My daughter was six years old when she first encountered online pornography. It was during her “Angelina Ballerina” phase when one day, while she was looking for ballerina images online, a pornographic image popped up on her screen. She got a fright, shut her screen, but didn’t say anything to her dad, who was sitting right next to her but missed seeing what she’d seen.
Research suggests that the average age of first exposure to pornography is getting earlier.1 Many parents tend to assume that…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/7xF0FQgflFU/

Five years. Twenty-five regional editors. Thirty consultant editors. One thousand international authors. One final product: The Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists (ESDA). 
“Today is a historic day in the history of the church,” says Artur Stele, vice president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. “Today we witness a moment Adventist scholars have been waiting to see for over 40 years. The significance of this new reality cannot be overstated.”
In the past, church historians and scholars…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/QnnP2TUcwLM/

Hospitals across AdventHealth’s footprint earned the Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award and Outstanding Patient Experience Award for 2020. The two annual awards recognize hospitals across the nation that meet stringent patient safety standards and have exceptional patient experience scores.
The Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award for 2020 was achieved by AdventHealth Hendersonville, AdventHealth Shawnee Mission, Adventist Medical Center Bolingbrook, Adventist Medical Center…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/pyybKIjc3xM/

Students at Tenakonga Adventist Community High School, Solomon Islands, are continuing to make a difference in their community.
The school has been running a Sabbath school program in the nearby village of Susui, using resources such as picture rolls which have been provided by the Solomon Islands Mission education department.
The Susui village chief requested that the school also visit on Friday evenings to present spiritual music videos. On June 19, the first of these programs was held and…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/jcr5ROytfFM/

During the pandemic, many ministers and members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Caucasus, which makes up Azerbaijan and parts of Russia, actively responded to the needs of people by serving as volunteers.  They helped older and needy people by providing assistance in delivering groceries and other goods and services. 
Therefore, when the all-Russian public organization Center for Assistance to the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) proposed a project to provide masks for…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/SuJfEF3Rki4/