The global Seventh-day Adventist Church cannot fulfill its mission without interacting with society, a leader says.

Ricardo Graham, president of the Adventist churches in Northern California, responds to the challenge to make the gospel relevant to local needs. [Photo: Gerry Chudleigh]

Church's Mission is to Reach Out to the Community

Step onto American soil and you step into a technological wonderland. For those of us born into the world of typewriters, carbon copies and liquid paper, the explosion of gadgets and gizmos can be positively mind-blowing.

Upper View: Holding up the Hands of Moses

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is playing its part in raising the issues of world hunger in anticipation of next week's G8 summit at Gleneagles, Scotland.

From right: Gabi Zieglar, reporter for the Adventist World News in Germany, addresses the issue of poverty around the world in an interview with Tereza Byrne, ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency) Bureau Chief for Marketing and Development at ADRA's poverty protest exhibit. [photo by Richard Herard]

Adventists Aim to Make Poverty History

Early on the afternoon of July 4, the Seventh-day Adventist Church set out the direction it will be heading in over the next five years, finalizing the top level of the 13 administrative teams that will lead the church's worldwide regional offices.

Max Travino, Southwestern Union Conference president, was a member of the nominating committee. [photo by Richard Dower]

World Church: Regional Officer Elections Firmly Establish Future Direction

For a movement that is drawing new members from societies where beliefs in "evil spirits" continue to play a part, the Seventh-day Adventist Church's 58th General Conference Session adopted, on July 4, a new fundamental belief statement declaring God's po

From left: Angel Rodriquez, director of the Biblical Research Institute; William Johnsson, editor of the Adventist Review; and Mike Ryan, director of Global Mission check the exact wording of the proposed protocols for revising the Adventist statements of fundamental beliefs, before answering a question from a delegate.[photo by Gerry Chudleigh]

World Church: Growing in Christ, New Belief Statement, Voted

Mention Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, or a myriad of other places and the media image is one of war and suffering.  Yet the Gospel must also be heard in these lands.

From left: Levon Maksoudian, president, East Mediterranean Field, Lebanon, Trans-European Division 
Arkangelo Clements, ADRA/Education director, South Sudan, Trans-European Division

Lebanon and Sudan: The Adventist Church in hard places

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