This Month's Issue

ADRA, the Seventh-day Adventist Church's international humanitarian organization, released a position on the European refugee crisis and is assisting Syrian and other displaced people. Read that statement here.

Reflections and Meditations: An Annual Devotional by Dr. Pearl T. Morgan-Bell is meant to strengthen your relationship with God while helping you with your time here on earth.

Today there are more than 1.8 million pairs of ears still receiving the teachings of Christ through the schools, colleges and universities the Seventh-day Adventist Church operates worldwide. These modern teachers develop not only the intellect, but also the spirit, allowing the ministry to live on beyond the pulpit. In these schools, there is no ministry without education. The two are twin branches growing together on the same gospel tree.

The worldwide refugee crisis is prompting the United States to open its immigration doors to a larger number of people from regions in turmoil.

This dramatic increase will undoubtedly enhance the chances that families fleeing persecution may move into our communities in the near future. How should Seventh-day Adventists respond when refugees from Syria, Burma, Iraq, Honduras, Guatemala and other nations become our neighbors?

Read these stories from the January/February 2015 Visitor:

We found nine amazing ACS volunteers—including a trio of motorcycle “ministers”—who go the extra mile year-round to help those in need in their mid-Atlantic neighborhoods.