European Health Conference on Healing
15 May 2013 Prague, Czech Republic [Miroslav Pujic, tedNEWS] Six hundred Adventist medical experts, health advocates and church leaders met for the European Health Conference in Prague, Czech Republic last month. This conference focused on the theme of Healing, not just physical healing but also mental, emotional, social, and spiritual healing. The organisers, Inter-European, Trans-European…
Read MoreAdventist Church Session in Denmark
15 May 2013 Copenhagen, Denmark [tedNEWS] May 8 – 12, 2013 the Danish Union of Seventh-day Adventist Church held its session at the church owned campsite Himmerlandsgaarden. Quite quickly, the nominating committee put a motion to the floor to re-elect the President, Thomas Müller. Müller was re-elected together with Treasurer Bjorgvin Ibsen, who has been working…
Read MoreSpring Meeting, in Battle Creek, Marks Church’s 150th Anniversary
13 April 2013 Battle Creek, Michigan, United States [Elizabeth Lechleitner/ANN] In a replica of the meeting house where Seventh-day Adventist Church pioneer and prophet Ellen G. White once spoke for 10 hours on the Great Controversy, world church leaders met yesterday to commemorate the church’s 150th anniversary. The Second Meeting House is located on the campus…
Read More“Digital Evangelism Works!”
26 March 2013 Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia [Andrew Willis, tedNEWS] Twenty-five web pastors and community developers from around the Trans-European Division (TED) met for three days of training, exchange of experience and further development of the Internet ministry known as LIFEconnect (LC) in Slovenia. They were excited to hear of the impact that LC and LC…
Read MoreLC Stream in Slovenia
26 March 2013 Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia [Andrew Willis, tedNEWS] The Grand Hotel Sava in Rogaska Slatina was the venue for the latest LIFEconnect - LC STREAM event from Slovenia. For over 10 years the hotel has hosted workers' meetings and training events and is well known to many in the Division. After sharing their friendship…
Read More‘One in Compassion’ – Global Youth Day
21 March 2013, St Albans, UK [Paul Tompkins, tedNEWS] On Saturday, March 16th the first ever Global Youth Day (GYD) was held, under the theme ‘One in Compassion.’ Adventist young people were asked to “be the sermon” and to be involved in acts of kindness in their localities. The idea was to think globally but…
Read MoreHungary, Last Stop in Wilson’s Tour of TED
17 March 2013, Budapest, Hungary [Jóhann E. Jóhannsson, tedNEWS] The historical and beautiful city of Budapest, Hungary, showed its best side on a sunny, but crisp Sunday Morning, 17 March, when around 2000 members and friends gathered at a city hall for a full day of celebration and worship. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of…
Read MoreTogether in Hope and Compassion
16 March 2013, Belgrade, Serbia [Jóhann E. Jóhannsson, tedNEWS] Two thousand participants gathered in a City Hall in the centre of Belgrade, Serbia, on 16 March 2013, for a Sabbath celebration and to hear encouraging words from Pastor Ted Wilson, President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. The varied program, organised by the South-East…
Read MoreOne Year Later, Adventist Pastor Still in Togo Prison
15 March 2013, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [ANN] A year after Seventh-day Adventist Pastor Antonio Monteiro was imprisoned in Togo on unsupported charges, church lawyers and human rights activists are redoubling efforts to secure his release. Togolese government officials this week rejected the Adventist Church’s fifth request for Monteiro’s immediate release, according to a…
Read More‘Stand by Christ’ says Wilson to Pastors and Members in Serbia
16 March 2013, Belgrade, Serbia [Jóhann E. Jóhannsson, tedNEWS] On Thursday, 15 March 2013, Pastor Ted Wilson, the President of the World Seventh-day Adventist Church, and his wife, Nancy, arrived to Serbia where members and pastors, met them excited to hear a message of encouragement, learn about the mission of the church for the future and to…
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