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Adrienne Townsend accepts the oath of office to serve as the first Adventist woman chaplain for the U.S. Navy during a July 24 ceremony. Townsend brings a background in education and psychology to military chaplaincy, which she calls a "mission field."

United States: First Adventist woman commissioned to serve as Navy chaplain

Family medical needs prompt departure from India

Ronald Watts speaking at the Adventist World church session in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, in 2005. Watts recently retired as president of the Southern Asia Division, one of 13 divisions of the Adventist world church.

Adventist Southern Asia church president Watts resigns

Conscious Café offers Pittsburgh nontraditional ministry; 'If this is a church, I'm coming back every day'

A local teen paints over graffiti in downtown Pittsburgh. Clark, who directs Adventist Community Services for the city, regularly recruits the teenagers who hang out at Conscious Café for community outreach projects.

Adventist storefront church leading community-based evangelism

Adventist Disaster and Relief Agency (ADRA) Guatemala distributes hundreds of food bags with the help of local Seventh-day Adventist volunteers. The volunteers prepared the bags for Guatemalan villagers flooded out of their homes by heavy rains.

ADRA provides food for Guatemalan flood victims

Nix on the prophetess' legacy, church's prophetic mission

Jim Nix, director of the Ellen G. White Estate, says he hopes a new initiative launched this month will teach church history to a young generation of Adventists. Many in his generation, he says, haven't passed on much knowledge of the church's heritage.

Church Chat: Could artifacts spur the next generation of evangelists?

Church members to collect offering for state housing fund

Jamaican Adventists will meet August 2 to pray for peace and prosperity in their country, where murder rates grew by 13 percent last month.

Jamaica: Adventists marshal 'Day of Prayer' to address violence

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