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31 August 2021 | Belgrade, Serbia [Rachel Cabose]  Up to 15,000 people in the Western Balkans will receive health checkups, hygiene services and COVID-19 information through the “Leave No One Behind” project coordinated by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Serbia.

18 August 2021 | St Albans, UK [Victor Hulbert/Tor Tjeransen]  Situated in a remote valley on the Sinai Peninsula stands a small Christian monastery that has withstood the ravages of time and history since 565 AD. It is one of the oldest working monasteries in the world – and is filled with hidden treasures.

12 August 2021 | Grantham, UK [David Neal, tedNEWS] It was William Ings in 1878 who started the publishing work in the United Kingdom as a colporteur (literature evangelist). It’s recorded that he’d publish 1,000 copies of denominational periodicals and tracts and circulate them among the ships in Southampton and then door-to-door in the city. As David Marshall1 notes, while Ings made ‘use of thousands of the American Signs of the Times magazines . . . he grasped the importance of putting the Adventist message into an English context for English readers’.2

11 August 2021 | Dublin, Ireland [tedNEWS with Dan Serb]  The pandemic has taught us that in order to remain relevant and be an effective witness, the Church needs to be (or become) competitive in the digital sphere. With a passion for reaching out to young people, and to the secular or sceptical mind, Irish Mission President Dan Serb has launched a new ministry BelievAble Talks.

10 August 2021 | St Albans, UK [Victor Hulbert]  Pathfinder and Adventurer leaders across the Trans-European Division have used creativity, innovation and determination to help children continue with their learning and achievements during lockdown.

23 July 2021 | Kruja, Albania [Kristi Qendro/tedNEWS]  Kruja, Albania is a charming medieval village just 30km north of the capital, Tirana. It is beautifully situated between mountainous peaks with a green valley stretching all the way down to the Adriatic coast.  

22 July 2021 | Zagreb, Croatia [Svjetlana Veble, Adventpress/tedNEWS]  Two valued Croatian leaders will be returning to their home country to take up senior leadership roles following service at Newbold College of Higher Education and at the Trans-European Division.

22 July 2021 | Brussels, Belgium [ADRA Europe]  July 20 was declared National Day of Mourning in Belgium in honour of the victims and missing persons of the severe floods that hit the country.