There is an upside to the current travel restrictions. Online meetings save travel time and money. Zoom fatigue helps officers develop agendas that focus on the essential. With positive goodwill that is attainable.
This was certainly the case for the 48 participants of the Trans-European Division (TED) Spring Meetings, who joined by Zoom for an intense but productive morning on Monday, May 18, 2020. 
The spring Executive Committee brings together union presidents, lay and pastoral…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/Xq04I71mjDk/

From the northernmost part of Mexico to the southernmost part of Colombia, Seventh-day Adventists paused to worship and pray together during a special Sabbath program on May 16, 2020. The one-hour online program saw top church leaders in Inter-America stand and pray together in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Prayers were focused on gratitude, healing, and the social and economic needs of the membership, as well as a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit throughout the 42 countries and…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/Sys87D-zr3Y/

Staff from Adventist schools across Australia and New Zealand have worked hard to adapt to COVID-19 social isolation restrictions. Listed below are some of the creative initiatives by students, chaplains and teachers designed to help nurture healthy school communities during this time.
Prescott College (Adelaide, SA), Denise Nelson, Record staff
Students and teachers from Prescott College were proactive and well prepared for COVID-19, thanks to Zoom training, plenty of hand-sanitizer and a…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/5gCdno8VUfQ/

The novel coronavirus pandemic and subsequent isolation regimen have become a challenge for the whole world, including the Kavkaz Nadezhda studio, which is preparing live broadcasts of the “Pray for Me” program for the Nadezhda TV channel. But, as you know, a crisis is also a time of opportunities, and the project team, with God’s help, decided to use these opportunities, expanding the formats and methods of their broadcasting.
During this time, the team once again became convinced that nothing…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/P-mKHnhh3so/

The Adventist Church in Ukraine recently released the first edition of a modern translation of canonical books of the Bible, translated from Hebrew and Greek by Rafail Turkonyak, Th.D., with the support of the Ukrainian Bible Society. The project began in 1992 and was completed by both church and public figures well-known in Ukraine together with Turkonyak, an expert in ancient languages, great biblical enthusiast, patriot of the Ukrainian language, and Shevchenko Prize laureate.
Each…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/-P-ghrXaTCE/