By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Nasoni Lutunaliwa Location: Suva, Fiji)

It’s 5am on a Sunday morning in early April. Although Fiji’s capital of Suva is in lockdown, 12-year-old Nasoni Junior is already awake and ready to feed the homeless on the city streets.
Today, Junior is joining his parents as he has done so many times before, but this time he is more reluctant. The police have been very strict in arresting people, and authorities have not made it clear whether Junior and his team are allowed to continue their ministry.
Junior’s team is called “MISSION-1”,…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Dale Wolcott)

The Chinle Seventh-day Adventist Church isn’t exactly located in the best neighborhood in Chinle, a town of 4,500 people on the Navajo Reservation in the U.S. state of Arizona.
As the pastor, I live in a trailer beside the church building. Several well-respected neighbors, including a Navajo Nation police officer, live in nearby trailers. But one house is looked down on as the local “drug house.” Its unkempt yard and constant stream of random foot and vehicle traffic lend credibility to its…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Maranatha Volunteers)

You have a weekly routine–work, school, friends, volunteering, church–but does your weekly routine include worrying about whether your church building will fall apart?
That is Lilian Naluminoz’s concern each week.
Each day Lilian walks into the Zambian bush to cut down a tree, which she burns into charcoal. She puts the charcoal into large bags and sells them to earn a living to support her ten children.
But on Sabbath, Lilian and her kids go to church at the Lwendge Seventh-day Adventist…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Paulo Ribeiro)

Twenty-one-year-old Brenda Matos has found a unique and dynamic way to share biblical messages with thousands of Internet users. Using TikTok, a wildly popular social media video app, Matos posts daily videos featuring Christian themes, Bible study tips, reading suggestions for books by Adventist Church co-founder Ellen G. White, and a series of stories about Protestant reformers. Matos records her TikTok videos at home in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil, using her smartphone.
Matos’ profile…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Pedro Torres for Inter-American Division News)

I am at the end of a long battle against COVID-19 that has lasted nearly eight weeks. I still find it challenging to stand upright because I feel weak and suffer from vertigo, which makes the simplest daily chores risky. Even when I am sitting down, I still endure sudden headaches and a constant daze.
These past two months, I spent almost seven weeks in bed, and this has transformed my way of looking at life and its priorities. In this, I am not unique. People talk about a “post COVID-19…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Adventist Community Services)

The international Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has committed $150,000 to support Adventist Community Services (ACS) food pantries in the U.S. to respond to the COVID-19 food relief efforts. In addition, ADRA is providing $2.3 million worth of medical consumables as gifts-in-kind and 426 boxes of PPE (personal protective equipment).”We are grateful for ADRA’s commitment to serve and to partner with ACS for this endeavor,” said Sung Kwon, NAD ACS director.
North American…

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Since the quarantine was announced in Peru in early March, Mateus Pereira has seen his routine change dramatically. Accustomed to the intense academic experience, he suddenly had to remain isolated due to an invisible threat: the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19.
The medical student is Brazilian, but lives in Lima, capital city of the neighboring country of Peru, which has gradually seen the number of infected people steadily increase, despite preemptive measures adopted by the local…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Janell Hullquist, Southern Adventist University.)

From June 15-17, 2020, the School of Journalism and Communication (SJC) at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee, will host a three-day virtual photo/journalism summer boot camp for high school students.
The workshop, to be held via Zoom, is designed for students interested in photography, writing, videography, social media, or overall storytelling. Participants will be encouraged to find stories within their churches, conferences, and communities for publication, either as…

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

With society now being called to practice social distancing, it’s become even more difficult for those who live alone to socialize.
Fear and anxiety about COVID-19 can make people feel anxious and out of control. Feelings of loneliness and isolation that are exacerbated during social distancing can cause our mental health to suffer.
Carolina Osorio, MD, a geriatric psychiatrist at the Loma Linda Behavioral Health Institute, is no stranger to working with people who feel isolated. “Loneliness…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Mark A. Kellner, for Adventist Review)

Richard Wayne Penniman, a Seventh-day Adventist and musician best known as Little Richard, passed to his rest May 9, 2020 at the age of 87. Controversial for his role in creating rock ‘n’ roll music in the 1950s, the Oakwood University alumnus retained his Adventist faith and publicly returned to it in his later years.
A son, Dan Penniman, said his father died of cancer. Little Richard was said to be in poor health in recent years following hip surgery in 2009. And in 2017 he told a 3ABN…

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