AdventHealth University Moves to Embrace Change

AdventHealth University (AHU) students prepare for careers in health, science, academia, and leadership. Early in 2020, faculty leaders in Orlando and Denver quickly innovated teaching for online platforms and adapted to new rules imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Support teams ensured that labs, simulation clinics, and digital technologies were up...

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Church Strengthens Its Chinese Community Centers Across Inter-America

The Inter-American Division (IAD) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church organized a week of mission filled with appropriate messages as part of a cross-cultural outreach initiative to Chinese communities throughout the territory. The evening programs, the first of their kind, touched on health, family, money, and more, and were held January...

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Who Are SDA’s?

Did you recently meet an Adventist? Maybe you saw an ad for an event at a local Adventist church, or drove by one of the denomination’s schools or hospitals. You may have just heard the word “Adventist” somewhere and want to find more about what it means. Seventh-day Adventists are...

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Adventist Pastor and Family Are Victims of a Hate Crime

Imagine coming home from church one evening to find hateful words spray-painted on your house. This is precisely what Oshaine Wynter discovered on Saturday (Sabbath), January 9, 2021. Wynter, a resident of Aurora in Colorado, United States, is the pastor of New Community Church in Denver and Boston Street church...

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Adventist Youth Prayer Network Holds Its First Convention

Young Adventists across the Southern Asia-Pacific Division (SSD) gathered on Zoom and on Facebook Live to hold the first Prayer Network Convention during a week in December 2020. More than 1,083 young people registered for the “I Will Pray” event, more than 350 connected to the Zoom link each night,...

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Nurturing Heart Health During Quarantine

COVID-19 and its affiliated safety measures have increasingly shifted activities related to work, exercise, and leisure from the great outdoors and public spaces to the home —spurring the development of some not-so-heart-healthy habits such as reduction of physical activity. Yet implementing a few simple lifestyle changes can, over time, boost...

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The “Other” Pandemic

My grandfather Pitt Wade was a Seventh-day Adventist physician who practiced medicine in Cañon City, Colorado, from 1898 to 1942. The following is taken from a letter written by Grandmother Alice Zener Wade to her family on January 27, 1919. I had a ride the other day. Last Friday Pitt...

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Reading God Right

An outrageous Introduction In America’s beginning was slavery, and slavery was in America, and slavery was America. Slavery was with America in the beginning. Every American system, structure, ideology, and cultural expression was created through slavery, and apart from slavery not one thing in America has ground to stand upon....

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Life-Transforming Adventist Indigenous College Is Educating a Generation

Nestled in bushland on the outskirts of Perth, Australia, is an oasis of peace, a wellspring of knowledge refreshing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities throughout Australia. Mamarapha College has a life-changing impact on the work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ministries (ATSIM), which may only be fully realized...

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