SPD focuses on resources for mission | Prayer on call in Australia | Church finances "in good shape" | SPD membership tops 400,000 | Why be vegetarian

"Triumph" for school students | ABCs find open day success | ACFI in voluntary administration | Fire destroys Echuca church hall | Wonder

Sanitarium celebrates 50 years at Moorooka | Success for Global Mission | Educators "encounter" Bible | LAC centenary book released | Emmaus to Launceston

MAD about poverty: students take a stand | KickStart raises funds for ministry | VIA continues mission in Pacific | Volunteer re-entry at Jindabyne | Making financial sense

Church leaders from across the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific have spent time wrestling with the needs and opportunities for mission across the region, and how to best employ the resources of the church to meet these challenges.

Funds collected from Seventh-day Adventist churches through the South Pacific this Saturday (December 6) will extend media ministry in Fiji and Samoa through Hope Radio FM and Hope Channel TV.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Vietnam received official recognition last month, granting the church in the Southeast Asian nation legal status to operate, church officials said.

Hundreds of previously illiterate Mozambican adults are reading and writing after completing the first part of a four-level literacy program last week.