Two projects focusing on water, health, and sanitation will increase aid provided by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) to internally displaced persons, or IDPs, in the Darfur region of Sudan.
Sending missionaries from North America to areas within their own home country is not a traditional method of communicating the gospel message for the Adventist Church, but for Global Mission's Total Employment program, this is the focus.
Calling it a "revolution in the hearts of many who were once without hope," Dr. Ron Watts, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Southern Asia, praised the efforts of those involved with Maranatha Volunteers International mission to India.
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) has been selected by the government of Kenya and the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) to be the lead agency in food distributions in Kitui, a district in Kenya where residents are contending with a
Web site owners now have more options for placing Adventist News Network headlines into their sites, according to John R. Beckett, webmaster for the world church.
In a country where a U.S. $80 airmail subscription to a church magazine costs a pastor two months' salary, getting the Seventh-day Adventist Church's regional office directly connected to the Internet -- a U.S. $3,000 expense -- might seem an unrealizable