{"id":15996,"date":"2023-08-17T06:29:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T06:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/?p=15996"},"modified":"2023-08-17T06:29:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T06:29:58","slug":"from-dublin-to-maryland-the-journey-of-audrey-andersson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/from-dublin-to-maryland-the-journey-of-audrey-andersson\/","title":{"rendered":"From Dublin to Maryland: The Journey of Audrey Andersson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>16 August 2023|Silver Spring, USA [Adventist News Network with tedNEWS]<\/p>\n<p>Each month Adventist News Network (ANN) runs an in-depth extended interview with a church leader of interest. ANN anchor Alyssa Trueman recently interviewed former Trans-European Division Executive Secretary Audrey Andersson. The title, &#8220;From Dublin to Maryland&#8221;, tells Andersson&#8217;s story, the formative years, the theological training &#8211; but ending up with a job in the secular world, to the &#8220;I can do more with my life than think up good ideas to market a magazine&#8230;&#8221; And why was the 1992 TED Budapest Youth Congress the moment and the place never to be forgotten?<\/p>\n<p>In a moving and faith-affirming interview, Audrey (as she is known to the many TED members she describes as a family) shares the experience of losing her husband Lars killed in an accident. &#8220;And tell me about Cyprus,&#8221; requests Trueman. And Audrey shares what happened on October 23rd 2017. &#8220;And so began a different journey&#8230; but what I will say is that I have seen the goodness of God over the last six and a half years&#8230; (and) I can honestly say that the Lord has been so good, so gracious, I can do nothing but praise God and say &#8216;thank you&#8217; for the way he has been with me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The conversation is available in both video and audio format.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_23915\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M2sxSQraYZo?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/ted.adventist.org&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"From Dublin to Maryland: The Journey of General Vice President Audrey Andersson\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of the interview can be listened to here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"From Dublin to Maryland: The Journey of General Vice President Audrey Andersson - ANN Profiles\" src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?episode_id=56214683&#038;theme=light&#038;playlist=false&#038;cover_image_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net%2Fimages.spreaker.com%2Foriginal%2Fcf5aa99b5932cad0b6c7ffcec57ccde6.jpg#?secret=WTsPiZ244s\" data-secret=\"WTsPiZ244s\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can do nothing but praise God and say &#8216;thank you&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":16011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1577],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-organisational-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15996"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16014,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996\/revisions\/16014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}