Learning Leaders and Gownless Graduations
11 August 2020 | St Albans, UK [Karen Holford and co.] For centuries, graduation services have involved flowing black robes, tasselled mortarboards, processions, and diplomas. But not this year…On Sunday, May 3rd and Sunday, August 2nd, the students who had completed the Trans-European Division (TED) MA Leadership programme graduated from Andrews University in Michigan, USA. They…
Read MoreBert Smit, from ADRA-UK, appears in Leaders Council podcast, alongside Lord Blunkett.
6 August 2020 | Watford, UK [Cathy Boldeau] The Leaders Council of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is currently in the process of talking to leadership figures from across the nation in an attempt to understand this universal trait and what it means in Britain and Northern Ireland today.
Read MoreMA in Leadership success with online completion ceremony
22 June 2020 | Binfield, UK [Daniel Duda] Over a four-year period, a mixture of 35 union and conference leaders, along with some local pastors and an ADRA director, have focused on learning and developing new leadership styles under the European MA in Leadership programme. The course was offered by Andrews University via Newbold College of…
Read MoreWorking together in difficult times and still open for business: TED Spring Meetings
19 May 2020 | St Albans, UK [Victor Hulbert] There is an upside to the current travel restrictions. Online meetings save travel time and money. Zoom fatigue helps officers develop agendas that focus on the essential. With a positive good will that is possible.
Read MoreADRA Slovenia offers volunteer training and ‘healthy baskets’ during COVID-19 outbreak
8 April 2020 | Ljubljana, Slovenia [Katja Kotnik] ADRA is active in the small Balkan nation of Slovenia, offering training to volunteers and practical help to the elderly and to healthcare workers.
Read MoreGeneral Conference Session postponed, downsized
20 March, 2020 | SIlver Spring, Maryland, USA [Adventist News Network, Adventist Review & tedNEWS] Due to the current coronavirus pandemic the General Conference Session (GC Session) of the Seventh-day Adventist World church scheduled for this summer is now rescheduled for May 2021 in what will be a smaller and tighter event.
Read MoreWords of Hope – TED Leaders react to coronavirus pandemic
19 March 2020 | St Albans, UK [tedNEWS] With school and churches shut, travel clampdowns world-wide, self-isolation and social distancing becoming the new norm, the Trans-European Division has responded with Words of Hope in a video released today.
Read More‘At Risk’ Youth Leadership inspired at South England Leadership Conference
25 February 2020 | London, UK [SEC Youth Ministries] In a world where there can be a frustrating struggle to find and encourage youth leadership at a local church level, the South England Conference Youth Leadership Conference (YLC) stimulated over ninety leaders towards innovative development.
Read MoreScottish Leaders challenged to ‘do something extraordinary’ during annual training event
17 February 2020 | Crieff, Scotland [Jimmy Botha / tedNEWS] "You have to be brave to do something extraordinary for God," says Simon Martin, TED discipleship coach for Scandinavia. He was speaking to 77 Scottish church leaders at Crieff Adventist church during their annual leadership training day on Sunday 26 January.
Read MoreHungarian Church leader awarded for work with minorities
20 January 2020 | Budapest, Hungary [Tamás Ócsai] Jenő Szigeti, a former president of Hungarian Union Conference and a Church historian, has been awarded a prize for his life-long work in higher educational and pastoral care, focused on minorities.
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