Editor’s Note: Below is a transcript of a message, posted to You Tube on May 8, from president of the Adventist Church, Ted N.C. Wilson. Elder Wilson will release a new video each week, during the Coronavirus pandemic, which you can view here. 
It’s good to be with you again. What a blessing it is to see how God is carrying each one of us through this amazing and difficult pandemic. Some areas that are subsiding, others that are increasing, but God will see us through, through His grace. Now,…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/EkB2IT8uX50/

The Seventh-day Adventist community on St. Croix was in solidarity with the leaders and members of the Peter’s Rest Adventist Church on May 5, 2020, as they watched their state-of-the-art church building consumed by fire. The building, located at a strategic location in the Peter’s Rest neighborhood, was considered a landmark by many on the island.
Several units from the Virgin Islands (VI) Fire Service responded and worked tirelessly to contain the fire, which spread rapidly through the…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/bS4gEJGWIpg/

A  group of young people, who had planned to participate in March’s Youth Rush program, but were unable to do so due to the coronavirus outbreak, came up with a new idea called Daniel Rush. Youth Rush is a student literature evangelism program of the Japan Union Conference. 
This program was designed to provide young people with an opportunity to grow spiritually and socially during the long quarantine in which they cannot attend school. Not wanting to waste time and idle at home, three college…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/3nmzFleiAfI/

While many Adventists in Lae have found COVID-19 restrictions distressing and limiting to their faith journey, Akaly Vetalis and Numan Asine—young people from Bumbu Sand church, a community of nearly 400 people—have treated the restrictions as an opportunity for ministry.
Vetalis and Asine visited Micah Akui, youth ministries director for the Morobe Mission, requesting leadership resources for their newly-built church.
“At first I did not quite understand what they were up to,” explained Akui….Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/BKvNABk3nn8/

As the pandemic linked to the novel coronavirus COVID-19 continues to disrupt lives around the globe, Seventh-day Adventists in Brazil are doing their part to help neighbors in need. Over the weekend of April 25-26, members of the Orion Pathfinders Club in Praça dos Imigrantes, in the south of Minas Gerais state, collected donations at a drive-thru collection stop.
Hundreds of people came to the site to donate food, cleaning supplies and clothing. Selma Dias, Pathfinder leader, said…Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ann-en/~3/KoLidrDpGrk/