In June, Adventist state deputy Damaris Moura passed an amendment that guarantees religious conscientious objection to students and civil servants in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.
The text is part of Bill 350/2020, which establishes emergency measures for the period of public calamity caused by the new coronavirus, voted in an extraordinary virtual session by members of the São Paulo Legislative Assembly (Alesp). The amendment helps Seventh-day Adventists in the state of São Paulo.
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Musical Missionary Group Launches Series of Room Concerts
*Editor’s Note: Since 2004, the Northern Asia Pacific Division (NSD) has featured The Golden Angels, a missionary singing group composed of young volunteers who serve the Lord as “musicianaries” for a year. The following testimony shares how the current group is able to continue ministering, even in the midst of the coronavirus shutdown.
In February 2020, the missionary singing group, The Golden Angels, had completed a two-month spiritual, physical, and musical intensive training and were ready…
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Adventist Church launches a podcast platform
Beatriz de Oliveira and silence rarely meet. On a daily basis, her routine is accompanied by music, via headphones or the speakers of her smartphone. However, along with combinations of notes, transformed into chords and melodies, in recent years her ears have become accustomed to another type of content: podcasts.
The format—previously little known—has become popular and aroused the interest of both listeners and producers. A 2019 survey conducted by the Deezer platform revealed the…
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Division Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Department Hosts Online Prayer Meeting
Since the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 has become one of the most prolonged worldwide news topics in human history. The virus has changed the whole world drastically, and every detail of our individual lives fundamentally.
In Korea, children have been staying home since Christmas without going to school. Most Adventist churches in Korea didn’t have face-to-face meetings for almost two months and have resumed with simplified services. And, although worship services could be provided online,…
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A Brand New Encyclopedia Of Seventh-Day Adventists Released July 1
The Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists (ESDA) is a global church project that produces an estimated 2,100 articles with accompanying photographs, media, and original documents. ESDA, the church’s first online reference work, debuted on July 1, 2020.
This free website will live online indefinitely, to be constantly updated and expanded.
The Encyclopedia has been produced by the contributions of thousands of Seventh-day Adventists around the world. All of the articles have been written on a…
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Peace of Thread Chattanooga
After being inspired by Peace of Thread Altanta, Adventist Muslim Friendship Association (AMFA, an NAD-based initiative) started Peace of Thread Chattanooga, a sewing group for refugee women. They meet bi-weekly to go over new designs and they learn new patterns. In a typical year they they might have a purse party once or twice a month to sell their purses and other bags. This video was filmed in February of 2020. Since the pandemic began, AMFA has continued to be a community to the refugee families, though currently only virtually and in other socially-distanced ways.
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US$3.5 Million Will Underpin Addiction Recovery Services at Loma Linda
Sono venuto per mettere spada
Quarto appuntamento della serie "Gesu che cosa sei venuto a fare?" Meditazione presentata dal pastore Eugen Havresciuc. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy-GVXTnArk
Hope Thou in God
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. Psalm 42:5.
Dear Husband: I received your telegram….
Satan will not sift the chaff, because he gains nothing in this. He sifts the wheat. The devil will not try and tempt and persecute those whom he is sure of, because [they are] living in known transgression of the law of God. Those who have enlisted in the army of the Lord standing under the bloodstained banner of Prince Emmanuel, Satan will seek to harass and destroy. Christians will meet and have many and severe conflicts with the wily foe, who is merciless. He will bring them into the most difficult places and then exult in their distress. But, thank God, Jesus lives to make intercession for every one of us. Our safety is in committing ourselves to God and resting by faith in His merits who has said, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Hebrews 13:5).
I rejoice that Jesus has a firm hold of us. Our grasp is feeble and easily broken, but our safety depends upon the firm hold Jesus has upon us. I rejoice in Jesus today. We have, my husband, walked for more than thirty years side by side in the trials and conflicts of life amid temptations and the buffetings of Satan, his arrows aimed at us to wound and destroy; but Jesus has been our defense. Satan has been repulsed. The Spirit of the Lord has lifted up a standard for us against the enemy. Our sun is westering, but it will not set in darkness. Jesus ever liveth to make intercession for us. We will in the latter days of our pilgrimage repose in God and wait upon Him. If we walk with God, our faith will grow brighter and brighter unto the perfect day, and the reward of the faithful will be ours at last.
My spirit at times is triumphant in God. I see in prospect just before us the eternal weight of glory. We have not earned it. Oh, no, Jesus earned it for us and it is a free gift, not for any righteousness and goodness of our own. Let us, in the few probationary hours left us, walk humbly with God and do the work He has committed to our hands with fidelity.
I am glad you are in the grand old mountains [of Colorado]. I mean to be there soon. To be thus brought near to God through His created works is refreshing and inspiring…. While viewing the grand works of God’s creation, we may walk with God. We may talk with Him. To have God as our companion, as our guest, will be the most exalted honor that heaven can bestow upon us.
May the Lord bless you all is the prayer of your Ellen.—Letter 42, July 27, 1878, to James White, General Conference president.
The Upward Look p. 222
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Prayer Requests
—-I am asking for prayer for my grandson he is 30 yrs young but unable to work at his job at a hospital due to major back injury.He has had an operation prior but has not fixed the problem.He is in chronic pain and feeling depressed. Sandra
—-Please pray for my sister in Christ, she has a lot of knee pain and says it is a bad case of arthritis arthritis,…..also please pray for a very dear friend of mine. Please pray that she finds the truth and that it will set her free from bondage. Isaac
—-Please pray for David that God will give him a full conversion. Buck
—-Please pray for my cousin Larry as he prepares to move across country next month. Rose
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Dear Friends,
This holiday weekend commemorating our birth as a nation, we sat on our back porch and watched the fireworks displays large and small going on all around us. I couldn’t help thinking of the far more beautiful works of our Great Creator than any manmade fireworks we were seeing Saturday night. God’s Word reminds us, “By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.” “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.” “O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!” Ps 33:6-9; 19:1, 2; 8.
May we praise the Lord as we view His great creation. May our hearts swell with love for Him. May we someday soon leave this old earth behind and travel beyond our solar system as we journey toward His Heavenly Home is my prayer.
Rose
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Hydrotherapy: Natural Treatment for Anxiety · LEVEL UP Episode 5 | AWR360° Health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wXiUnd63RI
A lot of questions arise when it comes to hydrotherapy. What is it? How do you do it? Can it help with other health issues or is it really just for optimizing your immunity? The fact is that water can be used in different ways and for different purposes to alleviate pain, nourish the body, and assist in many areas of physical and mental wellbeing. In this episode, we will view 5 practical demonstrations as well as explore the benefits of those with mental health issues. Together we will explore more of the research behind hydrotherapy and what it can mean for the health of you in your family in a time where health has never appeared and been more important. Join us for Level Up! episode 5 with host Dr. Lela Lewis and guests, Dr. Neil Nedley, Dr. Zeno Charles-Marcel, and Pastor Mark Finley, as they discuss hydrotherapy and its effects, both physical and mental, upon the body in order to optimize good health.
Learn more about Level Up! and our recent medical symposiums at awr.org∕health. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wXiUnd63RI
