"There is such a devastation here; [the] people need everything; people are dying, they need food, water, clothing and medicines," said Pastor Etzer Obas, president of the Adventist church in Haiti while assessing the aftermath of hurricane Jeanne which f
With just one look at Ashley, you see joy in her expression. Ashley is with her friends--smiling, laughing, and together they share their experiences of horseback riding, swimming, water skiing, biking and meeting new friends. Ashley, who has attended Chr
At a time when world leaders, including U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, are focusing their attention on a looming genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, a soft-spoken Seventh-day Adventist pastor, Carl Wilkens, told an audience of congressional staffe
The first Pathfinder camporee in the West-Central Africa Seventh-day Adventist church region saw some 3,000 young people from 22 countries assemble Aug. 22 to 28 in Lomé, Togo's capital city.
Some 170 pastors and chaplains working in Myanmar and Indonesia received training in crisis intervention in two separate venues between Aug. 31 and Sept. 7. The first seminar was held in conjunction with the Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries' retreat at an
As reports of more than 600 deaths in Haiti following Tropical Storm Jeanne begin to arrive, Seventh-day Adventists in the Caribbean are cleaning up after last week's weather disaster, Hurricane Ivan.