North American Division News
- The Southwestern Adventist University Board of Trustees voted on May 21, 2026, for Nelu Nedelea to become the 27th president of the university. He will assume the office on July 15. Nedelea most recently served as system vice president of Mission and Ministry for Mercy, one of the largest Catholic health systems in the United […]
- Pacific Union College has achieved great success in its Paramedic to RN program, allowing up to 9 EMT-P students annually to join its already well-established LVN/Med-Tech-to-RN program, and will graduate the third cohort this June. Since the program’s launch in 2022 and enrollment increase in 2023, it has filled a significant need in the job […]
- The North American Division’s (NAD) 19th annual Religious Liberty Dinner, held on April 22, 2026, in the James Madison Memorial Building at the Library of Congress, championed freedom of conscience as a core human right. Overlooking the gathering, a statue honoring Madison, the fourth U.S. president and key architect of constitutional religious freedom rights, visually […]
- Several minutes before the start of the North American Division’s (NAD) 2026 Pathfinder Bible Experience (PBE) on Sabbath, April 18, 239 teams, along with runners, judges, volunteers, and support staff, filled every corner of the conference center at Camp Hawthorne in northern Florida. Additional supporters and volunteers spread across three buildings, including two overflow rooms, […]
- Christian Record Services (CRS) has announced the launch of a nationwide First Response Initiative to address a critical gap in the medical system: the “Quiet Crisis” of vision loss. Supported by a newly awarded $43,436 grant from the North American Division Resource Development Committee, the initiative provides a tangible roadmap for the 8 million North Americans navigating irreversible vision […]
- One of the most striking sequences in the experimental short Melting Pot — which opened the 2026 Sonscreen Film Festival — is a series of close-ups of filmmaker Kayli Pascal-Martinez, her parents, and siblings, their mouths covered in red, white, and blue paint. Silenced. Fusing these images with news clips, archival material, and a poem […]