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Australian Governor-General Meets Adventist Church Leader -- Zaokski Theological Academy Celebrates 15 Years -- Church Plants Grow in Russia.
Australian Governor-General Meets Adventist Church Leader -- Zaokski Theological Academy Celebrates 15 Years -- Church Plants Grow in Russia.
In a time when global conflict and tales of valor are almost daily themes, a new documentary motion picture to be released next year will demonstrate that such extraordinary efforts are nothing new.
A new training center for Sudanese pastors will open in the northwestern Uganda city of Arua in January 2004, bringing the hope of more trained church leaders for one of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's fastest-growing regions.
The Adventist Church wanted to tackle youth drug use—both within and outside the church—and believed a cooperative approach using a positive environment was the best method. “Ask a kid, ‘Are drugs bad?’ They’ll say ‘yes.’ But what do you do when you’re lonely?” says Dr. Kathleen Kuntaraf, a physi...
In the year since the establishment of a new Seventh-day Adventist Church region for southern Africa and the Indian Ocean, 100,000 people have joined the church, an overall growth of 4.5 percent, bringing membership there to 1.7 million.
Seventh-day Adventist congregations in South America are growing, thanks to small group ministries and media outreach, church leaders said during recent annual business meetings for the region.