“Sometimes we don’t like the shoes or the crazy hair our young people wear, but they are the future leaders of our church,” said Josney Rodríguez, who oversees thousands of pastors and church elders under the ministerial association for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America. “You must train them so they can be our leaders soon.”
Rodriguez was among dozens of speakers who took part in a special online youth ministry certification training program geared for youth directors, church…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/L4CqpfNP3Iw/

In 2018 ADRA Norway received NOK 73 million (7.48 million Euros) from Norad, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, for education programs in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, Niger, Mali, and Myanmar. This included helping children with special needs to gain an education.
Now a recent report from the Office of the Auditor General of Norway highlights ADRA Norway as an example of an organization with good reporting routines on results achievement in education programming. The Office of…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/zHbSQ4iewxg/

“Preach to every language and people.”This call from Revelation 14:6 was the impetus for the West Russia Union Deaf Congress held at Zaoksky Adventist University May 2-5, 2019.
About 90 delegates took part in the congress, including guests from neighboring countries, and representatives of churches from the entire Euro-Asian division. All the participants, from ministers of the Department for Minorities to Persons with Disabilities (SLOV), deaf church members and hearing sign language…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/XO0pwYVXEAQ/

UK Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, has described the escalation in knife crime as a ‘national emergency’ with a special emphasis needed to “tackle violence among young people”. [The Guardian] As their part in tackling the problem, Seventh-day Adventists in the UK and Ireland set aside two consecutive Sabbaths as days of silent prayer, particularly in local communities being impacted by gun and knife crime.
Hackney church, London, is just one of the churches that took part in the “rise up in prayer…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/VmwpEVkVwqU/

Senators at the Congress Building in Bogota, Colombia, were recently visited by a group of Seventh-day Adventists to highlight the church’s values on strong families.  Church leaders, along with a Pathfinder group, met with the president of the senate, 20 other senators and more than 80 officials to offer the this year’s missionary book Hope for Today’s Families the church is distributing across the globe.
Ernesto Macías Tovar, the president of the Senate, thanked the Adventist Church for the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/acblB7I586E/