"Give of your best for the Lord. Let us give Him every opportunity to use you and me," declared Pastor Jan Paulsen, world president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in a New Year's message for 2005 offered to the 25 million people who attend weekly wo
Nations in Southern Asia are reeling in the wake of a devastating tsunami that swamped coastlines from Indonesia to Africa Dec. 26. Hundreds of fishing villages have been decimated, towns have been destroyed and many tourist resorts flooded. It is estima
The Seventh-day Adventist Church now numbers 13.4 million baptized members, with more than 25 million people attending weekly worship worldwide. The church grew by nearly one million members worldwide during the year, a period in which members offered 1,0
In a country that had no Seventh-day Adventist church members just 10 years ago, hundreds attended a series of evangelistic meetings in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Dec. 27. This is believed to be the largest Adventist outreach initiative ever held in the Sout
With a focus on interacting with secular, postmodern people, Seventh-day Adventist mission experts and directors from the church's Global Mission study centers met in early December in Sydney, Australia. They reported on progress and challenges facing th
Pastor Matthew Bediako and his wife, Elizabeth, were recently front-page news in "The Mirror," an Accra, Ghana newspaper billed as that nation's "most popular weekly."