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Support for the mission activities of the Seventh-day Adventist church has always been part of the Sabbath School program. This video is Mission Spotlight for this week.
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News reports from Venezuela, Brazil, Ukraine, Australia, and Southern Adventist University: Caracas Cinematography From ANN: The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the East Venezuela Union recently held a territory-wide film festival where hundreds gathered to view more than a dozen evangelistic short films and celebrate their production. The event took place at the Cultural Central Park […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-november-4-2022/
Una característica distintiva del adventismo ha sido siempre nuestra visión escatológica del mundo y nuestra comprensión minuciosa del problema del pecado. Como nos relacionamos con el mundo a través de los lentes escatológicos, tenemos una desconfianza inherente hacia el ecumenismo, y una indiferencia hacia la política y las cuestiones de justicia social –a menos, por […] Source: https://atoday.org/los-adventistas-ya-no-estan-contestando-las-preguntas-apropiadas/
by Nerida Taylor Bates | 3 November 2022 | I’ll never forget something that I saw when coming out of my kindergarten Sabbath School when I was five years old. The hall under our small church was completely empty except for a young woman with teased hair, go-go boots, and short mini skirt, kneeling in […] Source: https://atoday.org/is-god-authoritarian-should-we-be-authoritarian/
Omar, a university student in the Middle East, desperately needed a job, but he wasn’t ready to do anything to get hired. During a job interview, he openly told the company representative that he could not work on Saturdays because that was his holy day. The company representative did not blink.
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“That’s fine,” he replied. “We don’t need you.”
It was true. National unemployment was so high that the company really didn’t need Omar. Many people were looking for work, and it would be easy to find someone willing to work on Saturdays.
Sadly, Omar left the company’s office. Omar was a new believer who, just days earlier, had given his life to Christ. He had mingled with believers for six years and searched the Bible before making his decision. After the job rejection, he bought a three-wheeled cart with a plan to make money by selling simit, a circular bread covered with sesame seeds.
Omar’s Sabbath-keeping friends were touched by his faithful stand for Jesus and began to pray for him.
A few days later, Omar announced excitedly that the company had called him back and offered him the job with Saturdays off. He was so excited that he decided to find at least one person a day to tell about Christ.
Sipping a drink at a local café a few days later, he and an elderly man began to talk about religion. Omar shared his journey from his family’s traditional holy book to the Bible and the incredible peace that he had found.
As Omar left the café, a man who had overheard the conversation from a nearby table followed him. “I can’t believe that you could say such things!” the man yelled. “Are you not ashamed? You grew up in our country and know better!” The man began to beat Omar with his fists.
Later that day, when a Sabbath-keeping friend video-called Omar, he was greeted by a large, swollen eye and an even larger smile of joy. “You could have called the police!” the friend said. “Yes,” Omar said. “But I remembered that Jesus tells us to turn the other cheek.”
“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also” (Matthew 5:38-39, NKJV).
Produced by the General Conference Office of Adventist Mission. Find more mission stories at adventistmission[dot]org
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Source: https://ssnet.org/blog/inside-story-turning-other-cheek/
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