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BREAKING: Spectrum Covering #SanBernardino Shooting Live at LLUMC in Loma Linda
Shooting.jpg Multiple news outlets have reported an active shooter in the vicinity of Loma Linda University. At approximately 12:20pm I spoke with a professor at Loma Linda University who said that the...
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Live in Loma Linda - On the Ground Reports from Inland Regional Shooting
LLUMC_Shooting_Incident.jpeg Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) found itself at the center of a mass shooting that garnered national news attention Wednesday. We reported live from the...
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"We Must Again Mourn" - Adventist Community Responds to San Bernardino Tragedy
Roberts.png A day after two shooters identified by law enforcement as Syed Rizwan Farook, 28 and his partner Tashfeen Malik, 27 went on a shooting rampage at the Inland Regional Center in San...
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Our Thanks and Gratitude for Those Who Gave
Thank_You.png Giving Tuesday prompted a surge in donations to Spectrum. We received $12,216 from 34 donors. Our thanks to each and every one of them for making a difference in our community. Giving...
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Azure Hills Church Will Hold Prayer Vigil Tonight for California Communities
prayer-vigil.png This evening (Friday, December 4), the Azure Hills Seventh-day Adventist Church will hold a prayer vigil intended to help the communities around Loma Linda, San Bernardino and...
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History Made in New Guinea as Woman Pastor Commissioned
Woman_minister_PNG.jpg The Record, the official news magazine of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists, has reported that Papua New Guinea has made history with its first commissioning...
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First-Person Accounts from California Communities Torn by Violence
Do_Not_Cross.jpg Southern California communities continue to struggle to come to terms with this act of violence that has hit not just close to home; for those named in this story—and for my own...
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Intimate Azure Hills Vigil Creates Space for Mourning, Processing Emotions
Candles.jpg The Azure Hills Seventh-day Adventist Church held an intimate prayer vigil Friday night intended to commemorate those killed in the San Bernardino shooting, and to allow community members...
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"I Start Each Day with Bible Reading," Ben Carson Says
BenCarson_Lord_WhiteHouse.png Seventh-day Adventist retired neurosurgeon and presidential hopeful Ben Carson told Christianity Today that even on the campaign trail, he begins every day with prayer and...
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Religious Liberty Advocate John Stevens Has Died
John_Stevens.jpg Stevens was a passionate advocate for religious liberty that fit the Adventist mold, in line with A.T. Jones, that favored strict church-state separation and broad Constitutional...
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North American Division President Authors HuffPo Op-Ed on Welcoming Refugees
Care_For_Refugees.jpg Daniel R. Jackson, president of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, has authored an opinion piece for the Huffington Post arguing that the United States must...
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UPDATED: La Sierra University Mourns the Loss of Nicholas Culver
Culver.jpg The La Sierra University community is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of Nicholas Culver, a freshman general studies student from Rancho Cucamonga, who was found deceased in Sierra Towers...
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Hansa Conference In Germany Affirms Prior Decision to Ordain Without Regard...
Hansa_Conference.jpg The Hansa Conference in the North German Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which includes the states of Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Schleswig-Holstein, has...
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Czecho-Slovakian Union Conference Issues Statement in Favor of Ordaining Women
Czecho_Slovakian.png"Our stance was further reinforced in June 2014 by the Final Report of the Church’s world-wide Theology of Ordination Study Committee (TOSC), which studied the issue for two years...
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Adventist News Headlines: New Zealand Adventure Company Found Guilty in Ropes...
Tui_Ridge_Park.png Also in the news this week: Pakistani Adventist convicted of Muslim blasphemy; Malawi church member threatens pastor; Adventist cellist fired for refusing Sabbath work; Iowa church...
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Keene Independent School District Votes to Give Teachers Guns
KISD.jpg The decision will not have an immediate impact on the Adventist schools in the City of Keene, which include Keene Adventist Elementary, Chisholm Trail Academy, and Southwestern Adventist...
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Three Communities, Six Women, One Spirit: Celebrating 20 Years of Women's...
P1010506.JPG On September 23, 1995, the Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church in Maryland, under the leadership of Rudy Torres, held the first ordination service of female ministers: Kendra Haloviak,...
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UPDATED: Andrews University Announces the Death of Student Whitney Watson
WhitneyWatson-cropped.jpg A sophomore at Andrews University, Whitney was a double major in math and viola performance and planned to follow in her parents' and older sister WayAnne’s footsteps toward a...
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VIDEO: The First Adventist Women Ministers to be Ordained Share Their Stories
20th Anniversary Ordination.jpg Pioneering Adventist ministers Kendra Haloviak Valentine, Norma Osborn, Sheryll Prinz-McMillan, Penny Shell and Halcyon Wilson reflect on their 1995 ordinations to...
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Former General Conference President Robert Folkenberg Memorial will be...
Folkenberg.jpg Robert S. Folkenberg, former president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, passed away during the week before Christmas, according to his family. He was 74. A memorial...
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