Adventist Elected President of Swiss Bible Society
30 May 2013 Aarau, Aargau, Switzerland [Herbert Bodenmann/APD/ANN] Delegates of the Swiss Bible Society elected Seventh-day Adventist theologian Reto Mayer as the organization’s president during their May 24 meeting, making him the first Adventist appointed to the post in the society’s 58-year history. Mayer, associate treasurer of the Adventist world church’s Inter-European Division, based in Berne,…
Read MoreAdventist Church Session in Denmark
15 May 2013 Copenhagen, Denmark [tedNEWS] May 8 – 12, 2013 the Danish Union of Seventh-day Adventist Church held its session at the church owned campsite Himmerlandsgaarden. Quite quickly, the nominating committee put a motion to the floor to re-elect the President, Thomas Müller. Müller was re-elected together with Treasurer Bjorgvin Ibsen, who has been working…
Read MoreSpring Meeting, in Battle Creek, Marks Church’s 150th Anniversary
13 April 2013 Battle Creek, Michigan, United States [Elizabeth Lechleitner/ANN] In a replica of the meeting house where Seventh-day Adventist Church pioneer and prophet Ellen G. White once spoke for 10 hours on the Great Controversy, world church leaders met yesterday to commemorate the church’s 150th anniversary. The Second Meeting House is located on the campus…
Read MoreTheology of Ordination Committee Ends First Session
18 January 2013 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [Adventist Review staff, ANN] Members of the Theology of Ordination Study Committee (TOSC) ended their first session – held January 15-17 at a meeting site near the church’s world headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States – on an optimistic note. “We have real hope that the…
Read MoreAfter Debate, Annual Council Votes Statement on Church Polity
16 October 2012 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [Mark A. Kellner/Adventist Review, and Edwin Manuel Garcia/ANN] Following three hours of respectful study and discussion, leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist world church voted to approve a “Statement on Church Polity, Procedures and Resolution of Disagreements in the Light of Recent Union Actions on Ministerial Ordination” on…
Read MoreAdventist Church Leaders Meet Albania’s Prime Minister
02 October 2012 Tirana, Albania [Julian Kastrati, tedNEWS] A delegation from the Adriatic Union Conference headed by its President, Pastor Branko Bistrovic, held a courtesy meeting with Albania's Prime Minister, Prof Dr Sali Berisha. In this visit, Pr. Bistrovic was accompanied by Pr. Sretko Kuburic, AUC Executive Secretary, Dr Dragutin Matak, representing the Religious Liberty…
Read MoreAdventist Church Launches Committee to Study Theology of Ordination
19 September 2012 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [Ansel Oliver, Mark A. Kellner, and Elizabeth Lechleitner/ANN] Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders yesterday voted to establish a Theology of Ordination Study Committee, with a goal of delivering a report to the 2014 Annual Council, a yearly meeting of world church administrators. Four committee sessions, each meeting for…
Read More“A Code of Conduct for Leaders”
Presented by Lowell Cooper 23 August, 2012 Rogaška Slatina, Slovenia [John Surridge, tedNEWS] “There is a crisis in confidence in leaders,” said Elder Lowell Cooper in his opening words to the European Pastors Council on Thursday morning. “Leaders are held in suspicion. And yet,” he continued, “a trustworthy God will never be made know by untrustworthy people.”…
Read MoreThe Art of Leadership – Some Reflections
28 June 2012 St Albans, UK [Bertil Wiklander] A colleague recently reminded me of Peter Drucker’s distinction between management and leadership: ‘Management is doing things right – Leadership is doing the right things.’ It made me think again of the real nature of leadership. What helps us know how to do the right things? See…
Read MoreAdventist Church Leaders Meet the Minister of Culture in Albania
18 June 2012 Tirana, Albania [Julian Kastrati, tedNEWS] Dr Bertil Wiklander, the President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Trans-European Division, held an official meeting with the Honorable Mr. Aldo Bumçi, MP, Minister of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports in Albania. He was accompanied by Dr Reinder Bruinsma, President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church…
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