"Ingathering" Totals on the Rise in North America
The Ingathering: Hope for Humanity program has embraced new outreach methods, resulting in a 9 percent increase in fundraising totals, says the director of the program.
The Ingathering: Hope for Humanity program has embraced new outreach methods, resulting in a 9 percent increase in fundraising totals, says the director of the program.
"We serve because God asks us to serve," said Charles Sandefur, new president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency.
A 22-day satellite evangelistic series was launched February 23 from the Seventh-day Adventist theological seminary near Bucharest, Romania.
Government efforts to end more than three years of religious and ethnic violence in Indonesia's Maluku province have met only limited success, report Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in the region.
Leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Malawi, East Africa, issued a statement earlier this month affirming that "women with the gift of preaching should be encouraged to preach and share the Word of God."
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Norway is giving priority to public evangelism for a 10-week period by limiting the number of in-house committee meetings and by cutting back on non-evangelistic church events.