Leaders at the world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have a special challenge: think globally, but also work to serve the interests of the church's fast growing membership. A faith community of 25 million, Adventists live and worship in m
David Vixie, an 8th-grade Humanities teacher at Paradise Adventist Academy in Paradise, California, United States, was named the 2005 Teacher of the Year at the annual Disney Teacher Awards.
On a typical Saturday morning in the East Central African country of Kenya, more than half a million people gather in Seventh-day Adventist churches all over the country for worship and fellowship.
Emergency relief aid is reaching 2,300 people affected by flooding in the Panjakent and Hamadoni regions of Tajikistan.
To Seventh-day Adventist young people worldwide who wonder if the church is really listening to them, world church president, Pastor Jan Paulsen, says, "Yes."
"Hope is not an intellectual exercise for me, or an academic topic; it is the essence of life for me," Seventh-day Adventist theologian Dr. Angel Manuel Rodriguez told Adventist News Network, describing the new theme for the 2005 to 2010 quinquennium, "Jo