The baptisms at the Lilongwe prison followed sustained Bible study and daily devotions run by Area 47 Seventh-day Adventist Church, whose Women’s Ministries department also shared a meal with more than 800 inmates.
The Coastal Mission in Benguela and Kwanza-Sul has begun tracking and acting on member retention. One man invited back through the effort was baptised, and has since given every employee at his pharmacies, Adventist or not, Saturdays off.
The Lesotho Conference’s 2026 National Camp-Meeting drew members from 52 churches and recorded its largest attendance since the pandemic, closing on 4 October with the baptism of 55 people drawn from 18 congregations.
Mathinya and Matsepiso Sesioana of Maseru, Lesotho, mark six decades of marriage with a testimony that lasting love is less a feeling than a practice, built on fearing God, forgiving quickly and admitting when you are wrong.
A delegation led by Northeast Angola Union president Pastor Teixeira Mateus Vinte was received by Minister of Territorial Administration Daniel Félix Neto, where it appealed for understanding on Sabbath observance and sought clarification on the national voter registration update.
Kanye District leadership has agreed to work more closely with Kanye Adventist Hospital, coordinating the district’s primary health services with the hospital’s secondary care — and signalled interest in the hospital’s newly upgraded private wing, whose revenue is intended to subsidise care on the public side.
Erton Köhler appeals to Seventh-day Adventist leaders to make mission a priority.
Residents of Mhene Village in Muzarabani, Zimbabwe, walked to the Msengezi River for water despite crocodile attacks that villagers say killed four women earlier this year. A borehole and garden project driven by the Seventh-day Adventist Church has ended the journey.
They came from every level of church structure across the Division, content creators, communication directors, personal ministries leaders, for three days in Malawi learning how to turn a phone and an internet connection into mission.
A building once used as a school laboratory has been converted into Lesotho's first Adventist World Radio station, dedicated on 1 October 2026 by the Minister of Local Government and Chieftainship.
When 13-year-old Deolinda Dala could not attend her district's scarf investiture ceremony on 19 September 2026, her Pathfinder leader brought the ceremony to her hospital bed in Zango 8 Mil.
After watching one child grow through club activities, a non-Adventist father at Bela Vista Adventist Church in Lobito, Angola, enrolled two more, all three invested on Global Adventurer and Pathfinder Day.
Pastor Ge Xueshun, his wife Ma Zhiying, and their two daughters have begun a five-year assignment to reach Zimbabwe's growing Chinese community, the first missionaries received by the Zimbabwe East Union Conference.
The Adventist Athletics Club Lesotho chapter marked ten years with its inaugural 10km Run Your City race in Maseru on Sunday, 13 September 2026, drawing a Member of Parliament, a High Court judge, and a field in which the large majority came from outside the Adventist Church.
Churches from the Trans-Orange Conference and the Northern Conference of South Africa gathered at Sedaven Estate in Heidelberg, Gauteng, on Sabbath, 12 September 2026, for a joint launch of OneVoice27 led by Southern Africa Union Conference President Dr. Paul Shongwe.
A campaign led by Adventist World Radio with the Indian Ocean Union Conference and Central Madagascar Conference treated more than 9,000 patients at a four-day health fair in Antananarivo before eight days of evangelistic meetings closed with 566 baptisms on Sabbath, 5 September 2026.
Members of the Maphisa Seventh-day Adventist Church Dorcas Department have built a new house and toilet for Sibonisiwe Zulu of Mahetshe Village, months after she and her sister fled their collapsing home in the middle of the night.
SID PARL Director Dr. Pako Mokgwane and IOUC leaders met senior Malagasy officials and three Adventist Members of Parliament during a visit to Antananarivo from 25 to 29 August 2026, alongside health outreach that served more than 9,000 patients.
Angolan literature evangelist Vicente Mendes da Silva has no smartphone. With a basic handset and a three-day messaging package, he has spent years sending messages of hope, and one of them reached a man at the moment he needed it most.
ADRA Zambia has become the first of 30 ADRA offices in Africa to complete the current cycle of the ADRA Accreditation and Licensing process, marked at a handover ceremony in Lusaka on 20 August 2026 attended by ADRA International and ADRA Africa leadership.
Adventists gathered at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Westville Campus on 5 September 2026 for the Durban launch of OneVoice27, consecrating their mobile phones for mission under the theme "All Things New: Hope Starts Here."
The third Zimbabwe West Union Conference Adventist Possibility Ministries camp meeting ran from 27 to 29 August 2026 at Maranatha Institutions in Bulawayo, with attendance rising from 223 on the opening day to 490 on Sabbath.
The Budiriro and Glen Norah districts ran a race and health expo at Chimbumu grounds on 30 August 2026, drawing more than 300 participants — about 60 per cent of them not Adventist, two weeks before an evangelistic campaign opens in the area.
A two-week campaign run by Central Malawi Conference Women's Ministries across four centres in Kapiri, Dedza, ended on 22 August 2026 with 150 baptisms, about 30 of them at Sitolo, a village that had no Adventist members beforehand.
A borehole sunk at roughly 150 metres on 22 June 2026 ended a multi-year shortage at Solusi Adventist High School in Zimbabwe, after five earlier attempts; some drilled beyond 130 metres — came up dry.
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