Home churches said to be an upward trend.

Peter Roenfeldt, former director of Church Planting & Evangelism for the Adventist Church in the Trans-European region, says one of the reasons people are moving toward home churches is “a strong desire to return to ‘original’ Christianity.”[Photo courtesy of the British Union Conference]

Taking church from pews to couches

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Anna Nelson receiving her M.P.H. degree from Dr. Stephen Guptill, AIIAS President. [photo:  Kuang Yi Fang/AIIAS]

Adventists around the world

Schools, health training programs planned

Local women shop at a bazaar in Turkmeistan. Their country lies within what church leaders call the 10/40 Window, an area extending from northern Africa into Asia and home to two-thirds of the earth’s population. With its fast-growing cities largely populated by some of the world’s poorest people, the region poses a challenge to Christian mission.

Adventist Church approves 10-year initiative for Central Asia

Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders took action October 15 in offering guidelines for instances when the church's beliefs are at odds with social legislation, particularly with hiring practices at church institutions.

Daniel R. Jackson, president of the Adventist Church in Canada, said the document would give churches around the world the ability to act with the authority of the world church body when social legislation conflicts with church policy.

Guidelines anticipate potential tension of church mission, social legislation

Church health institutions to offer only proven medical practices

A list of “discouraged” health practices is meant largely to guide administrators and physicians at Adventist healthcare institutions, said Dr. Allan Handysides, director of the world church’s Health Ministries department. [photo: Rajmund Dabrowski/ANN]

No 'pendulum swing' for Adventist health practices

'Unions of churches' approved as alternative administrative link

Saustin Mfune, left, president of the church in Malawi, expressed concern that some regions of the church might be weakened if they adopt the union of churches structure. Commission members pointed out than any structural changes would reflect the needs of the local level.

Church structure to be flexible, reflect local needs

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