Changing the World – One Brick at a Time
23 February 2011 Lillehammer, Norway [Britt Celine Oldebråten, tedNEWS] 400 Youth participating in the annual Seventh Day Adventist Floor ball tournament collected NOK 16 000 (approximately GBP 1750) for a wall around the “Keep Girls Safe”-shelter in Northern Thailand. The event is arranged by the Seventh-day Adventist children and youth society in the Norwegian Union…
Read MoreSanitarium Responds to Christchurch Crisis
25 February 2011 Christchurch, New Zealand [Jarrod Stackelroth, Record] In the wake of the devastation wreaked by the earthquake in Christchurch, the Adventist Church and its entities have jumped into action, in an effort to help in any way they can. The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA NZ) has been working closely with the civil…
Read MoreNewbold College Restructures
25 February 2011 Newbold College, Binfield, UK [Katie Ramharacksingh, tedNEWS] Extensive consultations on restructuring have continued this month at Newbold College, led by Acting Principal, Dr Svein Myklebust. As part of the process, 15 members of staff received 'notice of possible redundancy' letters on Friday 11 February. At the same time all recipients were invited to…
Read MoreAl Waad Channel Viewers Exceeds Expectations
15 February 2011 Beirut, Lebanon [Miroslav Pujic, tedNEWS] The first of February 2011 was the day that marked the launching of Al Waad Channel (Hope Channel in Arabic), reaching the countries in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. After two weeks of broadcast, Al Waad Media Center, based in Beirut, Lebanon, has received numerous…
Read MoreMany Adventisms?
15 February 2011 Binfield, United Kingdom [Helen Pearson, BUC NEWS] The cryptic title, 'Many Adventisms?' coaxed about sixty people to leave the comfort of their armchairs on Tuesday evening, 15 February for Newbold's first Diversity Lecture of 2011. Dr. David Trim, a founder member of Newbold's Diversity planning team and a former student and teacher at…
Read MoreEye-opener meetings for Antillean Churches in the Netherlands
13 February 2011 Rotterdam, the Netherlands [Cherrel Francisca, tedNEWS] “Inspirational, an eye-opener, practical, insightful, tremendous” were the words used by church members to describe the special programme organised for the Antillean Community in the Netherlands. On the 12th February 2011, the Rotterdam International church of Seventh-day Adventists was the host church for a compelling meeting on…
Read MoreFocus on Revival and Reformation in the Baltic Union
10 February 2011 Riga, Latvia [Guntis Bukalders, tedNEWS] Dr. Pardon Mwansa, the Vice-President of General Conference (GC) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church visited the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) on the 25th and 26th January 2011. The purpose of his visitation was to explain the new General Conference initiative in revival and reformation. The…
Read MoreRe-examining Session Format
10 February 2011 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [Elizabeth Lechleitner, ANN] Just six months after the Seventh-day Adventist world church's largest business meeting, General Conference Session planners are already mapping out the global denomination's 2020 convention. Planning for the event typically begins 10 years beforehand, meaning the location for Session 2015 was announced in 2006…
Read MoreNot Left to Stand Alone
10 February 2011 Cairo, Egypt [BUC News, tedNEWS] Having successfully arranged the evacuation of non-essential ex-patriots among the Adventist staff based in Egypt during the current unrest, Field President Pastor Llew Edwards, along with his wife Karin, needed to consider their own position.
Read MoreAl Waad Channel Launched
2 February 2011 St Albans, United Kingdom [Miroslav Pujic, tedNEWS] The staff of Al Waad Media Center in Beirut, Lebanon watched intently as they stood together to witness the event that they had been looking forward to for over two years. The first of February 2011 was the day that marked the launching of Al…
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