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The North American Division President's Report at the 2025 General Conference Session Highlights Discipleship, Media, Mentorship, and Service

On Saturday evening, July 5, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America (NAD) presented the first division report at the 2025 General Conference Session. NAD president G. Alexander Bryant, executive secretary Kyoshin Ahn, and treasurer Judy R. Glass introduced the video, which focused on the division’s ministry activities and accomplishments during the past three years.


Adventist Media Ministries Tap into Timely Innovations to Declare the Timeless Message of Christ

<figure class="figure aligncenter size--large"> <img alt="It Is Written" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="b1a743af-9401-4708-bfa9-b97b620d628c" height="1365" src="/sites/default/files/inline-images/54633582443_a718f5fef7_k.jpg" width="2048" class="align-center" loading="lazy"> <figcaption class="figcaption"><p class="font--secondary--xs"><em>John Bradshaw (left), president of It Is Written, is on the set in the exhibit hall with a guest, at the General Conference held July 3-12, 2025.</em></figcaption></figure>


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Erton C. Köhler Elected as General Conference President

Erton C. Köhler was elected to the office of the president of the General Conference (GC) on July 4, 2025, during the 62nd GC Session in St. Louis, Missouri. Köhler’s election marks the beginning of his first term as the spiritual and administrative leader of a worldwide movement that spans more than 200 countries and includes more than 23 million members.


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Rooted in the Word: Scripture Comes Alive at the 2025 NAD Pathfinder Bible Experience

From April 25 to 26, more than 3,000 Pathfinders, supporters, and volunteers packed the arena in historic Battle Creek, Michigan,&nbsp;for a weekend of worship, Bible knowledge testing, and celebration. And on Sabbath, April 26, 185 teams — the second highest number ever — gathered in person from across North America and beyond.&nbsp;Four&nbsp;teams joined virtually.


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LifeTalk Radio Offers Sharing Cards, Christmas Programming 

LifeTalk Radio (LTR), a media ministry of the North American Division, has reported a surge in listeners after providing free cards for people to share with others with the message “You Matter to God” and station information. The cards have grown in popularity in 2019.


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Marvin Moore Edits 25 Years and 300 Issues of Signs of the Times

Marvin Moore is celebrating major milestones at Pacific Press this month. The newly-released December 2019 Signs of the Times marks Moore’s 300th issue and 25th year as editor of the 145-year-old Seventh-day Adventist publication. Of Signs’ ten editors, only Arthur Maxwell served longer (1937–1970).


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Christians Being Christian

November 8, 2019. One year after the Camp Fire ripped through his community, Allen Plowman is back on his property. Or what was left of it. As fall slips into winter around the residents of Paradise, it’s not the haunting, happy sounds of Canada geese flying south that greets them every morning; it’s the visceral roar of a chainsaw. Or three.


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The Best Gift

The presence of Jesus in the flesh is an absolute gift to the human family. And it’s not just a gift to Seventh-day Adventists or Christians, but to the entire world and all who live in it. If God is for us, who can be against us?