Adventist Churches in Jamaica Urged to Protect and Prioritize Children
“As a church community, I would want to implore you to answer the call to protect and prioritize our children,” urged Laurette Adams-Thomas, CEO of Jamaica’s Child Protection and Family Services Agenc......
Recent Issue of Religious Liberty Journal Highlights AIDLR Conference in Lisbon
The 2023 issue of the annual journal Gewissen und Freiheit ("Conscience and Liberty") has recently been published. Its theme is "Religion and Freedom of Expression." It is published by the Internation......
February 4, 2024: Choosing What We Hear
Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany Choosing What We Hear In the Gospel lesson, Jesus healed many people and cast out many demons. How curious it is that Mark notes in this process of removing demons, Jesus didn’t allow the demons to speak. Why? What did they intend to say? Would they out Jesus as the […]
W.C. Atkinson Memorial Community Service Center Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day Through Act of Service
The city of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day a bit differently this year. Celebrations began with an Edmund Pettus Bridge reenactment, where individuals from the commun......
Catalyst Graduates Its First Cohort of Disciple-Makers
A new program that equips, empowers, and deploys participants for mission-minded discipleship is now offering places for 2024 after graduating its first cohort this past year. Catalyst is an initiati......
WACC North America affirms focus on migrant media monitoring, elects new board members
At its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, WACC’s North America regional association affirmed work being done to promote migrants’ communication rights and positive narratives about migration, and elected new members to its Regional Executive Committee. Migrant Media Monitoring Project Migration and communication rights was the...
A Lesson In Emergency Response and Relationship Building
I’m bouncing around in the back of a 1970’s-style Jeep while rocks are falling from the hillside above, and I’m trying not to glance at the sheer cliff below. There are no guardrails, no passing zones, just a one-way path recently cut into the side of the mountain thousands of feet above the valley floor. I’m certain that the freshly-bulldozed ... Read More
Costen, Rigby selected for the PC(USA)’s Excellence in Theological Education Awards
February 2, 2024
Dr. Melva Costen and Dr. Cynthia Rigby will receive Excellence in Theological Education awards this summer at the 226th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
As migrant numbers surge, Mexican Methodists offer hospitality
Early last year, church leaders projected a shelter in Apaxco, Mexico, would assist between 100 and 150 migrants per month. By December, the shelter was housing 150 people a night and feeding 600 a day.
“I Miss My Home Very Much”
Since March, 2022 Lilia Vitalievna Miasnikova has lived in Balti, Moldova where she receives support from CWS’ partner, *Zdorovii Gorod (Healthy City). Before life in Moldova, Lilia was a successful doctor in Ukraine. Her interest in medicine began when Lilia was just 11 years old as she accompanied her mom, a pediatrician, to her job. Following in the footsteps of ... Read More