A generous donation from ENGIE Brasil means 150 families in the northern region of Bahia will have food and protective masks, highly necessary supplies during the current coronavirus pandemic.
The donated goods—purchased with a $1,200 (US) gift to the Adventist Solidarity Action unit—were distributed at the Umburanas Seventh-day Adventist Church, an outpost in a city of 17,000. 
ASA turned the money into the food baskets and supplies, which were distributed to vulnerable families in the area….Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/TIR-xErPtww/

Seventh-day Adventist leaders, staff and their families at the Inter-American Division headquarter office concluded a week of special emphasis on prayer on Sabbath, June 13, 2020. The more than 70 workers employed by the IAD in Miami, Florida, and their families spent time in prayer and fellowship—all from the comfort of their homes.
This is the first time that the annual week of spiritual emphasis was held via Zoom, due to the current quarantine regulations, but one that proved to be filled…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/6_SsxmbZ7HI/

Seventh-day Adventists in the Santa Catarina state of Brazil won’t let a mere global pandemic stop their quest to help people live free of smoking: the University Adventist Church in Florianópolis, the state capital, recently produced a five-day stop smoking clinic online, and the impact was life-changing. 
Here’s an example: 57-year-old Zelene has been smoking for about 40 years, and now smokes about 12 cigarettes a day. She prayed for an answer, and through a neighbor, she learned of the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/HWmb-sATaHM/

After 126 years in the Republic of Chile, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is known—there are 104,000 members in a nation of approximately 19 million people—but its multifaceted work in sharing the Gospel could be better understood. A just-concluded series of programs for church-owned Nuevo Tempo Network was produced to do just that.
“On the Gospel Route” concluded its first season of 24 episodes. The goal was to publicize the work carried out by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Chile,…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/RLwj1bPV84M/

Although the government of Jamaica has eased the restrictions on the number of people allowed to gather in one location, most of the Seventh-day Adventist membership on the island continues to worship virtually.
Since its first positive case of the coronavirus in March, the government of Jamaica imposed several restrictions on places of mass gathering, which caused most of the more than 750 Adventist congregations, as well as those of other religious groups, to be closed.
On May 16, 2020,…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/36l9VryKBkk/