Tag: Syria

Inspired by last quarter's Sabbath School lessons on "The Least of These", Macksville church members put theory into action.

You've seen their photo in the news. Now, discover how this family's search for freedom led them to an Adventist faith community.

As Christians we can respond to problems with a flight or fight response. But is there a biblical response we forget?

30,000 children are dying unnecessarily every day. Yet do we even care?

The General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has designated Sabbath, June 18, as Adventist Church World Refugee Day.

Loving and caring for refugees should not be a foreign concept.

Pastor Glenn Townend hopped on his bike this week in Queenstown. His body may have been in New Zealand, but his thoughts and prayers were with Syria.

"Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead" (James 2:17 NIV). When Gia Kavanagh saw "the most heartbreaking photo" of a dead Syrian child refugee, doing nothing was not an option.

The Martin Place shooting. Planes mysteriously exploding and crashing. Fighting in Syria. Multiple terror attacks in Paris. And all this in under a year. What are we to make of our crazy world?

The Seventh-day Adventist Church and its members worldwide offered prayers and support for Paris after a series of shootings and explosions killed scores of people.