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Adventist schools welcome funding boost
The Australian Government’s announcement of a proposed extra $A14.5 billion in education funding over the next six years has been received positively by Adventist Schools Australia. -
100 motorbikes for remote pastors
More than 100 motorcycles have been provided to Adventist pastors ministering in the South Pacific’s most remote regions. -
City-wide evangelism largest for 30 years
Four motorway billboards, 1.25 million brochures and more than 100 television advertisements have provided publicity in what is reported to be the largest evangelistic series for the Adventist Church in Sydney for more than 30 years. -
500,000 books distributed across Pacific
The South Pacific Division’s Project Hope evangelism initiative is in full motion, with distribution of more than 500,000 books in regions across the Division. -
Business rebrands at Avondale
A new Centre for Executive and Not-For-Profit Development will provide research data and income for a rebranded school at Avondale College of Higher Education. -
Danish Union suspends ministerial ordination
Seventh-day Adventist church officials in Denmark voted this week to halt the ordination of all new ministers until the General Conference Session in July 2015. -
Church in Europe to focus on health outreach
Six hundred Adventist medical experts and health advocates met in Prague last month for the first European Health Conference. -
New Adventist hospital coming to PNG
The Papua New Guinea Union Mission (PNGUM) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hela provincial government to administer a new K9.4 million hospital. -
Happy Mother's Day!
Mother's Day messages from church members across the South Pacific. -
New president for Trans-Pacific
Pastor Glenn Townend has been appointed president of the Trans-Pacific Union Mission (TPUM). The announcement comes after the South Pacific Division’s (SPD) executive committee met earlier this week to discuss the vacancy. -
ADRA embarks on renewable energy project
The humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is moving forward with plans to construct biomass power plants in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in southwest China. -
Notorious criminals surrender to Christ
Ninety-five people from one of Papua New Guinea’s most notorious villages have surrendered their lives to the Lord after a week-long evangelistic series at Ainora village, Eastern Highlands Province. -
AMC recommends its own closure
The board of the Simi Valley, California-based Adventist Media Center (AMC) will recommend a proposal to the North American Division that incudes a call for its six media ministries to relocate and a sale of the property. -
Adventists respond to disaster in Bangladesh
Seventh-day Adventists were some of the first responders to a commercial factory building collapse in Savar, Bangladesh, that has captured international media attention and sparked debate over building standards. -
Talking about sex
As you are aware, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues are the focus of substantial attention in our society today. This includes in our Church. -
Sonoma's quiet revival
Sonoma Adventist College has undergone a number of exciting changes. RECORD assistant editor Kent Kingston recently took a trip to Papua New Guinea to find out more about Sonoma's revival. -
HOPEChannel free-to-air in FIJI
Fijians now have a fifth free-to-air television station—Hope Channel. As of February 22, the eastern and central regions of Viti Levu, Fiji’s main island, including the capital, Suva, have been receiving the UHF broadcast. -
Enrolment up . . . again
New courses in arts and a loan scheme for outdoor recreation students have contributed to another record enrolment at Avondale College of Higher Education. -
Cairns Adventist College to relocate in 2014
Students and families are elated that Cairns Adventist College (CAC) has been given the green light to relocate to its new 26-acre site next year. -
Gospel choir surprise at Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent judge David Walliams confessed, "It was so good it made me want to go to church." -
Language program builds bridges
Adventists in Fiji are attending a six-month course to learn how to speak Hindustani at the Indian High Commission’s cultural centre in Suva. -
New book advocates creatively
A new photography book by Asian Aid Australia features images that aim to depict the human spirit—finding optimism, determination and hope even in seasons of hardship and despair. -
Children respond to Daily Bites
A new Bible study resource to assist parents in sharing Jesus and studying God’s Word with their children has been launched by the South Pacific Division (SPD) Children’s Ministries department. -
Feature film begins historic production
Scripts are being finalised, storyboards completed and filming locations set for an Australian Union Conference (AUC) heritage film project entitled Tell The World. -
2500 books and magazines distributed
Literature Evangelism team leaders from Australia and New Zealand, along with members of the Penrith Adventist church, handed out more than 2500 free books and magazines to homes in Penrith and other areas of northwest Sydney recently. -
Adventist artist a hit on iTunes
An Adventist music artist cracked iTunes Australia’s top album charts last week. -
Lessons from history
In the end, it seemed fitting that an archivist—in this case, David Trim of the Seventh-day Adventist world church—would encapsulate two days of presentations reflecting on the 150 years since the denomination's formal organisation. -
Adventist Church celebrates 150th anniversary
In a replica of the meeting house where Seventh-day Adventist Church pioneer and prophet Ellen White once spoke for 10 hours on the Great Controversy, world church leaders met Friday (April 12) to commemorate the Church’s 150th anniversary. -
Interesting findings about marriage
A recent study has revealed some significant findings about marriage in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Papua New Guinea. -
New identity for Adventist health in Sydney
Sydney Adventist Hospital Limited, the legal entity behind the Adventist Church’s medical work in Sydney, has been renamed Adventist HealthCare Limited. -
Book tackles hard issues
A book that tackles the hard issues experienced by young people today was launched recently in Sydney. -
Small donations achieve big results
Alumni and friends of Avondale College of Higher Education have raised more than $A140,000 for mission by donating a small percentage of their wages over the past three years. -
Churches partner for evangelism
Five churches in the South Queensland Conference have joined together to hold a Secrets of Prophecy evangelistic series. -
Adventists march across Brooklyn Bridge
More than 3000 Seventh-day Adventist youth and supporters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York on Saturday, March 23, in a demonstration calling for compassion and an end to violence. -
Children’s book fills need
Macarthur Adventist College (MAC) teacher Dianne Beranaliva has written and published one of the few picture storybooks about children growing up in Fiji. -
TPUM appoints new administrators
The Trans-Pacific Union Mission (TPUM) has announced the appointments of new administrators in a number of South Pacific missions. -
New CHIP greeted with enthusiasm
More than 110 churches across Australia and New Zealand committed to conducting Complete Health Improvement Programs (CHIP) in their local communities this year at the conclusion of two CHIP summits in February. -
More legumes, less red meat
Sanitarium Health & Wellbeing has welcomed newly-revised Australian Dietary Guidelines (ADG) that encourage Australians to eat more legumes and less red meat. -
Aged Care Company expands
Seventh-day Adventist Aged Care (NNSW) Ltd has finalised the acquisition of a further two retirement villages. The villages, located at Wyee Point and Belmont North, represent a significant step forward for the company. -
New leaders elected for Vanuatu
Key leadership changes have marked the beginning of a new year for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Vanuatu. -
TV show aims to connect and grow
The most popular religious program on commercial Australian television has a new general manager. -
Publishing sales surge
A major overhaul of the South Pacific Division’s (SPD) Publishing department, including reduced book prices in Australia and New Zealand, resulted in a 28 per cent sales increase for Adventist Publishing in 2012. -
Easter message from the president
What does Easter mean and why are there so many different dates for it? Dr Barry Oliver, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific, offers his perspective. -
Black gold
Pierre van Heerden has received the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific’s most prestigious communication award for his management of the Marmite shortage. -
Christmas cheer
Not a person but an event is the recipient of the Manifest Creative Arts Festival’s most prestigious award this year. -
Conversation starters
A conversation between two writers who had just reviewed the 2012 Manifest Creative Arts Festival has now led to the publication of an eponymous book. -
Adventists mostly under radar amid coup
Sunday’s mass lootings in the capital of the Central African Republic have not affected Seventh-day Adventist Church operations, but several incidents in recent months have taken a toll on a few church employees amid the ongoing civil war. -
Hope Channel making waves in Europe
This month’s launch of Hope Channel Ukraine gives the Seventh-day Adventist Church its fourth fulltime satellite channel in Europe, along with growing Internet channels potentially laying the ground for future satellite transmissions. -
Adventist youth impact their city
More than 500 Seventh-day Adventist young people in Port Vila joined 8 million youth across the world, doing “acts of kindness” in their communities. -
Global Youth Day sets social media ablaze
Last Saturday’s Global Youth Day was the single largest international mobilisation of Seventh-day Adventists through social media, said Gilbert Cangy, the world church’s Youth Ministries director.