Seventh-day Adventists from across the Euro-Asia region of the church met at the Adventist school in Tula, about 124 miles south of Moscow, to discuss how to better share the gospel with the estimated 9.5 million hearing-impaired people in the region.
The Ukrainian Humanitarian Institute, a college run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Ukraine, has been recognized by that nation's Ministry of Education and Science.
The concept is simple: meet people, make friends, and use your life experiences to witness.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who represents New York, expressed her strong support of workplace religious freedom--and the Seventh-day Adventist Church--in a videotaped message for the church's Public Affairs and Religious Liberty department.
Summing up the Seventh-day Adventist Church's annual business meetings, Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the church worldwide, said church leaders "chose a deliberate pattern" for the meetings, beginning this year with a spiritual emphasis.
In one of the final actions of the annual business meeting, leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church voted Oct. 14 to receive a document discussing the nurture of new members who join the church.