In a simple, yet elegant, report, the Southern Asia region of the Seventh-day Adventist Church noted not only 600,000 baptisms in the past five years, but also how God's power is working daily in their part of the world.
How old is too old? In the Euro-Africa region of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, it seems the age is at least 101.
Jere Patzer is currently chairing the Seventh-day Adventist Church's most powerful committee at the church's business session in St Louis, Missouri.
Among the thousands of Seventh-day Adventists gathered in St. Louis, Mr. M. Murali, an Indian-born Hindu, might have every right to feel out of place.
Pastor Jan Paulsen, world president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is turning words into action by holding an impromptu "Lets Talk" TV encounter with younger delegates here at the 58th business session in St. Louis.
A cynical colleague felt the need to warn me that the Exhibit Hall at the 58th General Conference Session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church resembled a bazaar or a village market place.