NAD Responds to GC Compliance Plan EDITOR'S NOTE: This response was voted during the Year-End Meeting of the North American Division (NAD) Executive Committee on Nov. 6, 2018, in Columbia, Md. It is a response to the "Regard for and Practice of General Conference Session and Genera... Read more
GC Executive Committee Approves Compliance Process During its Annual Council business meeting on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018, the General Conference (GC) executive committee voted 185 to 124 (with two abstentions) to approve a plan to seek uniform policy compliance throughout the world church. Read more
Northwest Pastor Attends Global Youth Leaders Congress Steven Fonseca, youth pastor for the North Cascade Church in Burlington, Wash., attended the Seventh-day Adventist Global Youth Leaders Congress, held in Kassel, Germany, from July 31 to Aug. 4. He joined approximately 1,600 other global Adventist... Read more
What You Should Remember About the Waco Tragedy Television specials are being promoted on major networks and cable channels leading up to the 25th anniversary of the Branch Davidian/Waco tragedy in April 2018. It may be helpful for Adventists to have a few facts about the people and events high... Read more
Adventist Church Adopts New Global Identity System During the annual Seventh-day Adventist world church spring executive committee meeting on April 11, in Silver Spring, Md., members voted to adopt a new identity guideline system for global use. Read more
Walla Walla Students Win Sonscreen Awards Two documentary short videos produced for the Associated Students of Walla Walla University won important Sonny awards at the 2017 Sonscreen Film Festival, held April 6–8, 2017, in Loma Linda, Calif. Industrial design major Jacob Patterson accepte... Read more
World Church Shelves The Record Keeper General Conference leadership decided last week to suspend the release of an upcoming 11-episode web series, The Record Keeper. As featured in the September 2013 Gleaner, the series promised to reach an untapped segment of the world’s population w... Read more
'In God’s Image' Summit on Sexuality Opens in Cape Town Nearly 350 Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders, pastors, academics and human services experts have gathered in Cape Town, South Africa, for a four-day summit intended to help the worldwide Church better address the experiences of homosexuality an... Read more
World Church TOSC Considers Division Reports The world church Theology of Ordination Study Committee (TOSC), during its January 2014 meeting, considered reports from the 13 worldwide divisions. An initial report from the Adventist News Network (ANN) indicates that while five divisions have v... Read more