As South Texas Christian Academy expands its number of students, remodeling and expansion efforts are continually underway to better service its school body.

The Pharr Seventh-Day Adventist church hosted a week of revival titled, “There is Still Hope” with Venezelan evangelistic team, Youth to Youth Ministries.

Lillian Nethersole and Yennely Moss are a few of the ladies from the Greater Randolph Church who share their talents with their church members and their community through the women’s group.

The Pathfinder Club at the Joshua Church fundraised for the International Camporee i 2009 washing cars this summer in the area.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Vietnam received official recognition last month, granting the church in the Southeast Asian nation legal status to operate, church officials said.

Hundreds of previously illiterate Mozambican adults are reading and writing after completing the first part of a four-level literacy program last week.

Romanian national president Traian Basescu visited a Seventh-day Adventist Church in Madrid, Spain earlier this month, drawing attention to the country's significant Romanian immigrant population -- 6,000 of whom are Adventists.

Jere D. Patzer, North Pacific Union Conference president since 1996, died October 26 following a lengthy battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was 61.