Winnipeg, Manitoba – The Torchbearer Pathfinder Club at West Park Seventh-day Adventist Church has launched a heartfelt outreach initiative to support newly arrived immigrant families. Through this effort, the club has “adopted” 40 newcomer households, providing essential food every two weeks and hygiene supplies on a quarterly basis.
Hurricane Melissa made landfall on the island of Jamaica on Tuesday, October 28, 2025. The violent category 5 hurricane was the most intense tropical cyclone to strike the island nation in the last two centuries. The situation for many local survivors is terrifying, and at least five people on the island are already confirmed dead.
Teresa Ferreira, who has served as both the Associate Director and more recently Director of ADRA Canada’s Philanthropy & Marketing (PhilM) department has recently been voted as the new Vice President of Strategic Engagement & Growth for ADRA International—the central hub of the Adventist Development & Relief Agency, headquartered in Silver Spring, MD, USA.
This past August, a 6.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Afghanistan. In the face of flattened villages and deadly landslides across four Afghan provinces (Nangarhar, Kunar, Nuristan, and Laghman), ADRA Canada and the broader ADRA Network stepped into action. Needs assessments were carried out quickly—ascertaining the specific needs of those affected and identifying the unique challenges of this situation.
Before the planter box ever arrived, Anne — like many families in Yellowknife — faced a growing challenge. The high cost of groceries in the North meant that fresh produce was often a luxury. On top of that, years of mining had left much of the city’s soil contaminated with arsenic, making it unsafe to grow food directly in the ground. For parents trying to feed their children healthy meals, the choices often felt limited — pay more at the store, or go without.
The Cascade Hutterite Colony in McGregor, Manitoba, partnered with the ADRA/ACS Community Centre in Winnipeg to distribute 1,000 pounds of potatoes to those in need. Volunteers from three local churches organized and prepared the donation for distribution within 24 hours.
This summer, as wildfires swept across Newfoundland, the Seventh-day Adventist-run camp Woody Acres found itself at the very heart of the emergency. Located on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland, an area heavily affected by ongoing fires, the camp made the extraordinary decision to pivot from its summer mission of serving children and youth to housing and supporting first responders.
While the headlines may shift with each update, the effects of Canada’s wildfire season are still a daily reality for many.
The widespread wildfires in both Manitoba and Saskatchewan have forced over 30,000 people to flee from their homes this summer as a total of 417 fires have blighted towns and cities.
On August 31, a powerful 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan, flattening villages and triggering deadly landslides. The devastation spans four provinces—Nangarhar, Kunar, Nuristan, and Laghman—where poverty, drought, and recent displacement had already left families on the edge of survival. Now with the initial earthquake and sizeable aftershocks, the situation for many families is overwhelming.
In the Sandan district of Kampong Thom province in Cambodia lives Lai Eang, a 34-year-old farmer, wife, and mother of two boys. As a child, Lai Eang longed to become a doctor. She studied hard through twelve years of school while helping her parents and working to save money. “Every day, I balanced school with helping my parents, watering crops, feeding animals, and even working as a laborer to earn money for school,” she said.
