Latvian Adventist runners challenge, ‘Don’t Follow Me, Follow Jesus’
25 May 2017 | Riga, Latvia [Edija Diedrika] Coming together from across Latvia, over one hundred Adventist runners, aged from four to an astonishing 93 years old, took part in the 27th Lattelecom Riga Marathon on Sunday, 14 May. They had one purpose: witness!
Read MoreNinety Year marker for Adventists in Lithuania
29 April 2017 | Kaunas, Lithuania [Guntis Bukalders] Adventists from across Lithuania and beyond joined together on Saturday, 29 April for a 90th birthday celebration. Participants were in a festive mood as the opera singer, Nomeda Kukulskienė performed, as well as the Kaunas Church adult choir, and the youth choir from the Kaunas, Kėdainiai and…
Read MoreCreative family spirituality in Latvia
3 April 2017 | Riga, Latvia [Karen Holford] The basement of the Central Riga Adventist church was transformed into a colourful hub of activity for a series of workshops on ‘Creative Family Spirituality’, the during weekend of 18-19 March 2017.
Read MoreMinisterial Mentoring in the Baltics
16 March 2017 | St Albans, UK [Victor Hulbert] How do you really know what ministers need? For Patrick Johnson, Trans-European Division Ministerial Association secretary, the answer is simple: get alongside them. Last week, 5 – 10 March, he did exactly that, accompanied by TED president, Raafat Kamal.
Read MoreIntensive media training a first for Lithuanian church leaders
6 February 2017 | Kaunas, Lithuania [Jurgita Kregždaitė] Adventist church pastors need more than just theology. In the modern world they also need a clear understanding of media. How do you make a picture tell a story? What can make an article or news report not only interesting, but also relevant? What’s the point of…
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 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.
Read MoreStill active at 120 – Latvia celebrates
22 September 2016 | Riga, Latvia [Victor Hulbert] A church which started as the forerunner of Adventism in the Russian Empire celebrated its 120th birthday this past weekend with a mixture of worship, history, an ordination service and an inspiring musical concert. In 1914 a German colporteur, Gerhard Perk, headed north to Latvia. He was…
Read MoreLatvian engineer ditches career to run ‘business evangelism’ health store
19 September 2016 | Riga, Latvia [Andrew McChesney/AR] Valdis Zelčs, a millennial in Latvia, felt dejected after strangers showed little interest in his street invitations to attend health expos and other Seventh-day Adventist evangelistic events. So he began to pray for an alternative to knocking on apartment doors and stopping people on the street in…
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.
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