For Pastors Phil and Jan White of the Simi Valley Seventh-day Adventist church in Southern California, the transition from normal church services to live-streaming and online giving was seamless. The church was live-streaming services pre-pandemic, and, for the past eight years, has been using Adventist Giving online.
“A small percentage of the membership used adventistgiving.org before, for convenience,” said Pastor Phil White, “and now about 50 percent of our church family is using the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/QQNbgOtyqpU/

Leena abruptly turned to her friends, Anneli and Timo, during a Bible study in her apartment in Raahe, a Finnish town located about 370 miles (600 kilometers) north of the capital, Helsinki.
“I have a bad feeling,” she said. “Let’s pray.”
The three university students sank onto their knees. At that moment, a tall dark figure burst into the living room and darted over to Anneli. She reeled in stark horror as the dark figure tried to grab her.
Timo and Leena prayed more earnestly.
Then a light…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/xynuYg0Kq-Y/

While being under “shelter-in-place” orders for the past two months, I finally had the opportunity to read Joseph Wolff’s (1795-1862) Travels and Adventures[i]. I’ve deeply admired Wolff ever since I first read about him in The Great Controversy.[ii] For those not familiar with his story, Wolff was one of many heralds of the Second Advent spanning the globe during the nineteenth century.
Brief Biographical Sketch
Wolff was the son of a Jewish rabbi in Germany. At the age of 7, while getting a…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/wwdK4CPyG3w/

In 1996, 7-year-old Jessica DuBroff was attempting to be the youngest student pilot to fly across the United States. Accompanying her were her father and her flying instructor. The first couple of days went uneventfully, but as often happens, the media were closely following this attempt and hounded the instructor pilot for midnight and early morning interviews. 
While talking with his wife on the phone from Wyoming, the instructor told her how frustrated he was with all the media…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/cvdaPJAQ8x8/

In these times of pandemic, it has become daily to speak of “a new normal” at the frontlines of action, crisis, anxiety, and anguish. Some speak of a slowed-down world, but there are situations where their world has begun to run at an unimaginable speed.
In Peru, as in many cases, the pandemic has placed at the top all the fragility that healthcare centers have today. Without hospitals available, without the necessary resources, and without basic biosecurity measures in many cases that above…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/xENk0gMj4N0/