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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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Richard Hart, Loma Linda University)

Once again our country is being reminded that we have much work to do. As we watch the news, we must feel more than sympathy for our African American students, faculty, staff, friends and colleagues. This has gone on far too long, and even though the protests are now being taken advantage of by other forces of evil, we must not get derailed from the fundamental issues.
To see a plea for breath and life itself from George Floyd, and a long line before him, is painful to watch. That this occurred…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (EUDnews/tedNEWS)

It is hard to write a letter to ‘dear coronavirus’. Even the word ‘dear’ makes us cringe. There is no love lost for this deadly disease. Yet the irony of challenging this ‘dear’ disease directly has not been lost on viewers across 60+ countries and in multiple languages worldwide.
For 12 weeks #dearcoronavirus clips have circulated the globe sharing a message of hope and love. Now, in a final clip we note that “You left emptiness in the lives of millions of people since you arrived. You showed…

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

Seventh-day Adventist hospital administrators and church leaders throughout the Inter-American Division (IAD) territory recently paused for spiritual reflection and prayer for physicians, other health professionals, and general staff as they care for patients during the pandemic crisis. The video conference session was meant to reaffirm the mission of spreading hope, love and compassion – even in the midst of stringent measures of operation across the 14 Adventist hospitals in Inter-America. …

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Record Staff)

The director of intensive care at Sydney Adventist Hospital was recognized during the Queen’s Birthday Honors, which were announced on Sunday, June 8.
Professor Simon Finfer was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for his service to intensive care medicine, medical research and education, and for his service to global health institutes. Finfer has been on the team leading the San’s preparedness to deal with the needs of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He has a particular interest in…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Nathan Brown)

Kirsten Roggenkamp and Heather Blaire are both school teachers who became friends in their shared classroom at Mile High Academy in Denver, Colorado. Their writing partnership has focused on re-telling Bible stories for younger readers, and they talked with Australia’s Record magazine about these projects.
Tell us about your journey to becoming authors.
For a generation of children who are used to seeing stories acted out in movies and on TV, it was important us to present the Bible stories…

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