The building's function is quite different from its earlier days, when it served as a brewery. Built in 1909, it still has the original copper ceiling, but now it boasts gold walls and splashes of royal colors.
Adventists are committed to be a part of the solution in addressing the plight of neglected and abused children, said Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church in an address to members of the Brazilian Congress Sept. 2.
Help for Remembering Sept. 11
More than 6,300 Seventh-day Adventist teenagers from around the world descended on gathered in Nairobi Jamhuri Park, Nairobi, Kenya, to participate in the first Pan-African Pathfinder Camporee.
Issues of religion and reason took center stage at a recent conference that brought together Seventh-day Adventist Church theologians and science professors.
Just two years ago, a group of Seventh-day Adventist pastors formed a network that would "empower the next generation of pastors to think creatively about the future of the Adventist Church."