{"id":21509,"date":"2025-01-05T21:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T21:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/?p=21509"},"modified":"2025-01-06T09:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T09:16:06","slug":"jan-paulsen-celebrates-90th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/jan-paulsen-celebrates-90th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Paulsen Celebrates 90th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5 January 2025 | St Albans, UK [tedNEWS]<\/p>\n<p>In a 5 January message, Daniel Duda congratulated Jan Paulsen on his 90th birthday on behalf of the Trans-European Division (TED) family. Paulsen has held numerous roles in the church,\u00a0 including Principal of Newbold College of Higher Education, TED Executive Secretary (1980\u20131983), TED President (1983\u20131996), and president of the General Conference (1998\u20132010).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">In September last year, <em>tednews\u00a0<\/em>shared the story of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/moving-moments-for-jan-paulsen-as-he-baptizes-his-grandchildren\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jan Paulsen baptizing his grandchildren, <\/a>including an inspiring conversation with Arte Stele, a vice president of the General Conference. Enjoy a second view.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_49841\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1vMoKjswQHw?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=\"Jan Paulsen on Leadership - and some personal joy.\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Featured image: Tor Tjeransen\/ Adventist Media Exchange (CC BY 4.0)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations from the Trans-European Division family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":21520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1588,7,1577],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ireland-united-kingdom","category-news","category-organisational-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21509","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=21509"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21533,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21509\/revisions\/21533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}