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BAADHI YA WANACHUO WA CHA USIMAMIZI WA FEDHA(IFM) WAKISIKILIZA MANENO YA FARAJA TOKA KWA MCHUNGAJI YOYO KATIKA MOJA YA SIKU ZA KUFUNGA NA KUOMBA...

BAADHI YA WANACHUO WA CHA USIMAMIZI WA FEDHA(IFM) WAKISIKILIZA MANENO YA FARAJA TOKA KWA MCHUNGAJI YOYO KATIKA MOJA YA SIKU ZA KUFUNGA NA KUOMBA...

BAADHI YA WANACHUO WA CHA USIMAMIZI WA FEDHA(IFM) WAKISIKILIZA MANENO YA FARAJA TOKA KWA MCHUNGAJI YOYO KATIKA MOJA YA SIKU ZA KUFUNGA NA KUOMBA...

BAADHI YA WANACHUO WA CHA USIMAMIZI WA FEDHA(IFM) WAKISIKILIZA MANENO YA FARAJA TOKA KWA MCHUNGAJI YOYO KATIKA MOJA YA SIKU ZA KUFUNGA NA KUOMBA...

 Miongoni mwa mapito katika maisha tena hasa ya kielemu ni haya,kupangiwa mitihani siku ya Sabato na pia kujikuja mitihani hii tena ukiomba ibadilishwe inapangwa tena siku ya Sabato..
Leo ni miongoni wa maombi ya mfungo ambayo pia yameenda sambamba na neno la faraja toka kwa Mchungaji Yoyo ambaye ni Mchungaji mlezi wetu wanafunzi wanachuo Waadventista Wasabato kwa kanda hii ya Dar Es Salaam..
Hili ni kundi dogo tu kati ya mengi Duniani,tukitokea Chuo cha Usimamizi wa Fedha (IFM),tulipangiwa mitihani siku ya Sabato na tukaandika barua,baadhi yetu hawakujibiwa na waliojbiwa bado wamepangiwa masaa ya Sabato..
Waijua imani yako lakini wito mkuu ni UFUNUO 14:12"12 Hapa ndipo penye subira ya watakatifu, hao wazishikao amri za Mungu, na imani ya Yesu."zidi kuombea kundi hili na BWANA akubariki...

Busy Road

Land for a School

Light in the Darkness

March 13, 2013 – Miami, Florida, United States…Libna Stevens/IAD
Thousands of students attending Adventist schools and universities across Inter-America took a day off from class work on March 7 and spent their time in prayer, Bible study, and worship activities instead. The special day marked the third consecutive year that church leaders, teachers and students throughout Adventist schools and universities have engaged in spiritual revival activities focused on promoting a daily prayer life on campus.
“In Inter-America, we consider prayer to be so important that we have set aside academic activities for a day,” said Dr. Gamaliel Florez, education director for the church in Inter-America.
According to Dr. Florez, the message on the importance of prayer in the life of students and teachers is three-fold.
“Firstly,” he says, “God is the most important One in our educational system for we depend on Him for everything. Secondly, church leaders stand alongside our teachers and students and are concerned for their salvation. And, thirdly, we care and pray for our neighbors and local authorities.”
In Puerto Rico, these messages were visible on the campus of Antillean Adventist University (AAU) in Mayaguez, the hub of the territory-wide event. Nearly 1,000 church leaders, teachers, students, parents from the area Adventist schools and the community at large engaged in a series of activities the moment each one entered on campus.
“As each person entered the campus, there was a prayer station where they and their needs would be prayed for,” observed Dr. Florez, who traveled and took part in the special program.
Students were given a special passport that would guide them to several stations throughout the campus such as a tent where they could read a verse in the Bible in English, Spanish, French, or Portuguese, a praise tent where students sang hymns and praise songs, an electronic testifying station where each one could send text messages on the cell phone, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to five of their friends, an intercessory prayer station where friends prayed for friends, as well as a performance by the AAU gymnastic team with several presentations inspired by the Bible, among other activities.
In addition, a central message was featured at the assembly campus auditorium where many students were challenged to give their life to Jesus and later witnessed the baptism of a fellow student.
“It was so moving to see students participating in the day’s activities,” said Dr. Florez, “to see the teachers supporting and encouraging students, who were touched by the activities, to seek a deeper spiritual relationship with God, was a true blessing.”
A representative of the Mayaguez mayor’s office spoke to the assembly and thanked the church for such activities and attested to the benefits of prayer and trust in God.
The day’s activity at AAU fit in perfectly as the church was in the middle of a week of prayer on campus, said Pastor Abiezer Rodriguez, pastor of AAU campus church and organizer of the day’s activities.
“Our main goal was to reach the heart of our students for Jesus,” said Rodriguez. “There are hundreds of our students who still need to seal their choice for the Savior, and the day’s activities were a testament to the importance of a daily prayerful life with Him.”
Elsewhere on the island, dozens of primary and secondary schools took part in prayer celebrations.
In Jamaica, some 400 students gathered from six Adventist primary and secondary schools at the Kencot Seventh-day Adventist School in St. Andrew, East Jamaica, to pray during a worship program. Church leaders and educators joined the activity and challenged students to live their life immersed in prayer.
Dinorah Rivera, children’s ministries director for the church in Inter-America, challenged pupils to pursue a life of prayer.
“Live a life of example in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity,” Rivera said. “Allow your characters to be molded into the character of Jesus as you pray each day.”
Students had the opportunity to pray together and share their experiences in answered prayers.
In Mexico City, dozens of Adventist schools participated in the prayer activities with music, drama performances, and more. The more than 230 students at the Ignacio Manuel Altamirano Adventist School in Mexico City wrote prayer requests on white helium balloons before praying and releasing the balloons into the sky.
In Guatemala, 27 primary and secondary schools held special prayer programs that included poems, drama presentations, a prayer request ceremony and more.
Community and district leaders were invited to the Orion school in Jocotenango, Sacatepequez where they were given a gift Bible and were prayed for.
“It’s wonderful to how in the past three years, there is growing enthusiasm during the special day of prayer throughout educational institutions in our territory,” said Dr. Florez. “I have been able to see how students and teachers take one with greater enthusiasm this special day and more importantly they recognize the great importance for a victorious Christian life.”
Church leaders and educators will continue to promote prayer, Bible study and sharing of the gospel to Inter-America’s more than 173,000 students attending 1,002 schools including 14 universities across its territory.

Monteiro, Moumouni acquitted; others sentenced to more prison, some for life

January 12, 2014 | Silver Spring, Maryland, United States | ANN staff

In a split decision, a verdict was handed down today by a court in Lomé, Togo, that acquits Seventh-day Adventist pastor Antonio Monteiro and sentences Adventist Church member Bruno Amah to life in prison, a lawyer for the Adventist world church said. The decision by the Lomé Court of Appeals comes nearly 22 months after the two men and others were detained in March of 2012 on charges of conspiracy to commit murder.

In a case that has captured the attention of the global denomination, the two men, as well as three others, were detained nearly two years ago without trial and solely on the accusation of one man who was described as a “pathological liar” in a court-ordered psychiatric exam. That man, Kpatcha Simliya, who was also detained, was also convicted in this morning's ruling and sentenced to life in prison.

Todd McFarland, an associate general counsel for the Adventist world church headquarters, who was with the defense team at this weekend’s trial, said the ruling also included two other men—Beteynam Raphael Kpiki Sama, who was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison and fined 10 million CFA francs (US$20,800), and Idrissou Moumouni, who was acquitted.

The nearly two-year saga has been followed by millions of Seventh-day Adventists, who have held international prayer vigils, launched social media campaigns, sponsored letter-writing initiatives to government officials and diplomats, held press conferences and led a signature drive for a petition calling for the men’s release.

"We have mixed feelings about the decision of the court," said John Graz, Public Affairs and Religious Liberty director for the Adventist world church. "The acquittal of Pastor Monteiro is good news and we are happy for him and his family. We are surprised and very sad about the condemnation of Amah."

Monteiro, a native of the island nation of Cape Verde, had been serving as a missionary in Togo since 2009 as the Family Ministries director at the denomination’s Sahel Union Mission in Lomé.

The arrests and detentions unfolded following a string of homicides in September of 2011.

Depending on different newspaper and police accounts, more than a dozen bodies of women between the ages of 12 and 36 had been found in the northern Lomé suburb of Agoué. The bodies had stab wounds and some sexual organs had been removed. Blood and animal parts are often used in ceremonies of Voodoo, which is widely practiced in Togo.

When no arrests were made, the public demanded justice for the killings, church leaders said.

Simliya was later shown on television surrounded by police guards, telling the story of the series of murders he said that he organized and naming accomplices who collected blood and organs. But much of the story proved unlikely, including the number of victims and the methods used, according to Simliya’s medical examiner.

“Any informed and reasonable man would have doubts regarding his incredible outpouring or the feasibility of his crimes or supposed crimes,” a September 9, 2012, court-ordered psychiatric exam stated, which was viewed by ANN.

Simliya would later recant his accusation, saying he was beaten by police and forced to give names of people he supposedly knew were co-conspirators in a blood trafficking network, according to the psychiatric exam.

Still, his testimony—the only evidence in the case—was enough to bring convictions in today’s ruling. The jury that made the ruling consisted of three judges and six lay persons, McFarland said.

This morning’s decision was handed down at 5 a.m., McFarland said. The trial began Friday, January 10 at 8:45 a.m. and extended until 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning. The court reconvened at 11:45 a.m. on Saturday, and closing arguments ended at 11:30 p.m. that evening.

Region’s 50,000 elders are crucial part of church life, growth

October 02, 2013 | Miami, Florida, United States | Libna Stevens/ANN

Thousands of Seventh-day Adventist elders—or lay pastors—across the church’s Inter-America Division were temporarily authorized to baptize new believers this week during the culmination of nine months of lay-led evangelism across the region.

The initiative, called “Year of the Laity,” has empowered lay members and promoted their contributions to church life and growth.

“We rejoice with our laypeople across the Inter-American Division for their committed efforts during this historic event,” said Israel Leito, president for the church in Inter-America. “It just reaffirms the value the church places on our laypeople, especially our church elders who are crucial in assisting pastors every week in thousands of congregations.”

With more than 15,000 Adventist congregations in Inter-America and fewer than 3,200 pastors, an average pastor in the region oversees about five churches. Inter-America’s 50,000 Adventist elders are essential to church life and growth as pastors juggle multiple churches, said Hector Sanchez, ministerial secretary for the church in Inter-America.

“We are thankful for the men and women church elders who faithfully work alongside our pastors every week,” Sanchez said.

Elders invited to baptize new believers on September 28 were required to meet four conditions, Sanchez said. Each elder was first appointed by the church, ordained, authorized to baptize, and have a baptismal candidate or candidates that he or she introduced to the Adventist Church through Bible studies.

Clara Davidson, 62, an ordained elder from Harry Watch Seventh-day Adventist Church in central Jamaica, grew excited as she waited her turn to baptize at Camp Verley, where over 4,000 people gathered to witness dozens of baptisms.

“It is a joy of a different kind to be in the place of a pastor baptizing someone,” Davidson said.

Dany Santos, head elder of the 15 Avenida Adventist Church in Guatemala City, was among the 248 church elders in Guatemala who baptized 1,662 new members on Saturday. Santos leads the Orion Rehabilitation Home operated by the church to help people with drug and alcohol addictions. The opportunity to baptize 31 people from the home was moving, he said.

“To be able to baptize those brothers and sisters who have struggled with addictions brings great joy in my heart today,” Santos said.

“This experience is something that motivates us as elders and drives us to continue investing time and resources in the work of the Lord and continue joint efforts with pastors preparing a people for the soon coming of the Lord," he added.

For decades, church leaders in Inter-America have encouraged close partnership between laypeople and pastors to better nurture churches and conduct outreach. The thousands of baptisms conducted by elders this week—while for now a one-time event—came as no surprise, they said. 

According to reports from church administrators in Inter-America, nearly 2,000 people were baptized by church elders in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Another 600 were baptized in Cuba and hundreds joined the church in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Elders baptized new members in the Bahamas, St. Vincent, West Venezuela and Jamaica, among other countries.

The Inter-American Division reports a membership of more than 3.6 million. The region includes the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America and the five northernmost countries of South America.

The Voice of Youth group prays last month before visiting local communities in Luzon, Philippines. The group, from Adventist University of the Philippines, is comprised of approximately 500 members and shares the gospel in local neighborhoods. More than 300 people joined the Adventist Church through the group’s work. [photo: Ron Genebago]

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  • Daily at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m - Pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit!

  • Sabbath April 4, 2014 - Sabbath of Prayer and Fasting

  • Sabbath July 4, 2014 - Sabbath of Prayer and Fasting

  • Sabbath October 3, 2014 - Sabbath of Prayer and Fasting

  • January 7-17, 2015 - Ten Days of Prayer (formerly Operation Global Rain) first Sabbath of each quarter is designated as a day of prayer and fasting for the world church. Members should focus their prayers on specific themes during the designated Fasting and Prayer Days, while also remembering to pray for other local and individual needs.

Drawing inspiration from a song by Nairobi Station Pathfinders, Ted N. C. Wilson, president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, continued to spread the message of Revival and Reformation in his keynote sermon delivered on Sabbath, April 23, 2011. In his message, Wilson called for leaders to exercise unity and humility as they carried out their work for God's glory.

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