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9 February 2010
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
by Mark A. Kellner, News Editor/Adventist Review
Four Seventh-day Adventist church members in Chile are confirmed dead in the wake of the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the southern part of the South American nation on February 27, church officials have confirmed.
Two church headquarters have been severely damaged, while more than 10 places of worship have "been almost completely destroyed," according to Pastor Erton Köhler, president of the church in South America. At the same time, the division reports United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with ADRA volunteers at Santiago's airport on March 2 and commended the group's relief efforts.
"Thanks to those who prayed and continue praying for our brothers and all who have suffered from the earthquake that happened last Saturday in Chile," Köhler wrote in an e-mail message March 5. "We remain united in intercession and supporting our fellow Chileans."
Köhler added, "Until now we have news of four killed Adventists and some still missing. We're still waiting for more news. Furthermore, we have two headquarters, the South Chile Conference in Temuco and Central Mission in Talca, Chile, [that are] highly compromised. More than 10 churches have been almost completely destroyed and some [church-related] academies and schools suffered significant damage. Many of our brothers are homeless, struggling to find food, water and a place to stay."
According to Köhler, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is continuing its assistance in the region. "ADRA is supporting the delivery of food, blankets and tents, as well as having a Canadian team working with water purification and a group of nearly 100 volunteers helping in Santiago to arrange the food to be sent to needy regions," he reported.
According to Karen Cordovez writing for the region, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with the outgoing Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and spoke with President-elect Sebastian Piñera while at the Santiago airport. During the state visit, Project Coordinator for ADRA Chile Cristián Pincheira spoke with Clinton about the work that ADRA is doing in the country to help the earthquake survivors after Clinton approached the volunteers at the airport, Cordovez reported. "Clinton expressed her appreciation for the work of the volunteers and related her own awareness of ADRA's work in the United States," Cordovez said.
9 January 2010
40,000 Haitians profess faith in Christ
Posted on Feb 25, 2010 | by Barbara Denman PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (BP)
A reported 40,127 Haitians have made professions of faith in Jesus Christ since a major earthquake hit the impoverished nation in January, according to pastors and directors of missions within the Confraternite Missionaire Baptiste d'Haiti (CMBH).
"Haiti is ripe for a spiritual movement from God," said Craig Culbreth, director of the Florida Baptist Convention's partnership missions department, which coordinates the work of the CMBH, upon his February 22 return from Port-au-Prince. During a Feb. 16-17 citywide holiday observance in Cap Haitien, Haiti's second largest city, Culbreth saw "thousands upon thousands filling the streets where people are seeking God and asking Him to spare them from what happened in Port-au-Prince. For me, it was a New Testament expression of what it looks like when the Spirit of God shows up. I have never seen anything like it."
The CMBH is the Florida Baptist Convention-funded partnership of nearly 900 Haitian Baptist churches throughout Haiti. Through the partnership the Florida convention employs seven indigenous missionaries in six regions. Since the earthquake, the CMBH pastors have distributed 51 tons of rice, which provided 437,750 servings to Haitians in Port-au-Prince and outlying areas where refugees have fled. Additional feedings are expected.
9 January 2010
Adventist media centre in Middle east
Beirut, Lebanon, Victor Hubert and Miroslav Pujic/ AMN Staff
A new Seventh-day Adventist television channel in Beirut is expected to help spread the church's message of hope among Arabic-speaking communities in the Middle East, a region "rich in Biblical history," its director.
Church leaders said the Al Waad Channel, launched along with the Al Waad Media Centre February 13 at a packed Middle East Adventist University Church, will potentially reach an audience of more than 300 million Arabic speakers in the region. The channel will "[share] hope with the Arab world and build bridges of understanding," said Kjell Aune, Adventist Church president for the Middle East.
The Al Waad Channel is the newest member of the global Hope Channel, the Adventist Church's official television network.
While the media center plans to include a radio and Internet presence as well, television is the team's current priority-some 90 percent of the local community members watch television daily, while only 30 percent listen to the radio and just over 2 percent regularly use the Internet, church leaders said.
The Al Waad Channel, which derives its name from the Arabic word for "promise," offers "the promise of hope" to the region, said Director Amir Ghali, who brings to the job a decade of experience producing radio programs for the Adventist World Radio's Cyprus studio.
Salim Sahyouni, head of the Protestant Church in Syria and Lebanon, also spoke at the launch, applauding the new media center as part of a broader effort in the region to work toward not only physical peace, but also "everlasting" spiritual peace in Jesus.
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