Seventh-day Adventist leaders in Southeast Asia report that some 8,000 people have been baptized since the beginning of 2002, as part of the region's emphasis on "Go One Million"--an international initiative encouraging lay evangelism.
Seventh-day Adventist leaders in Moscow, Russia, announced this month that they have passed the half-way point in their effort to purchase 300 small houses in former Soviet countries to be used as churches.
A record 25,000 Seventh-day Adventists attended the May 11 Sabbath, or Saturday, program of the 10th annual youth congress in Southern Philippines.
Representatives of the Seventh-day Adventist Church will participate in the United Nations General Assembly on children in New York City, May 8 to 10.
For the first time in 50 years the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Baltic States will graduate Adventist pastors from a local training program.
An international group of 12 leading Seventh-day Adventist scholars has written a book billed as an Adventist response to attacks on Jesus from both secular thinkers and liberal theologians.