The Youth Ministries department in Inter-America launched its first online Adventist Youth Society program in three languages as part of an ongoing initiative to encourage the youth across the territory to engage in youth leadership and community service.
The online program included spiritual reflections from world youth leaders, visits to cities and countries in Inter-America, and initiatives and activities in which young people can involve themselves.
Pastor Elie Henry, president for the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/uQvd9YniWnc/

Leonard Brand is former department chair and professor of biology and paleontology in the Department of Earth and Biological Sciences at Loma Linda University, California (U.S.), where he has taught and researched since 1970. He talked with Bookshelf about his long-term interest in the integration of faith and science and the contribution his books make to this project.
Tell us about your personal and professional interest in science and faith.
I have confidence in what the Bible tells us…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/kNGKvjMfH7U/

In the turbulent times we are all currently traversing, Seventh-day Adventists everywhere are also pondering what impacts the health and economic crises of the moment are having upon the Church. Is the Church able to do anything to mitigate its effects?
Most nations of the world and vast areas of their economies have been all but shut down, with no clear road map to re-entry, even in places that have cautiously implemented a loosening of social restrictions. What started as a mild inconvenience…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/GBvZInc8qSk/

In a scenario where the capacity of the Carlos Monge Medrano hospital in Juliaca, Peru, has reached its limit due to COVID-19, the American Clinic of Juliaca—a health ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church—has agreed to support the national health ministry’s contingency plan. In this instance, it made 15 electric hospital beds available to the population for the care of patients infected with this deadly virus.
Juliaca is a city of more than 276,000 people and is the capital city of San…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/kiSShGVPQ9w/

As a result of the suspension of classes in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the recreation of children and the management of their learning is now handled within each home, presenting new challenges for each family. The restrictions now imposed on our lives lend us to hearing and saying “NO” more often than perhaps we’d like.
The writer Ellen White points out in relation to children and their entertainment that “we must provide them with innocent recreation, to lead them along pleasant…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/JYcmgF1D890/