Over the last couple of months, I’ve experienced more deaths in my life than ever before. Two of my cousins and two people I looked up to for years died. In addition to this, two loved ones had miscarriages. The grief brought on by these deaths came with a reminder of my own mortality. It made me reflect on my understanding and feelings around death and how that affects how I live.
As humans, we can be very dismissive of death. Death as a topic of discussion is taboo–especially the discussion…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/2JbcXGLRhjU/

Despite massive infections of the COVID-19 virus affecting 190 of its 245 employees, the Ana Stahl Adventist Clinic (Clínica Adventista Ana Stahl in Spanish) in Iquitos, Peru, is back in operation.
Substitute workers from Lima, Peru’s capital some 745 miles away, and doctors from Cuba came to the 94-year-old hospital at the gateway to Peru’s Amazon region to help while many regular staffers were ill. Reports indicated 80 percent of the population of Iquitos had contracted the new coronavirus,…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/4oOSuBVaKf0/

About a year into his job as a chaplain at AdventHealth Orlando in central Florida, Jamie Ricketts, a native of Alberta, Canada, encountered something none of his training prepared him for: a global pandemic had reached the community he serves.
“Who could have imagined something like this happening?” Ricketts said. “The impact is so unprecedented it requires us to innovate as we work.”
Worldwide, according to data released June 8* by Johns Hopkins University, more than 7 million people have…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/cTpsHwhCHhY/

The simple actions of an 8-year-old girl in the central Brazilian city of Planaltina won the hearts of healthcare workers and first responders. Challenged by speakers at an online youth camp organized by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Federal District, little Maria Eduarda decided to honor healthcare workers with greeting cards sent to employees of the area’s Mobile Emergency Care System known as Samu.
Shaped like a heart, the cards read: “Thank you, angels from the health area! May…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/Iq3sycrKYWA/

Children whose first memories of life involve deprivation, abuse, and sorrow are finding refuge, healing, and hope at “Welcome Children” centers across Brazil. The centers, called “Casas de Acolhimento” in Portuguese, are sponsored by ADRA Brazil, the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s relief and development arm.
From a very young age, Juliana do Rosário experienced the life of an abused child. She was sexually abused by her mother and stepfather when living with them. Relocation to her biological…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/LOPhG3eHOhw/