About 38 of the 60 delegates and guests from the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ghana will be late arriving at the church's quinquennial meetings in St. Louis, Missouri. The small band was to be a part of the 2,000 member delegation charged with voting o
They will attend to business -- lots of it. The 10-day meeting of the worldwide Adventist Church, which happens once every five years, covers a multitude of tasks, including choosing who will lead the church in the coming five years. But, that task aside,
It should come as no surprise that the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a Christian organization, consults the Lord before it makes any decision. But today as the group prepared to spend 10 days making decisions that range from electing church officers to re
It takes more than words to make a difference in the lives of the 840 million people who go to bed hungry each night. It takes action, it takes protest. And that is just what the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), a humanitarian organization,
Several delegates attending the 58th General Conference Session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church - the world movement's quinquennial business meeting - come with high hopes and varied expectations.
"It's important that we have time to worship together and to celebrate the incredible diversity of the church," Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, told local media at a June 29 news conference kicking off the church's