Health – the tool to stretch across communities in Mostar Church plant
11 April 2019 | Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina [tedNEWS with Caleb Quispe] The Mostar Adventist church totally disappeared during the Balkan crisis of the 1990s. Now two young church planters, with the support of the Conference and church members, are aiming to replant a church in this historic city in the centre of Bosnia and…
Read MoreJoin the ‘Every Child. Everywhere. In School.’ Advocacy Campaign
26 February 2019 | Amman, Jordan [ADRA/tedNEWS] One million signatures are being petitioned in a brand new campaign that aims to facilitate education for every single child, world-wide. The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) announced the new global advocacy campaign, 'Every Child. Everywhere. In School,' during a combined ADRA and Adventist Communicators conference in Amman,…
Read MoreSouth England Conference Evangelism Expo 2019
18 January 2019 | Binfield, UK [Onysha Collins] The 'Death of Christianity in the UK' marked the headlines of Psychology Today. Words met with relish by the secular and astonishment from the Christian. The poll stated a steady decline of those professing the Christian faith as well as church attendees.
Read MoreMissionary Wonders Why He Was Sent Home
16 January 2019 | Piikkiö, Finland [Andrew McChesney] Leif Hongisto couldn’t understand why he was heading home to Finland after serving for nine years as the president of Middle East University in Beirut, Lebanon.
Read MorePermission to Dream
28 November 2018 | St Albans, UK [David Neal] As the conversation about Women’s Ordination and Compliance reaches megaphone level, is there not a Holy Spirit prompting to take a step back and reflect, “Is this my church?” Has it really come to a point where we feel the need to produce just another quick-fire…
Read MoreTED providing the key for the future of mission
27 November 2018 | Bečići, Montenegro [Victor Hulbert] He started with the word ‘amazed’ on day 1 and concluded with ‘encouraged’ on day 5 -- the final day of Trans-European Division Year End meetings in Bečići, Montenegro, 21 – 25 November 2018.
Read MoreChurch plants don’t happen by accident
10 October 2018 | Belgrade, Serbia [Caleb Quispe with tedNEWS] A strategic decision to employ specialist discipleship coaches in Scandinavia and the Balkan regions of south east Europe is bearing fruit. An intensive four-day workshop in Serbia means 20 pastors from seven countries are now equipped and energised to plant churches in their local areas.
Read MoreNorway Mission School Called ‘Bright Spot’ in Secular Europe
11 September 2018 | Mysen, Norway [Andrew McChesney, Adventist Mission] Ted N.C. Wilson, president of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church, praised Norway’s Matteson Mission School as a “bright spot” in highly secular Europe and encouraged its students and other young people to press forward with their missionary work.
Read MoreEuropean Pastors’ Council opens with ‘Permission to dream’
29 August 2018 | Belgrade, Serbia [A personal reflection by Widar Ursett] Come to the European Pastors’ Council 2018, in Belgrade, Serbia, you know you are among friends. Friends you have never seen before, and quite likely will meet again only after we have passed through the pearly gates.
Read MoreInternational church plant spurs growth in Estonia
19 July 2018 | Tallinn, Estonia [Victor Hulbert] In Estonia where church growth has been slow, or even stagnant, several new initiatives have been started with a desire to reach out to new people in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, including a Centre of Influence called Terve Elu Keskus (Whole Life Centre), and a lay-led…
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