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Seabrook Pastor Promotes Cocaine-Free Ministry

Impoverished and unschooled children wait for the opportunity to enroll in a Christian school, as the team who visited Colombia donated $3,500 for this cause.

Story by Tiffany Doss

Indonesian Adventist Members in New Jersey Detained, Deported Over Immigration Status

Pastor Steven Rantung prays with members grappling with immigration issues

Story By Celeste Ryan Blyden / Photos by Brian Patrick Tagalog

Members of two Indonesian Seventh-day Adventist churches in northern New Jersey are experiencing the effects of ramped up U.S. immigration reform firsthand. Dozens have been deported, voluntarily returned to their homeland or are “hiding” in the U.S.

Ohio Conference Welcomes New Treasurer

Story by Heidi Shoemaker

"Where was the Justice?"

The late Fred Walters, with Mark Washington, Samuel Perry and John Jones. With their teacher, Charles Battles, all were wounded in the attack, but their injuries were not severe.

Story by Wilona Karimabadi, originally published in Adventist Review

Allentown Hispanic Church Celebrates Grand Opening

Story by Brenda DePaula

Kettering Adventist HealthCare Study Provides No-cost Tumor Sequencing to Patients With Advanced Cancers

Story by Elizabeth Long

Tumor genome sequencing is now available at Kettering Adventist HealthCare, based in Dayton, Ohio, for patients with an advanced form of the disease as part of a national, industry-sponsored study by Strata Oncology, a precision oncology company.

Kettering Adventist HealthCare is one of only eight sites in the country and the only one in Ohio to offer this unique tumor profiling and clinical trial to advanced cancer patients.

WGTS Holds Women’s Event with Natalie Grant

Story by Jerry Woods

WGTS 91.9 hosted more than 2,200 women at the recent “Dare to Be” women’s event with Natalie Grant and Charlotte Gambill at the Hylton Christian Event Center. The station has hosted this event for the past five years. The event seeks to inspire women to “dare to be” the women that God has called them to be. Through music, prayer and the inspirational messages Grant and Gambill encouraged women to live their roles as wives, moms, employees, daughters and friends to the fullest. It’s a celebration of Christian womanhood.

Enfrentando la epidemia de la soledad

Historia de Terry Forde, president and CEO of Adventist HealthCare

Las palabras saltaron de la página del artículo que estaba leyendo como si fuese una llama: «Vivimos en la era más conectada tecnológicamente en la historia de la civilización, pero la tasa de soledad va en aumento» (Ex Cirujano General Vivek Murthy, Forbes, 17 de octubre de 2017).

Confronting the Loneliness Epidemic

Editorial by Terry Forde

The words leapt off the page from the article I was reading as if they were on fire. “We live in the most technologically connected age in the history of civilization, yet rates of loneliness are increasing” (Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Forbes, October 17, 2017).

Surgeon General Murthy is so persuaded of the impact of loneliness on our health and work that he describes it as a “Loneliness Epidemic,” strong words from a health officer with a unique perspective on the factors and issues impacting public health.

Cincinnati Shiloh Member Becomes Screenplay Writer

In February 2016, after undergoing surgery, Janice Walker-Cleveland, a member of the Cincinnati Shiloh church in Ohio, sought God’s plan for her life, expressing the sentiment, “Many people search their entire lives and never find ... God’s purpose and plan.”

The only African-American female attorney at Duke Energy’s predecessor, Cincinnati Gas & Electric, Walker-Cleveland has held the positions of senior counsel and assistant general, and is currently the associate general counsel.

Passionate about the remnant people and the three angels’ messages, Walker-Cleveland spoke with her sister, Thea Walker, a member of Dallas City Temple church (Texas), about the Lord’s soon return and her personal mission to reach others.