by Onovae Akpoesiri | Nov 14, 2023 | world Church
The Seventh Day Adventist Church is a big group that does similar things all around the world. They live and worship in different places, but the 21 million members are more than just a religious community—they’re like a family.
It can be hard for them to feel close because they’re spread out. One way they try to feel more together is by celebrating special days and events together, even though they’re in different time zones. These special days help them feel connected and also make them more aware of important issues like preventing abuse, supporting families, and protecting religious freedom.
CALENDAR OF SPECIAL DAYS, EVENTS AND OFFERINGS – 2024
January 2024
January 6: Quarterly Day of Prayer
January 10-20: Ten Days of Prayer – For more information, click HERE to download material
January 13: Health Ministries – For more information, please contact your local division.
January 20: Religious Liberty Day – For more information, please contact the General Conference Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty.
February 2024
February 3: Reach the World: Personal Outreach – For more information, please contact the General Conference Department of Sabbath School and Personal Ministries.
February 10-17: Christian Home and Marriage Week – Click HERE for Material
March 2024
March 2: Women’s Day of Prayer – To Download materials, Click HERE
March 9: Adventist World Radio – For more information, please contact Adventist World Radio.
March 16-23: Youth Week of Prayer – Click HERE
March 16: Global Youth Day – For more information – Click HERE
March 16: Global Children’s Day – For more information, please see the General Children’s Ministries website.
March 23: Christian Education – For more information, please contact your local division.
April 2024
April 6: Quarterly Day of Prayer
April 6: Youth Spiritual Commitment Celebration (Northern Hemisphere) – For more information, please contact your local division.
April 13: Friends of Hope Day (Visitor’s Day) – For more information, please contact the General Conference Department of Sabbath School and Personal Ministries.
April 13: Hope Channel International – For more information, please contact Hope Channel International.
April 13-19: Literature Evangelism Rally Week – For more information, please contact your local division.
April 13: World Impact Day—for Distribution of Missionary Book – For more information, please contact your local division.
April 20: Possibility Ministries Day – For more information, please contact the Adventist Possibility Ministries.
May 2024
May 4-25: Drug Awareness Month – For more information, please contact the General Conference Department of Health Ministries.
May 4: Reach the World: Using Communication Channels – This day has been set aside to share our church’s global strategic plan with the world.
May 11: Reach the World: In the Community – For more information, please contact your local division.
May 18: Global Adventurer’s Day – For more information, contact the General Conference Youth Ministries department.
May 25: World Day of Prayer for Children at Risk
June 2024
June 1: Reach the World: Bible Study: Sabbath School and Correspondence Courses
June 8: Women’s Ministries Emphasis Day – For more information, please contact the General Conference Department of Woman’s Ministries.
June 15: Reach the World: Nurturing Other Members and Reclaiming
June 15: Adventist Church World Refugee Day – For more information, please contact the Adventist Development and Relief Agency.
June 22: World Public Campus Ministries Day – For more information, please visit the General Conference Youth Ministries department website.
July 2024
July 6: Quarterly Day of Prayer
July 13: Mission Promotion: World Mission
July 20: Reach the World: Media Ministry – For more information, please contact the General Conference Department of Communication.
July 27: Children’s Sabbath – For more information, please see the General Children’s Ministries website.
August 2024
August 3: Global Mission Evangelism – For more information, please contact your local division.
August 10: Reach the World: Church Planting – For more information, please contact Adventist Mission.
August 17: Education Day – For more information, please contact the General Conference Department of Education.
August 24: enditnow Day – For more information, please contact the General Conference Department of Women’s Ministries.
August 24: Lay Evangelism – For more information, please contact your local division.
September 2024
September 1-7: Family Togetherness Week of Prayer – For more information, please contact the General Conference Department of Family Ministries.
September 7: Family Togetherness Day of Prayer – For more information, please contact the General Conference Department of Family Ministries.
September 7: Youth Spiritual Commitment Celebration (Southern Hemisphere) – For more information, please contact your local division.
September 14: Mission Promotion: Unusual Opportunities – For more information, please contact Adventist Mission.
September 21: Pathfinder Day – For more information, visit the Youth Ministries website.
September 28: Sabbath School Guest Day – For more information, please contact your local division.
October 2024
October 5: Quarterly Day of Prayer
October 5: Adventist Review Subscription Promotion – For more information, visit the Adventist Review website.
October 12: Pastor Appreciation Day – For more information, visit the Elder’s Digest website.
October 19: Spirit of Prophecy and Adventist Heritage – For more information, please view the Ellen G. White Estate website.
October 26: Creation Sabbath – For more information, please view the Creation Sabbath website.
November 2024
November 2-9: Week of Prayer
November 9-15: e-Week of Prayer for Youth and Young Adults – For more information, please contact the General Conference Department of Youth Ministries.
November 9: Mission Promotion: Annual Sacrifice Offering – For more information, please visit Global-Mission.org/mysacrifice.
November 16: World Orphans-Vulnerable Children Day
November 23: HIV/AIDS Awareness – For more information, please contact Adventist AIDS International Ministry.
November 30-December 7: Stewardship Revival Week – For more information, please visit Stewardship Ministries website.
December 2024
December 7: Annual Stewardship Sabbath
December 14: Health Emphasis – For more information, please contact your local division.
by Onovae Akpoesiri | Nov 12, 2023 | 10 Days of Prayer, world Church
Welcome to Ten Days of Prayer 2024! We think praying is where revival starts. In the past, when we prayed and fasted together, God did many amazing things. The Holy Spirit helped people believe in God, got them excited about telling others, made churches more alive, and fixed relationships.
2024 Ten Days of Prayer will start on the 10th of January to the 20th of January, 2024.
“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14, NIV
Suggested Times for Each Session
Keep your praying time simple so the group can focus on actually praying. How much time you spend on each section will vary. The following guide is just a suggestion:
Welcome and introduction: 2 – 5 minutes
Read devotional : 5 minutes
Pray through the verses in “Praying God’s Word” : 10 – 15 minutes
Pray about the items in “More Prayer Suggestions” :20 – 30 minutes
Respond in song and praise: 5 – 10 minutes.
Download 10 Days of Prayer 2024 Materials
Feel free to download each separate PDF file.
10 Days of Prayer 2024
by Onovae Akpoesiri | Nov 6, 2023 | world Church
In the children week of prayer material, you’ll read stories of biblical characters who were mighty witnesses for Christ in a variety of situations: Joseph, who witnessed despite personal struggles; the young maid who witnessed to her master in a foreign land; Daniel, who witnessed to powerful earthly rulers; and others who shared in their own sphere of influence.
We are told, “The words of Christ just before His ascension to heaven mean much to everyone who shall accept the truth as it is in Jesus. . . . All the followers of Christ are to be witnesses for Him. Everyone who receives the precious treasure of truth is to impart of the same to others”
Would you like to be a witness for Jesus? I invite you to take a few moments during this 2023 Week of Prayer and ask the Lord what He would have you do to share His love with others as a faithful witness. Maranatha!
Link to adult week of prayer material
by Onovae Akpoesiri | Nov 5, 2023 | world Church
Would you like to be a witness for Jesus? I invite you to take a few moments during this 2023 Week of Prayer and ask the Lord what He would have you do to share His love with others as a faithful witness. Maranatha!
First Sabbath
Abraham as a Witness: Leading by example
Sunday
Witnessing in Times of Personal Trouble: Learning from Joseph
Monday
True and False Witness: The little maid and Gehazi
Tuesday
Witnessing in the Court of Kings: Daniel as a witness
Wednesday
The Unlikely Witness: The Samaritan woman
Thursday
Witnessing in Death: The impact of Tabitha’s death
Friday
The Witness of Two: Aquila and Priscilla, the witness of fellow workers
Second Sabbath
Even Unto Death: The witness of the apostle Paul
Link to 2022 week of prayer
2023 adult Week of Prayer readings is a collaborative team effort of the Adventist Review and the Adventist world family.
For children week of prayer material
Ye Shall Receive Power- Ted Wilson
Imagine with me a small group of disciples assembled in Jerusalem, waiting anxiously to hear Jesus’ last words before His ascension. Clinging to every word, they listened as He gave specific instructions on what they should do upon receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit. He clarified that it wasn’t an earthly kingdom He had come to establish, but that they, as His followers, had a special part to play in preparing people for another kingdom—a heavenly one. He said, “You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8). These disciples, who had been instructed by Jesus Himself, were called to witness for Him and prepare people to accept the message of salvation.
God is still instructing through His Word and is still calling today. He desires those who see their need of His transforming power; who humble themselves and seek Him in prayer; who, following in Jesus’ footsteps, show dignity and respect to all people; who are willing to share Revelation’s sometimes-unpopular warning of the three angels’ messages; and who empty themselves to be filled with the Spirit’s grace and freedom.
In the following pages you’ll read stories of biblical characters who were mighty witnesses for Christ in a variety of situations: Joseph, who witnessed despite personal struggles; the young maid who witnessed to her master in a foreign land; Daniel, who witnessed to powerful earthly rulers; and others who shared in their own sphere of influence. We are told, “The words of Christ just before His ascension to heaven mean much to everyone who shall accept the truth as it is in Jesus. . . . All the followers of Christ are to be witnesses for Him. Everyone who receives the precious treasure of truth is to impart of the same to others”
by Onovae Akpoesiri | Oct 23, 2023 | world Church
The electronic Week of Prayer (eWOP) is held on the second week of November. It happens on Facebook via the GC Youth Ministries page (https://www.facebook.com/GCYouthMinistries/). However, the videos can also be retrieved from the GC Youth Ministries account on YouTube.
We live in a defined circle of influence. This ‘circle’ is a social, relational, or even interpersonal space which penetrates every area of our lives. The eWeek of Prayer will look at how Christ’s love for us should impact or guide our love for others and decisively affect our circles of influence.
Day 1 – Christ’s sacrificial love
Impacting Your Circle of Influence
Key text: John 15:3
You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.
Day 2 – Love – an extension of thankfulness!
Campus Ministry service through love.
Key text: 1 John 4:8
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Day 3 – Love – the heart of true forgiveness
Love and Friendships
Key Texts: 1 Corinthians 16:14, Do everything in love.
Luke 10:29, But the man wanted to show that the way he was living was right. So he said to Jesus, “But who is my neighbour?”
Day 4 – Love – A component of trust
Loving our workmates
Key text: Jeremiah 17:7-8
“But those who trust in the Lord will be blessed. They know that the Lord will do what he says.
They will be strong like trees planted near a stream that send out roots to the water. And they have nothing to fear when the days get hot. Their leaves are always green. They never worry, even in a year that has no rain. They always produce fruit.
Day 5 – Love – An act of obedience
Loving our family members
Key text: James 1:22-25 22 Do what God’s teaching says; don’t just listen and do nothing. When you only sit and listen, you are fooling yourselves. 23 Hearing God’s teaching and doing nothing is like looking at your face in the mirror 24 and doing nothing about what you saw. You go away and immediately forget how bad you looked. 25 But when you look into God’s perfect law that sets people free, pay attention to it. If you do what it says, you will have God’s blessing. Never just listen to his teaching and forget what you heard.
Day 6 – Love – The highest form of worship
Key Text: 1 Samuel 15:22
But Samuel answered, “Which pleases the LORD more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obeying his commands? It is better to obey the LORD than to offer sacrifices to him. It is better to listen to him than to offer the fat from rams.
eWeek of Prayer
by Onovae Akpoesiri | Sep 28, 2023 | world Church
Imagine you’re a parent saying goodbye to your children, knowing you won’t see them again until Heaven. What would you tell them that matters most?
Jesus faced a similar situation when He was about to go back to Heaven after His crucifixion. What was the main thing He wanted to say to His followers? When we read His last words and advice in the Bible (in John 15-17), we find some important ideas coming up again and again: He wanted His early church to be united, loving, and to connect with God through prayer. Jesus really wanted His followers to work together with a common purpose. Today, when the world, our countries, and our church may seem very divided, we also need to follow Jesus’ advice. We need to ask God’s Spirit to help us come together for a shared mission. This might feel impossible given our human limitations, but that’s why we need to pray more than ever for God’s help in bringing people back together.
We invite you to pray on your own in private. We also invite you to pray with your local church group. And we suggest you take part in a worldwide initiative called Revival and Reformation, especially on the Quarterly Day of Prayer and Fasting. On that day, you might choose to fast, which means not eating for a while, so you have more time to pray and think clearly. You could skip desserts, stay away from social media, or eat less meat for a bit.
Back in 1904, a person named Ellen G. White said something important: “From now on, until the end of time, God’s people should be more serious and alert. They shouldn’t trust only in their own wisdom but in the wisdom of their leader. They should set aside certain days for fasting and praying.”
As you decide to focus more on prayer, remember that God will bless you and give you strength for the tough times ahead.
