Don't underestimate the influence of the local church environment on visitors and new members

Effective new members retention strategy must go beyond programs

Agency distributing sanitation supplies, providing prevention education

While health experts say the cholera outbreak in Haiti is easing, the earthquake-devastated country's first bout from the disease in decades is far from over. Here, women wait while filling containers with water at a camp set up for earthquake victims in Port-au-Prince on October 26. (photo by AP)

In Haiti, ADRA ramps up Cholera prevention awareness

Large appointee list typical for autumn meetings following Session

Leaders elect staff for church offices during Annual Council

Many buildings in North America mission field sat empty for decades; still hundreds of un-entered villages

This Adventist Church in Shungnak, Alaska, United States, sat empty for at least two decades. Last month, two volunteers moved here to restart Adventist ministry in the village. Seven of the denomination's Arctic region churches are functioning again following a halt on ministry after funding dwindled beginning in the 1980s. [photo courtesy Alaska Conference]

Abandoned churches in Alaska home again to Adventist ministry

Society of Adventist Communicators also recognizes GC Session newsroom

Roy Adams, recently retired associate editor of the Adventist Review, accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Society of Adventist Communicators awards banquet October 16 in Rochester, New York. Adams was among communicators recognized last week for their contributions in shaping the church's message. [photo: Gerry Chudleigh]

Adventist Review associate editor Adams among SAC award recipients

Many denominations seek credit, but is that why clergy serve?

The capsule used to rescue the stranded miners was displayed in front of the Chilean Presidential Palace in Santiago on October 20. [photo: Emilio Espinoza]

None of the Chilean miners are Adventist -- let's be OK with that

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Effective new members retention strategy must go beyond programs

In Haiti, ADRA ramps up Cholera prevention awareness

Leaders elect staff for church offices during Annual Council

Abandoned churches in Alaska home again to Adventist ministry

Adventist Review associate editor Adams among SAC award recipients

None of the Chilean miners are Adventist -- let's be OK with that

News.

Just Published

Lately in Our Region

Worldwide News

Effective new members retention strategy must go beyond programs

In Haiti, ADRA ramps up Cholera prevention awareness

Leaders elect staff for church offices during Annual Council

Abandoned churches in Alaska home again to Adventist ministry

Adventist Review associate editor Adams among SAC award recipients

None of the Chilean miners are Adventist -- let's be OK with that