A new Seventh-day Adventist television channel in Beirut is expected to help spread the church’s message of hope among Arabic-speaking communities in the Middle East, a region “rich in Biblical history,” its director said last week.

The sign outside The Seventh Day Adventist Church in Missouri City has information about church hours, but look at the side of the church and a broken window represents the hours the pastor slept there.
Pastor Roderic Bishop says a man broke in the church early Monday morning. Bishop knows the man went in a few rooms and made a mess. These are some of the details Bishop won’t forget because he and his wife were there.

During denominational service spanning more than 50 years, Battle served as a pastor and administrator. Beginning in 1948 with pastoral work in the church’s South Atlantic Conference, his career later led to posts in West Africa and England before beginning service at world church headquarters in 1978.

Loma Linda, Calif., is the only place in the United States where a large population enjoys startling longevity, with so many healthy 100-year-olds that it qualifies as what demographers call a statistical “blue zone.’’ The reason for the longevity: not miracle pills, and not starvation diets. Loma Linda is a center of the Seventh-day Adventist religion, which counsels its members to live pretty much the way your doctor would want you to.

Jan Paulsen also told the group of young adults from the church’s Inter-American region, to embrace peers who are considering leaving the church or acting out in rebellion.
“Let’s love them back,” said Paulsen, referring to Jesus’ example of the Prodigal Son. “God is in the business of saving people.”

One Des Moines woman’s 100th birthday party on Sunday also will be a celebration of history for her east-side church.
After all, if it hadn’t been for Geneva Ryles, who turns 100 years old on Monday, Des Moines’ Seventh-day Adventist Church at 1639 Garfield Ave. may never have come to be.

According to Communications Secretary JoAnne Brown of the SDAC of Boone, the church’s presence is felt throughout the Hispaniola Island. Haiti currently boasts a membership of 300,000 hailing from hundreds of churches nationwide. The church also oversees the operation of 167 hospitals and 450 clinics throughout the country as well as a handful of educational centers.

A long standing feud between A Creation Seventh Day and Adventist Church and the worldwide Seventh Day Adventist reached a breaking point Tuesday. Protestors could only watch as crews dismantled signs linking the church in Guys to the Seventh Day Adventist denomination.

Some of the missions have operated here for decades, converting generations of Haitians and helping to develop the country, and that has made for some skepticism of the newcomers’ motives and methods.
Dale Winslette, 51, a volunteer with Give Me Shelter Ministries in Shalimar, Fla., which has been providing food and medical and dental care in Haiti for the past four years, said there were many missionaries who were mostly interested in returning to their churches with grand stories of good works.

In approving a US$151.3-million budget for 2010, Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders are continuing a worldwide emphasis on mission. This year the church will spend about $124 million on appropriations for world outreach and supporting missionaries.

One of the longest running disputes in the history of Christianity – Saturday vs. Sunday – is having new life breathed into it with a cash reward of up to $1 million toward a resolution.

We need our young people to know what it is they are up against, yes, but when naturalistic evolution is taught as fact or as the preferred and normative worldview, then we can be sure that the enemy has breached our lines.