Paula Contente Garcia, a 26 year-old pharmacist from Belém, capital of the state of Pará, Brazil, was symbolically the 2 millionth person to become a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in South America.
Some 160 people attended North America's largest-ever Seventh-day Adventist prison ministries convention last month in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
Ongoing civil war could not keep some 200 delegates away from the first Seventh-day Adventist Pathfinder Camporee to be held in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Seventh-day Adventist Church administrators in Eastern Africa have voted to create an HIV/AIDS team to prepare teaching resources for pastors and other church leaders.
Some 1,800 teenagers from across Europe met July 29 to August 6 in Zatonie, Poland, for one of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's most internationally diverse youth camps.
Three hundred and sixty-one children who participated in the model kindergarten facility created at the Ulaanbaatar Mental Hospital by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency office in Mongolia have been able to return to their families and schools.