Magician Steve Varro has never pulled a rabbit out of a hat. Ironically, he’s allergic to rabbits. But this Seventh-day Adventist performer has plenty of other illusions to keep audiences around the world entertained, all while making use of magic to share his faith. “These are only illusions,” h...
It only takes 30 minutes from the center of Warsaw to arrive in Podkowa Lesna on the campus of Europe’s first education institute that trains experts in Bible lands tourism. That’s a biweekly journey for several hundred students who have enrolled and are pursuing a three-year college course, mast...
Esther Doss describes herself as a “hearing deaf person.” Born to deaf parents, she knew the alphabet in sign language by the time she was 18 months old—even before she knew her ABCs in English. A major part of her life has been ministering to deaf people. “My whole heart is set on deaf ministry...
With an average of some 50,000 people joining the Adventist Church each year in Peru, one of the fastest growing areas for the church worldwide, a challenge presents itself: providing worship space for members. From July 1 to 11, 36 members of the Markham Woods, Florida, Adventist Church volunt...
A three-year counselor-training program will help victims of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The program, initiated by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), will prepare people to train counselors in the care, support and counseling of those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. The project is fun...
Empowering youth with tools to avoid risk behaviors was the goal of "Youth Alive," a youth drug prevention program held in Hong Kong July 5 to 11 for the church's Northern Asia-Pacific region (see ANN Nov. 24, 2003: http://news.adventist.org/data/2003/10/