The September 28 edition of the Washington Post carried a full-page message from the Seventh-day Adventist Church expressing solidarity in prayer for those people affected by the September 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon. The advertisement mirrored the church’s New York Times advertisement, which ran September 24.

“Praying—for the families, for our leaders, for our cities, for our world,” read the advertisement, which appeared on page A31 of the newspaper. Larry Colburn, assistant to the president of the Adventist Church worldwide, has called the advertisement “an unadorned, no-strings-attached message of caring from the worldwide Adventist faith community.” (See the ANN report and view the New York Times and Washington Post advertisements at www.adventist.org.)

Three regional offices of the Adventist Church in North America—the Greater New York Conference, the Northeastern Conference, and the Atlantic Union Conference—have also placed advertisements that appeared October 1 in the New York Times, Daily News, and New York Newsday: “In the aftermath of September 11, 2001, we too feel the horror, we too feel the pain, we too have lost loved ones, we too have cried…And we are praying…for the families of those lost to terrorism, for our heroic police, firemen, and rescue workers. We are the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Our doors are open. We’re here for you.”