Closer To Heaven
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More than 400 Adventist teenagers staged a flash mob with a Christian message Saturday, April 9 at Universal CityWalk in Orlando, Fla. All of a sudden, hundreds of teens began chanting, “Look! Look! Jesus coming, I’m not ready! Are you?” The flash mob was organized by the iServe United Youth Congress , an Adventist youth event held this year in Orlando, Fla. Watch the videos below: This article continues
Photo by Josef Kissinger More than 3,400 teens from Canada, United States, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands are at the iServe United Youth Congress in Orlando, Fla. April 6-10, 2011. More than 10,000 people are expected to arrive on Saturday, according to the event newsletter
The president of Southern Adventist University, Gordon Bietz, dyed his hair purple on Feb. 10 for a good cause. Bietz, whose normal hair color is white, had a deal with Southern students: If the students could raise more than $5,000 for a literacy project, he would let his hair be dyed a different color
Youth in South America are making short videos illustrating how they share Jesus for a chance to have their video shown on TV. Young people living in the South American Division have until April 3 to upload a video illustrating an ongoing campaign’s theme: “ Friends of Hope .” But there is much more to this event than just a video contest.
Image from NHK via CNN The most recent updates on Adventists in Japan after the earthquake and tsunami: March 13 Update: There are no reports of casualties among church members, according to Adventist News Network.
Photo by monasosh (Creative Commons) UPDATE: Nile Union Academy plans to reopen Feb.
“It looked and felt like a scene straight out of the Second Coming.” -David Asscherick Update: Feb. 25 ― About seven Seventh-day Adventist churches in Christchurch, New Zealand are damaged due to the earthquake. According to Record , the South New Zealand Conference “hasn’t received any reports of church members being seriously injured.” Church members are encouraged not to formally meet for worship on Sabbath, but to meet at each other’s homes instead.
