Adventist churches around the world are being asked to collect a special COVID-19 offering on July 11 to support communities devastated by the pandemic. Funds raised by local churches will be used to help respond within their region of the world.
This means that all COVID-19 Response offerings given by church members will go to their local division and local fields to fund initiatives to help those suffering from this pandemic. Masks. Essential supplies. Counseling . . . Whatever it takes.
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Over the last couple of months, I’ve experienced more deaths in my life than ever before. Two of my cousins and two people I looked up to for years died. In addition to this, two loved ones had miscarriages. The grief brought on by these deaths came with a reminder of my own mortality. It made me reflect on my understanding and feelings around death and how that affects how I live.
As humans, we can be very dismissive of death. Death as a topic of discussion is taboo–especially the discussion…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/2JbcXGLRhjU/

Does a couple that exercises together stay together? That’s what Odailson and Ellen Fonseca, married for 20 years and parents of preteen Thalissa, believe. Odailson is director of communication and religious liberty for the Adventist Church in São Paulo and Ellen is an elementary school teacher at the Adventist College of Artur Nogueira , in the interior of São Paulo.
Since they began dating, both have maintained an exercise routine and living together has allowed them to practice various…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/ScqObLA5Lzw/

Despite massive infections of the COVID-19 virus affecting 190 of its 245 employees, the Ana Stahl Adventist Clinic (Clínica Adventista Ana Stahl in Spanish) in Iquitos, Peru, is back in operation.
Substitute workers from Lima, Peru’s capital some 745 miles away, and doctors from Cuba came to the 94-year-old hospital at the gateway to Peru’s Amazon region to help while many regular staffers were ill. Reports indicated 80 percent of the population of Iquitos had contracted the new coronavirus,…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/4oOSuBVaKf0/

About a year into his job as a chaplain at AdventHealth Orlando in central Florida, Jamie Ricketts, a native of Alberta, Canada, encountered something none of his training prepared him for: a global pandemic had reached the community he serves.
“Who could have imagined something like this happening?” Ricketts said. “The impact is so unprecedented it requires us to innovate as we work.”
Worldwide, according to data released June 8* by Johns Hopkins University, more than 7 million people have…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/cTpsHwhCHhY/