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Nine-year-old Regina Banda of Mambwe District, Eastern Province, has returned to school and community life after receiving medical treatment and rehabilitation through the ADRA Zambia-implemented Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (DiDRR) Project, funded by the German BMZ and supported by Christian Blind Mission.
The three-day symposium at Solusi Adventist High School in Matabeleland brought together over 500 upper-level students from 16 regional secondary schools for direct engagement with national examiners ahead of their final examinations.
The Mzola Adventist District hosted iDale Labobaba (The Fathers' Court), a four-day men's empowerment forum held at Chief Menyezwa's homestead in Lupane, Matabeleland North, from 8 to 11 July 2026. Two people were baptised at the close of the programme.
A delegation led by AHI Corporate Secretary Dr. Danjuma toured Kanye Adventist Hospital and Moshupa Adventist Clinic on 7 July 2026, introduced the new AHI Botswana Board Chairperson Lucas Secor, and reviewed proposed developments for a newly donated plot of land near Moshupa.
The Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division delegation to the Network Leadership Conference in Auckland brings home a call to collaboration, digital missionary work, and preparations for the global Church's OneVoice27 evangelistic emphasis in September 2027.
Approximately 11,000 women from 32 Mission Districts camped at Mbabala Camp Site in Choma for a week-long Dorcas rally from 5 to 11 July 2026, combining spiritual renewal with practical training in evangelism, family life, and poultry keeping.
The "Evangelistic Impact" campaign, held across Benguela and Cuanza Sul provinces from 27 June to 4 July 2026, saw 2,588 people baptised into the Seventh-day Adventist Church, with the South Seles district recording the highest figure at 307 baptisms.
The Heroes of Faith Pathfinder Club, based at Km 12B Adventist Church in the North Angola Mission, celebrated its 30th anniversary with a baptismal service that drew more than 20 young people into Church membership, in the presence of one of the club's co-founders.
More than 140 young people from the South Botswana Conference spent nearly three weeks in Artesia Village combining evangelism, health ministry, and compassionate service under the 2026 DX Missions Camp, resulting in 30 baptisms and strengthening the newly established Artesia Adventist Church.
In a joint civil-religious ceremony at the Arakan Army Chapel in Lusaka, 14 chaplains, most serving with the Zambia National Service, were ordained to the gospel ministry and inducted into national service chaplaincy roles on Sabbath, 27 June 2026.
The Southwest Angola Union Mission is training a second cohort of Digital Missionaries in Lubango, following the graduation of 24 in the pilot programme earlier this year. Training begins this week under the Union's OneVoice27 initiative.
A colporteur who sold Christian literature to hospital staff in Camacupa, Bié Province, received a message six years later, from the hospital's former Clinical Director, Filipe Helena Sabino Wanga, who has since been baptised into the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Pastor Amos Mapharing has been appointed to a newly established office at the Kanye Seventh-day Adventist College of Nursing in Botswana, as the institution triples student enrolment under a two-year period of rapid growth.
The Nigerian scholar succeeds Professor Vincent Injety and pledges "MISSION" as the guiding framework of his tenure at the Adventist Church's flagship postgraduate institution in Africa.
A senior Adventist pastor and theological educator, whose former students now lead the Malawi Union and Central Malawi Conferences, was honoured at Kawale Adventist Church on Sunday, 14 June 2026, at a ceremony organised by the BACOMRAS recognition initiative.
Over 1,000 women from the Mzuzu Zone marched to Mzuzu Prison on Sabbath, 20 June 2026, distributing Bibles, food, and toiletries to both male and female inmates, with Malawi Union Women's Ministries Director Linda Kasambara preaching the sermon.
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency, working with the Reality 7 Foundation, the Zimbabwean Consulate, and Seventh-day Adventist Church volunteers, has distributed relief and assisted with documentation as buses depart Epping daily, transporting an estimated 2,000 migrants home to Zimbabwe.
The Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division's flagship campaign delivered more than 26,000 baptisms and a working model of what integrated mission looks like when every department pulls in the same direction.
Lourenço Baptista left the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1973. He returned this Sabbath, baptised during the central programme of Reencounter Project 2026 at Calemba Church in Luanda.
Dorcas ladies from Beitbridge Central District served hot meals to more than 430 adults and 100 children stranded at Taxi, Bus Terminus and Engen Garage over two days, as Zimbabwean and Malawian nationals returned home.
The Adventist Athletics Club gathered in Durban before South Africa's flagship ultramarathon for a worship session on healthy living and mission, with members carrying the message "Maranatha - Jesus Is Coming Again" on their running vests.
At 26, Bettina Szabo left Hungary to put her climate research into practice. Eight months into her ADRA Zambia deployment, she has traded textbooks for nshima, field visits, and a new understanding of what community-led development looks like.
Members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church spent the first Sabbath of June at Esperança Orphanage in Maputo, restoring the grounds, building a water tank base, and donating more than 200 notebooks.
Twenty-four members of the Adventist Men's Organisation visited the Army Superior Institute in Huambo, delivering more than 100 books and a sermon on "Purity in a Corrupt World."
A Seventh-day Adventist pastor calmly continued a baptismal service in Caiundo after spotting hippopotamuses surface nearby. Nine new members were baptised, a deacon and deaconess consecrated, and eighteen children dedicated.