100,000 Lay Leaders Planned for Southern Asia-Pacific
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Southern Asia-Pacific region has voted to train and equip 100,000 lay people to lead out in expanding church membership.
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August 27, 2001
Euro-Asia: Graduation Marks Evangelism Milestone
More than 300 recently trained Seventh-day Adventist lay workers, known as Global Mission pioneers, departed this week from Tula, Russia, to begin launching new churches in 12 former Soviet nations.
August 27, 2001
Largest-Ever Adventist Health Study to Explore Diet, Cancer Link
The relationship between diet and cancer among Seventh-day Adventists will be the focus of the largest-ever health study to be conducted by Loma Linda University's school of public health.
August 27, 2001
President of Adventist Development and Relief Agency to Retire
Ralph S. Watts Jr., president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) for the past 16 years, has announced his intention to retire.
August 27, 2001
"Politics and Religion Make Disastrous Mix," Says Adventist Leader
The outlook for religious tolerance around the world has grown bleaker in the past decade, as religion has increasingly been hijacked to further political goals, says Jonathan Gallagher, United Nations liaison for the Seventh-day Adventist world church.
Religious Colleges Challenge Forced Unionization
Three Seventh-day Adventist organizations have joined a legal challenge against a National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) ruling that a religious college in Montana must allow its faculty to organize a labor union.