A recent survey of 1,930 members and patrons of the Adventist Church in the Brazilian Central Planalto region showed that 82.3 percent have regularly followed, over the past three months, the services and online programs of their churches or other Adventist churches. In this period, these remained closed due to social isolation. Now, with the gradual return of face-to-face activities, some questions arise: Will this audience, which has adapted to a virtual church, gather again on-site? Will…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/O0lCMRaR374/

For many of us, memorizing the weekly Adult Bible Study Guides (ABSG) memory texts can be quite a mental challenge. A small group of musically-minded folk from several churches in Canterbury, New Zealand, have been working to make this process easier by putting the ABSG memory texts to music.
This creative team desires not only to make the memory texts easier to memorise, but to make the word of God more meaningful and beautiful.
The group originally began with a choir and a recording studio,…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/eLv1Yfed2Pg/

“I’m having a hard time getting my head around that,” said the young person I had been sharing with. “I just don’t feel like it’s true.” We were not discussing some mystery of the universe or the nature of God. It wasn’t some win-every-argument apologetics trick or a scientific principle. The concept was that he was valuable.[1]Infinitely valuable.1 He couldn’t get his head around his intrinsic value. Not that his will or his contribution or his race had value in and of itself, especially more…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/_BebUW5BfVo/

Andrea Yaeger has honored 16 Loma Linda University Health employees who helped her daughter Jackie receive ongoing rehabilitative care. Her gift of $35,000, raised from family and friends, has provided upgraded software to therapy equipment and will also support patient scholarship.
Jackie, a young attorney at a prominent Riverside, California, law firm, suffered a brain hemorrhage before coming to Loma Linda University Health. She had first felt sudden, severe pain in her jaw and visited an…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/mHBzBppy0uM/

The local church elder on the phone was a friend: “I cannot wait to get back to the church building for worship so I can talk with people face to face.” Earlier in the week I had talked to another friend, “The COVID pandemic has helped me get my Sabbaths back—instead of leading in programs, I am doing Bible studies with my family and spending time in reflection with God in nature. I’m not sure I want to be in the church building as much.” 
Another friend emailed, “I like meeting in small groups…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/gl0grqza31M/