With three months of a quarantine in Mongolia during the coronavirus pandemic, Seventh-day Adventists there responded to the crisis by offering practical help to their neighbors—and online worship services and Bible studies for those seeking greater answers.
The Adventist Church’s Mongolian Mission distributed 3,200 masks and 70 hand sanitizers to the public and government agencies. Also participating were the mission’s youth department outreach program and local churches. 
The mission also…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/FAN-2k9NYyA/

Covid-19 lockdown left Sandile Khumalo on his knees in South Africa’s biggest city, Johannesburg.
The national lockdown, among the most stringent in the world, shuttered the three churches where Sandile serves as pastor in the city of 5.5 million people. Tough regulations closed parks and banned jogging, dog-walking, and even the sale of cigarettes and alcohol. 
Like Seventh-day Adventist pastors elsewhere around the world, Sandile moved his ministry online and began to live-stream his sermons…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/6ZX9kaBDzPQ/

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America is responding to the tragic killings of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, George Floyd in Minnesota, and other recent events that clearly document the racial divide destroying the quality of life for so many and the very fabric of our democratic society. As Christians we condemn such actions of hate and violence and call for justice to be served for the victims and their families.
Walls of separation that serve to destroy the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/CcD8Zyy5qy4/