Loma Linda University Medical Center and Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital are recipients of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s 2019 Get With The Guidelines® — Resuscitation quality achievement awards, designating both facilities as exemplary in implementing high standards of resuscitation care. 
Both entities took home four awards combined — one Silver and three Gold. Children’s Hospital received the Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for the Pediatric…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/n9CaPhwjr4M/

Mary John Ijaa never realized that it could be so hard to find a church.
She grew up attending worship services in a major Christian denomination in what is now South Sudan. But she didn’t feel happy. She didn’t see any unity or love. So at the age of 16, she moved to another church.
At the new church, she noticed people competed fiercely to be deacons and elders. They argued constantly about who was in charge. She didn’t see any love, so she left after two years.
The next church seemed to be…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/s6iktpLrj-s/

More than 400 Seventh-day Adventists and friends recently ran across parts of the coastal city of Santa Marta in North Colombia, during the annual race to promote healthy living under the church’s “Let’s Move to Live” and “I Want to Live Healthy” initiatives.
Adventist delegations and friends from cities across the coastal region gathered early on Sunday, Oct. 6, to do warm up exercises, promote health and invited onlookers to join the six-kilometer race. This is the third event  by the church…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/S_9fUFgMkOY/

Jump back just ten years and social media was mainly text based. Slowly photos came to prominence and now video is an indispensable element. Jump back even further and church magazines were text based. Today an article without a photo will not get published. Photos are essential. Yet sadly, while photos are crucial, not all photos are good.
To address this issue, a small group of photographers from Europe, North America and Iceland met together from 5-12 September 2019, at the Hlíðardalsskóli,…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/-m-8BEuoAI0/

Editor’s Note: According to the East-Central Africa Division (ECD), this morning, October 24, Burundi Union President, Lamec Barishinga was arrested on his way to the ECD year-end meetings in Nairobi, Kenya.  Below is a letter to the Adventist Church in Burundi from Seventh-day World Church President, Ted N.C. Wilson.  ECD has issued a statement regarding the situation, which you can read here. For more information, and background on the situation in Burundi please see here and here. Dear…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/RBZoFYzh61Q/