The Vacation Bible Club is so popular that family's book up one year in advance. The Community Services and Women's Ministries departments are appreciated by the community.

Around 90 percent of the members have fled Iraq for greater security elsewhere, said Basim Fargo, secretary-treasurer of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Iraq. [Photo: Kelly Butler Coe]

Iraq: The Church in Hard Places

Carlton Wright, ambassador-designate of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas to the Republic of Cuba, feels there is a greater purpose behind his transfer than just diplomatic business.

Carlton and Audrey Wright. Carlton is the first Bahamian ambassador assigned to live in Cuba. [Photo: Adam Bujak]

World Church: Adventist Tapped as First Bahamian Envoy to Cuba

In an area with a wide range of diversities and adversities, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Southern-Africa Indian Ocean region has a story of hope...

Outgoing president of the Southern Africa Indian Ocean region of the Adventist church. [Photo: Chris Drake]

Southern Africa: Church Report Communicates Hope

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is facing challenges to its authority, according to a presentation given this morning to delegates and guests at the church's quinquennial business meeting in St Louis.

Some of the challenges to the church's authority include: corruption, unbalanced influences from certain regions of the world, difficulties in obtaining consensus, the growth of parallel and competing organizational structures, and the sidelining of minorities, Dr. Angel Rodriguez says. [Photo: Angel Rodriguez]

Rodriguez: Church Authority Should Benefit Others

The world presidency of the Seventh-day Adventist Church will be held only by an "ordained minister of experience," delegates to the movement's 58th General Conference Session voted in a change to the church's constitution and bylaws on July 5.

Lisa Beardsley speaks on behalf of inclusive church leadership which would allow un-ordained individuals to serve in top church administrative positions. [photo by Volker Henning]

World Church: Delegates Restrict Top Post to Ordained Clergy

Despite offering to give brief backgrounds of those up for nomination to head the Seventh-day Adventist world church departments - an offer made after several delegates complained of being unfamiliar with many of the candidates' backgrounds - no one reque

Pastor Jan Paulsen (right) president of the Adventist world church explains the relationship between the world church and the church in North America. [Photo: Gerry Chudleigh]

World Church: Incremental Changes in Headquarters Department Leadership

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