This week on ANN, Church leaders emphasize the need for all members to get involved with spreading the gospel through a global initiative...the president of the Seventh-day Adventist church encourages leaders and members to be sowers for building up God's Kingdom...and the Church's stewardship and planned giving and trust services ministries get new directors.

These stories and more, coming up.

This week on ANN, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America extends its sympathies to victims of a mass shooting in the U.S. state of Oregon...the World Bank announces a major projection for the efforts to end global poverty by 2030...and members of the Church's second-highest governing body gear up for Annual Council. These stories and more coming up.

This week on ANN, the Seventh-day Adventist Church mourns the loss of the former leader of the Church's Southern-Asia Pacific region...the Adventist Development and Relief Agency joins a global effort to end poverty by 2030...and the Southeast Asian nation of Timor-Leste receives its first Adventist school. 

These stories and more coming up.

This week on ANN...the Adventist Church in the Caribbean responds to the devastation of Tropical Storm Erika. ...Adventist Community Services in the U.S. state of California sets up a fundraiser for residents displaced by wildfires. and a Seventh-day Adventist University in Germany offers free language courses to refugees. These stories and more coming up.

This week on ANN...the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-Europe makes a statement of compassion for the European Migrant Crisis...an information center is established in Serbia to meet practical needs of migrants and refugees...and later see how the Adventist world church and its members can address the migrant crisis.

These stories and more coming up.

This week on ANN...Adventists handle supply distribution in Saipan in response to Typhoon Soudelor...Oakwood University sets out to be the healthiest college campus in the United States. ... and an Adventist evangelist in the U.S. tragically dies in a plane crash. These stories and more coming up.

This week on ANN, the Church's insurance company begins to transition its childhood abuse prevention campaign to End It Now... Seventh-day Adventist members in Bangladesh learn how to address domestic abuse within the country..and Atlantic Union College re-opens its classrooms for the first time in 4 years. These stories and more coming up.

This week on ANN, Adventist humanitarians provide education programs for displaced Iraqi children...Church institutions and members continue flood relief efforts in Myanmar....and later see an exclusive interview with the president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. These stories and more coming up.