Moving beyond Immature Faith – a psychiatrist’s perspective
13 February 2017 | Binfield, UK [Helen Pearson] Give a lecture a thought provoking title and you will capture an audience. That was certainly true on Tuesday, 7 February as a capacity audience actually overflowed into the corridor for Newbold’s first Diversity Lecture for 2017, ‘Moving beyond Immature Faith – a psychiatrist’s perspective’.
Read MoreSabbath School mission offering to support projects in Trans-European Division
11 January 2017 | St Albans, UK [Victor Hulbert] Four building projects and a multitude of children’s outreach initiatives will benefit from the 13th Sabbath offering for the first quarter of 2017. These will include a men’s dormitory at a secondary school in Croatia, a new church and centre of influence in Dublin, Ireland, retasking…
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 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 MoreStudents and youth encounter Jesus at Newbold’s Week of Spiritual Emphasis
2 November 2016 | Binfield, UK [Angeline Tyrokomos] Record numbers attended Newbold’s Week of Spiritual Emphasis (WoSE) which ran from 26 September to 1 October, with guest speaker Pastor Damian Chandler from Capitol Hill Adventist Church, in Sacramento, California. Each night numbers grew to the point that, by the last night, people were standing around…
Read MoreNorwegian Bible Society honours Adventist pastor
6 October 2016 | Kristiansand, Norway [Tor Tjeransen, Norwegian Union Communication Director] Pastor Per de Lange and his wife, Monica, were honoured by the Norwegian Bible Society when they received the Bible Prize 2016 during in inter-denominational meeting in the cathedral of Kristiansand, Norway at the end of September.
Read MorePolish football player becomes an accidental evangelist because of the Sabbath
15 September, 2016 | Riga, Latvia [Andrew McChesney/AR] People have called Dariusz Ginda foolish and worse for turning down a nearly $500,000-a-year football contract in Poland. Ginda, a lifelong Seventh-day Adventist, said he does not enter into controversy over his decision to keep the Sabbath rather than play in the premier league.
Read MorePrayer and faith stop rain at pathfinder camporee in Latvia
19 September 2016 | Riga, Latvia [Andrew McChesney/AR] Rain risked ruining the biggest day of the year for Latvia’s Pathfinders. Fifteen minutes remained until the annual Pathfinder camporee was to open with a pomp-filled ceremony last July. But a downpour was drenching the campground as Pathfinders huddled in tents with non-Adventist friends, younger children from…
Read MoreStories of Faithfulness as Latvia Celebrates 120 Years of Adventism
16 September 2016 | Riga, Latvia [Andrew McChesney /AR/ tedNEWS] Over the weekend of 16 and 17 September, Latvia’s 4,000 Adventists are remembering their heritage and looking to the future as they review their 120-year history. In a weekend filled with music, memories, and even an ordination service of two pastoral families, three stories, from…
Read MoreFaith and Science Field Conference instils confidence, builds networks for Adventist teachers
18 August 2016 | Hlíðardalsskóli, Iceland [Victor Hulbert] Until Tuesday, 9 August, most of the 75 delegates at the European Faith and Science Conference would have supposed that lava was only lava – the molten rock that flows out of volcanos destroying everything in its path. Now they are wiser – after all, spending a…
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