Norwegian Adventists engage with public, meet politicians at significant street fair
20 August 2019 | Arendal, Norway [Tor Tjeransen] For the third year running, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has gained considerable attention at an annual fair in the town of Arendal in south-east Norway. The week-long event is simply named after the town, Arendalsuka (Arendal Week).
Read MoreSymbols of trust and faithfulness discovered by TED Pathfinders
4 August 2019 | Ardingly, UK [Victor Hulbert] Celebrating Sabbath at the Trans-European Division Pathfinder CamporeeIt is hard to feel hungry at the TED Pathfinder Camporee since the volunteers at the food distribution centre work tirelessly to supply the needs of 4,000 campers with wholesome vegetarian fare. Yet Friday evening, Melissa Myklebust, the animated youth…
Read MoreAdventist Media Centers Join Hands in New International Cross-Media Project
25 July 2019 | Miami, United States [Libna Stevens, Inter-American Division News with tedNEWS] “For the past three years the two European Divisions have worked in partnership via GAiN Europe to produce a range of media resources including ‘This is my Mission’, Global Refugee Sabbath, and ‘Fathers’. The latest project, ‘Uncertainty’, is the most ambitious…
Read MoreTüri Adventists use garden café event to share faith
8 July 2019 | Türi, Estonia [Averonika Beekmann] Türi, a small town in central Estonia with origins dating back to the 14th century, enjoys a good birthday party. On Tuesday, 2 July they celebrated the town’s birthday with a series of ‘garden cafés’ across the town. For the seventh year running, the Türi Adventist Church…
Read MoreAdventist Youth march against knife and gun crime in their community
31 May 2019 | Hackney, London [Darell J Philip] UK Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, has described the escalation in knife crime as a ‘national emergency’ with a special emphasis needed to “tackle violence among young people”. [The Guardian] As their part in tackling the problem, Seventh-day Adventists in the UK and Ireland set aside two…
Read MoreADRA Norway praised by Auditor General
29 May 2019 | Røyse, Norway [Tor Tjeransen] In 2018 ADRA Norway received NOK 73 million (7.48 million Euros) from Norad, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, for education programmes in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, Niger, Mali, and Myanmar. This included helping children with special needs to gain an education.
Read MoreWith time out of the office, TED aims for caring staff environment
20 May 2019 | St Albans, United Kingdom [Victor Hulbert] Working together for better health outcomes, staff at the Trans-European Division (TED) office took two full days to focus on positive health in a comprehensive programme that reviewed stress, diet, exercise, mental health, and the work-life balance. Day one was theory as health specialists provided information…
Read MoreWhere ancient documents meet modern technology
20 May 2019 | Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Egypt [Tor Tjeransen/tedNEWS] Ancient manuscripts, many of which have not been fully studied, are now being made available to academics by a careful process of digitalisation in a remote Sinai monastery.
Read MoreMedia Academy in Bulgaria inspires youth to serve the Church
9 May 2019 | Sofia, Bulgaria [Ivalina Ilieva/EUDNews/tedNEWS] Inspired by the cross-media interaction of ideas and teams during the 2018 GAiN Europe* conference in Valencia, Spain, Communication leaders in Bulgaria committed themselves to develop similar outreach projects in their own country – a land that is traditionally Orthodox but that is today very secular.
Read MoreDesmond Doss story inspires Norwegian soldier to faith
9 May 2019 | Mjøndalen, Norway [Tor Tjeransen] Christian Ødegård had barely heard about Seventh-day Adventists. However, while serving in the Norwegian armed forces, he saw a war movie that made a huge impact on him. The film was Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge with the young Adventist paramedic, Desmond Doss, as the main character.
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