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Lisa Beardsley will promote Adventist identity in education in her new role as Education director for the Adventist world church. [photo: Ansel Oliver]

Lisa Beardsley wants to create value for the education consumer.

In business school she analyzed why people chose to pay $4 for a cup of coffee at Starbucks. She now takes that same analysis and applies it to Adventist education, examining why spenders would offer a premium for its values and mission.

For Beardsley, the recently-appointed Education director for the Seventh-day Adventist world church, that analysis and its subsequent results, she hopes, will offer administrators and…

The arrival of miniature Bibles to 33 Chilean miners trapped some 2,300 feet underground is bolstering their hope of rescue.

Seventh-day Adventist pastor Carlos Parra Diaz (left), shows one of the miniature Bibles sent down a supply shaft to the 33 trapped miners in the Atacama desert. Parra is serving as chaplain at the rescue site, local church leaders said. [photo courtesy South American Division]

"Give thanks to those who sent us the Bibles," a miner identified as Renan told a Brazilian weekly newsmagazine last week. The Bibles "gave me so much faith that I will leave here," Renan said.

Seventh-day Adventist officials…

A small Seventh-day Adventist high school in the U.S. state of Montana is in the running for a $500,000 prize from an online contest sponsored by a clothing retailer.

Mount Ellis Academy, a 75-student school in Bozeman, Montana, is the only Adventist school in contention to receive a contest award, which school officials said would be used to replace the institution's aging sewer system. However, more votes are needed by the September 3 deadline.

Kohl's Corporation, a Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin-based department-store chain, will award $500,000 to each of the top 20 schools in the contest via Facebook. Mt. Ellis Academy is now in 21st place.

Contest participants are allowed 20 votes and may vote up to five times…

The humanitarian arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is redoubling relief work in northern Pakistan, a region devastated by recent flooding where residents now face widespread disease.

A flood victim receives treatment from one of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency's mobile medical teams in Pakistan. A recent sharp increase in waterborne diseases is worsening conditions in the country, where millions still lack shelter and clean water. [photo courtesy ADRA Pakistan]

Concentrating on the country's Nowshera District, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is mobilizing medical teams to treat a sharp increase in waterborne diseases among flood victims. In collaboration…

Seventh-day Adventist Church officers yesterday welcomed Washington's Brazilian consul general to the denomination's world headquarters, lauding Brazil's commitment to religious freedom and showcasing the church's operations in the South American country.

Brazil Counsul Almir Barbuda addresses leaders at the Adventist Church headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States on August 23. At center is Ted Wilson, president of the Adventist Church. At left is John Graz, director of the church's Public Affairs and Religious Liberty department. [photo: Ansel Oliver]

Church leaders said Brazil is home to one of the more "vibrant" regions of the denomination. Though the nation is…