Normally, the collapse of a church structure is, at the least, a headache for church administrators, but for Seventh-day Adventists in the northern Egyptian town of Dahasa, a building collapse may speed a new church's opening.
Those who imagine that student outreach to their communities is a challenge might want to consider the impact of students at the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, a Seventh-day Adventist institution.
A United Nations peace monitoring group has assigned the Seventh-day Adventist Church to the "frontline of the peace process," according to Pastor Richard Rikis, president of the church in the war-torn South Pacific island of Bougainville.
It takes stepping out of the proverbial box to reach a society where traditional methods of evangelism have been difficult.
While at least one suspect has been arrested in the killing of Seventh-day Adventist missionary Lance Gersbach, 700 people attended his funeral service in Australia recently.
"They don't know, except my husband," says the young Kenyan mother--her voice suddenly dropping to a nervous whisper.