, the ADRA team has provided emergency response to assist communities affected by natural disasters, the most recent being Tropical Cyclone Harold. The team…

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