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Turkey/Syria Earthquake: ADRA Update 2
On Monday, 20 February, two weeks after two devastating earthquakes killed thousands of people in Turkey and Syria, an aftershock of 6.3 magnitude struck Turkey's southern Hatay province near the Syrian border. ADRA staff are on the ground and continue to work in these challenging conditions. Let...
23 February 2023
Can Vegan Food be Tasty?
Even though the Seventh-day Adventist Church encourages a plant-based diet, many still think plant-based food is bland, boring, and not for them. Susanne Kirlew helps you change that view. This outdated view is still in the minds of some of us. How do I know? That is how I used to think before I ...
22 February 2023
Obituary - Beryl Avril Hall (née Williams), 1931-2022
When Beryl's breath of life returned to God, who sustained her with it for 91 years, the world had one less caring, loving soul to help Him watch over folks. Her mission was to be hospitable, greeting visitors, learning their names, and taking numerous of them home for lunch over the years. After...
21 February 2023
BUC and Stanborough Primary School Collaborate on Wellbeing
Friday, 10 February, saw the inaugural launch of the Wellbeing and Mental Health Partnership between the British Union Conference (BUC) Health Ministries department and Stanborough Primary School. This initiative is an augmentation of the BUC Health Ministries Child Health Strategy, along with th...
16 February 2023
Turkey & Syria Earthquake Update - ADRA Continues to Save Lives
By the time most of you read this report, it will be 12 days since the Kahramanmaras earthquake affected the borders of south-eastern Turkey and north-western Syria. The disaster has been dubbed the worst in modern history in the region as the death toll passes 41,000. ADRA continues to escalate ...
16 February 2023
Love In Action – Willesden Adventist Church Leads On Community Outreach
A unique outreach event on 14 February, 2023, brought scores of people from the community to the Willesden Seventh-day Adventist church. Under the caption Love In Action – Touching Lives, Changing Communities, as the world focused on Valentine's Day, the church's outreach was demonstrable of Go...
16 February 2023
Death of Esnoraldo Enrique Duarte (8 September 1951 - 12 February 2023)
We share with sadness the news of the death of Pastor Esnoraldo Enrique Duarte, whose demise occurred on Sunday 12 February, after a period of illness. Duarte entered denominational employment on 15 October 1977 in his native Colombia, where he worked before joining the South England Conference (...
16 February 2023
ADRA Responds to Turkey Syria Earthquake
On Monday, 6 February, hours after an earthquake of 7.8-magnitude struck south-eastern Turkey and Syria, followed by an aftershock of 7.5, ADRA-UK launched an Emergency Appeal. In the past two days, thanks to your generosity, we have raised more than £20,000. Let's provide you with an update abou...
9 February 2023
Sharon Platt-McDonald speaks to BBC Three Counties Radio
'Taking Action on Mental Wellbeing'
9 February 2023
Adventist Lifestyle Extolled in Channel 4 Documentary 'How to Live to 100'
Former Channel 4 News anchorman Jon Snow commended the Adventist lifestyle in a documentary, How to Live to 100 . The two-part documentary on Channel 4 was shown on Sunday, 15 and Sunday, 22 January 2023 at 6:45 pm. In this two-part documentary, in which Snow ventures out across the world to fin...
27 January 2023
Reflecting Hope – your missionary initiative
All entities within the BUC territory will organise specific events in the coming months culminating with an evangelistic proclamation of the gospel during the last two weeks of May. This is Reflecting Hope!
27 January 2023
BUC Orientation and Induction for new ministers and interns
Photos by Kofi Osei Owusu and Sam Davies
26 January 2023
Collaboration on Mental Health by Adventist Leaders and Hertfordshire NHS & Police
In a high-level strategy meeting held Monday, 16 January, at the South England Conference office, Adventist leaders met with Hertfordshire Police force and NHS personnel to discuss the Mental Health agenda for communities within its region. Enoch Kanagaraj, founder and CEO of One Vision charity, ...
19 January 2023
ITV News Features Tottenham Lighthouse Church on its humanitarian work
Changing Lives, Impacting Communities
13 January 2023
Strangers in the Night
It happened just as the day retired and the shades of the evening took centre stage. The hospital car park was still and silent. The half-filled car park asleep with a plethora of vehicles patiently awaiting the return of their drivers. She ran out of nowhere. Hysterical. Sobbing. Inconsolable. T...
13 January 2023