A big GYD thank you
10 May 2017 | Binfield, UK [Victor Hulbert] Global Youth Day (GYD) is always a massive social media witnessing opportunity – and for Alastair Agbaje, Trans-European Division (TED) co-ordinator for the 18 March event, it is an experience he is still reliving.
Read MoreSuper Sabbath Celebrates #reformation500 for children in Hungary
8 May 2017 | St Albans, UK [Clair Sanches / tedNEWS] How about a ‘Super Sabbath’ for your children? That is exactly what happened for a national children’s day in Hungary, 25 March 2017. The children had to pass through a special ‘time machine’ that transported them back 500 years.
Read MoreWilly Aronsen to head department of Adventist Mission in Norway
8 May 2017 | Røyse, Norway [Widar Ursett] Willy Aronsen will serve as head of Adventist Mission and Ministry to Clergy Families from 1 October 2017. Victor Marley, newly elected Norwegian Union president, said that the aim is for him to “aid local churches in developing a strong sense of responsibility and ownership to mission.”
Read MoreThe case against God
8 May 2017 | Moldova [Andrew McChesney / Adventist Mission] Life was tough in my homeland of Moldova, where I worked as a state prosecutor. So, I bought a Polish passport on the black market and moved to Ireland to start a better life. But then I found out that my Moldovan room-mate was a…
Read MoreNinety Year marker for Adventists in Lithuania
29 April 2017 | Kaunas, Lithuania [Guntis Bukalders] Adventists from across Lithuania and beyond joined together on Saturday, 29 April for a 90th birthday celebration. Participants were in a festive mood as the opera singer, Nomeda Kukulskienė performed, as well as the Kaunas Church adult choir, and the youth choir from the Kaunas, Kėdainiai and…
Read MoreNewness and Resurrection
14 April 2017 | St Albans, UK [tedNEWS] In a week when the BBC reports that a quarter of Christians no longer believe in a literal resurrection Victor Hulbert, TED Communication and Media director, takes a moment to reflect on why he finds resurrection to be an important and key message within the Easter story.
Read MoreSouth Pacific Ministers explore creative mission in Europe
12 April 2017 | St Albans [Victor Hulbert] Ten pastoral staff from the New Zealand Pacific Union Conference (NZPUC) visited with Trans-European Division staff on Tuesday, 11 April with the aim of gaining an insight into how mission can be achieved within the secularised and diverse cultures of Europe.
Read MoreDr Emmanuel Osei to lead South England Conference
11 April 2017 | Watford, UK [Sam O Davies] Dr Emmanuel Osei will serve as the new President of the South England Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (SEC). The decision, made at an extraordinary meeting of the Executive Committee on Sunday, 9 April 2017, follows an earlier decision of the Committee to re-assign former president, Dr…
Read MoreTerrorist attack in Stockholm condemned
7 April 2017 | Stockholm [Rainer Refsbäck] Once again, Europe has suffered a cowardly terrorist attack in which innocent people have been mown down by a hijacked vehicle, this time in central Stockholm. The Union office of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Stockholm Central Adventist Church is located only just over a block from…
Read MorePositively Single
5 April 2017 | Binfield, UK [Angeline Tyrokomos] For many singles the idea of a ‘singles event’ fills them with horror – or at least apprehension. Yet singleness is an issue within the Adventist Church. Torben Bergland, Singles Ministries co-ordinator for the Trans-European Division has been involved with a number of recent events and was impressed…
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