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

The Youth Ministries department in Inter-America launched its first online Adventist Youth Society program in three languages as part of an ongoing initiative to encourage the youth across the territory to engage in youth leadership and community service.
The online program included spiritual reflections from world youth leaders, visits to cities and countries in Inter-America, and initiatives and activities in which young people can involve themselves.
Pastor Elie Henry, president for the…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Murray Hunter/Record staff)

Colloquially known as “Black Summer,” this year began with a devastating bushfire season in Australia—18.6 million hectares (46 million acres) burned, 5900 buildings destroyed, 34 people, and 1 billion animals killed.
If it wasn’t for our firefighters, who toiled night and day to save land, lives, and livestock, it could have been a lot worse. Our firefighters deserve to be heralded and honored for their work.
On the heels of Black Summer came COVID-19. Handshakes were banned, hugs out of the…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Maryellen Fairfax)

Adventist youth in South Australia are working to supply food boxes to a demographic that have been largely overlooked in the COVID-19 crisis: international university students.
“A number of them haven’t been able to go back home with everything that’s been happening,” explained South Australia Conference youth director, Pastor Joel Slade. “Many of them have also lost their jobs because the hospitality industries they were employed in have been shut down. The government doesn’t provide any…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Theo Voilquin, for Adventist Review)

In the turbulent times we are all currently traversing, Seventh-day Adventists everywhere are also pondering what impacts the health and economic crises of the moment are having upon the Church. Is the Church able to do anything to mitigate its effects?
Most nations of the world and vast areas of their economies have been all but shut down, with no clear road map to re-entry, even in places that have cautiously implemented a loosening of social restrictions. What started as a mild inconvenience…

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

Leonard Brand is former department chair and professor of biology and paleontology in the Department of Earth and Biological Sciences at Loma Linda University, California (U.S.), where he has taught and researched since 1970. He talked with Bookshelf about his long-term interest in the integration of faith and science and the contribution his books make to this project.
Tell us about your personal and professional interest in science and faith.
I have confidence in what the Bible tells us…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Antony Dulanto)

In a scenario where the capacity of the Carlos Monge Medrano hospital in Juliaca, Peru, has reached its limit due to COVID-19, the American Clinic of Juliaca—a health ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church—has agreed to support the national health ministry’s contingency plan. In this instance, it made 15 electric hospital beds available to the population for the care of patients infected with this deadly virus.
Juliaca is a city of more than 276,000 people and is the capital city of San…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Ervin González, Inter-American Division)

For many years the Seventh-day Adventist Church has used various methods to share the biblical message of salvation to people. Public evangelistic series have been held, as well as local evangelistic drives and small group ministries. Bible studies have been offered and sharing the gospel through the church’s health ministries. Other methods, such as Christian education, social networks, and radio and TV ministries have been used.
These ways of practicing evangelism have resulted in significant…

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

What should church be like after lockdown? Has an ‘enforced’ rest modified the way we look at Sabbath? How about mission? Will we do it differently?
To answer those questions, we invited three guests to join us for the Trans-European Division’s (TED) “Words of Hope” 10: Sabbath, Church, and Mission: The Post-lockdown View.
Mission
Nenad Jepuranović, TED treasurer, shares how careful planning, revised budgeting, and a focus on the core reason for our existence as a church was reflected in…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Daniela Arrieta/IAD News Staff)

Six Adventist families in Barranquilla, North Colombia, have taken to their apartment-complex balconies to play and sing hymns, read the bible, pray and spread hope to neighbors and pedestrians every night for nearly two months.
“Ever since the government implemented social distancing measures on March 24, we have been out every night to point to God and pray for the concerns and difficulties of our community, for the persons who are out providing a vital service and others who have requested…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Briana Pastorino)

Loma Linda University Medical Center recently earned Magnet Recognition as part of the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program.
Helen Staples-Evans, DNP, RN, NE-BC, senior vice president of care services and chief nursing officer at Loma Linda University Medical Center, thanked the ANCC for their commitment to excellence and for the recognition, but attributes the honor to the nursing staff.
“Today is a celebration about each one of our nurses. I hope you will…

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