'Portable churches' paring down budgets at some houses of worship

Each Saturday, Moorpark Community Church unpacks at its Sabbath service location, an auditorium in the city’s Mesa Verde Middle School. The church has found renting space just once a week frees up money to spend on ministries and outreach. [photo: courtesy Moorpark Community Church]

Ministry trumps maintenance: Southern California church could move, slash overhead by 74 percent

Program to offer continuing education units

Adventist communicators at the world church's Communication Advisory held in Laurel, Md. in 2006. [Photo: Glenn Mitchell/ANN]

Certification plan for Adventist communication professionals unveiled

Didn't give up bus seat 11 years before Rosa Parks; won Supreme Court case

Irene Morgan Kirkaldy won a United States Supreme Court case in 1944 banning segregation on interstate transportation. The case helped launch the civil rights era and the long struggle to end segregation laws. She died in Virginia on August 10 at age 90. [photo: courtesy Morgan family]

U.S. civil rights pioneer Irene Morgan Kirkaldy remembered for courage

More than 500 dead, 1,600 injured in magnitude-8 quake

The Peruvian government has declared a state of emergency in Ica, near the earthquake’s epicenter. [graphic: Nathan Gemmell/ANN]

Peru earthquake damages churches, schools

A spiritual growth program for kids is steadily gaining popularity in North America, and even faster in Australia and parts of Europe.

MacLafferty says since its launch in 2002, Kids In Discipleship has grown youth attendance rates in North America, Europe and, most recently, Australia. The team plans to take the ministry to parents in the Philippines next year.

Discipleship program puts parents, not pastors, in charge of kids' spirituality

Singer-songwriter Lennox set to release first album

“Lennox” is a self-taught Adventist musician living in Los Angeles who bases his songs on Scripture and says he hopes lyrics encourage listeners to pick up their Bibles. He will release his first album next month. [photo: Jade Easterday]

Adventist musician looking to live what he sings

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Peru earthquake damages churches, schools

Discipleship program puts parents, not pastors, in charge of kids' spirituality

Adventist musician looking to live what he sings