By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Libna Stevens/IAD)

“I don’t know what impression you’re taking with you as you leave these meetings but we still have a great mission to fulfill,” said Inter-American Division (IAD) President Pastor Elie Henry, as dozens of top church administrators and leaders concluded their business meetings recently.
“There is still a great field to prepare, the message to be shared and that’s why we should leave here to motivate our church members, inspire our church board to take solid and daring decisions to do…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Adventist News Network and Adventist World)

Seventh-day Adventist world church president Ted N.C. Wilson has issued an urgent appeal for prayer following the recent arrest and detention of 22 Adventist leaders and members in the central African nation of Burundi. The arrests were ordered by the national government and follow six months of illegal interference on the part of the Burundi government in the administration of the Adventist Church in that country.
“I call on all Seventh-day Adventists to pray for our church members in…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Christelle Agboka)

According to a U.N. report released on May 6, one million plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction.[1] Moreover, four decades after the first Earth Day in 1970, the global population has doubled, we’re emitting 2.4 times more Co2 — causing sea levels to rise — and more than 170 animal species have been declared extinct.[2] Only a “transformative change” in how we engage with nature will stall these trends.[3]
Enter the 2019 Earth Day Summit, held on April 21, in Mississauga,…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Ivalina Ilieva/EUDNews/tedNEWS)

Inspired by the cross-media interaction of ideas and teams during the 2018 GAiN Europe* conference in Valencia, Spain, Communication leaders in Bulgaria committed themselves to develop similar outreach projects in their own country – a land that is traditionally Orthodox but that is today very secular.
While Bulgaria is part of the Inter-European Division [EUD], it shares common ground with many of the media challenges in the TED, resulting in Trans-European Division Communication director,…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Ted N.C. Wilson)

I am earnestly appealing to Seventh-day Adventist church members, and others worldwide, to begin a strong, worldwide prayer initiative for our members and church organization in the central African country of Burundi, who are experiencing systematic religious liberty abuse by the government. For more than six months, the Burundi government has increasingly harassed and abused the Seventh-day Adventist Church by imprisoning, beating, and intimidating Seventh-day Adventist church leaders…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Ted N.C. Wilson)

The Seventh-day Adventist World Church President, Ted N.C. Wilson, has written a letter of appeal to the governor of the U.S. state of Tennessee, Bill Lee, asking for a stay of execution for Donnie Johnson. Johnson has been convicted of killing his wife and is set to be executed this week.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America has also asked for mercy, prayers for Johnson.
While in prison, Johnson became a Christian and was baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Below is…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Tor Tjeransen)

Christian Ødegård had barely heard about Seventh-day Adventists. However, while serving in the Norwegian armed forces he saw a war movie that made a huge impact on him. The film was Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge with the young Adventist paramedic, Desmond Doss, as the main character
The way Doss stood up for his Christian convictions really impressed the young Norwegian soldier. He was fascinated that the American soldier in the movie kept the Sabbath and was a vegetarian. Over lunch one day, his…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Vania Chew)

Partnering with a team of literature evangelists has proved beneficial for a church plant in Western Australia.
“We’ve been working with literature evangelists (LEs) for a couple of years now,” says Pastor Abby Aviles from Hope Spring Fellowship, an Adventist church plant in Kwinana. “I find their work inspiring. They are bringing the kingdom of God to people’s doorsteps.”
For the past couple of years, literature evangelists have assisted Pastor Aviles with prayer meetings, doorknocking and…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Kesia Andrade)

In recent years, technology has been getting more prevalent in our daily lives. It is everywhere – in our financial systems, culture, entertainment, economics, education, communication and even the religious environment. Because of this, the Adventist Church in South America is looking for the best way to apply it in other areas. The belief is that, over the years, technology will be so present, people will not remember what life was like without technological development.
“Technology alone has…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Ansel Oliver)

Leonard Bailey, MD, the renowned Loma Linda University Health surgeon who garnered international media attention in 1984 for transplanting a baboon’s heart into a human infant known as “Baby Fae,” the research from which spawned human-to-human infant heart transplants and other cardiac treatment breakthroughs, died today at the age of 76 following a battle with cancer.
Bailey’s pioneering and controversial procedure became one of 1984’s biggest news stories, drawing daily attention of national…

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