The Selawik Church ordains local members

Adventist are one of the leading churches that retains its members.

Carolina Hernandez Cruz doesn't go to school anymore. She's suffering post-traumatic stress after losing her father and two sisters in a landslide during last year's flooding in Southeast Mexico, one of the worst disasters in the nation's history.

Seventh-day Adventists are lobbying to snuff out smoking in public places throughout the Caribbean islands.

A Seventh-day Adventist missionary family survived a plane crash yesterday, emerging from the wreckage just moments before it exploded.

Linking poverty to economically fettered women, world faith, aid agency and government representatives said April 13 that it's no coincidence an estimated 70 percent of the 1.2 billion people who subsist on just US$1 a day are women and girls.

At a young age, I learned to make bread by watching Aunt Chepa on those cold Chilean winters. We would arrive at her home and the sweet aroma of the milk-diluted yeast would guide us to her roomy kitchen. She would say that...

When the neighbors are away, their German shepherd stays in their basement, accessing the outdoors through her own special door. Each evening we come to play with her, feed her, and shut her in for the night. Each morning, we...

Whatever happened to holiness? That may sound like a strange question to you. But, then, maybe it doesn't sound strange at all. Maybe you, like me, have wondered that very thing.

As the little red truck rolled slowly down our drive, I turned away and sighed. Had I just lost a few hundred dollars? I wondered. I had placed an ad for a loveseat I hoped to sell. An older couple arrived to look at it in...

Silver Spring, Maryland—As the death toll soars, The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is continuing its response in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, a Category 4 tropical storm that struck Myanmar on May 3, killing more than 22,000 people, leaving at least 41,000 unaccounted for, and displacing more than one million people to date.

Silver Spring, Maryland—The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is responding after Cyclone Nargis, a Category 4 tropical storm, struck Saturday, May 3, killing more than 10,000 people in Myanmar, and leaving nearly 3,000 others unaccounted for, according to the Foreign Ministry.

Silver Spring, Maryland—The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International pledged $1.5 million in new resources to improve women’s literacy and girls’ access to education worldwide at the Breakthrough: Women, Faith, and Development Summit to End Global Poverty held April 13 and 14 at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington D.C.

Silver Spring, Maryland—A Malagasy farmer who received agricultural training from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) was recently honored by the president of Madagascar for his performance as the 10th best rice producer in this Indian Ocean island-nation.

One of Maranatha’s early major projects was building a church in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.

Nearly 1 million new members join the Seventh-day Adventist Church each year. Seventy thousand requests have been made—to Maranatha Volunteers International alone—for church buildings. How does a small organization begin to meet such a huge need? Maranatha introduces the One-Day Church, a simple, cost-effective and efficient steel structure that volunteers can build in just one day. A prototype of the One-Day Church was presented in April at the Adventist Church’s Andrews University, where Adventist church leaders from around the world held meetings.

Maranatha needs more volunteers for summer projects in Norway and Mozambique.

Maranatha Volunteers International will hold a dedication ceremony on June 29 for the Cuddapah Seventh-day Adventist School in India. All those who have helped to build the school, visited the children, or supported in other ways are invited to see the new 65,000-square-foot campus.