Dublin: City of Hope for 2014
11 October 2012 Banbridge, Northern Ireland [Weiers Coetser, BUC NEWS] Dublin will be the British Union Conference 'City of Hope' for 2014. The announcement was made by Pastors Ian Sweeney and David Neal at the Irish Mission Day of Fellowship in Drogheda on Sabbath, 6 October. This heralds the beginning of a three-year evangelistic drive…
Read MoreNew Kid on the Block
05 October 2012 St. Albans, United Kingdom [Heather Haworth] 'Reflecting Jesus', a 32-lesson interactive Bible study series for teens and their parents, was launched at the TED Kids in Discipleship Refresher Weekend, 28 - 30 September. KID leaders from Croatia, Norway, Hungary, Poland, Netherlands, Scotland and England met at the Trans-European Division Headquarters of the…
Read MoreRe-Opening of Keough House at Newbold College
12 September 2012 Bracknell, United Kingdom [Newbold College] On Sunday afternoon 2 September Dr Bertil Wiklander (Chairman, Newbold College Board of Governors) and Dr Philip Brown (Principal, Newbold College) unveiled a plaque to celebrate the much anticipated official re-opening of Keough House (Men’s Hall of Residence) on the Newbold College campus. Following this unveiling, a…
Read MoreStatement on Women’s Ordination to the Pastoral Ministry
Presented at the TED European Pastors' Conference 25 August 2012 Rogaska Slatina, Slovenia [Bertil Wiklander, tedNEWS] The Trans-European Division is a division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. It means that TED follows General Conference policy, except in cases where we request and are given permission to apply a variance to the common world-church…
Read MoreEPC Comment Board
22 August 2012, Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia [Julian Hibbert, tedNEWS] The EPC Comment Board is up and ready for conference participants to have their say. Here are the first ones: Pastor Joachim Telfer of Norway: “I was blessed and challenged by Bertil Wiklander’s keynote address. It set the tone for the whole theme ‘Making God Known in Europe’.”
Read MoreA Herculean task, done well!
22 August 2012, Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia [Julian Hibbert, tedNEWS] Greek mythology has bequeathed the idea of the “Herculean task” to the English language, and the term is now used to describe a task that is unusually difficult to perform. Dr Laurence Turner, of Newbold College, undertook such a task during this morning’s worship session at the European Pastors’…
Read More“Peeping” on the pastor
22 August 2012, Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia [Julian Hibbert, tedNEWS] Any Adventist members curious about what may happen in the pastor’s study should pay him an online “visit” by clicking on peep. It will only take four minutes of your time. When it was shown this morning at the EPC the pastors saw the funny side of it. Go…
Read MoreStansted Bomb Hoax Affects EPC
21 August 2012, Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia [Julian Hibbert, tedNEWS] The irresponsible actions of UK man caused air traffic controllers to divert a Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340 from Heathrow to Stansted airport early this morning. This was caused by a telephonic bomb threat. According to the MailOnline the plane “landed safely at 5.24am and the 214 passengers and 18…
Read MoreSuccess Lies in the Details
21 August 2012, Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia [Julian Hibbert, tedNEWS] A key ingredient of every successful conference is the ability of the convening team to handle detail. They must think through and list the requirements for each component of the event, down to the finest detail. I was interested in how the Trans-European Division (TED) team, tasked…
Read MoreEuropean Pastors’ Conference Begins
21 August 2012, Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia [Victor Hulbert, tedNEWS] Some drove for sixteen hours. Others flew on convoluted routes around Europe. All had one purpose – to arrive at Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia in time for the opening service of the European Pastors' Conference (EPC). With 30°C Slovenian sunshine outside, it was bliss to enter a…
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