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55,000 Steps to Celebrate a 55th Birthday
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Adventists, War, and Oppressive Governments, WW1 to the Present
by Ronald Lawson, PhD | 5 July 2019 | The American Civil War forced the Adventist Church to grapple with the issue of military service just as it created its organizational structure in the early 1860s. After an open debate, and after the introduction of conscription in March 1863 obliged it to publicly embrace a […] Source: https://atoday.org/adventists-war-and-oppressive-governments-ww1-to-the-present/
Kolkata Church attendance doubles after unprecedented outreach
How do you reach an enormous city like Kolkata, India?
That was the dilemma puzzling local Seventh-day Adventists.
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, is the cradle of Adventism in India, with the first Adventists arriving in 1893. But today the bustling city has only several hundred members in a greater population of 15 million.
Undaunted, local church members got to work. The result: an unprecedented, four-year initiative culminated in June with church attendance nearly doubling and 123…
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City in India enriched through local church outreach
How do you reach an enormous city in a country like India?
Church members in one of those cities took the approach of reaching out in their community by serving in practical ways. Members organized temperance rallies to help people stop smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol, using drugs, and chewing paan, an addictive substance comprised of paan leaf and areca nut. Children chanted pro-health slogans at the rallies, and health professionals spoke on street corners. People crowded around for the…
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