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By Tysan, 3 February 2019 | On 15 January at least 21 people were killed when Somali militants stormed a luxury hotel in the suburbs of Nairobi, Kenya. Another 28 people were injured and admitted to hospital, and Kenya’s Red Cross has said 19 are missing. Ten days later a bomb went off near a […]
Read more at the source: Adventists in Nairobi Touched by Two Terrorist Attacks in the Last Two Weeks
Article excerpt posted on en.intercer.net from Adventist Today.
Just blocks from the U.S. Capitol, the Adventist Health Policy Association (AHPA), an affiliation of five Seventh-day Adventist health care systems, has opened a new office. Here, Carlyle Walton, AHPA president, leads the association’s efforts to advance crucial policy and advocacy priorities that ensure member hospitals can provide high quality, accessible health care. In this new role at AHPA, Walton “is building up the first Washington policy shop and establishing a stronger national voice…
Read more at the source: Adventist Health Policy Association opens new office in Washington D.C.
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Many years of service to his local community has seen an Adventist man recognized in the 2019 Australia Day honors.
Robert (Bob) Kalaf was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in recognition of his services to the Cooranbong (northern NSW) community, including building the Waratah Medical Center, and helping to establish the Cooranbong shopping village and Morisset industrial estate. He was president of the Cooranbong Chamber of Commerce from 1990 to 2006 and also volunteered as a…
Read more at the source: Adventist awarded Medal of the Order of Australia
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Twelve-year-old Naomi Felicia Maftei was running late to church school in Constanta, Romania.
Knowing that she had already missed morning worship, she rushed straight to her classroom. The teacher stopped her at the door.
“You have to go to worship,” she said.
Naomi turned around and raced to the worship hall. She could feel her heart pounding as she ran. She didn’t even think about stopping to rest. She was terribly late for worship.
At the worship hall, she stopped to look for a place to…
Read more at the source: 12-year-olds heart stops for an hour
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It’s 9:30 on Sabbath morning, and Alethea Truman is already on her way to the newly planted Breath of Life Church in Tampa, Florida, where she is set to participate in the divine worship service. But, she is not simply reading Scripture or collecting the offering. On this particular Sabbath, she is scheduled to deliver the sermon. Most people would be terrified to stand in front of a crowd and deliver a message, but not Truman. She is a local elder at the Mt. Calvary Church in Tampa, and she is…
Read more at the source: Church members on mission for God in Tampa
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