 US$1 billion in funds to empower women, girls committed; 'When you educate a girl, you educate a nation'
Linking poverty to economically fettered women, world faith, aid agency and government representatives said April 13 that it's no coincidence an estimated 70 percent of the 1.2 billion people who subsist on just US$1 a day are women and girls. |
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 By Celeste Ryan-Blyden
Source: Columbia Union Conference "Visitor"
An F1 Tornado hit Allegheny East’s George E. Peters Seventh-day Adventist School in Chillum, Md., Sunday afternoon destroying part of the gym and roof and overturning a trailer. The school shares a campus with the conference’s Metropolitan church and Chillum Oaks Apartments, a senior housing complex. Though there were people at both of these locations for events, no one was hurt. |
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 By Adventist HealthCare Communication Staff
Source: Columbia Union Conference "Visitor"
James G. Lee, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Adventist HealthCare in Rockville, Md., has been named as a Director of the HealthCare Financial Management Association (HFMA) board. HFMA is a national organization that focuses on improving the financial management and business performance of health-care related organizations.
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 By Pamela Scheib
Photos by Art Calhoun
Source: Columbia Union Conference Visitor
Recently 11 Pathfinder clubs from the Chesapeake, Mountain View, Ohio, and Pennsylvania conferences participated in the Columbia Union Pathfinder Bible Achievement. This year’s event was hosted by the Chesapeake Conference and was held in the Highland View Academy chapel in Hagerstown, Md.
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 A Seventh-day Adventist missionary family survived a plane crash yesterday, emerging from the wreckage just moments before it exploded.
Barry and Marybeth Mosier of Dodge Center, Minnesota, and two of their young children were aboard a DC-9 passenger jet headed for Kisangani, where their eldest son, Keith, 24, leads the Congo Frontline Missions. |
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Linking poverty to economically fettered women, world faith, aid agency and government representatives said April 13 that it's no coincidence an estimated 70 percent of the 1.2 billion people who subsist on just US$1 a day are women and girls.
Reversing such troubling statistics is a "moral imperative," leaders gathered at a packed National Cathedral for the Women, Faith and Development Summit to End Global Poverty agreed. |
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 Seventh-day Adventists are lobbying to snuff out smoking in public places throughout the Caribbean islands.
Victor Roach, president of the International Commission for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Dependency (ICPA) ? Caribbean Bloc, made a public plea to area governments during the April 13 launch of the Jamaican chapter of the ICPA. |
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 As fledgling free market countries capitalize on the global economy, English language degrees -- often available through partnerships with United States-based universities -- are indispensable for students with international business ambitions.
Such affiliations with public universities are a chance to offer top-notch degrees and introduce students to the service-based philosophy behind Christian education for Seventh-day Adventist-owned Griggs University, the organization's president says. |
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 The Pan American Health Organization is seeking to engage in partnerships with Faith-Based Organizations, including the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Health Ministries, as part of their effort to connect with FBOs who deliver as much as 40 percent of health care in many developing nations. |
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 Handmade fabrics manufacturing, producing chocolate goods, milk and cheese and a laundry service are all micro-businesses that the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) helped native Peruvians develop and sustain. |
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 The Dominican Republic national leader donated 31 acres of public land -- already used by Seventh-day Adventist young people for annual retreats -- to the church last month. During the March 28 donation ceremony, he applauded the church's work and image in the country. |
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