{"id":11004,"date":"2022-06-08T22:21:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T22:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/?p=11004"},"modified":"2022-06-08T22:21:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T22:21:51","slug":"audrey-andersson-general-vice-president-of-general-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/audrey-andersson-general-vice-president-of-general-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Audrey Andersson \u2013 General Vice-President of General Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">08 June 2022, St Louis, USA [Vanesa Pizzuto]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the Tuesday morning business session, seven General Conference (GC) vice-presidents were elected. Among them, our very own, pastor Audrey Andersson. Originally from Ireland, with strong Swedish connections, Andersson studied theology at Newbold College of Higher Education. After graduating, she worked as a legal editor and ran her own communication company. In 2003, she commenced denominational employment as Executive Secretary for the Swedish Union. From 2010, she has served as Executive Secretary for the Trans-European Division (TED), the first to be held by a woman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><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_40299\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qvD2TlRXo2s?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=\"Audrey Andersson \u2013 General Vice-President of General Conference\"  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><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Andersson, an experienced and well-respected leader, has been employed by the Church for over 18 years. In 2016 she received the General Conference Woman of Excellence Award, followed in 2020 with the British Union Conference Women in Leadership Award. While her professional accomplishments are commendable, Andersson is best-known for her kindness, cheerfulness, and generosity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the announcement of her election, TED delegates responded with a mixture of happiness and sadness. \u201cAudrey is an absolute treasure, we are sad to let her go, but she will be a great addition to the GC team,\u201d reflected TED office staff.\u00a0 \u201cI go with mixed feelings,\u201d reflected\u00a0Andersson on her election. \u201cI am very sad to be leaving the TED, it is where my heart is. It will always be my home.\u201d As the first European woman to serve in the vice president role, Andersson encouraged women to get involved in mission. \u201cFollow your dreams, the Church has a place for you!\u201d Andersson remarked. \u201cFollow where He leads, and you will never be disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The TED family wish Audrey all the very best in her future role and know that the Holy Spirit has gone before her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAudrey is an absolute treasure, we are sad to let her go, but she will be a great addition to the GC team,\u201d reflected TED office staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1577],"tags":[487,1096,1117,1127],"class_list":["post-11004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-organisational-updates","tag-audrey-andersson","tag-general-conference","tag-st-louis","tag-vice-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004","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=11004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11008,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions\/11008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}