Athens church plant reaches out to Filipino community
24 October 23, 2017 | Athens, Greece [Claudio Gulyas] There were celebrations all round in a predominantly Filipino suburb of Athens, Greece, when God moved into the neighbourhood. On Saturday, 14 October, the Athens Filipino Community Centre in Zografou became Athens Filipino Central Church.
Read MoreUnity in Mission – a TED Focus
12 October 2017 | Silver Springs, USA [Victor Hulbert] Unity in Mission can mean many things. For the delegates at the Seventh-day Adventist World Church Annual Council on Monday, 9 October, it meant six-hours of perusing, discussing and finally referring back a 14-page document to the Unity in Mission Oversight Committee.
Read MoreBack to school, forward to mission with TED directors and officers
14 September 2017 | St Albans [Victor Hulbert] It is always good to learn! That is a strong belief in the Trans-European Division office and was exemplified during three days of planning meetings, 11 – 13 September 2017. Interspersed throughout intensive meetings, directors and officers were challenged by a series of four lectures on basic theology,…
Read MoreFinding the ‘love bonus’ in volunteering
4 September 2017 | St Albans [Victor Hulbert] Sometimes ‘Mission’ comes with a bonus. That is certainly the case for Linda-Rose (USA) who, until recently, was on Adventist Volunteer Service (AVS), and now her new British husband, Jake Jackson, also a recent volunteer at a separate project in Cornwall, England.
Read MoreLithuanian Mission School gains Media Skills
31 July 2017 | Kaunas. Lithuania [tedNEWS] When Pastor Bertold Hibner organised media training for his pastoral team in Lithuania earlier this year, he rapidly came to the conclusion that Mission School participants also needed the same practical skills to share Jesus using modern techniques.
Read MoreWilly Aronsen to head department of Adventist Mission in Norway
8 May 2017 | Røyse, Norway [Widar Ursett] Willy Aronsen will serve as head of Adventist Mission and Ministry to Clergy Families from 1 October 2017. Victor Marley, newly elected Norwegian Union president, said that the aim is for him to “aid local churches in developing a strong sense of responsibility and ownership to mission.”
Read MoreSouth Pacific Ministers explore creative mission in Europe
12 April 2017 | St Albans [Victor Hulbert] Ten pastoral staff from the New Zealand Pacific Union Conference (NZPUC) visited with Trans-European Division staff on Tuesday, 11 April with the aim of gaining an insight into how mission can be achieved within the secularised and diverse cultures of Europe.
Read MoreReidar Kvinge leaves Norwegian Union Presidency for evangelism
15 March 2017 | Røyse, Norway [Tor Tjeransen] Pastor Reidar J Kvinge announced today that he is resigning as president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Norway. However, there is nothing dramatic in the reason for pastor Kvinge’s resignation even though his decision to resign came as a total surprise to most employees of the union.
Read MoreTED Mission Focus as world-wide Church growth tops 20 million
8 March 2017 | St Albans, UK [Victor Hulbert with Andrew McChesney/Adventist Mission] “A major drive to engage every church member in Total Member Involvement (TMI) has helped propel the Seventh-day Adventist Church past 20 million members for the first time in its history,” states Andrew McChesney, writing for Adventist Mission.
Read MoreHolistic, creative outreach in the South-East European Union
9 February 2017 | Belgrade, Serbia [Victor Hulbert] There is nothing better than the satisfaction of giving away money for mission – and then finding those possibilities of mission multiplied. A report of no less than six mission projects from the South-East European Union, part-funded by the Trans-European Division Creative Initiatives Evangelism fund, is a…
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