{"id":1608,"date":"2018-08-29T14:47:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2018\/08\/29\/what-of-the-future\/"},"modified":"2018-08-29T14:47:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T14:47:39","slug":"what-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/what-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"What of the future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>29 August 2018 | Belgrade, Serbia [Victor Hulbert] <\/p>\n<p>Is there a future for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Europe?&nbsp; Ask Pastor Ted Wilson and the answer is a resounding, \u201cYes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an engaging interview conducted during the European Pastors\u2019 Council in Serbia, 28 August \u2013 2 September 2018, Wilson shared a global perspective on how ministers and lay members can work together to transform communities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"EPC18: Pastor Ted Wilson Interview\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ejI4YEstK1M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Wilson believes strongly in traditional forms of evangelism, but equally sees how new and innovative forms are working to help reach people in different communities.&nbsp; Part of that is being involved in community, or, to quote an example from his recent trip to Mexico, running small groups.<\/p>\n<p>We often hear about success stories\u2014which can be discouraging in parts of the world where growth is small, or where the church may be in decline.&nbsp; Wilson recognises the challenge, but shared how the church can revive, even in very traditional places like Japan.<\/p>\n<p>When we get that passion in our lives, when we get inspired for God: we can make a difference.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>ted<\/em>NEWS Staff: Victor Hulbert, editor; Sajitha Forde-Ralph, associate editor<br \/>119 St Peter&#8217;s Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3EY, England<br \/>E-mail: <span id=\"cloak9a95fff11b0413077a3a10b62293d2c1\"><span id=\"cloakb4b9fe10007265219973ee49812dce2c\"><span id=\"cloakd6bd86f75bbab57fd70f893f0b869011\"><span id=\"cloak314b949ca2a8bf37b853976648baa00b\"><a href=\"mailto:tednews@ted.adventist.org\">tednews@ted.adventist.org<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>Website: www.ted.adventist.org<br \/>tedNEWS is an information bulletin issued by the communication department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Trans-European Division. Readers are free to republish or share this article with appropriate credit including an active hyperlink to the original article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 August 2018 | Belgrade, Serbia [Victor Hulbert] <\/p>\n<p>Is there a future for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Europe?&nbsp; Ask Pastor Ted Wilson and the answer is a resounding, \u201cYes\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1592,7,1577],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bosnia-herzegovina-montenegro-north-macedonia-serbia","category-news","category-organisational-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}