On April 27, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) donated 2,100 masks to the Central District Hospital of Pavlovsky Posad, Moscow Region. The next day, 800 masks were transferred to Psychiatric Hospital No. 8 in the city of Orekhovo-Zuevo, Moscow Region.
The donated masks were sewn by members of the Adventist community of Ivanovo, who continue to work on making more. Church members plan to distribute 6,000 masks around the Central Association territory.
ADRA expresses its gratitude…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/Gq0URSULBY4/

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Inter-American Division (IAD) recently celebrated dozens of volunteers who are currently serving throughout the territory and around the world. Church leaders praised the commitment of the 74 volunteers  during a special online Zoom event to celebrate what has been coined as Adventist Volunteer Service Day.
Adventist Volunteer Service is an official program of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists that matches volunteer skills with…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/i7cQhRmxu-I/

For Pastors Phil and Jan White of the Simi Valley Seventh-day Adventist church in Southern California, the transition from normal church services to live-streaming and online giving was seamless. The church was live-streaming services pre-pandemic, and, for the past eight years, has been using Adventist Giving online.
“A small percentage of the membership used adventistgiving.org before, for convenience,” said Pastor Phil White, “and now about 50 percent of our church family is using the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/QQNbgOtyqpU/

Leena abruptly turned to her friends, Anneli and Timo, during a Bible study in her apartment in Raahe, a Finnish town located about 370 miles (600 kilometers) north of the capital, Helsinki.
“I have a bad feeling,” she said. “Let’s pray.”
The three university students sank onto their knees. At that moment, a tall dark figure burst into the living room and darted over to Anneli. She reeled in stark horror as the dark figure tried to grab her.
Timo and Leena prayed more earnestly.
Then a light…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/xynuYg0Kq-Y/

In 1996, 7-year-old Jessica DuBroff was attempting to be the youngest student pilot to fly across the United States. Accompanying her were her father and her flying instructor. The first couple of days went uneventfully, but as often happens, the media were closely following this attempt and hounded the instructor pilot for midnight and early morning interviews. 
While talking with his wife on the phone from Wyoming, the instructor told her how frustrated he was with all the media…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/cvdaPJAQ8x8/