Delightful day? How was your last Sabbath?
17 May 2017 | Budapest, Hungary [Karen Holford] Perhaps a dangerous question to ask: “On a scale of 0-5, where 0 is not at all delightful and 5 is very delightful, how delightful was your last Sabbath?” This was the question posed to 27 people attending the Trans-European Division Family Ministries Leadership (FML) Training event in…
Read MoreBuilding bridges between ideals and reality with youth in South Eastern Europe
16 May 2017 | Kragujevac, Serbia [Zoran Sudarević/Alma Bosnić] What would you prefer to do? Play hopscotch or play on your mobile phone? Sit bored in church or be involved in active mission? Two hundred youth from across the south of Serbia faced those questions as they learnt that they are an important part of…
Read MoreAcademic 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…
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