A United Nations peace monitoring group has assigned the Seventh-day Adventist Church to the "frontline of the peace process," according to Pastor Richard Rikis, president of the church in the war-torn South Pacific island of Bougainville.
It takes stepping out of the proverbial box to reach a society where traditional methods of evangelism have been difficult.
While at least one suspect has been arrested in the killing of Seventh-day Adventist missionary Lance Gersbach, 700 people attended his funeral service in Australia recently.
"They don't know, except my husband," says the young Kenyan mother--her voice suddenly dropping to a nervous whisper.
In response to the Seventh-day Adventist Church's inquiry into a directive issued by the Department of Prevention for the Gdansk police aimed at investigating churches and religious groups, a letter from the General Police Headquarters in Warsaw cites the
Having baptized both a folk musician and his craft, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the former Soviet Union is using new music to put the song of hope in believers' hearts.