News reports from GAiN Europe, the Philippines, Barbados, Loma Linda University Church and Andrews University: The GAiN (Global Adventist Innovation Network) Europe meetings were held last week from April 19-20. According to a report on the Inter-European Division news site, about 100 people participated in the online event from across Europe and internationally. The report […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-april-29-2021/
India COVID-19 Second Wave Emergency Appeal
COVID-19 is currently hitting India extremely hard. As of the 29 April there reported 378,25 infections and 3,645 deaths in the last 24 hours. The caseload has surged to 18.3 million cases.
The aggressive second wave of the pandemic has overwhelmed hospitals unable to arranged adequate oxygen supply for the mounting case numbers. As hospitals across the country grapple with an influx of critically ill COVID-19 patients, the demand for medical oxygen has increased by 67% in the last nine…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2021-04-29/india-covid-19-second-wave-emergency-appeal/
Exit Interviews: Why Do People Leave the Church?
29 April 2021 | Read this essay in preparation for this Sabbath’s class. Excerpt: There have been a number of projects dedicated to looking at attrition in Seventh-day Adventism, at who leaves the denomination and why. One of the most recent is this presentation by Dr. David Trim, the church’s Director of Archives, Statistics and Research, […] Source: https://atoday.org/atss-5-1-21/
Inter-European Division Responds to North German Union Decision to Ordain Women and Men
29 April 2021 | From the Inter-European Division: The North German Union Executive Committee, in its online meeting on Sunday April 25, among other issues, decided to reinstate the 2012 resolution of their Constituency Meeting to ordain women to the Pastoral Ministry. Pastor Mario Brito, president of the Inter-European Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church […] Source: https://atoday.org/inter-european-responds-to-north-german-union-decision-to-ordain-women-and-men/
From Beauty to Ashes – ADRA-UK Response to St Vincent Disaster
The verdant green of the rich landscape of the La Soufriere volcano was reminiscent of the green and pleasant land of a fairy tale. The devastation of its eruption on 9 April transformed the green dew-kissed dense rainforest to a grey volcanic apocalyptic wilderness. People fled their homes, left their fields ripe with needed crops, and escaped the ‘red’ zone in the north of the island to safer ground in the south. The volcano continues to erupt. Explosions with accompanying ash fall, of…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2021-04-29/from-beauty-to-ashes-adra-uk-response-to-st-vincent-disaster/
