10 Jan 2022: Passing of Long-Time ACS Volunteer Lowell Tripp
We are saddened to announce the passing of Lowell Irving Tripp, one of our long-time Adventist Community Services volunteers, on December 7, 2021 at the age of 100. He was predeceased by his wife of…
20 Dec 2021: ReNewed Hope Food Pantry Food Distribution
How do you distribute food to 310 families in just over an hour? Thoughtful organizing and lots of smiling volunteers! “God keeps bringing people to be a part of this ministry. About half of those…
22 Nov 2021: Abney Chapel ACS Center Partners With Faith Communities to Distribute Food
Adventist Community Services continues to serve as a resource for communities around the North American Division. Though we are still in the middle of a pandemic, various ACS entities have found ways to actively be…
1 Sep 2021: ACS DR Teams Respond to Hurricane Ida
UPDATE – September 7, 2021 The Southwest Region Conference has been housing residents from New Orleans and surrounding areas whose homes had to be evacuated, at various locations around the conference office. The largest facility…
9 Jun 2021: College Station Adventist Church Outreach
By: Sasha Charles-Prince, Community Services Coordinator for the College Station SDA Church The church family at the College Station Seventh-day Adventist Church has actively been living their motto of: LOVING AND GUIDING ALL TO KNOW JESUS,…
23 Mar 2021: ACS Responds to Mass Shooting in Colorado
On Monday, March 22, a gunman opened fire at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, leaving ten people dead. Among the casualties was a police officer who was responding to this heinous act of violence. Derrick…
16 Feb 2021: ACS Extends Partnership with City Harvest
The Adventist Community Services’ relationship with City Harvest expired on Jan. 31, 2021, but the work is continuing at another level. “We are now connected with FEMA through our City Harvest partnership,” said W. Derrick…
21 Jan 2021: NAD ACS Awarded $250,000 Grant for Food Programs
North American Division Adventist Community Services (NAD ACS) has been supporting the food programs of local ACS food pantries in our conferences within the Division amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, we invested 1.5…
10 Jun 2020: A Jar of Peanut Butter and A Food Box
The Better Living Center (BLC) in Spokane, Washington, and Portland ACS Center (PACS) in Portland, Oregon, are two of the several ACS centers that are actively serving individuals and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.…
3 Jun 2020: Grand Rapids Refugee Food Drive
The Michigan Conference Office family helped feed 420 Rwandan and Burmese refugees in Grand Rapids on May 24, 2020. The director of Michigan Conference Multi-Ethnic Ministries, Bob Stewart, informed the Conference ACS director, Chelli Ringstaff,…