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The Despair of Ezibeleni
In Ezibeleni women seem to bear the brunt of the HIV and AIDS pandemic. Perhaps it is just an ugly, unfair coincidence or a passing illusion. Although statistically this disease strikes across gender lines with equal efficiency, leaving behind a sense of chaos and permanent loss in those families it touches...more |
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Sola Scriptura
Beatrice Lospa eagerly tells how a national advertising campaign backed by an anonymous donation is blending high-profile marketing with the church’s basic mission outreach. Now, hundreds are coming to Bible reading clubs across Romania...more |
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'Pumpkin Lady' plans to pick 'em 'til the end of vine
Called the "pumpkin miracle church" by locals, the Marripalli Seventh-day Adventist Church in Southeast India is one of 11 churches in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh paid for by pumpkins from Maranatha volunteer Cheryl Erickson's 1.5-acre backyard patch...more |
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Mozambique: Church urged to organize, seize outreach opportunities
Paul Ratsara couldn't hide his enthusiasm when speaking to Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in Maputo last month. more... |
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Pastors in Conversation
Pastors play an important role in including young adults in church life and encouraging women employed in ministry, Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, said in a live September 13 telecast...more |
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Romanian Inmate Trades Parole for Prison Witness
A Romanian criminal, once labeled the country's fourth most dangerous, is choosing to forgo parole after becoming a Seventh-day Adventist -- he would rather stay in prison to share his new-found faith...more |
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Together Against Malaria
A program involving leaders of 10 faith groups working together to eliminate malaria in eastern Africa kicked off June 27 with United States first lady Laura Bush commending participants in Maputo, Mozambique...more |
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Adventist Judge Ministers to Prisoners
When 61-year-old Judge Crispin B. Bravo announced his early retirement to his Metropolitan Trial Court staff just before the end of 2006 he didn't know that 21 members of his legal staff, lawyers and other judges would sign a petition asking him to reconsider. more |
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Let's Talk New York
'You Are the Church,' World Church President, Pastor Paulsen Tells Young People. more |
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Water Down the Mountain Out in the Cotopaxi highlands, in central Ecuador, they call it a miracle. The miracle is a long stretch of plastic pipe—14 kilometers, give or take a few meters—that winds down from a mountain lake nestled in the foothills of the Angamarca Range across a perilous but breathtaking track of land, bringing a steady supply of water to the Quechua village of San Antonio de Guatubamba. More... |
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One Year for Christ is an initiative created by the Euro Africa Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church that invites young people between the ages of 19 and 30 to give one year of their lives to work for the church. These young people are then sent to work in areas where the church has little or no presence....more |
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And she shall bring forth a son, and you shall call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins. Matthew 1:21
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Chirala - Moving Into the Neighborhood
To get to Chirala, a bustling coastal town in India's state of Andhra Pradesh, you need two-and-a-half hours by road after landing in the nearby city of Vijaiwada. At the same time, you will experience made-in-India driving....more |
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Water Pipeline Changes Lives in Kabal Village, Somalia
In the Nugal region of northeast Somalia, a small village named Kabal continues to suffer from the devastation caused when the Indian Ocean Tsunami struck in December of 2004. More than 600 residents remain in desperate need of aid after the tsunami swept through their coastal village, killing three, injuring 60, and leaving 11 boats damaged by the aftermath of the deadly waves....more |
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Tattoo Removal
Over the past eight years Dr. Steven I. Popkow and the Agape Light Tattoo Removal program in Los Angeles have been helping people escape the stigmas that tattoos often represent. The program aims to remove the physical markings of tattoos and introduce people to Christ..... more
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Community Service Part of Adventist College's Tradition
As their school song proclaims, students are known for "slingin' the ink" at Seventh-day Adventist-owned Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. But on August 24, you'll find them "slingin' the paint" instead..... more |
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Cindi Jackson
Seventeen years ago, Romania was a communist country and you would never have heard English spoken in school. Today students at the Seventh-day Adventist school in Bucharest learn to speak English from a special person who has volunteered her time.... more |
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Large-Scale Cement Pour at Florida Hospital
It was supposed to take 26 hours. They had planned and prayed that everything would go right. After all, they closed down miles and miles of highway to make way for 1,400 trucks carrying enough cement to cover a football field five feet thick....more |
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Their One Meal
In a town in Lesotho, a country in southern Africa, a lot of the children are orphans. Their parents have died from AIDS. Now they live with their relatives. But they don't always have enough food....more |
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Proton Facility at Loma Linda University Medical Center
Between 1990, when the Proton Treatment Center began, and January 2005, nearly 30 percent of all patients treated with proton therapy did so at Loma Linda University Medical Center. The Center has become a model for worldwide training and research...more |
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Largest Adventist Church in South America Dedicated
What is recognized as the largest Seventh-day Adventist house of worship in South America was dedicated and officially opened on the campus of the São Paulo Adventist University, (UNASP) near the city of Campinas, Brazil....more
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Costa Tambo
For eight years, Costa Tambo has been sharing the good news about Jesus in a small village in Mozambique....more |
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Mission Pioneer Mubita
Imagine trying to light 29 campfires. By the time the last fire is burning, the first is smoldering ashes. The task can be discouraging. Likewise it would be easy for Global Mission pioneer Mubita in Zambia to feel discouraged....more |
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Let's Talk - Oakwood
Since becoming world church president in 1999, Pastor Jan Paulsen has looked for ways to improve communication between church administration and Adventist young people. On March 15, Oakwood College will host the sixth live "Let's Talk" broadcast, this time on the Huntsville, Alabama college campus....more |
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Atlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy
On Feb. 7, the "Atlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy,” received the R. R. Hawkins Award for Outstanding Professional, Reference or Scholarly Work of 2005.....more |
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The Candace
The ship linked to Joseph Bates, Adventist pioneer is found in San Francisco....more |
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Manuel Ledesma
87 year old Manuel Ledesma, rides his horse on his farm in Ojito, Argentina. He has been an Adventist for the past 20 years...more |
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Daniel Bernherdt
An elder in his local church, Daniel enjoys meeting new people and giving Bible studies to those searching for answers...more |
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Gilvane Ludgero
Gilvane Ludgero, left, works in the favalas of Rio de Janeiro. The favalas are the low-income slums that are home to millions of people that live around Rio...more |
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Jean Hakiza
With over 367,000 baptized members, Adventists comprise the second largest church in the country of Rwanda. Following the 1994 genocide...more |
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Maria and Theresa Mamah
After losing both parents, 13-year old twin sisters Maria and Theresa Mamah moved from Nigeria to the United States to live with their older sister...more |
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Daniel Wildemann
Daniel Wildemann’s two passions—art and theology—connected as a kid in Germany when he and his brother started drawing cartoons of the pastor in church...more |
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Kwame Antwi-Frempong
A native of Ghana, West Africa, Kwame Antwi-Frempong and his six siblings spent their childhood traveling all over Africa and Europe due to their father’s international job...more |
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Jon Ericsson
When the government in Iceland decided to make changes in housing regulations that would affect his physical therapy clinic, Jon Ericsson decided it was time to try something different...more |
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Dimitry Losev
Once every day and twice on the Sabbath I preached for two weeks-and I'm not a preacher...more |
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Kasamong Khiang
When Kasamong Khiang first met Choif Ong, he didn't realize that Ong hated Christians. In fact, nine Adventists had to leave their homes in Ong's Bangladesh village...more |
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Shanmuka Puiyan
Blindness is always a challenge, but in India, it can mean lack of education and opportunity; only 5 percent of blind children in India receive any education...more |
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Onilza Abreu Gerth
During the day, Onilza Abreu Gerth is preoccupied with judgments and decisions that impact the civic life of her city. One evening each week the scene changes... more |
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