For the first time, 2,000 young people from 15 South Pacific nations gathered outside Australia for a regional youth congress, which was opened Dec. 30 by the Hon. Laisenia Qarase, Prime Minister of Fiji.
The 7,250 coastal inhabitants of Tamil Nadu affected by the recent tsunami will receive relief items from the Adventist Development and Relief Agency's (ADRA) office in India.
The weekly ANN Bulletin will not be e-mailed on Jan. 4, 2005, due to the New Year's holiday. Breaking news stories will be posted as available, and the weekly e-mail is expected to resume on Jan. 11, 2005.
Aboriginal people in Australia will soon enjoy a new church building, and funds to continue outreach in big cities have been allocated.
In a world rocked by natural disasters and by war, members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church around the world have varying perspectives on the year now ending.
"Give of your best for the Lord. Let us give Him every opportunity to use you and me," declared Pastor Jan Paulsen, world president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in a New Year's message for 2005 offered to the 25 million people who attend weekly wo