According to UNESCO, there are currently 130 million girls in the world who don’t have access to education. Most of them live in remote areas in some of the world’s poorest regions. Darja Markek, ADRA-UK Programmes Officer, shares what ADRA is doing in Rwanda to help address this issue.Since 2017 ADRA Rwanda and ADRA-UK have been working with a group of NGOs* in 28 remotely located schools in Nyaruguru District, Rwanda, as part of the Rwandan Girls’ Education and Advancement Programme 2 (REAP2)…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2020-03-12/adra-uk-and-adra-rwanda-work-together-on-childrens-education-and-advancement/
BUC Pathfinders’ Bible Experience Uses Innovative Ways to Beat CoronaVirus Event Cancellations
With the annual Pathfinder Bible Experience (PBE) and Adventurer Bible Experience (ABE) due to be held at Newbold College this Sabbath (14 March), concerns were raised about the safety of hosting a large event in one venue in light of the coronavirus.
Rather than cancelling the entire event which would mean forfeiting many months of preparation by the children for this day, the decision was made involving BUC field presidents and the BUC Youth department, to use video conferencing.
This would…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2020-03-12/buc-pathfinders-bible-experience-uses-innovative-ways-to-beat-coronavirus-event-cancellations/
Inside Story: European Division ~ Fetus Refused to Die
Fetus Refused to Die
By Victor Hulbert
“I’m very sorry”, the doctor told Fusae Suzuki. “Your husband is very young but, unfortunately, he will die tonight or at the most in a few days”.
The news devastated the young Japanese mother. She went to the river to fetch water and, looking into the water, considered throwing herself in. But then two men in black suits appeared.
“Be patient for just a while”, said one.
“Yes, be patient”, said the other.
After those words, the men disappeared from her sight.
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The encounter pulled Fusae back from despair, and she returned home to nurse her husband, Mitsuharu, a farmer stricken with tuberculosis.
Soon she was pregnant with her second child. Mitsuharu could not bear the thought of his wife struggling to raise two children on her own. Finally she agreed to his pleas to terminate the pregnancy. The government supported the decision.
The pharmacist prescribed a strong medicine that, she promised, would work without fail.
“Be careful with the medicine, and don’t exceed the prescribed dose”, she cautioned. “Otherwise, your own life will be in danger”.
Fusae swallowed the first dose, enough to end the pregnancy. Weeping in sorrow, she felt the fetus move. “My baby’s still alive!” she cried out.
The next day, she repeated the dose. Then again on the third day. Yet the fetus kept moving inside her. In desperation, she drained the medicine bottle, but still the baby remained alive.
“It’s totally unbelievable!” she told her husband.
A healthy baby boy was born. Several months later, she and Mitsuharu attended evangelistic meetings, and they were baptized on Akeri’s first birthday.
“Their baptismal date always reminds me that God intervened in my mother’s womb to save my life”, said Akeri Suzuki, a veteran Japanese pastor who retired after serving as executive secretary of the Adventist Church’s Northern Asia-Pacific Division. “My parents became the first Adventist church members in my village”.
Akeri was 30 before his mother revealed his origins.
“When I heard the story of my birth from my mother, I was terribly shocked and felt as if I had been struck by powerful lightening”, he said. “My whole body trembled”.
Overwhelmed by God’s tremendous love, he thought, “I am a very precious gift from God”.
He re-dedicated himself to God at that very moment.
“God intervened in my mother’s womb to save my life”, he said.
Victor Hulbert is communication director for the Trans-European Division.
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Friday: Further Thought ~ From Battle to Victory
Further Thought:
“For three weeks Gabriel wrestled with the powers of darkness, seeking to counteract the influences at work on the mind of Cyrus. … All that heaven could do in behalf of the people of God was done. The victory was finally gained; the forces of the enemy were held in check all the days of Cyrus, and all the days of his son Cambyses”. — Ellen G. White, Prophets and Kings, p. 572.
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“What great honor is shown to Daniel by the Majesty of heaven! He comforts His trembling servant and assures him that his prayer has been heard in heaven. In answer to that fervent petition the angel Gabriel was sent to affect the heart of the Persian king. The monarch had resisted the impressions of the Spirit of God during the three weeks while Daniel was fasting and praying, but heaven’s Prince, the Archangel, Michael, was sent to turn the heart of the stubborn king to take some decided action to answer the prayer of Daniel”. — Ellen G. White, The Sanctified Life, p. 51.
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11.FROM BATTLE TO VICTORY – DANIEL | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series DANIEL with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A. |
11.FROM BATTLE TO VICTORY |
The curtain in front of the unseen world is lifted for us. What will we see?
Memory Text: Daniel 10,19 – And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.
Content:
11.1 Fasting and Prayer, Once Again
11.2 A Vision of the Prince
11.3 Touched by an Angel
11.4 A Great Conflict
11.5 A Victorious Prince
11.6 Summary
We would like to thank the artist Maximilian Jantscher for his permission to use his paintings for the series DANIEL.
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