Mount Ellis Academy unofficially wins $500,000 & posts ‘Thank you’ video message

A Seventh-day Adventist high school unofficially won $500,000 in a Facebook contest that ended this weekend.

Mount Ellis Academy, received 144,006 votes in the Kohl’s Cares grant competition, which put the boarding academy in 10th place. The 20 schools to receive the most votes would each win the money.

Although the Bozeman, Mont. high school finished in the top 20 vote-getting schools, Kohl’s says they are currently verifying the unofficial winners to make sure they meet all of the contest requirements and will then announce the winners.

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Loma Linda University wins three Emmys

Loma Linda University won three Emmys at the Pacific Southwest Emmy Awards on June 26. The awards are for the university's documentary-style program called "Loma Linda 360."

The winning documentaries are:
• "Surgeons of Hope" by Maranatha Hay
• "Armed for the Challenge" by Patricia Thio
• "PossAbilities" by Patricia Thio

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GYC 2010 - "No Turning Back"

The Generation of Youth for Christ will be holding its annual conference on Dec. 29, 2010 through Jan. 2, 2011 in Baltimore, MD.

This is the ninth annual conference held by GYC, an Adventist grassroots movement led by young adults in the United States.

Speakers at the four-day event include several church leaders from General Conference. Among the speakers scheduled is the newly elected president of the Adventist world church, Ted Wilson.

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The Most Important Questions

Image credit: MIQ websiteThis October, Amazing Facts will attempt to answer teens’ questions about life, God and the Bible through a live televised event called Most Important Questions.

MIQ is a 10-part Bible seminar specifically for young people ages 13-18 and will be hosted at Great Lakes Adventist Academy in Cedar Lake, Michigan. The event will be hosted by Pastor Doug Batchelor, president of Amazing Facts, and will be broadcast on 3ABN, Inspiration Network and AFTV.

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Let's Talk website retires

After 9 years, the Let’s Talk website, where youth and young adults could ask the Seventh-day Adventist Church president questions about the church, closes down.

Let’s Talk was a televised series of dialogues between young people and former Adventist world church president Jan Paulsen.

Update: We emailed the Adventist Church, asking why Let's Talk was cancelled. We haven't received a reply.



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10th TED Pathfinder Camporee

The 2010 Trans-European Division "Faithbook" Pathfinder Camporee is happening right now in Iso Kirja, Finland. More than 2,200 people from over 20 countries are expected to attend. Pathfinders will be able to participate in over 50 activities such as rafting competitions, team challenge courses, and bungee surfing at the week-long event.

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Adventist Church's top committee to include more young adults

Glenn Wright, a delegate representing
the world church, suggests ways to
increase the participation of young
adults in future General Conference
sessions. [photo: Gerry Chudleigh /
Adventist News Network] On many occasions over the past week, delegates at the 59th General Conference Session have taken to the microphone to voice strong opinions about the lack of youth representatives, even when the topic being publicly discussed at the moment was unrelated.

In response, church officials sitting at the desk on stage politely told the youth advocates to hold their thoughts for a more appropriate time.

Then came Friday, during the last business meeting of the 10-day Session. That's when delegates finally got a chance to discuss -- and approve -- an agenda item that encourages youth representation on the General Conference Executive Committee.

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Number of GC delegates by age & gender

According to the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, only 2 percent of the delegates representing the Adventist Church at the General Conference Session are under 30 years old. Only about 16 percent of the delegates are women.

According to the GC Session website:

"The Constitution states that at least 50 percent of delegates shall be laypersons, pastors, teachers, and nonadministrative employees, of both genders and representing a range of age groups and nationalities."

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Gilbert Cangy is the new GC Youth Director

Gilbert R. Cangy was recently elected the new General Conference Youth Department director. Cangy previously served in Youth Ministries at the South Pacific Division.

The associate directors for the Youth Department are Jonatan Tejel and Paul D. Tompkins.

Source: Adventist News Network

Session delegate urges more youth representation

North America delegate David Kokiong,
28, earlier this week calls for more younger
delegates to comprise the General
Conference in Session. [photo: Gerry
Chudleigh / Adventist News Network] A delegate stepped up to the microphone and identified himself as "one of the few" under the age of 30 from the Seventh-day Adventist Church's North American region.

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"I'd like to know when would be an appropriate time to address the issue of the lack of representation from that age category," said David Kokiong, 28, of Montreal, Canada, during the Tuesday morning business meeting at the 59th General Conference Session. "Many youth and young adults are either misinformed or uninterested, or even ignorant, about the processes and procedures that go on in the church."

Kokiong's comments drew attention to a reality among the hundreds of delegates who are attending Session: Young faces are few and far between. But the ones who are on the Georgia Dome floor, along with their older counterparts, say more should be present -- particularly as they are the church's future leaders.

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