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Paul Brantley wants the Seventh-day Adventist Church to be the world's best-run organization.
Don't confine spirituality to the church pew, Seventh-day Adventist world church president Jan Paulsen told a group of church leaders yesterday during remarks meant to kindle more deliberate community involvement by Adventists, who -- despite recent marginal improvements -- still score low in ministry beyond the pulpit according to church officials. 
With a 37 percent increase in schools over the past decade -- now 318 -- Seventh-day Adventist education in Brazil is booming. Adventist-run schools are deemed some of the country's most competitive, drawing significant non-Adventist enrollment, and are positioned to help grow the church's membership, Adventist leaders there say. 
An international editorial team of Seventh-day Adventist Bible scholars began work on a new study Bible this month, the president of Adventist-owned Andrews University announced March 4. The Andrews Study Bible, to be published by the university's press, is the first such project in Adventist publishing.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church saw a 10.4 percent increase in 13th Sabbath Offerings last year, according to figures released this month by the church's world headquarters. This continues a trend started two years ago when mission giving kept up with inflation for the first time in a decade. 
An amateur crew of volunteers flown in from Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus and Lebanon produced the first Arabic language broadcast for the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Hope Channel on March 19.
Seventh-day Adventist representatives met with Italy's prime minister and officials March 6 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the agreement between the government and the Adventist Church. Once signed into law, it legalized relations between the church and the Italian state without compromising the church's identity or independence.
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