Opera singer Dae-bum Lee suffered a stroke in September 2020. Although Dae-bum Lee cannot speak, he can still sing. Dae-bum Lee performed “The Lord’s Prayer” via video submission on June 6, 2022, for the GC session. 11 August 2022 | by MaryEllen Hacko via Adventist News Network: The 61st General Conference (GC) Session of the […] Source: https://atoday.org/keeping-a-song-in-his-heart-opera-singer-performs-for-gc-despite-stroke/
News Briefs for August 11, 2022
News reports from Andrews University, Europe, North American Division, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States. Memorial Service for Dan Jackson On Sabbath morning, July 23, 2022, Daniel R. Jackson, former president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America, passed to his rest after several months of battling cancer. He was 73. Condolences […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-august-11-2022/
Doodles, Ping Pong Balls and Popcorn: Scottish Mission Women’s Retreat
It is Friday evening and you have just arrived at the Scottish Mission Women’s retreat feeling stressed and harassed from the busyness of the week and the rush to get away from home to the retreat venue an hour or two down the road. Very soon however, you and thirty other women are doodling on blank sheets of paper, with an assortment of colourful pens and pencils and you can feel the tension dissipate. You realise that you have come to the right place. The rest of the weekend will be bursting…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-08-11/doodles-ping-pong-balls-and-popcorn-scottish-mission-womens-retreat/
New Study Finds Millennials Like a Touch of the Digital with the Divine
New study found that a majority of millennials that engage in digital religious or spiritual activities at least once a month also participate in in-person forms of religion or spirituality once a month or more. Study found that 32% of millennials in the United States and Canada engage in digital religious or spiritual activities at […] Source: https://atoday.org/new-study-finds-millennials-like-a-touch-of-the-digital-with-the-divine/
News Articles Report on Adult Grooming by Adventist Leaders in Caribbean
Dozens of women claimed to have been groomed and then sexually abused by Adventist pastors from different churches in Trinidad and Tobago, reported the Loop. Grooming and sexual harassment is also claimed to be prevalent at University of Southern Caribbean. Grooming often starts with friendship. 10 August 2022 | The Loop Caribbean, a news website, […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-articles-report-on-adult-grooming-by-adventist-leaders-in-caribbean/
