Hello, Friends! I’m happy to greet you this week and share some exciting news! This weekend—Friday, July 3, and Sabbath, July 4—is the worldwide launch of I Will Go—a personal call to action that every Seventh-day Adventist can embrace! And I want to invite you, personally to be involved in this amazing strategic plan to reach the world. 
This plan, which was originally scheduled to launch during what would have been the final weekend of the General Conference Session in Indianapolis, is being…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/0za47QeLNDM/

The numbers of refugees and immigrants are increasing, as well as the precarious situation in which a large number of citizens from different countries currently live in different parts of the world. To date, 79.5 million people have been forced to live far from their homes, according to data released by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Ecuador has the largest number of recognized refugees: 69,524 from more than 60 countries, the majority of whom are Colombians and Venezuelans who…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/OSUHFNJ6yCc/

As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread across Kenya, lockdowns, closure of schools, and cancellation of public meetings have caused immeasurable disruptions. 
Even prior to COVID-19, persons with disabilities were living in a world of isolation, yet the effects of the health crisis have been keenly felt. Samuel Onang’o, a father of three, is a cobbler, or shoemaker, in Kibera—he is also physically disabled.
His wife and children travelled to another region of the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/GFsoavJ_Gm8/

Youth Congress and the European Pastors’ Council will both move one year later to help with financial and logistic planning.
In a joint agreement between the Inter-European and Trans-European Divisions, the European Youth Congress planned for August 2021 in Lahti, Finland, will be pushed one year later to 2022. Following the COVID-19 lockdown across most of Europe, including Finland, the level of uncertainty about a ‘second wave’ that could hit and how the winter will progress, the executive…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/h2HgsVMb5WI/

Pioneer missionary Benny Tavodi and popular evangelist George Burnside are among the many individuals from the South Pacific Division (SPD) whose biographies feature in the new Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists (ESDA), which launches this week.
ESDA is an exciting global project for several years in the making. Of the 8500 entries documenting the history and life of the Adventist Church around the world, 611 are from the SPD, with a further 19 currently being edited. The benefit of the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/Rfk4AO543TQ/