Ruthy Nyawasha, the division’s Retirement and Risk Management Officer, told staff that preparation should start while they are still earning, noting that people spend decades preparing for and building a career but little time preparing for 20 to 30 years of retirement.
Women from across the North-West Zimbabwe Conference gathered at Mapfumo Campsite for a four-day Women’s Ministries Congress held under the theme “Rooted in Grace.”
More than 100 members of the Widow(ers) Single Parents Association gathered at Mhene Village in Nhema, Shurugwi, for four days of community outreach and sessions on resilience, health and wellbeing.
The Public Campus Ministry Competency Certificate Level One was conferred on 191 leaders at a Youth Big Sabbath attended by more than 3,000 young people, organisers say the largest such graduation yet in the Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division.
Local congregation leaders from Benguela and Cuanza Sul gathered in Sumbe for three days of training under the theme “Grounded in the Bible and Focused on Mission,” in the first event of its kind held by the Coastal Angola Mission.
Evalina Wandalica spent more than a decade uncertain about the day of worship. The answer came through the Novo Tempo Digital Bible School’s Princípios course, taught on video by her own nephew. She was baptised in Huambo on 24 October 2026.
The university’s 16th graduation ceremony at Lake View Campus in Ntcheu conferred degrees, diplomas and certificates across clinical medicine, nursing, education, theology and business, and saw Malawi Union Conference president Pastor Petro Sukali inaugurated as Chancellor.
Choirs from across the Union gathered in Bloemfontein for a weekend of choral worship, where participants also consecrated their mobile phones for media evangelism in support of the All Things New campaign.
Sixty-one young people and leaders from Kimberley Central Seventh-day Adventist Church visited the Beaconsfield Heritage Museum, built in 1890 and recognised as the first Seventh-day Adventist church building on the continent.
During a 15-day campaign run by Seventh-day Adventist pastors’ wives in Tenga, Moamba District, residents whose homes had not been visited began asking to be included. The campaign closed with 21 people making decisions for Christ.
Eighty-four people living with albinism, some of whom travelled from Bulawayo, Mutare and Masvingo, received free surgical and dermatological care at a camp hosted by Mt Pleasant Seventh-day Adventist Church in Harare.
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.
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