Health Camp success in South East Europe
18 October 2016 | Sokobanja, Serbia [Darinka Mihajlović/tedNEWS] Churches across the South-East European Union are successfully meeting the needs of the public by running health clubs – sometimes in church buildings, but often in a public hall. From the hundreds who attend, a number joined one of two health camps run this summer. This report…
Read MoreYour biggest witnessing chance this century?
17 October 2016 | St Albans, England [Victor Hulbert] Take a blank sheet of paper. Sit quietly for a few moments and jot down five ways that your church could best tell its story. Finished? Pause again. Think big. Think very big! Think Hollywood big!
Read MoreTED responds to Unity in Mission document voted at Annual Council
11 October 2016 | Silver Spring, Maryland, USA [tedNEWS] On Tuesday, 11 October 2016, the leadership of the Seventh-day Adventist World Church, meeting during Annual Council in Silver Springs, Maryland, voted a document entitled, Unity in Mission: Procedures in Church Reconciliation. Its aim is to provide guidance on how to facilitate reconciliation “with entities that…
Read MoreUnion of Churches status voted for Netherlands Union
11 October 2016 | Silver Springs, USA [Victor Hulbert] On Sunday, 9 October 2016 the Netherlands Union Conference (NUC) closed a 44-year-old anomaly by changing status from a Union of Conferences to a Union of churches. The recommendation, made to the Annual Council of the Seventh-day Adventist World Church came as a result of a…
Read MoreTED outreach initiatives highlighted at GC Annual Council
10 October 2016 | Silver Springs, USA [tedNEWS] How do you pack the essence of mission into a five-minute time slot? That was the challenge given to Victor Hulbert, Trans-European Communication director when asked to prepare a presentation on Mission to the Cities for Friday night vespers at the Annual Council meetings of the Seventh-day…
Read MoreNorwegian Bible Society honours Adventist pastor
6 October 2016 | Kristiansand, Norway [Tor Tjeransen, Norwegian Union Communication Director] Pastor Per de Lange and his wife, Monica, were honoured by the Norwegian Bible Society when they received the Bible Prize 2016 during in inter-denominational meeting in the cathedral of Kristiansand, Norway at the end of September.
Read MoreSwapping their church for a shop is the best decision for Helsinki congregation
5 October 2016 | Helsinki, Finland [Victor Hulbert] A Helsinki congregation recently took the brave decision to sell the church building they have owned for the past fifty years, purchase a shop in a needy part of town, and intentionally serve the community. It is the best decision they ever made.
Read MoreWhen an English teacher opened an Adventist radio station in Latvia
21 September, 2016 | Riga, Latvia [Andrew McChesney/AR] Liene Meiere, an English-language teacher in a small Latvian town, is the unlikely leader of a Seventh-day Adventist congregation whose members include Baptist and Pentecostal ministers, people from Denmark and Canada, and a woman who decided against suicide after a Bible story and music.
Read MoreBeing more Christian leads to school success in Finland
3 October 2016 | Tampere, Finland [Victor Hulbert] A struggling school with as few as 14 students has been transformed into a vibrant success story by enhancing its Christian credentials. Parents who send their children to the Seventh-day Adventist Christian School just outside Tampere, Finland, understand that their children will get both a first class…
Read MoreAdventist Addicts Analysed
28 September 2016 | St Albans, England [Victor Hulbert] Torben Bergland launched a surprise attack on Trans-European office staff at a special presentation on Tuesday, 20 September. As Health Ministries director for the TED, and as a qualified psychiatrist and psychotherapist, he pointed out that, according to the NHS UK Livewell website, 1 in 3…
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