Family Ministries ‘Fully Alive’ in Montenegro
29 November 2016 | Bečići, Montenegro [Karen Holford] Every year family ministry leaders from all over the Trans-European Division come together for a Family Ministry Leaders’ Training event (formerly CFLE) to learn, discover new ideas, share their experiences, and form lifelong friendships. Various modules are covered during several years of training events. This year the…
Read MoreJoint worship and Sabbath memories in Montenegro
17 November 2016 | Bečići, Montenegro [Natasha Mirilov] The Trans-European Division (TED) leaders and South England Conference (SEC) workers, ministers and directors shared a Sabbath together in Bečići, Montenegro on Friday and Saturday, 11-12 November 2016.
Read MoreTED Year-end Meetings ‘a family gathering’
16 November 2016 | Bečići, Montenegro [Victor Hulbert] Warm smiles, big hugs and plenty of chatter clearly indicate that Year-end Meetings in the Trans-European Division are far more than ‘just for business’. As Executive Committee members arrive in the low-cost splendour of an off-peak holiday resort in Montenegro, friendships are renewed, deep conversations are shared,…
Read MoreTED seek unity within diversity of cultures and perspectives
14 November 2016 | Bečići, Montenegro [Victor Hulbert] Leaders in the Trans-European Division are united in mission. Watch them in discussions at the dinner table or in committee during their Year-end Meetings in Bečići, Montenegro, and you will see a positive exchange of ideas in progress. Together they are looking for positive ways to share…
Read MoreSerbian Publishing House wins award at Belgrade International Book fair
2 November 2016 | Belgrade, Serbia [Nikola Grujić] The Serbian Adventist Publishing house, Preporod, gained a special award at the 61st Belgrade International Book fair, 23-30 October 2016. Recognition was given for the book, ‘Mihajlo Pupin - the biggest Christian among scientists’. The panel of judges made the award in acknowledgement of the books contribution…
Read MoreHealth 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 MoreHelping refugees ‘as important as preaching the Second Coming’
12 September 2016 | Belgrade, Serbia [Andrew McChesney/AR] Seventh-day Adventist pastor Igor Mitrović once believed that the church’s prophetic calling was to proclaim the Second Coming of Jesus. But after working on the frontlines of Europe’s refugee crisis for the past year, Mitrović sees a second and equally important prophetic calling: to help the helpless.
Read MoreI am ready to be a bear in Serbia
11 September 2016 | Novi Sad, Serbia [Andrew McChesney/AR] The Adventist Church’s first free hug day in Serbia delights passersby — and a visiting journalist. I’d never seen a Seventh-day Adventist hug-a-thon before. But after joining a group of hugging teens on a walk through the Serbian city of Novi Sad last Saturday, I am…
Read MoreAdventist lectures are bigger draw than theatre for some in Serbia
9 September 2016 | Belgrade, Serbia [Andrew McChesney/AR] A lecture series is building confidence among a wary population in Belgrade. Three times a week, a group gathers in a small conference room adjacent to a martial arts studio and a yoga center to hear a public health lecture on the third floor of a shopping…
Read MoreMission H7 impacts Serbian village
5 July 2016 | Hajdučica, Serbia [Ana Gagić/tedNEWS] Some fifty youth from across the South-East European Union (SEEUC) donated money and a week of their time to serve residents of a small village, Hajdučica, near the north-east border of Serbia. Joining them was an initially sceptical TED Campus Ministries director, Tihomir Lazić, who was amazed…
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