Türi, a small town in central Estonia with origins dating back to the 14th century, enjoys a good birthday party. On Tuesday, July 2, they celebrated the town’s birthday with a series of ‘garden cafés’ across the town. For the seventh year running, the Türi Adventist Church participated with a ‘Book Cafe’.
The café provided equally physical and spiritual refreshments with both food and spiritual books on offer. Operating from noon to 5 pm, the café also added the bonus of a small concert at the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/X9I8HqsZYdI/

From July 9 to July 13, 2019, the Health Ministries Department of the Seventh-day Adventist World Church will host its third Global Conference on Health and Lifestyle at Loma Linda University. The first Global Conference was held in Geneva in 2009 and has grown since. This will be the first time the conference will be held in the United States. 
There are a number of characteristics that will distinguish this year’s conference from those in previous years. One of them is the university’s…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/aAG54UNNAkU/

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…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/rVXV_oCButk/

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…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/-xdr16i1FZE/

What if our Adventist churches across North America began a conspiracy? 
What if we decided in harmony with all the other churches across Bermuda, Canada, the United States, and the islands of Guam and Micronesia that we are going to love our cities as Jesus did?
What would happen if we ventured outside the walls of our churches, asked people about their needs, and did something transformational for individuals and communities?
What if our local churches conspired together to respond to…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/W_8wwYfCDzs/