Global Youth Day 2014 is here!
Right now, millions of Adventist youth around the world are sharing God's love with their communities through acts of kindness.
Watch a live stream from around the world below:
Friday, March 14, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
Forever Faithful Camporee Blooper Reel
On the last night of the 2009 Courage to Stand International Pathfinder Camporee, a 3D animated teaser announced the theme and the title of the next international camporee.
The video featured Queen Esther (the main character of the 2009 nightly stage drama) introducing Daniel (the main character for the 2014 nightly drama).
The camporee organizers released a "blooper reel" of the video a while back. You can watch that video above.
You can watch the original animated promotional video from 2009 below.
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Adventist Church wants millions of youth to skip church on March 15, here's why you should too
UPDATE: Global Youth Day is happening right now. Watch the live video.
Adventist youth around the world plan to skip church on Saturday, March 15. Instead of listening to another sermon, these youth plan to actually be the sermon!
It's called Global Youth Day (GYD) and the General Conference Youth Ministries wants youth to go out and share God's love to their communities through acts of kindness.
Eight million young people participated in last year's Global Youth Day, according to the GC Youth Ministries Dept. It was also the Adventist Church's largest social media event. Four million people were talking about it on the Internet, according to Adventist News Network.
Saturday, January 25, 2014
"The Record Keeper" will continue, announces General Conference
"The Record Keeper" has been saved, but you may have to wait a bit longer before you can see it.
The General Conference announced Friday night that work will continue on the church's highly anticipated web series.
The Record Keeper, an upcoming dramatic show based on The Great Controversy, was believed to be in danger of not being released.
Adventist college students began a campaign to save the steampunk web series. They created a Facebook page and began releasing videos featuring young people explaining why the series should continue. (You can watch those videos below.)
Friday, January 24, 2014
Innocent pastor freed after almost 2 years in jail
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In Togo, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor who had been held on false charges for almost 2 years was finally released last week.
Things weren't so great for another church member had been held with Monteiro. Bruno Amah was convicted by a jury and sentenced to life in prison, according to a report by Adventist News Network.
The imprisonment of Pastor Antonio Monteiro and another church member, Bruno Amah, had captured the attention of Adventists around the world.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Southern Adventist University goes under lockdown, police have a suspect in custody
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Southern Adventist University went under a campus wide lockdown Thursday afternoon in response to a "percieved threat" by a former student.
The lockdown lasted approximately 2 hours as police flooded the administration building and men's dormitory. The Greater Collegedale School System also went under lockdown, according to the Georgia-Cumberland Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
After the lockdown was lifted, the university released a statement saying that a former Southern student made a threat over delayed paperwork. The university was alerted to this threat by Chattanooga State Community College officials, the statement said.
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Missing Adventist missionary found dead in Guatemala
The body of Brian Townsend, a missing Seventh-day Adventist missionary, has been found in Guatemala, according to The Toronto Star.
Townsend, 64, had been missing in Belize since Christmas Eve, according to the newspaper.
Townsend's neighbor and cook said she saw Townsend's truck heading out of town with a "mattress and a rolled-up rug," according to an article by Adventist Review. The cook said she discovered Townsend's truck was missing and his apartment looted the following morning.
Two machetes and blood were found about fifty feet from Townsend's home, reported Adventist Review.
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How Adventists around the world are connected
Here's a short video from the Seventh-day Adventist world church explaining how Adventists around the world are connected and how the world church is organized. Cool stuff!
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Friday, August 16, 2013
Mob attacks and burns Adventist church in Egypt
In Egypt, Muslim neighbors rescued a Seventh-day Adventist pastor and his wife from their burning church on Wednesday night.
According to Adventist News Network, a mob attacked and set fire to the Assiut Seventh-day Adventist Church during political rioting.
The church's pastor and his wife had been hiding from the mob in their upstairs apartment above the church and were not found by the mob, ANN reported.
You can read the full article by Adventist News Network below:
Monday, August 12, 2013
In Serbia, European Adventist youth impact community, strengthen faith
[Photos: Corrado Cozzi/Adventist News Network]
Seventh-day Adventist young people helped clear the air this week in Novi Sad’s Liberty Square, where they asked passers-by to trade their cigarettes for watermelon and other fresh fruit on a warm summer day.
Benjamin Zihlman and Reimo Butscher from Switzerland expressed surprise when most of the residents were willing to swap not just their lit cigarettes, but their entire pack of cigarettes. Others went further, indicating a desire to quit smoking altogether and exchanging contact information with the young volunteers.
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