More Than 1,500

The number of Seventh-day Adventist communicators, digital evangelists, and influencers throughout Chiapas, Mexico, who gathered for a first-ever Global Adventist Internet Network (GAiN) conference. The event took place on February 17 and 18 in Tuxtla Gutiérrez. The hundreds crowding the Chiapas Convention Center, mostly young people, were encouraged to embrace every opportunity to serve the church with their gifts and with tools provided during the event.

—Sugih Sitorus, president of West Indonesia Union Mission, during the opening service of a new hospital in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The 51-bed, state-of-the-art hospital will offer comprehensive medical services to the inhabitants of Palangka Raya and nearby communities. General medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, and critical care are among the services the new hospital will provide.

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—Paul Ranking, thrift shop manager, about a new collaboration between Avondale University and one of the largest thrift shops in Australia, run by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA). The collaboration between the two entities brings affordable counseling to the local community.

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—Gilbert Cangy, director of the South Pacific Division Centre for Discipleship, about the Catalyst initiative. This program is for young people and others searching for their purpose. The experience is immersive: participants spend a week in the wilderness before heading to Avondale University to gain a deeper understanding of Scripture, to learn Christian history, and to understand the uniqueness of the Adventist message. The program takes three months to complete.

More Than

6,000

The number of new baptized members at the end of the Earth’s Final Countdown hybrid evangelistic series in Davao, in southern Philippines. The hybrid evangelistic initiative took place at the Davao del Sur Coliseum in Digos City, where more than 10,000 church members gathered, and it was simultaneously broadcast on more than 27 Adventist radio stations and eight television stations.

—Luis Rivera, president of the Puerto Rican Union, to attendees of a lay, ministerial, and Sabbath School festival. The event sought to acquaint pastors with the GROW Your Church initiative of the Sabbath School and Personal Ministries Department of the General Conference. It also sought to support a church community that has been significantly affected by emigration in recent years. More than 700 lay leaders from across the island gathered at the Eliezer Meléndez Youth Center in the capital city of San Juan.