Empowering youth with tools to avoid risk behaviors was the goal of "Youth Alive," a youth drug prevention program held in Hong Kong July 5 to 11 for the church's Northern Asia-Pacific region (see ANN Nov. 24, 2003: http://news.adventist.org/data/2003/10/
After years of civil war in Congo kept Adventists separated from pastoral visits, a four-week evangelistic outreach held by the Voice of Prophecy "brought much-needed hope to the church members," said Pastor Jules K K Lumbu, who led the effort.
In the aftermath of floods that ravaged southeast Haiti in May, the Adventist Relief and Development Agency (ADRA) and the International Behavioral Health Trauma Team from Loma Linda University, met in Port-au-Prince from June 28 to July 3 to train local
Better communication between Seventh-day Adventist young people and church administration is the goal of two initiatives from the office of Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the world church.
"Hope 4 The Big Cities," a proposed worldwide urban outreach by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is raising its goals, hoping to reach out to even more large cities than originally planned. From an original initial proposal to engage the church in specia
Seventh-day Adventist church leaders in the United Kingdom -- and others -- are concerned about a proposed "religious hatred" legislation called for July 7 by David Blunkett, the British Home Secretary.