THE DISASTER “I feel so happy because I am alive and I have a house to live in. There are so many people in harsher conditions. ADRA providing food, twice, even once a day, makes us feel so grateful and happy,” said a woman recovering at ADRA’s soup kitchen in Sendai, one of the earthquake-affected [...]

Jacqueline Clarke had been watching 3ABN and discovered a new community services project called “It’s My Very Own: Bags of Love.” Bags of Love is a project that supplies the immediate necessities to displaced children, specifically children removed from the home because their parents were cooking methamphetamines in the house. Meth is terribly addictive, and [...]

For the first time in its history, the Canadian Adventist Messenger is holding a contest. Readers are being asked to carefully peruse the PRINT VERSION of our April 2011 issue to find our stylized ‘M’ hiding in our pages. When they find it, they may enter the contest by navigating to this website and commenting [...]

Working closely with the local government, ADRA Japan is preparing for the management of displacement centres caring for some of the more than 370,000 children, women, and men who were evacuated from their homes that were washed away or damaged. Local authorities have provided ADRA Japan a place to do hot meal distribution at an [...]

On Sabbaths, Alma Sparling is conspicuously absent from the lobby of the retirement facility where she lives. Any other day, she sits there knitting and chatting to visitors, residents and staff who pass by, but on Sabbaths she is at the Penticton Seventh-day Adventist Church. In the last few years, Alma, who is well into [...]

Putting action to its words, the SDACC Board of Directors invited a young adult representative to its recent year-end meetings to speak of the needs of that demographic of the church membership. Faith Calaminos, a 20-year-old CUC student, sat with the Board as a full participant but also took the floor to give a half-hour [...]

I’m excited about what God is doing across Canada! I wish you could join me as I travel throughout our country from St. John’s to Victoria and hear the stories God’s people are telling about His power and His ability to change lives. Today, however, I’d like to share with you four fundamentals that I [...]