The Seventh-day Adventist Church has a history of advocating and speaking out against injustice. Many feel like we have changed–and no longer work in the public sphere–but while the methods have changed, Adventists are still there. This week Orlan Johnson, director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty for the Adventist Church in North America and David Trim, director of Archives, Statistics and Research for the Seventh-day Adventist World Church discuss the Church's history of advocating in the public spaces. SHOW NOTES:
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Orlan Johnson: https://adventist.news/videos/ann-indepth/civic-engagement-how-much-should-we-involve-ourselves-with-the-government
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This week on ANN. Hurricane Iota destroyed homes and businesses on the small Colombian islands of San Andres, Providencia, and Santa Catalina. The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Colombia continues to provide assistance. ADRA delivered 90 new computers to the Ministry of Education for use in five schools located in San Andres and Providencia. The new technology will benefit nearly 1,000 pupils enrolled in the designated schools. In addition, the Adventist school in San Andres received ten new computers from ADRA. In Serbia, up to 15,000 people in the Western Balkans will receive health checkups, hygiene services, and COVID-19 information through the “Leave No One Behind” project, coordinated by ADRA in Serbia. ADRA expects to provide about 4,000 free medical checkups in Serbia, Albania, and Bulgaria over the next nine months. For those in need of additional treatment, the medical will refer patients to a private health care practice, accompany them to appointments, and cover the costs of doctor visits and any needed medications and tests. In addition to offering health care, ADRA will continue providing essential hygiene services to people without a home through the Drumodom, an adapted bus that travels throughout Belgrade. It gives the homeless a place to use the toilet, take a shower, get a shower haircut, and wash their laundry. Loma Linda University Health has been included on Newsweek’s list of America’s Best Physical Rehabilitation Centers 2021. The award is presented by Newsweek and Statista Inc., the world’s leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The awards list was announced on August 25 and can be viewed on Newsweek’s website. Loma Linda University Health’s multidisciplinary approach offers collaborative care to bring the best practices to patients. AdventHealth partners with a clinic in Florida to help provide services for people who do not have insurance. Tom Johnson and the team show how AdventHealth serves this community. Impact Hope is a non-profit that provides Rwandan refugees with an Adventist-Christian education. When co-founders Mindy and Hans Thygeson learned about the dire refugee situation in Rwanda in 2012, they determined that a high school education was a way out for many of these refugees. Impact Hope was formed to sponsor and support refugee students to attend Christian boarding schools in Rwanda. King’s Kids, a children’s TV program launched by Adventist Media Australia in response to the 2020 lockdowns, is now broadcast in more than 70 countries worldwide. It has become an international hit over the past 12 months as it has filled a gap in quality Christian TV content for children. Hope Channel South Pacific director Pastor Wayne Boehm said the program was designed to assist and minister to families during the first extended COVID-19 lockdowns last year. It has continued to be produced weekly since then. The United Nations Youth conference assembles young leaders worldwide to discuss their opinions and solutions to global issues. Letesha Whyte, a student of Northern Caribbean University and president of the National Police Youth Club Movement in Jamaica, was chosen to represent her country at two United Nations Youth conferences. After conversations with experts from the Jamaica Association for the Deaf, the young president realized that police stations were not equipped to handle the sensitive nature of the deaf community. She also found out that Caribbean-based information on the deaf is not readily available. Whyte is committed to using her position to change lives. She was moved to help this vulnerable yet overlooked group. The Police Youth Club was awarded a grant of $10,000 US dollars to execute the “Safe and Sound JA” initiative, which aims to reduce the communication barriers between the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the deaf community. It Is Written welcomes Wes Peppers as the ministry’s new evangelism director, who accepted a call to serve as the ministerial and evangelism director for the Pennsylvania Conference. Peppers began his new position in August. Peppers joins It Is Written from the Michigan Conference, where he served for ten years as a pastor, personal ministries director, evangelism coordinator, and associate ministerial secretary. Peppers also has experience in international media evangelism from his time with Amazing Facts. Don’t miss the latest news and current events. Visit Adventist News Network for more news and inspiring stories within the Adventist community. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXWugSilDFQ

https://adventist.news/ This week on ANN. In Haiti, the death toll continued to climb after days of ongoing search and rescue efforts for survivors of a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck the nation’s southern regions. Preliminary reports indicate that there are now more than 2,200 deaths and 12,000 injuries, with significant infrastructure loss. Over 53,000 houses were destroyed, and 46,000 buildings were damaged, including hospitals, schools, and churches. There are also reports of road blockages. As the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) assesses the needs of affected populations, it will scale up its plans to ensure people in Haiti get immediate access to essential items and receive ongoing aid to advance towards a recovery stage. 'Codex Sinaiticus: A Journey in Biblical Discovery' will document a rare visit inside St. Catherine's Monastery and a meeting with Father Justin, chief librarian for a collection of over 2,300 ancient manuscripts. A combined production of Hope Channel Norway and the Trans-European Division, Tor Tjeransen and Victor Hulbert take viewers on an inspiring journey. The documentary and accompanying short videos, 'Moments from Sinai,' are more than just a travelogue or historical journey. Hulbert and Tjeransen share the story of Moses and God's faithfulness with a young Australian couple who had climbed the mountain but knew nothing about the Bible. 'Moments from Sinai' will be released later in the year with a second series filmed in Jordan. The president of the Seventh-day Adventist World Church, Ted N.C. Wilson and president of the Adventist Church in North America, G. Alexander Bryant, led out in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Northeastern Towers Annex. The new complex is a 158-unit affordable housing complex located in Queens, New York, sponsored by the Northeastern Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was hosted by the project's partners–the Northeastern Conference, the Fifth Avenue Committee, and Mega Development. The Life Bridge Seventh-day Adventist Church provided the Tacoma, Washington, community with more than $90,000 worth of free dental care for two days. The clinic director and local dentist, Jed de la Paz, and the LifeBridge team recruited more than 75 volunteers who donated their time and expertise. The clinic was hosted at De la Paz's practice, Bright Smile Dental. In Fiji, a group of "10,000 Toes" ambassadors and Dorcas ladies from Nadi English Church brought smiles to the faces of 17 families financially impacted by the second wave of the COVID 19 pandemic. Rural Nadi, surrounded by cane fields and accessible only by dirt roads, are isolated family homes. Some of the families live day-to-day, not knowing where their next meal will come from. The 10,000 Toes ambassadors, in partnership with the Dorcas ladies, hope to grow this 'Loaf Ministry' through kind donations. In Timor-Leste or East Timor, the main challenges for women continue to be deep poverty, domestic violence, and the lack of recognition of women's contribution to political, economic, and social spheres. Economic empowerment is particularly crucial as conflict during the Indonesian occupation and violence left nearly half of all Timorese women widowed and sole providers for their families. ADRA and Rede Feto are teaming up, with a grant from the European Union and a contribution from the Austrian Development Cooperation, to implement a four-year project called "Empower Women" in various regions throughout the country. The initiative will help 45 civil society organizations create gender awareness and inclusion programs and support female heads of households in production, processing, trading, saving, and loan activities. ANN site – https://adventist.news/
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This week on ANN. An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale struck the southern area of Haiti, followed by several aftershocks. Tremors could be felt as far as Jamaica, about 200 miles away. Local authorities have declared a state of emergency for one month, seeking the assistance of humanitarian aid. Hospitals nearest the affected regions are reportedly overcapacity. The death toll has risen to more than 1,400 people. This week, Seventh-day Adventist leaders confirmed that 12 church members were among those who died. Zambia has a new president. Zambia's newly elected president, His Excellency Hakainde Hichilema, is a baptized member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in regular standing. He was baptized in 2019. At the height of his political career and pursuits of seeking public office to serve the nation as president, he never gave up on his God and has been attending services and church functions. Loma Linda University Health (LLUH) has officially opened the Dennis and Carol Troesh Medical Campus. Built to meet updated state seismic codes for acute care facilities, the complex is home to LLUH's new 16-story Medical Center and nine-story Children's Hospital tower. The campus incorporates leading advances in patient safety and comfort. It was designed to continue the organization's 115-year legacy of care and healthcare education in what has become one of the most medically complex regions in the nation. Adventist Risk management, Inc (ARM) has announced the appointment of James Winegardner to serve as president and chief executive officer of ARM and Gencon Insurance Company of Vermont. Winegardner will immediately begin his role and replace Karnik Doukmetzian, who served ARM as interim president since April 1, 2021. Winegardner is an ordained minister and has served as a pastor in the Texas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists for more than 15 years. The Board of Directors' unanimous decision followed a recommendation from a search committee chaired by G. Alexander Bryant, president of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists and vice-chair of the ARM and GiCV board. Faith Search Partners, a faith-based executive search firm, assisted the search committee. In East Venezuela, nearly 9,000 Seventh-day Adventists participated in the church's most comprehensive annual social program coined as "Close to You Venezuela 2021". Member volunteers distributed supplies and brought messages of hope to those facing economic challenges. In the Philippines, the Davao Mission of Seventh-day Adventists, in partnership with Adventist Hospital Davao (AHD), through the supervision of the Vaccine Cluster of the City Government of Davao Health Office, fulfilled their duty as citizens to participate in the COVID-19 Vaccination Program. Through a partnership with North Tampa Christian Academy in Tampa Bay, Florida, AdventhHealth has vaccinated students, 12 and older, on the school's campus to make it easy and convenient for families. For more information on COVID-19 and the COVID-19 Vaccine, you can visit https://www.adventhealth.com/coronavirus-resource-hub. Join us next week for more news from the headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. For other news and inspiring stories, visit Adventist News Network. ANN site – https://adventist.news/
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September 5 marks the beginning of the “Family Togetherness Week of Prayer.” In this video, Pastor Ted Wilson and his wife, Nancy, discuss the role of the family in evangelism. God created the first family in the Garden of Eden. Since then, the family has been the building block of society and the church of God. But did you know that it could be a powerful witness for God? On page 32 of The Adventist Home, it says: "The greatest evidence of the power of Christianity that can be presented to the world is a well-ordered, well-disciplined family. This will recommend the truth as nothing else can, for it is a living witness of its practical power upon the heart." Well-ordered, well-disciplined family – sounds like a very high ideal, right? As human beings who fall short, it seems impossible to achieve that. But God doesn’t ask us to do the impossible. He said, "Whatever is to be done at His command may be accomplished in His strength. All His biddings are enablings" (Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 333). The Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy provide us with plenty of instructions about having a happy, God-filled home. But practicing it is not that easy. This is why we need to be close to God through Bible study and prayer. Also, ask for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit daily. By then, we can have the fruit of the Spirit. According to Galatians 5:22, 23, it is “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things, there is no law." Having this fruit, we can learn and grow in Christ and become effective witnesses for Him. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFpqXpNOq-s