Information Briefs for October 6, 2022

Information reviews from Germany, Mexico, Southern Adventist College, Southwestern Adventist College and Leoni Meadows Summer time Camp:

Royally Impressed

From an ANN report:

On September 22–25, 2022, round 220 ladies attended a Girls’s Ministries (WM) congress in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, organized for the three German-speaking nations. There have been members from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany, in addition to a number of different nations.

The congress focused on classes from the lifetime of Queen Esther, encapsulating her choice to save lots of her folks within the phrases of the congress motto, “And NOW I’ll go.” In a monologue written by Dany Canedo and superbly offered by Dilruba Kam, Queen Esther mirrored on her life and her wrestle to go ahead and save her folks.

Social Smarts

From ANN:

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Chiapas, Mexico, is critical about offering alternatives for lots of of younger folks throughout the area to develop into digital evangelists. Throughout a current communication coaching, greater than 800 younger folks from lots of of native church buildings met to create or optimize their digital ministries on social media platforms to unfold the message of the gospel.

The one-day coaching noticed lots of collect at 5 totally different places all through Chiapas on August 21–27, 2022, to learn to be artistic disciples when producing brief movies, taking pictures and movies with their smartphones, writing information tales, and extra. Church leaders known as it the “Communication and Hope Media” coaching tour.

Critical Autographs

From NAD Information:

A brand new exhibit showcasing verified authentic signatures of outstanding historic figures from around the globe is at present hanging on the partitions of Southern Adventist College’s McKee Library. The show is open to the general public and contains 75 autographs unfold throughout 24 frames, every of which embody traditionally important objects. The gathering belongs to alum Rahn Shaw (class of 1978), M.D.

“I need to encourage college students,” Shaw stated. “This assortment represents individuals who aimed and strived for nice accomplishments. For learners with every kind of passions and pursuits, this may encourage them to dream massive inside the realms of their very own fields of research.”

Shaw’s assortment will stay on the library’s essential ground till December 9.

Free Fossils

From NAD Information:

On Sunday night, August 14, 2022, 253 youngsters acquired actual fossils without spending a dime as they entered The Depot at Cleburne Station, dwelling of the Cleburne Railroaders baseball workforce in Cleburne, Texas. Simply contained in the gate, full-scale displays of a Nanotyrannus and an Oviraptor greeted youngsters. Behind the dinosaurs, a “bone mattress” begged youngsters to find dinosaur bones for themselves earlier than the Cleburne Railroaders took the sector on Johnson County Jurassic Night time on the ballpark.

This was the second yr the Cleburne Railroaders and Southwestern Adventist College’s Dinosaur Museum and Analysis Heart partnered to deliver this free youngsters’s occasion to the neighborhood. John Junker, proprietor of the Cleburne Railroaders, stated, “We’re actually enthusiastic about this occasion. It’s all the time nice to associate with Southwestern Adventist College, and what a novel alternative to advertise the college and the museum. The artifacts they provide away — simply every part for the children — raises consciousness. I believe it’s actually nice.”

Again Up and Tenting

From NAD Information:

Leoni Meadows Summer time Camp in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains reopened this summer season after the Caldor wildfire triggered important harm in 2021.

June 26, 2022 was the primary day of household camp, and a gentle opening for the reconstructed venue. “From day one following the hearth we now have battled problem after problem to get the camp prepared,” stated Craig Heinrich, camp director. Heinrich continued, “God has offered, again and again, the assets, supplies, permits, staff, contractors, and volunteers to rebuild, refurbish, and restore our camp.”

The 2021 Caldor Hearth, which began close to the camp, burned almost 220,000 acres throughout its rampage. Practically 1,100 buildings in its path had been destroyed or broken. The camp additionally took successful. Ten buildings key to the camp, together with two employees homes, had been whole losses.

Picture credit score: Northern California Convention