Young Adult Ministries

Register for a full day of training for all church leaders including treasurers, clerks, health, and youth on December 7 at the Clovis church...

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Please come join us at our two annual events! Tenaya Lodge on Jan. 30-Feb. 1 and at the Soquel Conference Center on Feb. 6-8. Hope to see you there!

Lawmakers considering a $25 billion aid package for the auto industry made getting a plan from carmakers a condition for getting the money. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid say if there's a viable plan, Congress might return to work in early next month for a vote.

Christopher Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, says he's frustrated with how banks are using funds provided by the government. He also thinks the Treasury Department has been too slow in addressing the mortgage crisis. Dodd tells Steve Inskeep that Congress may have to reconsider some parts of the rescue plan it approved.

Stock prices are at six-year lows. Over the past two days the Dow Jones industrial average has lost more than 6 percent of its value. The $700 billion bailout was supposed to stabilize the financial industry and get banks lending again. But that hasn't happened yet.

The G-20 last weekend committed to exercising strong oversight of credit rating agencies. Many of the financial instruments that are at the heart of the financial crisis had been given triple-A ratings, meaning they were supposed to be of the highest quality. That turned out to be wrong. Will the G-20 declaration change anything?

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Vietnam received official recognition last month, granting the church in the Southeast Asian nation legal status to operate, church officials said.

Hundreds of previously illiterate Mozambican adults are reading and writing after completing the first part of a four-level literacy program last week.

Romanian national president Traian Basescu visited a Seventh-day Adventist Church in Madrid, Spain earlier this month, drawing attention to the country's significant Romanian immigrant population -- 6,000 of whom are Adventists.

Jere D. Patzer, North Pacific Union Conference president since 1996, died October 26 following a lengthy battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was 61.