By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Deena Bartel-Wagner, Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries, Seventh-day Adventist World Church)

The official position that advocates non-combatancy was the focus of the two-day Seventh-day Adventists and Military-related Service Conference at the General Conference Headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. “Traditionally, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has advocated a non-combatant status,” says Mario E. Ceballos, Director/Endorser, General Conference World Service Organization and Director, General Conference Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries. “Union and Division World Service Organization…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Douglas Pessoa)

Members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Jardim Lindoia, in Porto Alegre, Brail, recently started the “Support Center for Families of Autistics Kids,” a space created to bring together those who live and take care of people with autism.
In two different rooms, one for meetings and the other filled with toys, crayons and paper for drawings, family members and children are cared for by volunteers who are dedicated to provide an open environment of fellowship. The project, created by Gissele…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Tracey Bridcutt)

An initiative to bring church members onto school campuses in Papua New Guinea is having a positive impact on the schools.
Jim Yawane, national director for Adventist Education for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Papua New Guinea, said they were encouraging church programs and activities to be held on school campuses. By bringing church members into the school, they can learn about it and see the needs that it may have.
“They know that the school is an Adventist school but they don’t often…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Ryan Teller)

The Union College Red Cross Club was called into action to manage a multi-agency warehouse in Omaha for donations coming in from around the country for victims of the March 2018 flooding across Nebraska.
Union College Red Cross Club members, mostly international rescue and relief students and faculty, used their disaster management training to get the warehouse up and running, and will continue to manage volunteers and accept, organize and distribute donations over the coming weeks.
Rick…

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

For the past seven months, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Colombia has been providing assistance to thousands of migrating Venezuelans who have crossed into the eastern border of Colombia to escape the economic and political instability in their homeland. The project represents an assistance of over 2.5 million US dollars, the largest the Adventist agency has been managing in the country, ADRA Colombia officials said.
According to recent government statistics, there are…

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

For the past seven months, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Colombia has been providing assistance to thousands of migrating Venezuelans who have crossed into the eastern border of Colombia to escape the economic and political instability in their homeland. The project represents an assistance of over 2.5 million US dollars, the largest the Adventist agency has been managing in the country, ADRA Colombia officials said.
According to recent government statistics, there are…

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

For the past seven months, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Colombia has been providing assistance to thousands of migrating Venezuelans who have crossed into the eastern border of Colombia to escape the economic and political instability in their homeland. The project represents an assistance of over 2.5 million US dollars, the largest the Adventist agency has been managing in the country, ADRA Colombia officials said.
According to recent government statistics, there are…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Kimberly Luste Maran)

The Sonscreen Film Festival broke records this year as 265 student filmmakers, professors, professionals, and enthusiasts screened 57 official selections during the event held at La Sierra University in Riverside, California, on April 4-6, 2019. The official selections came from a pool of 95 submissions.
The three-day festival, run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America (NAD), screened the official selections from student filmmakers, and gave the young adults the opportunity to…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (James Ponder)

Plant-based diets are associated with lower body mass index (BMI) among Hispanic members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, according to a new study.
The results of the study, published in journal Frontiers in Nutrition, found Hispanics who eat a plant-based diet generally weigh less and have lower BMI. Excess weight was associated with high rates of inflammation in the study.
“The study demonstrates that plant-based diet choices can help maintain healthy weight in the Hispanic…

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By AdventistNews@gc.adventist.org (Clifford Goldstein)

Tuesday morning’s devotional, “The Adventist -Bigotry Theory,” was given by Clifford Goldstein during the 2019 Spring Meetings, held at the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s World headquarters, in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.
The devotional was based on a recent article Goldstein wrote for the Adventist Review entitled “The Adventist-Bigotry Theory (and other errors within).

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