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In an area with a wide range of diversities and adversities, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Southern-Africa Indian Ocean region has a story of hope...

Outgoing president of the Southern Africa Indian Ocean region of the Adventist church. [Photo: Chris Drake]

Southern Africa: Church Report Communicates Hope

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is facing challenges to its authority, according to a presentation given this morning to delegates and guests at the church's quinquennial business meeting in St Louis.

Some of the challenges to the church's authority include: corruption, unbalanced influences from certain regions of the world, difficulties in obtaining consensus, the growth of parallel and competing organizational structures, and the sidelining of minorities, Dr. Angel Rodriguez says. [Photo: Angel Rodriguez]

Rodriguez: Church Authority Should Benefit Others

The world presidency of the Seventh-day Adventist Church will be held only by an "ordained minister of experience," delegates to the movement's 58th General Conference Session voted in a change to the church's constitution and bylaws on July 5.

Lisa Beardsley speaks on behalf of inclusive church leadership which would allow un-ordained individuals to serve in top church administrative positions. [photo by Volker Henning]

World Church: Delegates Restrict Top Post to Ordained Clergy

Despite offering to give brief backgrounds of those up for nomination to head the Seventh-day Adventist world church departments - an offer made after several delegates complained of being unfamiliar with many of the candidates' backgrounds - no one reque

Pastor Jan Paulsen (right) president of the Adventist world church explains the relationship between the world church and the church in North America. [Photo: Gerry Chudleigh]

World Church: Incremental Changes in Headquarters Department Leadership

Mention Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, or a myriad of other places and the media image is one of war and suffering.  Yet the Gospel must also be heard in these lands.

From left: Levon Maksoudian, president, East Mediterranean Field, Lebanon, Trans-European Division 
Arkangelo Clements, ADRA/Education director, South Sudan, Trans-European Division

Lebanon and Sudan: The Adventist Church in hard places

For a movement that is drawing new members from societies where beliefs in "evil spirits" continue to play a part, the Seventh-day Adventist Church's 58th General Conference Session adopted, on July 4, a new fundamental belief statement declaring God's po

From left: Angel Rodriquez, director of the Biblical Research Institute; William Johnsson, editor of the Adventist Review; and Mike Ryan, director of Global Mission check the exact wording of the proposed protocols for revising the Adventist statements of fundamental beliefs, before answering a question from a delegate.[photo by Gerry Chudleigh]

World Church: Growing in Christ, New Belief Statement, Voted

Early on the afternoon of July 4, the Seventh-day Adventist Church set out the direction it will be heading in over the next five years, finalizing the top level of the 13 administrative teams that will lead the church's worldwide regional offices.

Max Travino, Southwestern Union Conference president, was a member of the nominating committee. [photo by Richard Dower]

World Church: Regional Officer Elections Firmly Establish Future Direction

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is playing its part in raising the issues of world hunger in anticipation of next week's G8 summit at Gleneagles, Scotland.

From right: Gabi Zieglar, reporter for the Adventist World News in Germany, addresses the issue of poverty around the world in an interview with Tereza Byrne, ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency) Bureau Chief for Marketing and Development at ADRA's poverty protest exhibit. [photo by Richard Herard]

Adventists Aim to Make Poverty History

Step onto American soil and you step into a technological wonderland. For those of us born into the world of typewriters, carbon copies and liquid paper, the explosion of gadgets and gizmos can be positively mind-blowing.

Upper View: Holding up the Hands of Moses

The global Seventh-day Adventist Church cannot fulfill its mission without interacting with society, a leader says.

Ricardo Graham, president of the Adventist churches in Northern California, responds to the challenge to make the gospel relevant to local needs. [Photo: Gerry Chudleigh]

Church's Mission is to Reach Out to the Community

"Pray that I will always hear God's voice and no others," Dr. Ella Simmons, the first woman vice president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, asked church members at a press conference today. "Pray that I will always reflect and do the will of God

Dr. Ella Simmons, is the first woman vice president elected to the Adventist world chruch. [Photo: Gerry Chudleigh]

Step in the Right Direction, Simmons Tells Church Press

An organization the size of the Seventh-day Adventist Church needs a vast infrastructure to keep the wheels turning smoothly.

World Church: Diversity Increasing as New Leaders Elected

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