TED Leadership Appointments focus on training and mentoring
5 October 2017 | Silver Springs, USA [Victor Hulbert] The appointment of three new members to the Trans-European Division leadership team is part of a key strategy to develop and enhance the skills of ministers, elders, member and administrators across the Division. Simon Martin and Nikolaus Satelmajer will serve as Discipleship Coaches while Mack Tennyson…
Read MoreNew video series helps explain reformation themes
4 October 2017 | St Albans [tedNEWS] “And it’s a wrap,” declared Dragana Selaković at the end of a final day of filming Reformation Journey, a seven-part social media video series aimed at explaining some of the major themes of the Reformation. The first episode releases on Thursday, 5 October.
Read MoreNewbold’s The Experience Programme Kicks Off for the New Semester
26 September 2017 | Binfield, UK [Christle Jasinta] Around eighty students and visitors to Newbold attended the first Experience programme of the semester, with guest speaker Pastor Dejan Stojković, British Union Conference Youth director, on 12 September.
Read MoreHungarian pastors spend 3 days enhancing media skills
25 September 2017 | Balatonlelle, Hungary [Victor Hulbert] Expect a brighter, tighter and more active style of reporting in Hungarian Adventist websites, social media and print publications over the coming months. During three days of ministerial meetings, 18 – 20 September 2017, sixty ministers and retirees from across Hungary committed to stamp out boring photos,…
Read MoreBirgir Oskarsson, not your ordinary man
26 September 2017 | St Albans, UK [Victor Hulbert] Birgir Oskarsson is not your ordinary man. When most would run away from an erupting volcano, Birgir runs towards it – keen to find out more about its geology. His acute mind is seeking discovery.
Read MoreNewbold Opens Myrna Dorland Wing
25 September 2017 | Binfield, UK [Kirsty Watkins] Following a thorough and much needed refurbishment, the north wing of Newbold’s Salisbury Hall was reopened on Wednesday 20 September 2017. Now called the ‘Myrna Dorland Wing’ in recognition of Myrna’s contribution to the College over so many years, the refurbishment was made possible thanks to a generous…
Read MoreBack to school, forward to mission with TED directors and officers
14 September 2017 | St Albans [Victor Hulbert] It is always good to learn! That is a strong belief in the Trans-European Division office and was exemplified during three days of planning meetings, 11 – 13 September 2017. Interspersed throughout intensive meetings, directors and officers were challenged by a series of four lectures on basic theology,…
Read MoreMaruševec school opens new dormitory
13 September 2017 | Maruševec [Đurđica Garvanović-Porobija/tedNEWS] A brand new dormitory, part funded by Sabbath School world mission offerings, will provide help to students from broken homes and socially deprived areas, as well as serving the needs of Adventist and community students from across Croatia.
Read MoreFinding the ‘love bonus’ in volunteering
4 September 2017 | St Albans [Victor Hulbert] Sometimes ‘Mission’ comes with a bonus. That is certainly the case for Linda-Rose (USA) who, until recently, was on Adventist Volunteer Service (AVS), and now her new British husband, Jake Jackson, also a recent volunteer at a separate project in Cornwall, England.
Read MoreNot all men are pigs!
4 September 2017 | Kaunas, Lithuania [Victor Hulbert] It is astonishing that Rimantas Marušauskas made it to adulthood. With alcoholic parents, violence was a way of life. Scars show how he protected his mother from his violent father – and suffered the consequences. As a child he also, at different times, saved both parents from…
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