{"id":10120,"date":"2022-01-26T10:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T10:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/?p=10120"},"modified":"2022-01-31T09:35:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T09:35:43","slug":"ted-got-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/ted-got-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"TED Got Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>26 January 2022 | St Albans, UK [Dejan Stojkovi\u0107 with Vanesa Pizzuto]<\/p>\n<p>The Trans-European Division\u2019s Youth Ministries department hosted \u201cVision Song Contest 2022\u201d on Saturday 8th January. This lively music programme, now running for its second year, was an occasion for laughter and joy, it was an opportunity for young people around the division to begin the New Year together with a virtual, musical event.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_75846\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RCtCRuE3GmI?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/ted.adventist.org&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Vision Song Contest 2022\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n<p>The programme was broadcast on both the TED YouTube channel and Youth Ministries Facebook page. Through the VoxVote website (accessible via a QR code), viewers could take part voting for their favourite songs. This year fourteen songs were submitted, from the thirteen countries who participated in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Dejan Stojkovi\u0107 and Audrey Andersson hosted the lively evening watched across the division by over 4,000 people. They took the opportunity to share fun facts about the countries as their songs were introduced. Cyprus opened the competition with a beautiful rendition of \u201cTrue Friend<em>\u201d<\/em> written and performed by sixteen-year-old Anastasia, with lyrics by fifteen-year-old Nikki. Song after song, singers from across the division shared their talents and the unifying love of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>The climax in the programme came when the audience were given their last opportunity to vote after a short clip from each country was played. Nearly 350 people voted online, and then it was the turn for the judges, from nine different countries, to cast their votes. In an unexpected twist, Sweden, with \u201cGoing Home\u201d by Sara Sundvik, and Finland, with \u201cFear My Soul Will Not\u201d by Betel Akustic, were crowned joint winners of the event. Hungary came in second place with \u201cThrough the Fire\u201d by 8 in 1 Singers, and Croatia in third place with \u201cTo the Creator of The Universe\u201d, by Noel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10122\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10122 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/First-place-vision-song-contest-SF-630.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/First-place-vision-song-contest-SF-630.png 630w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/First-place-vision-song-contest-SF-630-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/First-place-vision-song-contest-SF-630-500x280.png 500w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/First-place-vision-song-contest-SF-630-350x197.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweden and Finland were crowned joint winners of the event [Photos: Visa Saarela and tedNews]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat gives me hope in times like these is the assurance that Jesus soon will bring us home,\u201d said Sundvik reflecting on the evening. \u201cI was surprised to win and didn\u2019t expect it at all. I\u00b4m very honoured to share first place with Finland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seidi Vartiainen, Betel Akustic\u2019s lead singer, says she wrote the song as \u201can encouragement to this COVID era.\u201d The whole team behind this hope-infused song \u201cis very happy with the outcome and humbled to gain so many votes alongside with Sweden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA massive thank you to all the Youth Directors across the TED for sending us your beautiful songs and the people who worked in the production and in the studio to make this event possible\u201d said Stojkovi\u0107, who is already planning and dreaming about the next Vision event which will take place on 7<sup>th<\/sup> January 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feast of talent on display in Vision 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1577,1588],"tags":[885,787,1022,1020,1021],"class_list":["post-10120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-organisational-updates","category-united-kingdom-ireland","tag-competition","tag-music","tag-show","tag-talent","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10120"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10150,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10120\/revisions\/10150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}