On Feb. 27, 2022, cryptocurrency scammers took over the official YouTube channel of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. YouTube deleted the channel on Feb. 28, 2022. After 2 appeals, the channel was restored on March 5, 2022. Other church entities, including a conference in Jamaica and a church in Poland, were hijacked and used […] Source: https://atoday.org/pros-at-cons-cryptocurrency-scammers-hijack-adventist-churchs-youtube-channel/
Western Nigeria Union Conference President Accused of Corruption, Using Police to Harass Members
Protestors allege Western Nigeria Union Conference President Oyeleke Owolabi used police to arrest pastors and members who stood in opposition of him. Protestors also accused Owolabi of being involved in the diverting of ADRA Nigeria funds. Owolabi also accused of falsifying documents to maintain power. 10 March 2022 | Members of several Adventist churches in […] Source: https://atoday.org/western-nigeria-union-conference-president-accused-of-corruption-using-police-to-harass-members/
News Briefs for March 10, 2022
News reports from Australia, Loma Linda University Hospital, the Netherlands, the United States. Hoop Dreams The girls’ basketball team of North Dallas Adventist Academy in Texas, U.S., was in its first-ever state tournament after joining the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools just a year ago, reported the Dallas Morning News. Adventist head coach […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-march-10-2022/
Generous response to Scottish Mission Ukraine appeal
Scottish Mission churches and members have responded generously to an appeal to raise money for ADRA’s emergency relief fund for people fleeing the war in Ukraine. In just over a week, more than £7500 was donated. In a Pound-for-Pound matching challenge the Scottish Mission pledged to match donations, and this has doubled the total raised to £15 074.88 as of Thursday afternoon, 10 March. The pledge to match donations is still ongoing with the deadline for this drive being the 14th of March…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-03-10/generous-response-to-scottish-mission-ukraine-appeal/
Inside Story: Worshiping Like Jesus
Worshiping Like Jesus
By Andrew McChesney
Three years ago, the Thirteenth Sabbath Offering helped establish a community center to reach people in Cambodia. But the community center, an “urban center of influence,” reached its first person before it even opened.
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Koy Sopaon heard that construction work had started on the Essential Life Center and that the wages were fair, so he asked project manager Gary Rogers for a job. Gary, a U.S. missionary who works for Adventist Mission, had no immediate openings at the site in Battambang, Cambodia’s second-largest city, but he took Sopaon’s phone number.
Sopaon returned a few months later and Gary, learning he had welding and bricklaying experience, told him he could start work the next day.
“Why wait until tomorrow?” Sopaon said. “I can start now.”
Sopaon, a leader in his own Christian church, was surprised to learn that Gary began each workday with a 30-minute worship. He had never held a job with worship, and he liked it.
As the group studied, he realized that things he was learning from the Bible were different from what his church taught. One morning, the worship focused on the seventh-day Sabbath. Sopaon read in Luke chapter 23 about Jesus dying on the preparation day, the sixth day of the week, and being buried before the sun set for Sabbath, the seventh day of the week. He saw that the disciples stopped their work for the Sabbath and that Jesus rested in the tomb. It wasn’t until the first day that they brought spices to anoint His body. Surprised, Sopaon told himself, “Then the seventh day truly is the Sabbath!”
Seeing Sopaon’s belief, Gary asked, “Do you want to be like Jesus?”
Sopaon didn’t hesitate. “Yes, I do,” he said.
“If that is your desire, join us as we open the Sabbath together next Friday evening,” Gary said, inviting him to an Adventist gathering.
Sopaon came on Friday and returned the next day for Sabbath worship. He was amazed at how people greeted one another, saying, “Happy Sabbath! Happy Sabbath!” It made him feel that God could make him holy.
As Sopaon learned more about God, he began to return tithe. On Sabbath afternoons, he joined church members in helping the needy. He was baptized 18 months after starting to work on the construction site for the Essential Life Center.
Thank you for your Thirteenth Sabbath Offering that helped open the Essential Life Center, an “urban center of influence” in Battambang, Cambodia.
Produced by the General Conference Office of Adventist Mission. Find more mission stories at adventistmission[dot]org
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