Canoe and ‘Escape’ – a holiday canoeing mission trip in Poland
5 October 2013 Warsaw, Poland Micha? Rakowski and Zofia W?odarczyk] From 21-24 July 2013, a group of 30 people went on a canoeing mission trip on the Nida River in Poland. The group, which was comprised of adults, young people and children, stopped in small villages and towns to distribute Adventist books and magazines. The Nida canoe…
Read MoreAdventist Family among Victims of Nairobi Terror Attack
24 September 2013 Nairobi, Kenya [Dan Okoth/ECD/ANN] The husband of an Adventist church member from Nairobi was killed during the terrorist attack in Nairobi’s Westgate Shopping Mall in which more than 60 people were killed and more than 170 injured. Harun Oyieke, a lecturer at Co-operative University College of Kenya, was among those killed in…
Read MoreIn Egypt, mob burns Adventist Church in Assiut
15 August 2013 Cairo, Egypt [ANN] The burning of a Seventh-day Adventist Church in the city of Assiut during rioting last night was not part of a wider, organized political movement, local church officials said. The Assiut Adventist Church, located approximately 220 miles south of Cairo, was attacked by a mob and heavily damaged after…
Read MoreDavid Asscherick: ‘The best thing to keep the youth focused…’
5 August 2013 Novi Sad, Serbia [Agnieszka Kluska, tedNEWS] David Asscherick is co-director of Light Bearers and co-founder of ARISE. A former extreme sports enthusiast and punk rocker, David turned his life over to the God of the Bible at the age of 23. He has spent the last 15 years travelling the globe preaching and teaching…
Read MoreDon’t Lose The Dream!
4 August 2013 Novi Sad, Serbia [Yvonne Bauwens, tedNEWS] Soon the arena will be silent and only the echoes of 4,000 young people’s laughter will ring down the corridors. Voices fade, tears are wiped dry and the vivacious participants of this incredible, thought-provoking and inspiring Pan-European Youth Congress here in Novi Sad are beginning their…
Read More‘We’ll sing forever, joined together, in the Power of One’
4 August 2013 Novi Sad, Serbia [Agnieszka Kluska, tedNEWS] Music has always been a vital part of the worship, but it does not happen very often that it is so exceptionally good. 7 musicians and 7 singers have joined their talents together for the Pan-European Adventist Youth Congress to lift up Jesus and lead the…
Read More‘Gifted hands’ start a new chapter during the Power of One book crossing!
4 August 2013 Novi Sad, Serbia [Tabitha Krznar, tedNEWS] Hearts were warmed and the pages of 6,000 Christian books were turned as the eager Power of One participants distributed them across Novi Sad during today's Book Crossing outreach activity. Brown paper bags sporting the now famous Power of One logo (a red Cross centred in…
Read MoreJesus has the power to make you strong
4 August 2013 Novi Sad, Serbia [Agnieszka Kluska, tedNEWS] About 4,000 thousand people gathered in Novi Sad for the morning worship. Many local visitors have come to join young people at the Pan-European Adventist Youth Congress. This year marks 150th anniversary of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 'As we move and grow as a church, we…
Read MoreMatthew Gamble: ‘I long for…’
4 August 2013 Novi Sad, Serbia [Agnieszka Kluska, tedNEWS] Matthew Gamble was born and raised Catholic, but became an atheist at the age of 14. Increasingly fascinated by the Rastafarian religion, Matthew found himself on the island of Jamaica at the age of 19, and soon began smuggling marijuana into Miami, Florida. Shortly after that…
Read MoreWhere’s the water?
2 August 2013 Novi Sad, Serbia [Yvonne Bauwens, tedNEWS] Voting. I am sure many of you have voted in your life. Pastor Patrick Johnson tells Friday evening’s participants about three possible options for electing a new world leader, and their vote decides the fate. Ha! No pressure! The first two of our candidates have questionable…
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