1,000 train for evangelism at South England Expo
24 January 2017 | Binfield, UK [Natasha Mirilov] Over one thousand pastors and lay-members from across the South England Conference (SEC) packed Newbold College’s auditoriums and Newbold Church to attend an annual Evangelism Expo on Sunday, 8 January, making it the largest attended event of its kind.
Read MoreRelational Care training in Lithuania
12 December 2016 | Kaunas, Lithuania [tedNEWS] When Bertold Hibner, President of the Lithuanian Conference, asked his team of pastors and Bible workers what they needed to help them be more effective leaders, he discovered an unexpected answer. “We need to learn more about helping our church members with their challenges and pain, and how…
Read MoreARM Assists with ‘First of its Kind’ Training for Union Insurance Coordinators in South Africa
7 December 2016 | St. Albans, England December 6, 2016 [ARM / tedNEWS] Based at the Trans-European Division office in St Albans, England, the European office of Adventist Risk Management cares for church risk and insurance matters across the whole of Europe and Africa. Training in risk management is an important part of their role. …
Read MoreTrustees trained for good governance in Church Leadership
5 December 2016 | Daventry, UK [John Surridge / tedNEWS] ‘Trustees’, the Executive Committee members of our Unions and Conferences, take on a lot of legal and spiritual responsibility when they accept office. While voted for their skills or experience they may, nevertheless, have little knowledge of the work of a trustee in practice.
Read MoreFaith in the Real World
22 November 2016 | Warsaw, Poland [Victor Hulbert] Anna Samusionek, Dariusz Ginda and Daniel Kluska come from three very different backgrounds. An actress, a footballer and a teenage rebel, all they really have in common is that they are Polish – and that they are vibrant Seventh-day Adventists.
Read MoreNorwegian members’ ADRA fundraising initiatives
10 November 2016 | Vik, Norway [Tor Tjeransen/tedNEWS] For Scandinavia ADRA annual appeal time comes in the autumn. Norwegian Adventists take to it with enthusiasm – from door-to-do collections by students at Tyrifjord Junior college to car boot and book sales. Whatever method they use, the aim is to raise funds to help those in…
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 MoreThe 2016 Beach Lecture – Difficulties and ways forward for Christian Muslim relations in Britain
19 October 2016 | Binfield, England [Helen Pearson] Newbold College’s 2016 Beach lecturer, Dr. Philip Lewis, visiting fellow at York St John University, was admirably qualified to speak about Christian-Muslim relations in Britain. He has lived alongside Muslims both in the UK and in Pakistan while for more than three decades, studying, writing and lecturing…
Read MoreSwapping their church for a shop is the best decision for Helsinki congregation
5 October 2016 | Helsinki, Finland [Victor Hulbert] A Helsinki congregation recently took the brave decision to sell the church building they have owned for the past fifty years, purchase a shop in a needy part of town, and intentionally serve the community. It is the best decision they ever made.
Read MoreWhen an English teacher opened an Adventist radio station in Latvia
21 September, 2016 | Riga, Latvia [Andrew McChesney/AR] Liene Meiere, an English-language teacher in a small Latvian town, is the unlikely leader of a Seventh-day Adventist congregation whose members include Baptist and Pentecostal ministers, people from Denmark and Canada, and a woman who decided against suicide after a Bible story and music.
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