A three-month break from friends can be difficult – especially for children. This is equally true for church congregations as many have struggled to get the same intimacy and sense of worship from a live stream or video as they get from physically attending a place of worship.
Like everywhere else, Vejlefjord Seventh-day Adventist church members have missed meeting as a congregation. Denmark was one of the earliest European countries to close churches due to the COVID-19 pandemic; however, due…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/aaxsnlWiugQ/

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/

Just as individual spiritual searching has risen dramatically worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s latest Adult Bible Study Guide, a quarterly resume of lessons that are studied worldwide, offers a look at the importance of Making Friends for God: The Joy of Participating in His Mission.
Veteran Adventist evangelist Pastor Mark Finley wrote the lessons and spoke with the South American Adventist News Agency (ASN) about the theme of this three-month study.
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An action carried out by the women of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Santana do Araguaia, in Pará, Brazil, paid tribute to all employees of the city’s Sanitary Surveillance. They said prayers and words of thanks to the people who are in charge of preventing the novel coronavirus from spreading.
Adrielle Mylhena, one of the participants, says that the tribute was a way to offer comfort to workers in a delicate moment. 
“It is important to bring a little more hope to those people who are on…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/XLdGN-cLmwI/

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/