We like to pride ourselves on being loving to others. But when they say unkind things to us, or express a view we take issue with, vote differently than we do, or have different color skin than we do, our love is tested. Christ asks us to rise to a higher standard than tolerance […] Source: https://atoday.org/anticipating-at1-june-19-2020/

News reports from Kettering Adventist Church; Newbold Church; Loma Linda University Health; the GAiN Europe Uncertainty project; Denmark; Rocklin, California; Greater New York Conference and Argentina: Pastor Andrea Jakobsons has been chosen as the new senior pastor at the Kettering Adventist Church in Kettering, Ohio. Jakobsons has been serving as youth, collegiate and young adult […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-june-18-2020/

18 June 2020 | Julius Bichanga, president of the South Kenya Conference of the Adventist denomination, has been removed from office. Bichanga had repeatedly been accused of having a child outside wedlock – a charge against which he had successfully defended himself. Kenya’s The Star reported on June 15 that Bichanga was asked to leave […] Source: https://atoday.org/south-kenya-conference-president-fired/

16 June 2020 | On Monday, June 15, the North American Division and the General Conference entities of the Adventist Church issued a joint statement about the US Supreme Court ruling issued earlier that day, backing protection for LGBT workers. The Supreme Court ruled, in a 6-3 decision, that federal law, which prohibits discrimination based […] Source: https://atoday.org/adventist-church-responds-to-supreme-court-decision-backing-lgbt-workers/