The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Inter-American Division (IAD) recently celebrated dozens of volunteers who are currently serving throughout the territory and around the world. Church leaders praised the commitment of the 74 volunteers  during a special online Zoom event to celebrate what has been coined as Adventist Volunteer Service Day.
Adventist Volunteer Service is an official program of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists that matches volunteer skills with…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/i7cQhRmxu-I/

For Pastors Phil and Jan White of the Simi Valley Seventh-day Adventist church in Southern California, the transition from normal church services to live-streaming and online giving was seamless. The church was live-streaming services pre-pandemic, and, for the past eight years, has been using Adventist Giving online.
“A small percentage of the membership used adventistgiving.org before, for convenience,” said Pastor Phil White, “and now about 50 percent of our church family is using the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/QQNbgOtyqpU/

Leena abruptly turned to her friends, Anneli and Timo, during a Bible study in her apartment in Raahe, a Finnish town located about 370 miles (600 kilometers) north of the capital, Helsinki.
“I have a bad feeling,” she said. “Let’s pray.”
The three university students sank onto their knees. At that moment, a tall dark figure burst into the living room and darted over to Anneli. She reeled in stark horror as the dark figure tried to grab her.
Timo and Leena prayed more earnestly.
Then a light…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/xynuYg0Kq-Y/

While being under “shelter-in-place” orders for the past two months, I finally had the opportunity to read Joseph Wolff’s (1795-1862) Travels and Adventures[i]. I’ve deeply admired Wolff ever since I first read about him in The Great Controversy.[ii] For those not familiar with his story, Wolff was one of many heralds of the Second Advent spanning the globe during the nineteenth century.
Brief Biographical Sketch
Wolff was the son of a Jewish rabbi in Germany. At the age of 7, while getting a…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/wwdK4CPyG3w/

In these times of pandemic, it has become daily to speak of “a new normal” at the frontlines of action, crisis, anxiety, and anguish. Some speak of a slowed-down world, but there are situations where their world has begun to run at an unimaginable speed.
In Peru, as in many cases, the pandemic has placed at the top all the fragility that healthcare centers have today. Without hospitals available, without the necessary resources, and without basic biosecurity measures in many cases that above…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/xENk0gMj4N0/