On the surface not much has changed for Colonel Gary Councell since he became director of Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries on May 1.

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency is joining other aid organizations in responding to survivors of Tropical Cyclone Nargis, a 10-hour storm that killed an estimated 22,000 people and left more than 40,000 unaccounted for when it slammed Myanmar last weekend, the Foreign Ministry said.

"Don't worry," Ken Norton tells uncertain church members during his guest-preaching gigs. "I have my license." He means his driver's license, not his ministerial credential.

Reger C. Smith Jr., a Seventh-day Adventist musician and designer who served as the world church's Associate Communication Director for Public Relations, died May 8 following a lengthy illness at his home in Silver Spring, Maryland.