By Tyson Jacob, 25 December 2019 | Christmas is celebrated in Africa as it is celebrated in other parts of the world with the purpose of remembering the birth of Jesus and family holidays, homecoming, etc. People cook their favorite food, buy new clothes, and plan for outings just after morning worship in their respective […] Source: https://atoday.org/attitudes-about-christmas-among-adventists-in-africa/
Missouri Adventist Church Gives Away 150 Bikes for Christmas
24 December 2019 | An Adventist congregation in the town of Moberly, Missouri, gave away 150 bikes to its community this year for Christmas. Moberly Seventh-day Adventist Church partnered with the North American Division (NAD) of the denomination for the congregation’s first-ever giveaway of this kind. “We just want to make Christmas extra-special,” said Moberly […] Source: https://atoday.org/missouri-adventist-church-gives-away-150-bikes-for-christmas/
Sharing Scripture for December 22 – 28
This is a tool for you to use if you lead a Sabbath School (SS) class or small group. It is keyed to the Bible texts used in the current week’s Adult SS Lesson and includes a brief story from current news you can use to introduce the discussion and then a series of discussion […] Source: https://atoday.org/sharing-scripture-for-december-22-28/
Hong Kong Adventist Hospital Nurse Gets Prison Time for Sexually Assaulting Patient
23 December 2019 | A nurse who worked at Hong Kong Adventist Hospital has been sentenced to eight months’ prison time after sexually assaulting a female patient at the hospital in May of this year. Yee Pak Kwong was sentenced on December 17 at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Court. According to expat site Coconuts Hong […] Source: https://atoday.org/hong-kong-adventist-hospital-nurse-gets-prison-time-for-sexually-assaulting-patient/
Paganism’s Gift to Us
Richard W. Coffen | 23 December 2019 | Friedrich Nietzsche wrote the book Thus Spake Zarathustra.[1] (The grecianized form of Zarathustra is Zoroaster.) Rather than report a history of Zoroaster and the religion bearing his name, Zoroastrianism, the book presented Nietzsche’s atheism, quite contrary to Zoroaster’s beliefs. Zoroaster was a contemporary of Daniel, assuming he […] Source: https://atoday.org/paganisms-gift-to-us/
