Mental health professionals who are also members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Peru are doing their part to assist the nation’s citizens during the emotional crisis brought on by the novel coronavirus and associated COVID-19 disease. Some 300 Peruvians have received free counseling through a service established by the Adventist Church there that links telephone callers with 70 professionals.
Peruvians can connect with a professional via the Church’s website, www.esperanzaonline.org….Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/WWYUch9xiss/

Leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Inter-European Division—a world church region with a rich history of theological education at the graduate level—voted a new master’s degree plan that will strengthen the next generation of leadership with education in a single location, a common language, and the chance to expand their cultural horizons.
The vote was taken by division leadership during the 2020 midyear meetings, with additional action on the plan expected at the region’s upcoming…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/dU0vY28dmQs/

A small group of Adventist young people from the Uberlândia church in the industrial district of Triângulo Mineiro, Brazil, spent the morning of Monday, May 18, visiting clients at the Casa de Refúgio Missão Hagar clinic in the city of Frutal. 
Wearing masks and respecting social distance regulations, the young people delivered 50 food baskets to the drug addiction recovery center, accompanied by the Minas Gerais Military Police. In addition to donating food, the youth sang and shared messages…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/ihnWwOiQyHU/

A new pocket edition of Live More Happy offers opportunities to share insights into emotional wellbeing with family and friends, as well as the wider community, at a time when its message is “so needed,” according to author Dr. Darren Morton.
“Recently we saw the appointment of Australia’s first deputy chief medical officer for mental health,” said Morton, director of the Lifestyle Medicine & Health Research Centre at Avondale University College, speaking of the Australian government’s response…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/_c-X_NMc9As/

Thanks to the work of a self-published author, homeless people in Goiânia, the capital and largest city of the central Brazilian state of Goiás, are receiving personal hygiene kits to help them through the novel coronavirus pandemic of 2020.
Yonara Aniszewski, a writer and Seventh-day Adventist whose books include “Só hoje eu vou vencer” (“Today I’ll Win”), decided to embark on the campaign, using proceeds from online book sales.
“My husband and I have always helped several institutions and…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/Bbr4EPkO958/