News reports from Jamaica, Loma Linda University, Adventist Peace Fellowship, Adventist Society for the Arts and a webinar on Christian Identity and Christian Nationalism: On March 7, Jamaica’s Washington Gardens SDA Church held a Zoom-based seminar titled COVID-19 Safety Measures & Vaccine Sensitization. Jamaica’s The Gleaner newspaper reported that Charmin McKoy, the regional health educator at […] Source: https://atoday.org/news-briefs-for-march-18-2021/
NAD Press Release: Support for Asian Americans
18 March 2021 | Statement issued today by the North American Division, and signed by G. Alexander Bryant, President; Randy Robinson, Treasurer; & Kyoshin Ahn, Secretary: As leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America, we denounce the recent acts of violence and hatred against our brothers and sisters in the Asian-American community. God calls […] Source: https://atoday.org/nad-press-release-support-for-asian-americans/
—Please pray for me to rest…
—Please pray for me to rest in the perfect peace of the Lord, and cast out all fear! Satan has been attacking me and I realize that I need to be filled with His Holy Spirit to cast out all fear! Continued prayers for physical healing from our Lord. Annie
—-My work is starting to work on Sabbath and does not want to accommodate me. Please pray that they will allow me to work more hours on other days to make up for it or that they will let me have Sabbath off. If nothing can be done, please pray that I can get my old job back. JT
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Adventist Church releases new Bible trivia game app
A brand-new digital evangelism tool aimed at reaching the world’s 2.7 billion gamers
Heroes 2: The Bible Trivia Game is a free app developed by Hope Channel to share the Three Angels’ Message with gamers and young people around the world. The app will be available on March 25th for Android and iOS on popular app stores.
Players start their journey with Adam and Eve in Genesis—the first heroes—and end in Revelation with John, the Son of Thunder. As these heroes ask factual questions about their lives, 12 per round, players accumulate “experience points”. The more experience points a player has; the more heroes are unlocked. The questions increase in difficulty as the game progresses and players can challenge their family and friends simply sharing a link at the end of each round.
Pastor Sam Neves, the project’s director, believes that videogames are a great tool to creatively communicate the Gospel with technology; a well-thought-out strategy to reach young people in a secularised culture. “The real challenge is that young people today know more about the comics stories than the Bible stories. Therefore, Heroes was born, to encourage them to familiarise themselves with the fascinating stories of the Bible, and to discover they are called to be God’s heroes today, to become Christ’s witnesses.”
“From David, the giant slayer, John, the son of thunder, Samson, the legend, to Joseph, the dreamer; these characters introduced in the game are examples of courage and biblical masculinity. And Esther, the queen of courage, Ruth, the wise widow, and Mary Magdalene, nicknamed ‘Tomb Raider’, are our ‘wonder women’ and they teach important lessons to girls,” says Sam Neves.
The game will be released in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French, and more languages will be added shortly. However, the game can be pre-ordered already on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. Those who wish to start playing right now, can join the beta testing team, registering here: heroesbibletrivia.org.
A rising market
The online gaming market grew considerably during the pandemic of Covid19, reaching 2.7 billion global users by the end of 2020 1. Among different game genres, Bible trivia games are getting more attention, like Heroes the Game, launched in 2013 as a pioneer Christian game, that paved the way for many other projects and developments. From the date it was released, the game generated over 10,000 minutes of interaction with its users. It is expected that Heroes 2: The Bible Trivia Game, will carry the torch!
Summary
• Heroes 2: The Bible Trivia Game
• Release Date: 3/25/2021
• A smartphone Bible trivia game app aimed at reaching gamers and young people
• Completely FREE!
• Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
• You can pre-order it here: Apple App Store and Google Play Store
• To start playing now, join the Beta tester team, registering here: https://www.heroesbibletrivia.org/
• For more information email us at contact@nullheroesbibletrivia.org
1 Revista Exame, May 2020. https://exame.com/
Source: https://adventistmessenger.ca/features/adventist-church-releases-new-bible-trivia-game-app
Valuing Water
Did you now that the average person in the UK uses 150 litres of water a day?
But most of us in the UK use water without thinking. We brush our teeth and let the water run in the sink. We boil a full kettle to make one hot drink. We wash clothes on a daily basis, water plants and take long showers and indulge in even longer baths.
According to a joint report in 2019 by UNICEF and the World Health Organisation, 1 in 3 people don’t have access to safe drinking water. And millions have…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2021-03-18/valuing-water/
