Is your church’s online experience intentional and impactful? This is the question the Adventist Church Online Network (ACON) team is posing to attendees of its upcoming five-week event, beginning July 18.
In addition, ACON is providing a forum for the question we’ve all been wrestling with: “What does church look like going forward?”
The momentum for this event was driven by a need identified by Pastor Victor Kulakov, Discipleship Ministries leader of the New Zealand Pacific Union Conference…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/MBlr4IoZ98c/

There were no schools in his village, Seeyah, in Liberia. As a boy, he worked on the family rice farm. When he grew older, he married and had nine children and still worked on the farm. He had no reason to read.
One day, a Seventh-day Adventist evangelist, Willie Helbig, arrived in the village. Joe was interested to learn from the Bible, and he and other villagers asked the evangelist to study with them. Willie agreed and, a month later, all 50 adults in Seeyah and a neighboring village, Dehyu,…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/2kJ4OK5ufWU/

Nearly three dozen Seventh-day Adventist churches and organizations across Canada received grants from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), the church’s global humanitarian arm, to expand their community services during the COVID-19 pandemic. ADRA in Canada, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada and Adventist Community Services of the North American Division, partnered to provide the grants, which are expected to total nearly $400,000 (CAD), equivalent to $300,000 (USD). 
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“A crisis situation like we are facing right now is an opportunity to call people to an understanding of who Chrit is and that He is the answer to the problems we face,” said Adventist World Church President Pastor Ted N.C. Wilson, as he addressed thousands of church administrators, institutional leaders, department heads and pastors today, on day two of Inter-America’s annual Segment Leadership Development (SeLD) Conference. “Energize church members in total member involvement, helping them to…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/B5DedsXl6A8/

As Seventh-day Adventists we are people with a mission; we are people with a purpose. And what a privilege it is to be called by God to join Him in His amazing mission and purpose in these last days of earth’s history.
In the past few months we have seen how quickly world events can change. Almost overnight, as it were, world economies were hit hard, community and business life almost shut down, and of course we’ve also seen terrible loss in human life.
This has brought many challenges to our…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/8nraTl6uR-E/