Eight Seventh-day Adventist church ministries are joining together to educate members about child abuse. On Aug. 23 the world church will hold its second annual abuse prevention Sabbath, or Saturday, in an effort to reduce abuse.
More than 2,000 Seventh-day Adventists attending a Sabbath worship service at the Albuquerque Convention Center raised over US $2.8 million for world mission projects.
Some 150 years after the Seventh-day Adventist Church established a regular, systematic study of the Bible for believers, a new strategic, intentional plan has begun for the Sabbath School Department of the church in Inter-America.
Determined to oppose a wave of violence in their neighborhoods, Christians from 18 different denominations marched for peace in the community of Mountain View, a densely populated section that has been torn by violence in the last year.
The Centre for the Study of Religious and Cultural Diversity at Newbold College, staged a conference, "Understanding Difference: Building communities in a diverse modern world," from July 23 to July 26.
They're known as a group of energetic and enthusiastic Seventh-day Adventist lay people. Adventist-Laymen's Services and Industries (ASI) is all about people who love what they do--and love God--sharing their faith in their respective areas of expertise.