By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Eva Roa Vidal)

As a result of the suspension of classes in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the recreation of children and the management of their learning is now handled within each home, presenting new challenges for each family. The restrictions now imposed on our lives lend us to hearing and saying “NO” more often than perhaps we’d like.
The writer Ellen White points out in relation to children and their entertainment that “we must provide them with innocent recreation, to lead them along pleasant…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Newbold Communication Department)

Newbold College of Higher Education has announced an extension of their remote online learning experience for the 2020 autumn semester. As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and following thorough consideration, the decision was made to ensure that the health and safety of both students and staff remain a top priority.
The decision is in line with the pathway being taken by a number of other universities and higher education providers worldwide.
Given Newbold’s close community setting, its…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Andrey Antiaskin)

On April 27, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) donated 2,100 masks to the Central District Hospital of Pavlovsky Posad, Moscow Region. The next day, 800 masks were transferred to Psychiatric Hospital No. 8 in the city of Orekhovo-Zuevo, Moscow Region.
The donated masks were sewn by members of the Adventist community of Ivanovo, who continue to work on making more. Church members plan to distribute 6,000 masks around the Central Association territory.
ADRA expresses its gratitude…

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

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Inter-American Division (IAD) recently celebrated dozens of volunteers who are currently serving throughout the territory and around the world. Church leaders praised the commitment of the 74 volunteers during a special online Zoom event to celebrate what has been coined as Adventist Volunteer Service Day.
Adventist Volunteer Service is an official program of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists that matches volunteer skills with…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Connie Vandeman Jeffery)

For Pastors Phil and Jan White of the Simi Valley Seventh-day Adventist church in Southern California, the transition from normal church services to live-streaming and online giving was seamless. The church was live-streaming services pre-pandemic, and, for the past eight years, has been using Adventist Giving online.
“A small percentage of the membership used adventistgiving.org before, for convenience,” said Pastor Phil White, “and now about 50 percent of our church family is using the…

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

Leena abruptly turned to her friends, Anneli and Timo, during a Bible study in her apartment in Raahe, a Finnish town located about 370 miles (600 kilometers) north of the capital, Helsinki.
“I have a bad feeling,” she said. “Let’s pray.”
The three university students sank onto their knees. At that moment, a tall dark figure burst into the living room and darted over to Anneli. She reeled in stark horror as the dark figure tried to grab her.
Timo and Leena prayed more earnestly.
Then a light…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Deyler Vásquez, with reporting by Jesús Cárdenas)

In these times of pandemic, it has become daily to speak of “a new normal” at the frontlines of action, crisis, anxiety, and anguish. Some speak of a slowed-down world, but there are situations where their world has begun to run at an unimaginable speed.
In Peru, as in many cases, the pandemic has placed at the top all the fragility that healthcare centers have today. Without hospitals available, without the necessary resources, and without basic biosecurity measures in many cases that above…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Fred Hardinge)

In 1996, 7-year-old Jessica DuBroff was attempting to be the youngest student pilot to fly across the United States. Accompanying her were her father and her flying instructor. The first couple of days went uneventfully, but as often happens, the media were closely following this attempt and hounded the instructor pilot for midnight and early morning interviews.
While talking with his wife on the phone from Wyoming, the instructor told her how frustrated he was with all the media…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Michael W. Campbell)

While being under “shelter-in-place” orders for the past two months, I finally had the opportunity to read Joseph Wolff’s (1795-1862) Travels and Adventures[i]. I’ve deeply admired Wolff ever since I first read about him in The Great Controversy.[ii] For those not familiar with his story, Wolff was one of many heralds of the Second Advent spanning the globe during the nineteenth century.
Brief Biographical Sketch
Wolff was the son of a Jewish rabbi in Germany. At the age of 7, while getting a…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Linden Chuang)

Interest in Hope Discovery Center (HDC) courses has spiked over the past week, with dozens of people expressing their desire to learn more about forgiveness and other faith-based topics.
The HDC team, based at Adventist Media in Wahroonga (NSW), sent letters to contacts who had previously completed a course on forgiveness (entitled “Forgive to Live”). Of the 80 people who received letters, 40 wrote back asking to be enrolled in the follow-up “Forgive to Live 2” Bible study.
HDC manager Sharon…

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