Editor’s Note: According to the East-Central Africa Division (ECD), this morning, October 24, Burundi Union President, Lamec Barishinga was arrested on his way to the ECD year-end meetings in Nairobi, Kenya.  Below is a letter to the Adventist Church in Burundi from Seventh-day World Church President, Ted N.C. Wilson.  ECD has issued a statement regarding the situation, which you can read here. For more information, and background on the situation in Burundi please see here and here. Dear…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/RBZoFYzh61Q/

On Wednesday 9 October, an international jury presented awards to the very best of over 1,700 submissions to the festival. This was the climax of the nine-day event as film makers from across the world gathered in the small mountain town of Madonna di Campiglio to commend the 2019 winners.
“The quality of the films this year was very high,” said the founder, Lia Beltrami, who now acts as spiritual advisor to the event.  Winning entries came from as far away as Iran, China and Japan as well as…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/TAXMFf1npVY/

Southern Adventist University helped the Cuba Adventist Theological Seminary become one of the most technologically advanced colleges in the country by creating a distance education classroom with funds donated to the Collegedale Church of Seventh-day Adventists – allowing the seminary to offer three master’s degrees.
The school has been in need of additional Adventists academic professors. Since the Cuban government prohibits foreigners from entering the country to teach, the installation,…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/981y-81nQcA/

The room watched in anticipation as G.T. Ng, general secretary for the Seventh-day Adventist World Church, approached the onstage table and took a chair. Rolling it to the front of the platform, Ng then began, as can be expected, with a joke. As the laughter rolling through the auditorium quieted, the secretary asked, “Have you ever been disappointed with an election?” Ng then shared questions he has received from various individuals over the years:  Is it true that God appoints but the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/IPQr-_kVVUk/

“Tomorrow, your character, smile, and everything you carry is going to be about God and immolating the aroma of Christ to wherever you are going to serve,” said Jo Dubs, founder and director of the “God in Shoes” ministry, to a room of hundreds of women receiving orientation for a day of service during the 2019 North American Division Women’s Convention in Orlando, Florida. “Tomorrow is all about serving, it’s not about us.”
Since 2009, the Georgia-Cumberland Conference-based ministry, God in…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/GXgaXevjBFQ/