New "Guidelines for Working With Non-Christians," approved in June by Seventh-day Adventist church leaders, seek to make the gospel message "liberating" to its hearers, a church leader emphasized.
From a distance, the high-rise looks like any Soviet-style block of apartments. Similar ones dot the tranquil views of the Lithuanian countryside, and today they are something of an eyesore among the romantic vista of Vilnius' medieval architecture.
On May 24, the Seventh-day Adventist Church celebrated a centennial in an unlikely location: the nation of Kazakhstan.
Normally, the collapse of a church structure is, at the least, a headache for church administrators, but for Seventh-day Adventists in the northern Egyptian town of Dahasa, a building collapse may speed a new church's opening.
Those who imagine that student outreach to their communities is a challenge might want to consider the impact of students at the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, a Seventh-day Adventist institution.
A United Nations peace monitoring group has assigned the Seventh-day Adventist Church to the "frontline of the peace process," according to Pastor Richard Rikis, president of the church in the war-torn South Pacific island of Bougainville.