Forgiveness Stronger than Revenge
1 April 2018 | Nummela, Finland [Sakari Vehkavuori] Something tragic happened in Finland exactly 100 years ago. Despite that, Viktor Ståhlberg, a recently baptised Seventh-day Adventist, didn’t want to see 10 soldiers killed in revenge for his son’s barbaric death. In 1918, the country was mired in a bloody civil war where Reds, mainly comprised…
Read MoreGlobal Youth Day impacts thousands across the TED
30 March 2018 | Reykjavik, Iceland [Alastair Agbaje] It has been running since 2013 with greater success and involvement every year! This year, Global Youth Day on Sabbath, 17 March involved up to an estimated 10 million young people.
Read MoreDigital World, Digital Church, Digital God
23 March 2018 | Binfield, UK [Helen Pearson] Do you read the Bible on your phone? Do you connect with other church members on Facebook? Do you watch church online? Is it possible that, in a networked world, God will somehow look different? Tim Hutchings, Research Fellow in Digital Discipleship at Durham University, looked at…
Read MoreNo wholly holy places
12 March 2018 | Jerusalem, Israel [Victor Hulbert] Can there be anything more exciting than standing right in the centre of the world? Not according to a kindly Armenian Christian who discreetly shared some of the less accessible parts of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre with a group of six Adventist pastors.
Read MoreEuropean Divisions combine to deliver family ministries training
8 March 2018 | Friedensau, Germany [Elizabeth Iheoma] A converted barn at Friedensau Adventist University, Germany, provided a warm and friendly venue for 22 participants from across Europe who attended the 2018 Family Ministries Leadership Training (FMLT). They met between 16-21 February to enhance their knowledge and skills for supporting and enriching family relationships.
Read MoreAdventist ‘gift’ towards 100th Anniversary celebrations in Estonia
26 February 2018 | Tallin [Victor Hulbert] It is exactly 100 years since Estonia first gained independence as a nation. While celebrations engulfed this small Baltic nation of just 1.3 million people, the country’s president suggested that citizens might consider what they can give back to their country. Members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church were…
Read MoreNewbold diversity lecture highlights challenges of being a Muslim woman in the UK
22 February 2018 | Binfield, UK [Michael Pearson/tedNEWS] The Scottish poet, Robert Burns, wrote of ‘seeing ourselves as others see us’, but sometimes it is helpful to see and try to understand others through their own eyes. That kind of thinking led to Julie Siddiqi presenting the Newbold Diversity Centre lecture on Tuesday, 13 February,…
Read MoreAdriatic youth spend 14 days in a refugee camp
14 February 2018 | Katerini, Greece [tedNEWS with Slavica Marčeta] For the second year in a row, young people from the Adriatic Union of Seventh-day Adventists volunteered their winter holiday to work at a refugee camp in Greece.
Read MoreNew methods, new audiences for Croatian publishing house
14 February 2018 | Zagreb, Croatia [tedNEWS with Mario Šijan] From a historic reformation printing press, to the latest in social media apps, the Adventist publishing house in the Republic of Croatia is taking giant strides in making Adventist literature available and accessible in a rapidly changing world. While books and magazines are still popular,…
Read MoreAdventist pastor gains recognition for Poland’s most important book in biblical studies in 2017
13 February 2018 | Warsaw, Poland [Daniel Kluska] Adam Grześkowiak, a pastor in Białystok, Poland, has been recognized for his contribution to biblical literature by the theological and philosophical website Orygenes+. In 2017, his book, “At the Feet of Gamaliel…” (Acts 22:3) Application of Jewish Exegesis in 1 Corinthians, beat 91 other submissions on biblical…
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