Adventist Church News

As Pentecost 2025 events are happening in churches and schools across the North American Division, Adventists are invited to the NAD’s live-streamed prayer meeting on October 1, 2025. On October 1, 2025, the North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventists (NAD) will livestream a special one-hour prayer meeting. This will be the third event of […]

Southern Adventist University embraces wholistic education, and many students take advantage of all the school has to offer beyond earning a degree. Through service opportunities big and small, Southern students craft a lifelong love for serving, using their God-given talents to change lives. Students showcase how empowering it can be to create a lifestyle rooted […]

Patricia Drake Cople, Walla Walla University alumna, has received a 2025 Junia Award from the Association of Adventist Women, which was awarded during the 62nd General Conference Session in St. Louis, Missouri. The award acknowledges women who are breaking new ground, active in their church, or serving as leaders.  In 1958, Cople became the first woman to graduate from WWU’s […]

Last fall, shortly after the North American Division launched Pentecost 2025—a territory-wide effort to inspire bold, Holy Spirit-led evangelism—Pastor Chaka Samuel was scrolling Facebook when a post stopped him cold: his friend and fellow pastor Kojo Twumasi had baptized 80 people in Toledo through something called the Compassion Project. Inspired, Samuel reached out, hoping to […]

When Hugh Davis, communication director for the Mid-America Union, was tasked by Adventist News Network to gather local impressions of the 2025 General Conference Session in St. Louis, he didn’t expect to hear a story that perfectly illustrated the value of a simple church brochure. That story came from Edeisha, a contract worker at America’s […]

When CNN needed an expert on octopus behavior, they called Walla Walla University’s own Kirt Onthank, professor of biology and octopus expert. Onthank was featured in a national news segment in August 2025, offering insight into the unique behavior of these mysterious sea creatures. This isn’t the first time national media have sought out Onthank’s […]