More than 6,300 Seventh-day Adventist teenagers from around the world descended on gathered in Nairobi Jamhuri Park, Nairobi, Kenya, to participate in the first Pan-African Pathfinder Camporee.
Issues of religion and reason took center stage at a recent conference that brought together Seventh-day Adventist Church theologians and science professors.
In a country that has suffered profound political and economic turmoil for the last decade, Haiti has the largest number of Seventh-day Adventists among Inter-America's 37 countries.
"It's not easy to be a young person in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, but let me tell you, it's not easy to be old, either," said Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the world church, in a live Aug. 21 telecast beamed to members around the globe.
In a ruling that will apply to any South Pacific nation with a Human Rights Act, a Seventh-day Adventist has won written guarantees that his employer will accommodate his Sabbath-keeping.
Excitement is building as the stage is set for a live conversation between Pastor Jan Paulsen and 50 young people, ages 16 to 21, to be telecast from the Adventist Media Productions studios Aug. 21.