Netherlands: Café Church Draws Young Adherents
It takes stepping out of the proverbial box to reach a society where traditional methods of evangelism have been difficult.
It takes stepping out of the proverbial box to reach a society where traditional methods of evangelism have been difficult.
A United Nations peace monitoring group has assigned the Seventh-day Adventist Church to the "frontline of the peace process," according to Pastor Richard Rikis, president of the church in the war-torn South Pacific island of Bougainville.
Those who imagine that student outreach to their communities is a challenge might want to consider the impact of students at the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, a Seventh-day Adventist institution.
Normally, the collapse of a church structure is, at the least, a headache for church administrators, but for Seventh-day Adventists in the northern Egyptian town of Dahasa, a building collapse may speed a new church's opening.
On May 24, the Seventh-day Adventist Church celebrated a centennial in an unlikely location: the nation of Kazakhstan.
From a distance, the high-rise looks like any Soviet-style block of apartments. Similar ones dot the tranquil views of the Lithuanian countryside, and today they are something of an eyesore among the romantic vista of Vilnius' medieval architecture.