Adventists in the News

Stanthorpe Border Post, Australia - 1 October 2009

For David and Lisa Entermann, vegetarian week is an opportunity to share the nutritional benefits of their meat-free diet.  Now in its third year, vegetarian week aims to showcase the benefits of plant-based diets and encourage Australians to lower their meat intake.  

While the Entermanns have no agenda to turn the world vegetarian they would like to encourage people to look at nutrition and new cooking ideas.  As part of vegetarian week, a series of cooking classes will be held at the Seventh-day Adventist Church Hall and will include demonstrations, tastings and a variety of meat-free recipes.

Organisers of a Seventh-day Adventist Church fundraising effort to help Samoan earthquake and tsunami victims are amazed by the generosity of Wellingtonians.

Wellington's Seventh-day Adventist Church community programme manager Michi Mulitalo said despite a cold southerly blast, motorists lined up for car washes, with many donating much more than the $5 charge.

Read the full article by The Dominion

Sacks of rice, flour, water and boxes of tinned fish were gratefully received by villagers who literally lost everything but the clothes on their backs when a massive tsunami ripped through Samoa.

A 30-day food assistance programme has been organised by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, together with the National Disaster Management Office of Samoa.

Wahroonga-based Adventist Development and Relief Agency is helping the devastated communities of Samoa and Indonesia.  The agency has deployed an emergency response specialist to Samoa and is assisting with emergency shelter supplies following the tsunami.

The agency is also responding to disasters that have devastated several South-East Asian countries, including earthquakes in Indonesia and Cyclone Ketsana in the Philippines.

Some Moora youths have had a great time during the school holidays with the action packed program organised by youth co-ordinator Tania Easton, and youth workers Delores Jetter and Alice Warrell.

The younger children have planned activities with the Seventh-day Adventist holiday program.

When a natural disaster such as Indonesia's giant earthquake strikes our neighbouring countries, the Australian Defence Force is quick to its personnel to the area to aid victims and help with relief efforts.  But the public is less aware of many Australians working behind the scenes whose work is invaluable.

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency, whose Sydney office is based in Wahroonga, co-ordinates relief efforts around the world.  The staffs decide where the need is greatest and what essentials are needed for workers on the ground.

Twenty-two people at a Wahroonga office have been working 15-hour days for more than a week co-ordinating relief efforts in Samoa, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. 

They are the specialist staff at Adventist Development and Relief Agency headquarters, in Fox Valley Rd.  The team helps to organise funding allocation and relief effort co-ordination.

Lismore Soup Kitchen volunteer Daniel Jones knows what it's like to be homeless.

Through his local Seventh-day Adventist Church, Mr Jones has organised full sets of brand new clothes and shoes for 16 patrons of the soup kitchen.

"I approached the church with people's exact clothes and shoe sizes and church members went out and bought new sets of everything." Mr Jones said members of his church took to the idea quickly and felt a great satisfaction in being able to provide a complete set of clothing to each person.

One of the little-known gems of the Art Gallery of NSW is its study room. The advantages of the study room were brought home to me recently when I went to look at Eric Wilson's drawing Head Study.

Wilson was born in 1911 in Sydney.  A Seventh-day Adventist, he was very serious about his religion and his art.  During the war Wilson became a conscientious objector.  As a result, in 1942 he had to work as a ward attendant at Lidcombe State Hospital where he was shocked by the condition of the patients.

Wilson was so moved by the plight of the men living at the hospital that he did a series of drawings, one of which is Head Study, and a painting, The Inmates, which is also in the AGNSW collection.

Read the full article by The Australian

The Royal Launceston Show has lots of free attractions for budget conscious patrons to explore throughout the day.  This includes the many animal shows, musical entertainment and the cottage industries exhibit.

For those more health inclined the Seventh-day Adventist Church and Adventist Development and Relief Agency is running free health checks throughout the three days.

Murray Valley Standard, Australia - 13 October 2009

Ron and Nita Clarke and Gary Mordaunt and Tony dance have successfully filled and sent off another shipping container of supplies for the Tarawa Mission and Kauma Adventist High School in Kiribati.

Mr Clarke expressed his gratitude for the continuing support of the local community and the Seventh-day Adventist Church members for donations of clothing, furniture, toys, books, bicycles and host of other items.

Murray Valley Standard, Australia - 13 October 2009

Earthquakes and tsunamis in the Asia Pacific region have given the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) even more reason to raise funds this year.

ADRA fundraisers Nita and Ron Clarke will be hitting the streets of Murray Bridge from tomorrow to help the charity replenish its coffers after sending aid to ravaged island nations in the Pacific. 

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