When historians look back and study 2020 what lessons will they learn? Will the communal experience of the COVID-19 pandemic combined with the horror of the George Floyd killing be seen as drawing us closer together – or pushing us apart? Will the world, or will we as individuals be more caring as a result?
In this special edition of TED Words of Hope we talk with two experienced communicators, looking for lessons on the way ahead. Ken Burton Ken Burton is perhaps best known as conductor of…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/ZNo2ViakfYk/

My sister committed suicide when she was 14.
Overcome with grief, my mother decided to have another child, a girl. To her disappointment, she gave birth to me — a boy.
Mother raised me in the southern Portuguese town of Faro with a brother who was nine years older. Father lived in the Middle East, working in construction.
Mother was perpetually sad. That sadness deepened when Father got a divorce and my brother left home. Then she was hospitalized with cancer and I, only 11, was sent to live…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/D8T4sltpOKg/

Not even a global pandemic can stop the outreach efforts of the Seventh-day Adventist Church on Taiwan. Restrictions on public worship and evangelism have sent members online to witness, as well as to share the Church’s health message.
Due to the pandemic, the Taiwan Conference’s 2020 mission plans with local churches were canceled. However, the Health Ministries department encouraged local churches to conduct a vegetarian health week and made great efforts to promote the participation of…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/aDqpo-WebGI/

In contexts of social, digital, and technological changes, relating across generations can sometimes be a challenge. However, when the theme is solidarity, thoughts and attitudes seem to converge to the biblical commandment that advises us to love God and neighbors as yourself.
It was with their minds on this principle that the youth of the Adventist Church of Lagoinha, in Belo Horizonte, joined with volunteers from the Adventist Solidarity Action (ASA)  to provide for the hungry people on the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/XXuCfKlzQW8/

A new baptismal Bible study guide has been designed to help young people fall in love with the Bible and read it as one big story of God’s love.
 Now available in English, The Biblical Story – A Study Guide was developed a few years ago by the Youth Ministries Department in Denmark.
Pastor Thomas Rasmussen, the primary contributor of the guide, explained why he wrote it. “When I returned to Denmark after my studies at Newbold College, I soon found myself studying with young people who wanted…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/TU62HBSAfnY/