Inside Story for Friday 6th of November 2026 By Gina Wahlen Naum had to stand up for his faith at the tender age of seven. In Yugoslavia, school was obligatory every Saturday. Although young, Naum determined not to attend school on Sabbath. After missing two Saturdays in a row, the first-grader was confronted by a … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 30th of October 2026 Adapted from the Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists, available at https://encyclopedia.adventist.org. In the bitter cold of January 1906, a young Slovenian named Albin Močnik stood on a bridge in Bremerhaven, Germany, contemplating suicide. But just as he teetered on the edge of despair, a stranger intervened, directing him … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 23rd of October 2026 By Mission Editor Berta was excited when she heard that the first Seventh-day Adventist church school had opened in Poland. She was a highly qualified teacher and was looking for work. But there was a problem. The Adventist school was located near Poland’s capital, Warsaw, far away … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 16th of October 2026 By Mission Editor Marek’s life began to change as he read The Great Controversy in Poland. He decided to keep the seventh-day Sabbath. He wanted to quit smoking but couldn’t. One Saturday, he passed a street poster offering a five-day stop smoking class. The address was a … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 9th of October 2026 By Mission Editor Matthew and Martin were Marek’s best friends. If a fight broke out at school, the same three teens were always to blame: Matthew, Martin, and Marek. Today, Matthew is dead; Martin spent seven years in prison; and Marek is a former drug dealer who … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 2nd of October 2026 Adapted from the Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists, available at https://encyclopedia.adventist.org. In 1888, as Poland remained partitioned and its people struggled under foreign rule, a flicker of new spiritual light appeared—small, quiet, and full of promise. That year, Herman Szkubowiec, the first Pole to become a Seventh-day Adventist, … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 25th of September 2026 By Rick Kajiura People in the village scoffed. “These Christians must be deluded to think we would worship God in a building with such a wicked past,” they declared. Leenus, a Global Mission (GM) pioneer in Kenya, had an unlikely setting for growing a thriving congregation—a small … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 18th of September 2026 By Office of Adventist Mission Rob and Bethany are church planters in Copenhagen, Denmark. But before this, they learned principles of relationship-based ministry while they started a church in Squamish, British Columbia. There, they made a friend who had grown up in an Adventist home but whose … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 11th of September 2026 By Office of Adventist Mission Copenhagen wasn’t the kind of place where people went looking for faith. In fact, Rob and Bethany knew that moving to one of the most secular cities in Europe meant facing a different kind of mission field—one where success would be measured … Continue reading –>
Inside Story for Friday 4th of September 2026 The name of the church planter has been changed, and the region where he works has been withheld to protect his ministry. Jake, a church planter, knew there was one thing he couldn’t miss in his daily life now that he and his wife were living in … Continue reading –>
