While her peers are opting for learning how to play a piano or violin, 16-year old Liva Zilgalve is getting laurels playing kokle, a 30-string instrument popular among the national folk scene.
First registered by the national government of Lithuania in 1926, some 76 years ago, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is moving toward official recognition by the Lithuanian Parliament, according to Bertold Hibner, secretary for the church in Lithuania.
Working from a bare-bones basement studio in Bucharest, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is reaching an entire nation via television.
Global Mission pioneers, or Seventh-day Adventist lay volunteers, will distribute 40 million "Sow 1 Billion" brochures around the world, according to a goal set last month by the Global Mission operations committee.
Making and marketing vegetarian foods--a business related to the Seventh-day Adventist Church's health-promotion message, yet one of the movement's best kept secrets--is having a positive effect in many nations.
Pan-European Adventist Youth Congress Planned -- Adventist Conscientious Objector Noted