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  • President leaves footprint in South America

    President leaves footprint in South America

    Concluding a spring meeting for the South American Division, Seventh-day Adventist world church President Ted N. C. Wilson put his foot down, literally.
  • One million tracts to share gospel

    One million tracts to share gospel

    The Australian Union Conference (AUC) has printed more than one million pocket-sized tracts as part of its commitment to providing low cost sharing materials to spread the gospel.
  • Table Talk builds faith over dinner

    Table Talk builds faith over dinner

    A new resource designed to build faith during family meal times has been dedicated in Sydney.
  • Indonesia hosts 2nd religious freedom festival

    Indonesia hosts 2nd religious freedom festival

    A recent festival of religious freedom cements the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Indonesia as a leading proponent of free expression of religion in the country.
  • Kev’s big ride

    Kev’s big ride

    A Cooranbong resident’s 1000-kilometre bicycle ride from Brisbane to Cooranbong has raised $20,000 for an Avondale College of Higher Education student mission club.
  • Happy Mother's Day!

    Happy Mother's Day!

    RECORD gave the opportunity for members to send in Mother's Day messages.
  • Quiet Hour celebrates 75 years of ministry

    Quiet Hour celebrates 75 years of ministry

    Quiet Hour Ministries (QHM) is 75 years young. The United States-based broadcasting network celebrated the milestone with a special service on April 28.
  • AWR launches new stations in Armenia

    AWR launches new stations in Armenia

    Adventist media officials say two new Adventist World Radio FM stations in Armenia will connect with residents of the world’s oldest official Christian country.
  • GC “money man” visits PNG

    GC “money man” visits PNG

    The top money man for the world Seventh-day Adventist Church is visiting Papua New Guinea (PNG) this week.
  • Adventist Aviation opens airstrip

    Adventist Aviation opens airstrip

    The people of Sisimin in Oksapmin, Sandaun province, have welcomed the opening of a new airstrip in their village.
  • Story of a mission icon launched

    Story of a mission icon launched

    An e-book about an iconic Seventh-day Adventist mission plane has been launched to raise money for the refurbishment of the original aircraft.
  • Learning today, leading tomorrow

    Learning today, leading tomorrow

    Three years of study during vacation breaks paid off earlier this year as 176 teachers graduated with a Certificate in Elementary teaching from Sonoma College.
  • Press Release: Response to Gateway coverage

    Press Release: Response to Gateway coverage

    Today the Melbourne Age reported on a dispute between Keith Paulusse and the leadership of Gateway Adventist Company. There are credible reports from those involved that there is substantially more to the story than was reported. These additional details
  • Adventist president examines secularism

    Adventist president examines secularism

    Seventh-day Adventist World Church president Ted Wilson has challenged believers to grasp the opportunities for open discourse that a secular state preserves.
  • Adventist leaders commit to mega city mission

    Adventist leaders commit to mega city mission

    Top regional Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders have identified 24 cities that will receive targeted outreach efforts, the next step of a plan voted by church officials last year to focus on urban area ministry worldwide.
  • Creatives connect at Manifest

    Creatives connect at Manifest

    Mother nature added poignancy to the presentation of the main award at the second annual Manifest Creative Arts Festival.
  • Government moves ahead with ACNC plans

    Government moves ahead with ACNC plans

    The Australian government is moving ahead with its plans to establish a national commission to oversee the not-for-profit sector.
  • Adventist leaders to begin shift in tithe formula

    Adventist leaders to begin shift in tithe formula

    The formula for contributions by world divisions to the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will change in 2013, if suggestions recommended by global church leaders on the concluding day of the movement’s Spring Meeting are adopted later this yea
  • Fight Against Human Trafficking Continues

    Fight Against Human Trafficking Continues

    Asian Aid partner 3 Angels Nepal (3AN) has recently received appreciation for its fight against human trafficking by government officials at the Nepalgunj and Dhangadi district offices in Nepal.
  • Record enrolment at Avondale despite odds

    Record enrolment at Avondale despite odds

    A record number of students are studying at Avondale College of Higher Education this semester despite universities offering an uncapped number of Commonwealth supported places.
  • Churches fight to maintain employment rights

    Churches fight to maintain employment rights

    The right of religious groups to refuse employment to gays or people in defacto relationships is under question, as the Australian Government looks at simplifying anti-discrimination laws into a single Act.
  • Evangelism yields thousands of new members

    Evangelism yields thousands of new members

    The Central American country of Guatemala has been playing host to big evangelism efforts by both training evangelists and holding local campaigns, which have yielded results in thousands of new members.
  • Adventists in China welcome church leaders

    Adventists in China welcome church leaders

    “We have been looking forward to this visit from Adventist church leaders for a very long time,” student Elisha Ding said. Ding is one of over one hundred young people being trained for ministry at the Beiguan Adventist Church in Shenyang, in the norther
  • “In harmony” with GC on women’s ordination

    “In harmony” with GC on women’s ordination

    The Southern Union Conference, which covers eight states in the southeast of the USA, has voted to maintain its solidarity with the world Church on the issue of ordaining women pastors.
  • Theology students evangelise the world

    Theology students evangelise the world

    “The projector is broken and the generator is out of fuel.” Lachlan Campbell recalls the challenges he faced when presenting an evangelistic series in Kenya with three other ministry and theology students from Avondale College of Higher Education over the
  • Adventists celebrate Easterfest 2012

    Adventists celebrate Easterfest 2012

    Tens of thousands of Christians and their friends, from all age groups, descended on Toowoomba over the Easter long weekend to enjoy a one-of-a-kind music festival in Australia – in fact, the largest drug and alcohol free festival in the country.
  • Education transformation

    Education transformation

    In 2007, Paglum Adventist High School was in a woeful state. The campus was unkempt and the buildings in a poor state of repair. In an area known for tribal clashes, students were fighting with each other along ethnic lines and were involved in conflicts
  • NSW Premier officially opens ARI

    NSW Premier officially opens ARI

    New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell officially opened the laboratories of the Australasian Research Institute (ARI) at Sydney Adventist Hospital on Friday, March 30.
  • Church president leads Brazilian outreach

    Church president leads Brazilian outreach

    Before the start of a massive March 24 evangelistic outreach in São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, Pastor Ted N.C. Wilson, General Conference president, had encouraging words: “Everyone can be part of God’s remnant church.”
  • ADRA responds to Fiji flood crisis

    ADRA responds to Fiji flood crisis

    More than 2600 people affected by severe flooding in Fiji will receive emergency food, water and hygiene packs thanks to the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA).
  • San to build fully integrated cancer centre

    San to build fully integrated cancer centre

    The Sydney Adventist Hospital (the “San”) introduced its capital campaign to build a new fully integrated cancer centre last night. Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard gave the keynote address for the event.
  • Adventists share Jesus in big cities

    Adventists share Jesus in big cities

    More than 100 Seventh-day Adventists gathered in Sydney on Saturday, March 24, for the sole purpose of sharing the love of Jesus with the general public.
  • California Conference votes to ordain women

    California Conference votes to ordain women

    On March 22, the Southeastern California Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SECC) announced it will ordain female pastors.
  • First men's congress for Vanuatu

    First men's congress for Vanuatu

    Adventist men’s clubs and federations in Vanuatu regained their strength with the first-ever national congress of more than 370 men who came together to fellowship
  • ABCs Experience "Phenomenal" Growth

    ABCs Experience "Phenomenal" Growth

    Adventist Book Centres in Papua New Guinea (PNG) achieved a 42 per cent increase in sales in 2011.
  • Evangelism blitz in Inter-America

    Evangelism blitz in Inter-America

    Nearly 100,000 local evangelistic series across the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Inter-American Division last month marked the latest step in the implementation of the denomination’s Revival and Reformation initiative in the region.
  • Christian Magazine for "Gorgeous" girls

    Christian Magazine for "Gorgeous" girls

    A new Christian magazine has been launched to inspire, educate and empower girls and young women.
  • Adventists offer condolences for Coptic Pope

    Adventists offer condolences for Coptic Pope

    Leaders from the Seventh-day Adventist world church’s department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty offered condolences to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria on the passing of Pope Shenouda III, Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of All Afric
  • Men called to lead family, church

    Men called to lead family, church

    The newly-formed South Australian Conference Men’s Ministries Department held its first men’s rally in Adelaide on February 28.
  • Red meat linked to early death

    Red meat linked to early death

    The Archives of Internal Medicine—a journal produced by the American Medical Association—has reported this month eating a lot of red meat may shorten your life.
  • Open-hearted Volunteers

    Open-hearted Volunteers

    A group of Aussie medical volunteers has returned from Myanmar, after providing valuable training to local staff, in the care of cardiac patients.
  • Flood victims positive despite disaster

    Flood victims positive despite disaster

    Flood-victims are remaining positive in spite of the devastation caused by heavy rainfalls and flooding.
  • Sydney Adventist College girls serve in Fiji

    Sydney Adventist College girls serve in Fiji

    Sydney Adventist College prides itself on giving students opportunities to make a difference.
  • Parents put in new playground

    Parents put in new playground

    The long-awaited “big kid” playground on Hills Adventist College’s Castle Hill campus is now officially open for fun!
  • Avondale students serve over summer

    Avondale students serve over summer

    “It’s early in the morning; the humidity is stifling; the rain pours down.” Anastasia Benton and 15 other students from Avondale College of Higher Education are huddling together under a small tin roof on the boat they will call home for the next two days
  • Training Day Cuts Safe Places Cake

    Training Day Cuts Safe Places Cake

    100 people attended Safe Church Training at Lilydale Adventist Academy in Melbourne, Australia.
  • President highlights unity in Rwanda

    President highlights unity in Rwanda

    Seventh-day Adventists in Rwanda are committed to bolstering society and bringing unity and reconciliation to the East African nation, world church President Ted N. C. Wilson said during an official visit last week.
  • Ben Carson speaks in Auckland

    Ben Carson speaks in Auckland

    The ticketed event at the TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre in Manakau was opened to the public as a witnessing opportunity.
  • Flood crisis worsens in Wagga Wagga

    Flood crisis worsens in Wagga Wagga

    An urgent evacuation order has been issued for central Wagga Wagga as the levee protecting the city from flooding is in danger of failing.
  • Recipe book now in second edition

    Recipe book now in second edition

    Popular recipe book, Simple, Tasty, Good, has been produced in a second edition.