On the surface not much has changed for Colonel Gary Councell since he became director of Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries on May 1.

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency is joining other aid organizations in responding to survivors of Tropical Cyclone Nargis, a 10-hour storm that killed an estimated 22,000 people and left more than 40,000 unaccounted for when it slammed Myanmar last weekend, the Foreign Ministry said.

"Don't worry," Ken Norton tells uncertain church members during his guest-preaching gigs. "I have my license." He means his driver's license, not his ministerial credential.

Reger C. Smith Jr., a Seventh-day Adventist musician and designer who served as the world church's Associate Communication Director for Public Relations, died May 8 following a lengthy illness at his home in Silver Spring, Maryland.

If you are in the Yosemite National Park on a summer Sabbath, you might want to enjoy church in the out doors.

Camp Meeting Committee recently voted "One Magnificent Obsession" as the theme this summer's 10-day spiritual retreat from July 17-26, 2008. The theme song chosen is "One Pure and Holy Passion."

We have a black cat at our house, who we love a lot. But he has one habit that I have to say reminds me of Satan. No, it's not his black coat. The feature of this cat that resembles Satan is his enduring attempt at getting in...

As I bustled around the kitchen preparing supper for my family a little neighbor girl poked her head in our back door. "I'm thirsty," she whined. I was not feeling kindly toward this child who often pinched my children...

At a young age, I learned to make bread by watching Aunt Chepa on those cold Chilean winters. We would arrive at her home and the sweet aroma of the milk-diluted yeast would guide us to her roomy kitchen. She would say that...

When the neighbors are away, their German shepherd stays in their basement, accessing the outdoors through her own special door. Each evening we come to play with her, feed her, and shut her in for the night. Each morning, we...