Following Directions
14 January 2013 St. Albans, United Kingdom [Audrey Andersson, tedNEWS] Solomon’s wisdom finds fulfilment in many different ways, times, and places. Airports are one of those places. Here wisdom is essential, not least, making connection flights. On paper it looked easy; reality is often a different story. As one flight landed the time to get…
Read MoreMessage for the New Year
Dear Readers, Coming to the end of 2012 fills my heart with gratitude to the Lord for His many blessings in the past -- personally and in the life of the Church. I think, for example, of our revised Strategic Mission Plan which has been updated for Europe since our reorganisation on January 1, our…
Read MoreWilson Urges Reconciliation in Ivory Coast, Meets with Ashanti King in Ghana
13 November 2012 Abidjan, Ivory Coast [Gilbert Weeh, Solace Asafo Hlordzi, and ANN staff] Seventh-day Adventist Church president Pastor Ted N. C. Wilson is meeting with government, community and church leaders in West Africa during a visit to the region. In the Ivory Coast last week, Wilson called for reconciliation following last year’s civil unrest…
Read MoreAdventist Church in the Netherlands on the Move
13 November 2012 Huis Ter Heide, the Netherlands [Wim Altink, tedNEWS] More than 200 delegates, representing 56 local Seventh-day Adventist Churches, met together for the Netherlands Union Conference (NUC) Session on three consecutive Sundays, ending 11 November 2012 at Congress Centre "De Breehoek" in Scherpenzeel, Netherlands. The theme of the Session was "An Involved Church.”…
Read MoreThe Great Hope Project Ready to Start
13 November 2013, St Albans, United Kingdom [Miroslav Pujic, tedNEWS] Trans-European Division (TED) is part of the Great Hope Project worldwide. The vision of this initiative is to engage members and pastors in witnessing to make disciples of Jesus Christ. This will be achieved by sharing printed resources for the purpose of bringing spiritual seekers…
Read MoreAdventist Church President Offers Condolences in Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy
01 November 2012 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [ANN staff, with reporting by Nigel Coke, George Johnson, Mark A. Kellner and Libna Stevens] Seventh-day Adventist world church President Ted N. C. Wilson this week offered a message of condolence to residents of the Northeastern United States and the Caribbean in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. “Please…
Read MoreDublin: 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 MoreIn Togo, Cape Verdean Adventist Pastor Imprisoned on Dubious Charges
27 September 2012 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States [Elizabeth Lechleitner/ANN] Seventh-day Adventist lawyers and human rights advocates are calling for the immediate release of an Adventist pastor imprisoned in Togo on what they say are spurious charges. Antonio dos Anjos Monteiro was detained in March for conspiracy to commit murder after a Togolese man implicated him and…
Read MoreHope for Healing in Hungary
30 August 2012 Pécel, Hungary [tedNEWS] On Wednesday 29th August 2012, leaders from the Christian Advent Community (KERAK), Hungarian Union Conference (HUC) and the Trans-European Division (TED) met at the headquarters of the Adventist Church in Pécel, Hungary. The meeting took place as a response to a request by Pastor János Cserbik, the newly elected…
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