*Editor’s Note: Since 2004, the Northern Asia Pacific Division (NSD) has featured The Golden Angels, a missionary singing group composed of young volunteers who serve the Lord as “musicianaries” for a year. The following testimony shares how the current group is able to continue ministering, even in the midst of the coronavirus shutdown.
In February 2020, the missionary singing group, The Golden Angels, had completed a two-month spiritual, physical, and musical intensive training and were ready…
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Adventist Church launches a podcast platform
Beatriz de Oliveira and silence rarely meet. On a daily basis, her routine is accompanied by music, via headphones or the speakers of her smartphone. However, along with combinations of notes, transformed into chords and melodies, in recent years her ears have become accustomed to another type of content: podcasts.
The format—previously little known—has become popular and aroused the interest of both listeners and producers. A 2019 survey conducted by the Deezer platform revealed the…
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Division Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Department Hosts Online Prayer Meeting
Since the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 has become one of the most prolonged worldwide news topics in human history. The virus has changed the whole world drastically, and every detail of our individual lives fundamentally.
In Korea, children have been staying home since Christmas without going to school. Most Adventist churches in Korea didn’t have face-to-face meetings for almost two months and have resumed with simplified services. And, although worship services could be provided online,…
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A Brand New Encyclopedia Of Seventh-Day Adventists Released July 1
The Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists (ESDA) is a global church project that produces an estimated 2,100 articles with accompanying photographs, media, and original documents. ESDA, the church’s first online reference work, debuted on July 1, 2020.
This free website will live online indefinitely, to be constantly updated and expanded.
The Encyclopedia has been produced by the contributions of thousands of Seventh-day Adventists around the world. All of the articles have been written on a…
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Peace of Thread Chattanooga
After being inspired by Peace of Thread Altanta, Adventist Muslim Friendship Association (AMFA, an NAD-based initiative) started Peace of Thread Chattanooga, a sewing group for refugee women. They meet bi-weekly to go over new designs and they learn new patterns. In a typical year they they might have a purse party once or twice a month to sell their purses and other bags. This video was filmed in February of 2020. Since the pandemic began, AMFA has continued to be a community to the refugee families, though currently only virtually and in other socially-distanced ways.
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