Newbold Launches New Name, Logo, Strapline and Website
22 January 2013 Bracknell, UK [Newbold College] Newbold College has launched a refreshing new visual brand identity, complete with a new official name - Newbold College of Higher Education. This new name is embraced within a new logo and supported by a new strapline – Life Changing – Faith Affirming. Last week Newbold also launched…
Read MoreTheology of Ordination Committee Ends First Session
18 January 2013 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [Adventist Review staff, ANN] Members of the Theology of Ordination Study Committee (TOSC) ended their first session – held January 15-17 at a meeting site near the church’s world headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States – on an optimistic note. “We have real hope that the…
Read More‘Mission to the Cities’ Launched at SEC Evangelism Expo
17 January 2013 Watford, United Kingdom [Kirsten Øster-Lundqvist, BUC] "We need to mingle with people who don't look like us", challenged Pastor Ian Sweeney, British Union Conference President. His straight talking message reached the 800 people who had found their way to the South England Conference (SEC) Evangelism Expo at Newbold College on Sunday, 13…
Read MorePan-European Youth Congress 2013
14 January 2013 St Albans, United Kingdom [Paul Tompkins, tedNEWS] Attending an Adventist Youth Congress is part of the Seventh-day Adventist Youth Heritage, and the opportunity is here again this year with the Pan-European Youth Congress taking place from 30 July-4 August 2013 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Congresses are Meeting Places for Adventist Youth from…
Read MoreFollowing Directions
14 January 2013 St. Albans, United Kingdom [Audrey Andersson, tedNEWS] Solomon’s wisdom finds fulfilment in many different ways, times, and places. Airports are one of those places. Here wisdom is essential, not least, making connection flights. On paper it looked easy; reality is often a different story. As one flight landed the time to get…
Read MoreMessage for the New Year
Dear Readers, Coming to the end of 2012 fills my heart with gratitude to the Lord for His many blessings in the past -- personally and in the life of the Church. I think, for example, of our revised Strategic Mission Plan which has been updated for Europe since our reorganisation on January 1, our…
Read MoreSame Sex Marriage Back on the Agenda
13 December 2012 Watford, United Kingdom [BUC News] Culture Secretary Maria Miller has stated that "I am absolutely clear that no religious organisation will ever be forced to conduct marriages for same sex couples, and I would not bring in a bill which would allow that." In her statement to MPs on Tuesday, 11 December…
Read MoreHoly Spirit Works in Albania
12 December 2012 Tirana, Albania [Julian Kastrati, tedNEWS] On the Saturday of December 1st, Adventist believers and seekers from all churches and groups throughout Albania convened at the last Festival of Faith for the year, celebrating the wondrous works of the Holy Spirit. Pr. Leo N. España, Albanian Mission (ALM) President, in his year-end report…
Read MoreAdventist HQ Holiday Outreach Celebrates Belief in Biblical Creation
30 November 2012 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [ANN staff] The auditorium darkened, lightening flashed across a projector screen, thunder roared over the loudspeaker and artificial rain fell on hundreds of school children this morning during a recreation of the biblical flood, eliciting laughter and screams from the students. The simulation was part of Celebration…
Read MoreChurch Responds to Media Inquiries over TV Sitcom Star’s Affiliation
28 November 2012 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [ANN staff] The Seventh-day Adventist Church emphasized its welcoming of converts in a response to media attention surrounding an American TV situation comedy actor’s comments about his religious affiliation and his personal thoughts about the show. In a news release yesterday, a spokesman from the denomination’s North…
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