by Hannele Ottschofski | 3 December 2019 | Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. When the annual council in 1984 voted that the divisions should be allowed to decide whether to ordain women as elders, some people feared that the church would split. That was not the case. That would not have happened […] Source: https://atoday.org/aseatatthetable/
Jamaican Adventist Church for the Deaf in Media Spotlight
3 December 2019 | An Adventist congregation in Jamaica was recently featured in the premier newspaper in the country. The Jamaica Observer spotlighted the unique worship environment in the denomination’s Deaf Church in St. Catherine, southeast Jamaica, which started four years ago and now has an attendance of 35 to 40 worshipers per weekend. The […] Source: https://atoday.org/jamaican-adventist-church-for-the-deaf-in-media-spotlight/
Part 2: How We Got Where We Are Today
by Hannele Ottschofski | 2 December 2019 | Read Part 1 here. The current discussion about the ordination of women has been going on for over 50 years. Many books and articles for and against it have been written, and various commissions have studied thoroughly what the Bible says about the question, most recently by […] Source: https://atoday.org/how-we-got-where-we-are-today/
Control of Adventist Church in Fiji Returned to Church
1 December 2019 | Control of Vatuvonu Adventist High School in Fiji has been returned to the Adventist denomination after a ruling by the High Court of Fiji on November 22. High Court Judge A L B Brito-Mutunayagam denied a bid by the Fijian government’s Ministry of Education to take control of the school. The […] Source: https://atoday.org/control-of-adventist-church-in-fiji-returned-to-church/
The Church in Finland Led the Way
by Hannele Ottschofski | 1 December 2019 | I remember well how, in the winter of 1957, a major evangelistic campaign was held in the capital of Finland, Helsinki, in the newly completed church building in Castreninkatu. The big hall held about 400 people, and it was so crowded that many still had to stand. […] Source: https://atoday.org/a-simple-solution-to-the-problem-of-womens-ordination-part-1/
