Nearly 400 of Southern Adventist University’s 3,229 enrolled students hail from the Carolinas and Georgia, some of the states hit hardest by Hurricane Helene, and many more have family and friends who live in areas that were flooded or damaged.

The Charles and Etta Dudley Foundation, whose namesake played a role in helping to provide food and medical supplies at the historic Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C., celebrated its grand opening in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 20, 2024.

Forty-six chronologically gifted persons from the South Atlantic and South Central conferences followed the Underground Railroad through Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana to Michigan on the Freedom Tour.