Estonia Conference Session focuses on mission and Christ’s return
12 June 2016 | Tartu, Estonia [Averonika Beekmann/tedNEWS] Ivo Käsk, President of the Estonian Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church was re-elected to office during a weekend of Constituency Meetings, 10-12 June 2016. Virve Toom was elected as Executive secretary, for the first time putting a women in a senior leadership position, while Jaanus-Janari Kogerman who…
Read More“I feel I make a difference.” A world refugee day report from Greece
14 June 2016 | Katarina, Greece [Victor Hulbert / Corrado Cozzi] Sara Kouĵĵi has put her life on hold. An interpreter for ADRA Serbia, she is translating Arabic to English at a remote refugee camp on the slopes of Mt Olympus in Greece. The children are also rapidly teaching her Kurdish, as the camp she…
Read MoreShould we help the Dunkirk refugees? A Christian response
13 June 2016 | Binfield, England [Victor Hulbert] Waking up at 4:00 a.m. for a long drive and a ferry crossing is a minor inconvenience for Sasha Becejac, one of four leaders at the Newbold Seventh-day Adventist Church in southern England. Every Sunday the team fill a car with volunteers, food, and clothes for the…
Read MoreNAD issues Statement on mass shooting in Orlando, Florida
13 June 2016 | St Albans [NAD staff/tedNEWS] Daniel R. Jackson, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America, issued the following statement on June 12, 2016, in response to the mass shooting at the Pulse Club in Orlando, Florida. Adventist leaders and members across Europe would wish to endorse this statement and offer…
Read MoreFitness Day in Nicosia municipal park
6 June 2016 | Nicosia, Cyprus [Marica Mirilov] A free one-day medical clinic in the heart of Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus attracted around 200 participants. Run by Seventh-day Adventist church members in the municipal park, Sunday strollers and some 150 relaxed inhabitants were tested, registered and given advice on weight, sugar level and blood…
Read MoreInterpreting love
6 June 2016 | Petra refugee camp, Greece [Victor Hulbert with Corrado Cozzi] Meet Lina Shalabi. She works for ADRA Serbia as an interpreter at Petra refugee camp on the foothills of Mount Olympus, Greece. She provides translation services in the medical centre for 1,000 Yazidis - 480 of them children. She is there because she cares.
Read MoreYazidi refugees between a rock and a hard place
2 June 2016 | Katerini, Greece [Victor Hulbert with Corrado Cozzi] ADRA team members are working hard to help Yazidi refugees based in a remote refugee camp on the foothills of Mount Olympus in Northern Greece. Stuck in the country since the northern boarders closed, some 1,000 refugees who fled danger and persecution in Iraq and…
Read MoreSigma Beta Delta Chapter launched at Newbold
26 May 2016 | Binfield, UK [Kirsty Watkins] The Newbold College of Higher Education Chapter of Sigma Beta Delta was launched earlier this month, welcoming its first five student members.
Read MoreSurprised by happiness!
12 May 2016 | St Albans, UK [tedNEWS] Karen Holford, Trans-European Division Family Ministries director, recently received the first copy of her latest book, '52 Ways to Parent Happy Children'. A few days later she heard that one of her articles published in Ministry magazine had been given an award by the Associated Church Press…
Read MoreCrisis Management training launch for TED
11 May 2016 | Watford, UK [Sam O Davies/tedNEWS] A providentially sunny day on Thursday, 28 April provided ideal weather conditions for twenty-two South England Conference directors and staff to participate in a very practical Crisis Communication Management Training at The Stanborough Centre, Watford.
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