28 June 2012 Belgrade, Serbia [Marija Trajkovska, tedNEWS] Pastor Mark Finley and his wife, Ernestine, met with two hundred pastors in Belgrade, Serbia from 19-23 June 2012 to share their insights and experiences of evangelising in a postmodern society. They had a one-day field school with the pastors, elders and other church leaders from the local churches across the Union sharing their ideas on the topic ‘Evangelism in the Postmodern World: Reaching People for Christ in the Twenty-First Century.’ After those meetings, they met with the Union leadership and departmental directors to discuss plans for the future urban evangelism.
Pastor Finely was in Serbia in 1988 for the first time, where he held an evangelistic programme under the theme ‘The Dimensions of Life’. Many people attending the meetings made a decision to come closer to God and some made a decision to be baptized.
This time he held a new series of programmes, ‘A Man for All Times’, which lasted four days. The topics ‘Never Alone: Someone You Can Trust When the Whole World Falls Apart’, ‘Life with Purpose’ and ‘Hope for Today, Tomorrow and Forever’ brought a new hope and sense in the lives of many people that attended the programmes. Every night many people deeply and earnestly responded to the calls to follow Jesus Christ.
The last day of the programme was a true celebration for more than a thousand people gathered in the main Belgrade Seventh-day Adventist church. The greatest joy of the day was the decision of four people to follow Jesus Christ and be baptized.
Both, church members and visitors, expressed their desire for Pastor and Mrs Finley to return to Belgrade and hold a longer programme. The suggestion was to have these meetings in New Belgrade, part of the captial city with a growing population of businessmen, young people and students.
Serbia is part of the South-East European Union Conference (SEEUC) where we have a very dynamic church and over 8000 member. For more information about the church is Serbia, please visit their website: www.jieu-adventisti.org. [tedNEWS]
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