Regardless the outbreak of COVID-19, church is never and should never be closed. Why? Because church is not a building. Church is people. “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out ...

The Japan Union Conference (JUC) Children’s Ministries department held special trainings in each Conference and Mission of JUC from February 1 to 8, 2020. These trainings were planned and organized by Pastor Masaru Kobayashi, JUC Children’s Ministries director, based on the requests o...

On March 19, the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church announced the postponement of the 2020 General Conference session due to the rapid and unpredictable spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2021 General Conference Session will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is currently sched...

The Executive Committee of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (EXCOM) voted March 19, to postpone the 2020 General Conference Session until May 2021. The vote comes after a March 17 recommendation from the General Conference Administrative Committee (ADCOM) to delay the 2020 General Conference Sess...

 In light of recent, very rapid, and highly unusual developments associated with COVID-19 and precautions taken by organizations around the world to curb the spread of the virus, Seventh-day Adventist world church leaders have initiated a series of meetings to discuss implications for the Ad...

 Out of an abundance of caution and care for the community we serve, the leadership of the headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has decided employees will work remotely until March 30th, 2020. This is a precautionary response due to a heightened index of suspicion related to the ...

The following message was provided for distribution by the world church Office of the President. Adventist Review editors join members and leaders around the world in praying for those affected by the spread of the novel coronavirus.~ Editors As many people are fully aware, there is a very serio...

In December 2019, a new and aggressive form of respiratory infection was discovered in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, and recently been named COVID – 19. The virus is a corona virus and of the same family as the virus that caused the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic in 2002-...

 Seventh-day Adventists are being asked to pray and show Christ-like compassion as the new coronavirus claims its first church member in China and threatens to disrupt public mission work in various parts of the world. In China, the local branch of the Adventist Development and Relief Agenc...

 Dr. Ron Clouzet, ministerial secretary of the Northern Asia-Pacific Division (NSD), was a guest professor at the Adventist college in Otaki, Japan, where he taught a course on public evangelism. The class was a very intensive course, held daily from about 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., from Januar...