Sudden illness claims life of tireless Adventist leader and 'pastor to pastors'

James A. Cress, Ministerial Secretary for the Seventh-day Adventist world church, died yesterday. He was 60. [photo: courtesy Ministerial Association]

James A. Cress, ministerial secretary, dies

Participants watch for long-term leadership opportunities; inspired by local woman church officer

Bernardo Rodriguez (left), Youth Ministries director for the church in Inter-America, with delegates Lelis Viera, Amoy Johnson and Mynor Batz. The three young adults served as temporary members of the region's top leadership committee this month, lending their input in a region where 60 percent of Adventists are between the ages of 16 and 35. [photo: Libna Stevens/IAD/ANN]

Young delegate program in Inter-America grooms Adventists under 30 for church work

New technology will help train, develop future engineers

Erica Simmons, marketing manager for Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software, presented Northern Caribbean University with a contract for engineering software valued at US$118,286, or 10.7 billion Jamaican dollars, during a ceremony in Mandeville, Jamaica yesterday. [photo: Laundie Murray]

Adventist university in Jamaica is recipient of $120m software grant from Siemens

Vertallier on the Adventist Church in western Europe and northern Africa

The Adventist Church's Euro-Africa region

Church Chat: In Euro-Africa, stagnant membership growth but youth volunteering for service is encouraging

Europe, East Africa and Southeast Asia now 'championing cause'

In the Philippines, supporters sign a banner for the recently launched global campaign to end violence against women, called EndItNow™.The Southern Asia-Pacific region was one of three Seventh-day Adventist Church world regions to kick off the campaign this month. [photo: SSD]

Adventist global campaign against domestic violence launched in three world territories

Teacher went missing after morning jog off campus, officials say

Kirsten Elisabeth Wolcott was serving as a volunteer teacher at the Seventh-day Adventist school in Yap, Micronesia. She was found dead off campus Wednesday November 18. [photo courtesy Southern Adventist University]

Adventist student missionary murdered in Yap, Micronesia

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Adventist university in Jamaica is recipient of $120m software grant from Siemens

Church Chat: In Euro-Africa, stagnant membership growth but youth volunteering for service is encouraging

Adventist global campaign against domestic violence launched in three world territories

Adventist student missionary murdered in Yap, Micronesia

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James A. Cress, ministerial secretary, dies

Young delegate program in Inter-America grooms Adventists under 30 for church work

Adventist university in Jamaica is recipient of $120m software grant from Siemens

Church Chat: In Euro-Africa, stagnant membership growth but youth volunteering for service is encouraging

Adventist global campaign against domestic violence launched in three world territories

Adventist student missionary murdered in Yap, Micronesia