Stories & Commentaries

About Stories & Commentaries

From time to time, the North American Division shares commentaries on issues and/or events important to Adventists in this division. We also publish stories, which sometimes include interviews and features, to inspire our leaders and members.

Paul Penaranda and his family

Potomac Conference Family Mourns Death of One of Its Members Serving as a Missionary Overseas

Our hearts are heavy as we’ve learned of the sudden and untimely death of one of Potomac’s shining lights, Paul Penaranda.

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Stories from Friendships For Hope, Paradise Valley Nonprofit for Immigrants

For several years the Paradise Valley Church, near San Diego, California, has been serving immigrant populations in several ways. The ministries include a food pantry, classes in English as a second language, a thrift store, and a community garden. Friendships For Hope, now charitable nonprofit corporation, grew out of the food pantry ministry.

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La Sierra University Professor Receives Fulbright Grant for India project

Margaret Solomon, an education administration and leadership professor at La Sierra University in Riverside, California, will be able to carry out an educational leadership training program in her native India — thanks to a recent Fulbright grant award.

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Adventist World Church President to Speak at WAU Alumni Weekend, Inducted into Wall of Fame

The featured speaker for Washington Adventist University’s Alumni Weekend, April 6-9, 2017, is alumnus and General Conference (GC) president Ted N.C. Wilson.

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Past Sonscreen Winners on Filmmaking, Faith, and the Festival

The 2017 Sonscreen Film Festival is just around the corner! This year’s festival is being held at Loma Linda University in California on April 6-8.

NAD Responds to Proposed Repeal of Johnson Amendment

Recent events by both the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. Government have brought the Johnson Amendment and participation in elections by nonprofits (including churches) to the forefront.

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Washington Adventist University Hosts Fifth Annual Campus Revival

A week-long campus revival is taking place through Saturday, April 1, 2017, on the grounds of Washington Adventist University (WAU) in Takoma Park, Maryland, and the public is invited to attend.

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Adventists Appeal Court Ruling on Kellogg Sabbath Accommodation Case

On March 22, 2017, two former Kellogg employees made their appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit after a lower court found insufficient evidence that the two Adventist plaintiffs were treated unfairly when they were fired for failing to work on Sabbath.

Dr. Nancy Abu-Bonsrah celebrates her residency

Adventist Medical Student Becomes First Black Female Accepted Into Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery Residency Program

On March 17, shortly after 26-year-old Nancy Abu-Bonsrah, originally from the Ashanti Region in Ghana, received the news that she had been accepted into the residency program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's neurosurgical department, she posted this on Facebook: “What a way to begin the Sabbath!