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/

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/

This week, the Itajaí Central Seventh-day Adventist Church, in the interior of Santa Catarina state, launched a campaign to honor the city’s health professionals. With the hashtag #EleEstáComVocês (“He Is With You”), the project aims to support and encourage people who are on the front lines of the fight against Covid-19. Billboards in the coastal town are spreading the message, which recalls the presence of God in hospitals in the struggle for life. Images and videos also support the project on…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/L8LbaDbuDfY/

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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