October 2, 2001 Washington, D.C., USA Celeste Ryan/ANN
Staff
The September 28 edition of the Washington Post carried a
full-page message from the Seventh-day Adventist Church
expressing solidarity in prayer for those people affected by the
September 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon. The
advertisement mirrored the church's New York Times
advertisement, which ran September 24.
"Praying--for the families, for our leaders, for our cities, for our
world," read the advertisement, which appeared on page A31 of
the newspaper. Larry Colburn, assistant to the president of the
Adventist Church worldwide, has called the advertisement "an
unadorned, no-strings-attached message of caring from the
worldwide Adventist faith community." (See the ANN report and
view the New York Times and Washington Post advertisements
at www.adventist.org.)
Three regional offices of the Adventist Church in North
America--the Greater New York Conference, the Northeastern
Conference, and the Atlantic Union Conference--have also
placed advertisements that appeared October 1 in the New York
Times, Daily News, and New York Newsday: "In the aftermath of
September 11, 2001, we too feel the horror, we too feel the pain,
we too have lost loved ones, we too have cried...And we are
praying...for the families of those lost to terrorism, for our heroic
police, firemen, and rescue workers. We are the Seventh-day
Adventist Church. Our doors are open. We're here for you."
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