Academic excellence rewarded for three Newbold Business students
16 May 2017 | Binfield, UK [Kirsty Watkins] Newbold College of Higher Education added another three students to the roll of the international business honour society, Sigma Beta Delta, at an on-campus ceremony on 28 April.
Read MoreBritish Pathfinders experience the Bible for real and win first place
16 May 2017 | Chicago, USA [Natasha Mirilov] There is one competition where all children can be winners. Any team that gets more than 90 percent of answers correct gets a First-Place award. It is the North American Division (NAD) Pathfinder Bible Experience (PBE). Eight teams from the UK, all based in the South England…
Read MoreChanging trends and new technologies challenge Adventist radio producers in Europe
15 May 2017 | Bucharest, Romania [Victor Hulbert] The world of radio is changing. Analogue is switching to digital with AM and FM transmissions switching to DAB, online and broadcast-on-demand services. The listener has more choice and in the youngest age-group, teenagers, only 3% listen to live radio. Spotify and social media fulfil their needs.…
Read MoreRob de Raad to lead Netherlands Union of Churches
10 May 2017 | Huis Ter Heide, the Netherlands [Nelske Verbaas / tedNEWS] The Netherlands Union Conference Session ended on a positive note on Sunday, 7 May, with laughter and the expression of gratitude towards the team that made the conference possible and towards the delegates who spent four days in session.
Read MoreA 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.
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