10 May 2016 | Budapest, Hungary [Victor Hulbert] Look into Janos Kovács-Bíró’s eyes and you see nothing but joy! There is a reason. He has recently travelled back to his homeland for a dual purpose – to share youth evangelism training with Hungarian Youth who want the joy of Global Youth day to be more of a monthly experience.
Fair enough. After all, he is Youth Director for the Trans-European Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church – but he then went on to meet with pastors and leaders of a group who broke away from the Adventist Church in 1974 and have now returned.
Kovács-Bíró could not tell you which part of the trip was the more exciting, but he talks about it eloquently and with passion in a tedNEWS video released this week. “We challenged youth to commit time,” he said. “When you get 65 or 70 young people offering at least one hour a week, that’s a huge asset.”
He found the same excitement talking with ministers and leaders from the former break-away Adventist Church. He went with some trepidation, expecting a highly critical audience, but instead found a warmth and eagerness to learn that really impressed him. “They gained a whole new vision for mission,” he stated. After so many years of separation he sees this as significant, positive progress. They have seen that the “existence of the Church here is to represent God and to go out and do evangelism.”
Kovács-Bíró is not the only TED leader who has been experiencing this joy. Patrick Johnson, TED Ministerial Association director, also spent a mid-April weekend in ‘value creation’ with Budapest youth. One of the key challenges he came back with, also reported in the video, was the Sabbath afternoon exercise where around 200 youth were given permission to design the way they would like church to be. Johnson believes that the administration will be taking some of their ideas on board. “It is exciting to be engaged with youth who really choose to throw themselves into evangelism and church life,” Johnson states. Discover that joy for yourself by watching their engaging, positive report. [tedNEWS]
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