More than 120 residents of the Lilliput Community were treated to a free health fair on July 7, 2019. The fair was organized by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica through its Global Adventist Internet Network (GAiN) Conference and held in Montego Bay, Jamaica, July 4-6, 2019.
The health impact was a collaborative effort with the WJC Transforming Lives Foundation Ltd., Three Angels Mobile Clinic and the Lilliput Seventh-day Adventist Church, as a way to give back to the community,…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/bMdozqiKlRU/
Dead woman talking
Tomasz Karauda, a 28-year-old Seventh-day Adventist physician in Poland, was asked to sign the death certificate of a woman who was still alive.
A nurse wheeled the woman over to the respiratory unit where Tomasz was doing his hospital residency.
By all appearances, she was dead. She had lung cancer, brought on by years of smoking. Rigor mortis was setting in, with the blood settling in her lower back. Her skin, usually pink as oxygen-filled blood flowed through her capillaries, had turned…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/wsGK3WwxTzg/
Learning to read the word
Yader José Garcia Cruz is from Paraná in the La Unión Department of El Salvador. He was declared deceased when he was born, but by God’s miracle he came back to life. However, he suffered brain damage that impeded his development, which eventually affected his ability to learn how to read and write, even through his teenage years.
Cruz’s teachers stigmatized him and told his mother that it was impossible for him to learn to read and write. The school recommended he see a psychologist for a…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/SuNIGreJpbg/
Hope for ex-offenders
After serving three years in prison for burglary, Shane Echols had paid his debt to society and hoped to start a new life. But he was worried.
He had been in a similar position once before. When he was released, the prison gave him a hundred dollars and a bus ticket, but he didn’t know where to go. Even worse, because of his felony record, he wasn’t able to get a job. Shane ended up going back to what he knew: a life of crime, which landed him back in prison.
This time, however, the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/TN_60wYO_7s/
ADRA is giving away a humanitarian pin to pathfinders at Oshkosh
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the faith-based international humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has created a one-of-a-kind humanitarian pin for pathfinders to add to their uniforms. This pin will be offered for a limited time only at the 2019 International Pathfinder Camporee at Oshkosh, Wisconsin from August 12 to 17.
The ADRA pin was designed in the shape of a star with three-pronged points symbolizing the mental, spiritual, and physical elements of a…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/E2UcsUHeCmI/
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