ANNOUNCEMENT: Materials from the General Conference Commission on Ministries, Services and Structures are being made available online at the church’s Web site—http://www.adventist.org You c.an access a special Commission page at: http://www.adventist.org/commission/

Indonesia: Medical Care Reaching Remote Villages in Indonesia ... Injured survivors of Indonesia’s May 27 earthquake can now receive 24-hour medical care through mobile clinics and a clinic located at the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) base camp in the hard-hit region of Bantul. ADRA is also shipping 20 medical boxes into the region, each containing sufficient supplies to treat 1,000 people for approximately three months. Mobile medical teams are caring for injured residents, many in remote villages, who have been without medical attention since the 6.3 magnitude quake. “ADRA opened [the] base camp medical clinic on June 1st, and we’re now treating local patients around the clock,” reports Wendy Brightman, emergency response director for ADRA Indonesia. Expanding its response, ADRA is sending four 800-gallon water bladders to help offset problems with limited or contaminated water supplies, as well as shelter kits for those left homeless. [Nadia McGill/ADRA/ANN]

Iraqi Adventists to Benefit From Collection ... During the quinquennial business session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Middle East region, the needs of Iraqi Adventists were brought before the 110 delegates meeting in Cairo, Egypt. Basim Fargo, president of the church in Iraq gave a moving account of the current situation in the war-torn country where the Adventist members “live in a very dangerous climate, with their faith being challenged daily.” Fargo remarked that life has become so desperate that one of his church members acknowledged that he regularly paws through rubbish bins to salvage some food for his family. More than US$700 was raised during the Sabbath offering and handed to Fargo to assist the needy in the Baghdad congregation and surrounding community with food parcels. [Alex Elmadjian/ANN]

Bangladesh:  Young People Demonstrate in World Anti-Tobacco Day ... As tobacco-consumption rises in Bangladesh so do lung cancer-related deaths in Bangladesh, according to Ellen E. Mayr associate Health Ministries director for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Bangladesh.  Young people in the church are responding to the deadly habit, Mayr continued.  They have distributed 60,000 pamphlets on the dangers of tobacco to young people and city-dwellers. They have also organized anti-tobacco rallies in various cities across the nation as part of world Anti-Tobacco Day, May 31. In Bangladesh, an Asian Islamic country with 147 million inhabitants, Adventists have been promoting a healthy lifestyle free of tobacco, alcohol and drugs, since 1906. [Bangladesh Union/ANN Staff]

Australia: Church Web Site Now Has RSS ... The Web site for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific at http://adventist.org.au now has RSS feeds, making it possible for visitors to receive automatic updates. The RSS feeds now send out news from the church’s headquarters in the region and will soon be available for media releases and events as well as the region’s official paper the Record. This means that any one subscribed to these RSS feeds through their feed readers will be automatically informed of any updates or changes. [Melody Tan
/SPD/ANN]