By Andrew McChesney Janice Clark never planned to adopt a former student’s baby, but then the telephone rang on a cold March day. “I’m having a baby that I can’t keep, and I’m wondering if you will have him”, Annette said. “What do you mean by ‘have him’?” asked Janice, a 47-year-old physical education teacher … Continue reading –>
By Miguel Manuel Mafugula I was born into a Sunday-keeping family in Milange, a town located just 2 miles (3 kilometers) from Mozambique’s border with Malawi. My introduction to the Seventh-day Adventist Church came through a girl named Adelina. She was 16 and in the seventh grade, and she asked me for help with her … Continue reading –>
By Bob Stuart The doctor looked me straight in the eye. “You have inoperable prostate cancer”, he said. “You have 18 months to live.” Back at home, my family and I sat down to compile a bucket list of things to accomplish in my last 18 months. One of my four sons said he wanted … Continue reading –>
By Daniel Gatan My wife has stopped attending the Seventh-day Adventist Church, but I have not given up hope. Here’s why. During repressive Communist times, a woman in my home country, Romania, learned about the Adventist Church and began to attend Sabbath services regularly. This infuriated her husband. “Where are you going at the same … Continue reading –>
By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Construction company chief Vladimir Vladovskyy knew it would take a miracle to build a Seventh-day Adventist church in the northern Russian seaport of Arkhangelsk. He had no blueprint for the project. He had only a few summer months to build the church. And a senior city administrator, without giving a … Continue reading –>
By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission Seventh-day Adventist education is the path to people’s hearts in Bangladesh, church leaders said. “Our church in Bangladesh is basically schools”, said Milton Das, communication director for the Bangladesh Union Mission. “Education is the strongest medium to reach the people of Bangladesh. Where there is a church, there is a … Continue reading –>
By Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission A 30-year-old woman was admitted with a bad case of pneumonia to Blantyre Adventist Hospital in Malawi. When she didn’t improve with antibiotics, missionary physician Tiffany Priester ordered an HIV test. The results came back positive. She had full-blown AIDS. Tiffany explained to the family that it usually takes three … Continue reading –>
By Lloyd Perrin The church that I pastor in the U.S. state of Oregon has an official membership of 491 people. But only 38 percent of those members are active, a number that inches up to 44 percent if you include elderly members who are house-bound because of physical or mental disabilities. That means 56 … Continue reading –>
By Vladimir Borisov After attending a pastors conference in another country, friends asked me to take a box of 100 religious books back home. I wanted to help, but my country strictly controls the distribution of religious literature. “I’ll take the box of books only if the bus driver agrees to assume responsibility for it”, … Continue reading –>
By Vyacheslav Koshkodan At the age of 16, I was a rocker who listened to Nirvana and Metallica, had long hair, and wore torn clothing. I spent my nights at a dancehall, drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana in my small hometown in the former Soviet republic of Moldova. Then a Seventh-day Adventist church member took … Continue reading –>
