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by Melody Tan | 11 June 2026 | As Seventh-day Adventists, we should be “in the world but not of the world”. This something I was taught very early, after I joined the church. Preachers would say it from the pulpit, church members would share it during Sabbath School, and well-meaning adults (I was in […] Source: https://atoday.org/in-the-world-but-not-the-world/
LOMA LINDA, CA – The Loma Linda University Health Board of Trustees has appointed Dr. Anthony Hilliard as president of Loma Linda University Health, effective July 1. He will continue serving concurrently as chief executive officer of the organization’s hospitals. Read the full story here. ST. ALBANS, UNITED KINGDOM – The Trans-European Division Executive Committee […] Source: https://atoday.org/adventist-news-from-around-the-world-12-june-2026/
Around the world, people are discovering truth through Global Bible School, but many face real sacrifices when they choose to follow it. This pastor’s story reminds us that conviction often comes with a cost. Keep these souls in your prayers as they make life-changing decisions. Discover how you can support AWR’s mission at awr.org/give. #AWR360 #BroadcastToBaptism Source: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7OwoQOKr2xo
LOMA LINDA, CA — The Loma Linda University Church was among Christian institutions identified in a proposed pro-Israel public relations campaign aimed at influencing American churchgoers and Evangelical communities, according to documents filed with the U.S. Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The filings, first reported by Al Jazeera, show that […] Source: https://atoday.org/loma-linda-university-church-listed-in-pro-israel-outreach-campaign-targeting-u-s-christians/
Inside Story for Friday 12th of June 2026
Thank you for your Thirteenth Sabbath Offering, also known as the Quarterly Mission Project Offering, that is helping people like Zeth prepare for gospel ministry. Klabat University, located near Manado, Indonesia, is a previous offering recipient. This quarter’s offering will help similar schools in the East-Central Africa Division. Watch a YouTube video of Zeth at bit.ly/Zeth-IS.
Zeth Louis Lekatompessy put together a plan to bring his seven siblings and their families to Christ the same year that he was baptized in Indonesia.
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The plan went like this: Zeth asked his wife, whom he married shortly before his baptism, to join him in praying daily for his relatives. He and his wife also visited the relatives and studied the Bible with them. Then he invited them to evangelistic meetings at a Seventh-day Adventist church on Ambon Island, where they lived. At the end of the meetings, 13 people were baptized, including his older sister and two other relatives. Later, five more brothers and sisters were baptized. Zeth was overjoyed! He decided that leading people to Christ was life’s most important work.
For the next two years, he worked as a literature evangelist, sailing between islands to sell books. The COVID-19 pandemic ended his work.
As he contemplated the future, he felt impressed to volunteer as a Bible worker. His wife agreed, and he returned to the plan that he had made for the salvation of his siblings. He and his wife made a list of every person whom they knew and prayed over it daily. With their two small children, they used their motorcycle to visit people on the list.
On arriving at a new house, Zeth introduced himself and his family and said, “We are Seventh-day Adventists.”
Houseowners asked curiously, “What’s an Adventist?”
“An Adventist is someone who worships on the Sabbath,” Zeth replied.
The next question inevitably was: “What is the Sabbath?”
Zeth suggested that the houseowners look up the answer online.
When houseowners saw that the Sabbath was Saturday, they were surprised and asked, “Is it true that Saturday is the true day of worship?”
Then Zeth opened his Bible and offered Bible studies.
The prayer list grew to 50 names over three years. Zeth and his family usually visited three families a day. Four people on the list had been baptized by the time Zeth left to study theology at Klabat University. Three more were baptized as he studied at Klabat, and others continued Bible studies in his absence.
“Fourteen percent of my list has been baptized,” he said.
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