{"id":208,"date":"2014-08-26T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T14:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2014\/08\/26\/focus-on-revival-and-reformation-in-the-baltic-union\/"},"modified":"2014-08-26T14:38:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T14:38:13","slug":"focus-on-revival-and-reformation-in-the-baltic-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/focus-on-revival-and-reformation-in-the-baltic-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Revival and Reformation in the Baltic Union"},"content":{"rendered":"

10 February 2011<\/strong><\/span> Riga, Latvia [Guntis Bukalders, ted<\/em>NEWS] Dr. Pardon Mwansa, the Vice-President of General Conference (GC) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church visited the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) on the 25th and 26th January 2011. The purpose of his visitation was to explain the new General Conference initiative in revival and reformation. The following day, Dr. Daniel Duda, Education Department Director from the Trans\u2013European Division (TED) of Seventh-day Adventists, spoke about the mission of the church and re-thinking of Adventism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese lectures were right on time as many churches are seriously thinking about the need for revival,\u201d said Latvian Conference president Viesturs Rekis. \u201cIn plain and simple words, Dr. Mwansa explained the process and aim of a true revival, reminding us that a relationship with Jesus Christ is central in the life of every human being.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThese seminars were of great help to the ministers and administration by sharpening the focus of the church and re-thinking our strategy of how to better fulfil the Lord’s given mission in today’s environment in Lithuania. Each minister will have to re-think how they can better educate and motivate church members for ministry in the local environment. This will help the administration to address the real need\u2014how to improve the ministry to our ministers,” said Bertold Vinston Hibner, the president of the Lithuanian Field.<\/p>\n

Estonian Conference president David N\u00f5mmik stated his opinion about the training: \u201cThe messages delivered by Dr. Pardon Mwansa and Dr. Daniel Duda to the church ministers in Estonia were simple, logical, effective, practical and Christ\u2013centred.\u201d And he continues: \u201cI like the idea that in order to be in the process of re-thinking, which is a challenge for us, we should ask the right questions. Questions concerning personal, spiritual, and church life, and God’s will, can help us define the ultimate aim of a minister. He can then help us to understand “why do I do what I do the way I do it.”<\/p>\n

After the presentations, pastors shared their impressions of the event: \u201cWe are inspired and encouraged,\u201d said Gintaras Nekis. Mantas Kucinskas shared, \u201cThis is really a very profitable meeting, after which nobody can stay indifferent to the Lord’s calling and to not endeavour all the possibilities that were mentioned.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019d like to have more of such high level trainings,\u201d said another pastor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a good experience to meet Dr. Pardon Mwansa,\u201d said Baltic Union Conference President, pastor Valdis Zilgalvis. \u201cHe is an experienced leader, good theologian and balanced teacher. His lectures about the role of a pastor in all three countries were excellent.\u201d Pastor Zilgalvis said that he is thankful to the General Conference and the Trans-European Division for caring for churches in the Baltic countries. \u201cDr. Daniel Duda is an outstanding teacher and he is always accepted by pastors in our countries and the way he challenges pastors to think deeper about Adventist Mission and our Message is quite remarkable.\u201d<\/p>\n

We hope that by the grace of our Lord, our conference ministers, and with the help of church members, we will find the answers on those basic questions concerning the purpose and mission of our church and how to accomplish the task that God has entrusted to us. [ted<\/em>NEWS]<\/p>\n

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10 February 2011<\/strong><\/span> Riga, Latvia [Guntis Bukalders, ted<\/em>NEWS] Dr. Pardon Mwansa, the Vice-President of General Conference (GC) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church visited the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) on the 25th and 26th January 2011. The purpose of his visitation was to explain the new General Conference initiative in revival and reformation. The following day, Dr. Daniel Duda, Education Department Director from the Trans\u2013European Division (TED) of Seventh-day Adventists, spoke about the mission of the church and re-thinking of Adventism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese lectures were right on time as many churches are seriously thinking about the need for revival,\u201d said Latvian Conference president Viesturs Rekis. \u201cIn plain and simple words, Dr. Mwansa explained the process and aim of a true revival, reminding us that a relationship with Jesus Christ is central in the life of every human being.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1583,7,1577],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-estonia-latvia-lithuania","category-news","category-organisational-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}