Record Wrap

Juliana: Hello and welcome to another episode of Record Wrap, the Adventist Record news podcast. It’s Wednesday, October 9. I’m Juliana Muniz

Danelle: And I’m Danelle Stothers.

Juliana: In this week’s episode the Adventist Church in the South Pacific is doing great things:

• A video campaign produced by Adventist Media has been awarded at a Christian media conference.
• AND the Adventist Heritage Centre achieved a prestigious accreditation.

But first, Danelle, please tell us what’s making headlines this week?

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Danelle:
Final-year nursing students at the Seventh-day Adventist-operated Northern Caribbean University in Jamaica have received much-needed laptops and stethoscopes, thanks to a donation from AdventHealth. The donation, made in partnership with Andrews Memorial Hospital in the US, was handed over during a special ceremony at Kencot Seventh-day Adventist Church on September 5.
Many of the more than 100 students who participated in the program, expressed their gratitude. Nursing student Tanneice Blackwood shared that it had been difficult to complete assignments on her phone, and the laptop will help her better prepare for her future career.
This is AdventHealth's second donation of laptops to Northern Caribbean University students this year.

In other news,

Millennial dads are breaking new ground when it comes to fatherhood. Recent studies reveal they spend three times as much time with their kids compared to dads from previous generations.
This shift is marked by a growing commitment to shared parenting, with the number of fathers who have never changed a diaper plummeting from 43 per cent in 1982 to just 3 per cent today. It’s not just about more time either—millennial dads are taking on tasks like bathing and bedtime, deepening their connection with their children and reshaping the traditional father-child relationship.

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Juliana:
A video produced by Adventist Media has won the Giving Campaign of the Year award at the annual Christian Media and Arts Australia conference.

The video, created for Christian Services for the Blind and Hearing Impaired, was awarded during the CMAA Excellence in Media awards on September 24

Created by Adventist Media cinematographer Clayton Gallego, the award-winning video tells the story of three individuals and the impact Christian Services has had on their lives.
According to Christian Services coordinator Coralie Schofield, telling real stories is what makes the video stand out."Instead of, you know, a talking head that's promoting an organisation or a service, the people being helped by Christian Services for the Blind and Hearing Impaired, they actually tell their story, their journey and their thanks".

According to Mrs Schofield, the award confirmed the aim of the video was achieved. "The aim was for donors to clearly see the impact of their generosity, in the life of those they are helping how grateful those with vision and or hearing loss are for biblical truth being made accessible to them. For example, um, the Sabbath school lesson is available to them now in large print, um, or audio recording or in Braille. So the award category was giving campaign of the year. Um, and the response, um, by givers has been above average, which confirms that the video was actually effective as a giving campaign".

For Adventist Media CEO Dr Brad Kemp, the award also creates a positive perception of the Adventist Church, "you've got 200 key media leaders from across the Christian world in Australia and New Zealand And so you get to We have the name of the Adventist Church and Adventist Media, shared with this group as people who create media of excellence. So from a, , a communication point of view,, it gets to, to share with our Christian brothers and sisters who work in media that Adventist Media are making a contribution in the media world"

To view the award-winning video and to learn more about the ministry of CSFBHI visit their website.

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The South Pacific Division’s Adventist Heritage Centre has received the highest level of accreditation within the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide.

Dr David Trim, director of the Office of Archives, Statistics and Research at the General Conference, flew to Australia to confer the status of centre of excellence this past month.

Adventist Heritage director David Jones explains the significance of the achievement. "The accreditation means that we've achieved a high standard, that we are one of the highest standards in the Adventist church in the world. In fact, there's only two, um, institutions that has this accreditations. That is Andrews university in America and the Adventist heritage center here in Cooranbong."

According to Mr Jones, there is a long list of requirements to achieve centre of excellence status, which the team worked towards in the past 10 months. "There's 84 criteria that we work towards and that ranges from work health and safety policies, how we manage the documents, how the documents are housed, and also how we interact with the community with our heritage.
So we have our documents in place. climate controlled spaces. We make sure the security is high. We have disaster plans. We make sure that all the documents are in acid free boxes and we also make sure that our policies are right up to date from collection policies through to disaster, through to management of documents, to achieving more documents".

Dr Trim commended the team’s “excellent and meticulous policies”, which guide their operations, as well as their community engagement.

In addition to this achievement, the Heritage Centre recently received a collection of historic and rare Bibles from Europe, some dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries. The collection is currently being processed and documented by the team. "With our accreditation We've actually put in processes that we make sure that the way we treat the ancient Bibles that we've got, how we process them, is all of the highest standard."