Glenn Lie slipped on his favorite green polo shirt and boarded a subway train in Oslo, Norway.
The 55-year-old teacher hoped that people would stare at him. He didn’t have to wait long.
Glenn sat across from an elegantly dressed woman who appeared to be in her early sixties. The woman glanced at him and then his shirt. Her eyes remained on his shirt. Embroidered on the left breast were the words, “Advent Airlines, Steward Glenn Lie,” and the image of a jet plane.
Glenn said nothing. He knew…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/8-vgnX5BZ6s/

After years in disrepair and closure, 53 churches in east-central India have reopened with the help of It Is Written. Spiritual, health, and social services have been initiated to keep them active.
Earlier this year, the It Is Written Eyes for India program conducted a medical camp for 100 villages including the 53 villages with newly-reopened churches. Medical physicians from the U.S. provided free medical expertise and partnered with local nursing students. More than 2,300 patients were…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/EdU_bhpK8h0/

If you want real thanks, then look to the children. Trans-European Division office staff have discovered that ‘office zoom worship’ has sometimes turned into ‘family worship’ as young children snuggle up to parents during worship time. Those staff children have now created a montage of thankfulness – and in Words of Hope 11, Executive Secretary Audrey Andersson explains why.
Viewers have reacted to Patrick Johnson’s ideas from last week’s reflection on making Sabbath meaningful as we slowly…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/GN7Ihm45M_o/

Covid-19 lockdown left Sandile Khumalo on his knees in South Africa’s biggest city, Johannesburg.
The national lockdown, among the most stringent in the world, shuttered the three churches where Sandile serves as pastor in the city of 5.5 million people. Tough regulations closed parks and banned jogging, dog-walking, and even the sale of cigarettes and alcohol. 
Like Seventh-day Adventist pastors elsewhere around the world, Sandile moved his ministry online and began to live-stream his sermons…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/6ZX9kaBDzPQ/

With three months of a quarantine in Mongolia during the coronavirus pandemic, Seventh-day Adventists there responded to the crisis by offering practical help to their neighbors—and online worship services and Bible studies for those seeking greater answers.
The Adventist Church’s Mongolian Mission distributed 3,200 masks and 70 hand sanitizers to the public and government agencies. Also participating were the mission’s youth department outreach program and local churches. 
The mission also…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/FAN-2k9NYyA/