A new pocket edition of an Avondale academic’s emotional wellbeing book will help meet the goal of his “audacious” plan to lift the life of 10 million people. Live More Happy offers the opportunity to create connections with those who may have found the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic a challenge to their mental health. It is “an easy way to show you care,” says Associate Professor Darren Morton. Source: https://wp.avondale.edu.au/news/2020/07/03/lifestyle-medicine-pioneers-practical-guide-in-your-pocket/
The Trans-European Division reschedules major events following COVID-19
Youth Congress and the European Pastors’ Council will both move one year later to help with financial and logistic planning.
In a joint agreement between the Inter-European and Trans-European Divisions, the European Youth Congress planned for August 2021 in Lahti, Finland, will be pushed one year later to 2022. Following the COVID-19 lockdown across most of Europe, including Finland, the level of uncertainty about a ‘second wave’ that could hit and how the winter will progress, the executive…
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Discover fascinating stories from Adventist history in the new encyclopedia
Pioneer missionary Benny Tavodi and popular evangelist George Burnside are among the many individuals from the South Pacific Division (SPD) whose biographies feature in the new Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists (ESDA), which launches this week.
ESDA is an exciting global project for several years in the making. Of the 8500 entries documenting the history and life of the Adventist Church around the world, 611 are from the SPD, with a further 19 currently being edited. The benefit of the…
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Porn at six: How to talk to kids about sex
My daughter was six years old when she first encountered online pornography. It was during her “Angelina Ballerina” phase when one day, while she was looking for ballerina images online, a pornographic image popped up on her screen. She got a fright, shut her screen, but didn’t say anything to her dad, who was sitting right next to her but missed seeing what she’d seen.
Research suggests that the average age of first exposure to pornography is getting earlier.1 Many parents tend to assume that…
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Happy Reunion for Vejlefjord Children
A three-month break from friends can be difficult – especially for children. This is equally true for church congregations as many have struggled to get the same intimacy and sense of worship from a live stream or video as they get from physically attending a place of worship.
Like everywhere else, Vejlefjord Seventh-day Adventist church members have missed meeting as a congregation. Denmark was one of the earliest European countries to close churches due to the COVID-19 pandemic; however, due…
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