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A different style of public outreach has brought in dozens of visitors, including many who do not regularly attend any church, to special Seventh-day Adventist services in Holland's largest Northern city.

The Seventh-day Adventist church in Groningen, Netherlands practice a more personal form of evangelism.  The church encourages members to invite family, friends and colleagues to church. [Photo: the Groningen Seventh-day Adventist Church]

Netherlands: Groningen Outreach Brings In Unchurched

It's an urban campus with a global feel: Columbia Union College, a Seventh-day Adventist school close to Washington, D.C., capital of the United States, stands in stark contrast to many Adventist university locations: others are mostly in suburban or rura

The women's dormitory, Halcyon Hall was recently renovated. Its renovation leads the way for three new buildings on campus: a performing arts center, a learning pavilion and library, and a health and science center. [Photo: Columbia Union College Public Relations office]

Once 'Invisible,' Adventist College Now Attracts a Variety of Students

The numbers are going up every minute -- literally -- for the roster of people contracting HIV/AIDS. Globally, 11 people contract HIV every minute and, every minute, six die from AIDS.

“We baptize members and bury them two years later,” says Geoffrey Mbwana, president of the church in the East-Central Africa region. Mbwana is shown here at the 2003 AIDS conference held in Nairobi, Kenya. [Photo: ANN file photo]

HIV/AIDS Pandemic Spreads, Church in Africa Aims to Help

"Let's Talk...Again" Ready For Distribution Worldwide

"Let's Talk...Again" -- an hour-long, unscripted conversation between Seventh-day Adventist world church president Pastor Jan Paulsen and Adventist young people is being made available on DVD. The o

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For those who have always wanted to study the origins of the Biblical Sabbath in other parts of world beyond North America, comes a new study guide that explores Sabbath-keeping in Africa. Some 800 ministers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church were among

Harold Lee (l), president of the Columbia Union Conference for the Adventist church along with Nikolaus Satelmajer, associate ministerial secretary at the world headquarters of Seventh-day Adventists. [Photo: Nikolaus Satelmajer/ANN]

North America: New Study Guide on Sabbath-Keeping in Africa

Battling seasickness, 14 people traveled by boat for seven days from Kiribati to Fiji -- a distance of 1,256 miles (1,092 nautical miles or 2,022 km) -- to attend the first-ever South Pacific Adventist youth congress, outside of Australia or New Zealand.

Some congress participants visited sick kids in the War Memorial Hospital in Suva, Fiji. [Photo: Nathan Brown/ANN]

Fiji: Youth Congress Draws 1,800, AIDS Prevention Addressed

As of Jan. 5, the death toll in countries affected by the December tsunami in South Asia has gone beyond 155,000 with tens of thousands still missing.  Indonesia suffered the most deaths, with fatalities surpassing 100,000. Hundreds of thousands of others

Indonesia: Disaster Response Continues, Clinics to Open in Aceh

Charles Sandefur, president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International is in Sri Lanka visiting sites affected by the devastating tsunami. Sandefur arrived with an airlift, provided by "Heart to Heart," that included 40 tons of me

United States Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) addresses a dinner sponsored by Liberty magazine at the U.S. Senate on April 7, 2004. The senator joined Adventist Development and Relief Agency president Charles Sandefur on a tour of tsunami relief efforts in Sri Lanka. (Photo: Mark A. Kellner/ANN)

ADRA President Visits Sri Lanka Disaster Sites

"In the midst of this pain and suffering, these people are not forgotten by God. Each one is precious to Him," said Pastor Jan Paulsen, world president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in a statement commenting on the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami that struc

Jan Paulsen, president of the Adventist world church is encouraging leaders at the upcoming business meeting in St. Louis to find creative solutions to church issues.

World Church: Church President Says Each Tsunami Victim is 'Precious' to God

Nine Seventh-day Adventists -- three children and six adults -- are known to be among the fatalities in 20 congregations located around the Bay of Bengal, part of the South Asia region struck by a deadly tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004, church leaders report. Fa

An Indian woman feeds her child at a relief camp in the southern Indian city of Madras, December 29, 2004 after the area was hit by a tsunami. [Photo: Reuters/Babu, courtesy www.alertnet.org]

India: Adventists Among Those Who Died, Suffered Loss in Tsunami; Aid Continues

With today's reports putting the number of deaths in South Asia at more than 120,000 related to Sunday's earthquake and ensuing tsunami in South Asia, Seventh-day Adventists are continuing to work with other humanitarian organizations in the devastated na

Reuters/Arko Datta, courtesy of www.alertnet.org.

South Asia:  Tsunami-related Deaths Pass 120,000, Adventists Help

For the first time, 2,000 young people from 15 South Pacific nations gathered outside Australia for a regional youth congress, which was opened Dec. 30 by the Hon. Laisenia Qarase, Prime Minister of Fiji.

The Fiji flag is waved at the opening ceremonies. [Photo: Nathan Brown/ANN]

Fiji: Prime Minister Opens Adventist Youth Congress

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