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Leaders of several Seventh-day Adventist organizations are joining forces to provide urgent assistance to India and Brazil. In a May 4, 2021 action, the Administrative Committee of the General Conference (GC-ADCOM) voted to release contingency funds and ramp up the coordination of efforts by various church organizations to assist those two pandemic-ravaged nations.
Adventist leaders explained that several church organizations have already been assisting many countries affected by the lingering COVID-19 pandemic. ADRA in India has launched several projects in partnership with the Seventh-day Adventist Church health system in India. “Initial estimates in financial support, program strengthening, and in-kind, totals about US$250,000,” they reported. Since the pandemic began, the ADRA COVID-19 response in India has totaled more than $1,210,000, with another $1,000,000 expected in the coming weeks.
Doblmeier s Heschel Film & Spectrum Panel Adventist Voices
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May 6, 2021
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Jewish rabbi and theologian, civil rights advocate, Holocaust survivor, and champion of interfaith dialogue, is the subject of a new documentary Spiritual Audacity, produced and directed by Martin Doblmeier of Journey Films.
On Sabbath, May 1, Doblmeier discussed the making of the documentary during a special Adventist Forum/
Spectrum webinar hosted by the St. Paul/Minneapolis Adventist Forum Chapter and the Minnetonka SDA Church.
Alexander Carpenter, host of the Adventist Voices podcast, interviewed Doblmeier and was joined by Loma Linda University theologian Richard Rice, St. Paul Forum Chapter President Gary Blount, and
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Operating Rooms Go Under the Knife
Hospitals are bringing together surgeons, anesthesiologists and nurses with architects, engineers and administrative staff to rethink the modern operating room.
Dr. Scott T. Reeves worked on the redesign of operating rooms at the R. Keith Summey Medical Pavilion at the Medical University of South Carolina. He focused on how to make surgical suites more accommodating for technology, as well as staff and patients.Credit.Sarah Pack/MUSC
By Ellen Rosen
This article is part of our new series on the
, which examines changes in the medical field.
If you ask Dr. Scott T. Reeves, operating rooms resemble an airplane cockpit. There is sophisticated equipment, tight spaces, blinking lights and a cacophony of sound.
Walk right in/Sit right down/Daddy, let your mind roll on.
The 2021 version would be:
Walk right in/Sit right down/Daddy (and Mommy) let your sleeves roll up.
After a winter of discontent and vaccination-appointment disappointment, COVID-19 vaccines are suddenly available in abundance. Vaccination sites are taking walk-ins, mass vaccination sites are shutting down and local efforts are in motion to bring the vaccine to the people if the people can’t come to the vaccine.
The shape of things to come is evident in Massachusetts, where the state will be closing four of seven mega-vaccination clinics in June and shifting its emphasis to the harder-to-reach populations. The plan includes working through 22 regional collaboratives, increasing doses sent to primary-care doctors, and expanding mobile vaccination clinics in hard-hit areas.