{"id":268,"date":"2014-08-27T09:17:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T09:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2014\/08\/27\/pastors-council-in-egypt\/"},"modified":"2014-08-27T09:17:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T09:17:46","slug":"pastors-council-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/pastors-council-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastors&#8217; Council in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>20 September 2011, Ain-Al-S<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"..\/sites\/default\/files\/pastors%27%20council_0.jpg\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>okhna, Egypt<\/strong><\/span> [Jony Hajaj, <em>ted<\/em>NEWS] Approximately 80 pastors of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Middle East gathered together for Pastors\u2019 Council for professional, theological and pastoral training in Egypt from September 12-18, 2011. Hand in hand with the Arabic Spring, the Adventist pastors from all of the Middle East territory had its own \u2018New Spring\u2019 of sharing and being part of God\u2019s Story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteleft\">\u2018It is always a great experience when pastors and administrators are coming together to fellowship, train and sharpen the pastoral tools given by God,\u2019 says Janos Kovacs-Biro, Ministerial Association D<a href=\"..\/sites\/default\/files\/pastors%27%20council%20%281%29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/sites\/default\/files\/pastors%27%20council%20%281%29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>irector at the Trans-European Division of Seventy-day Adventists (TED). This was the first time that the meeting was open for the pastors spouses to join. \u2018This time the experience was even sweeter because most of the pastors were able to come and participate with their wives.&#8217; Pastor Kovacs-Biro explains. &#8216;During this pastors\u2019 meeting we have experienced the readiness to learn and the ability of discussing relevant pastoral issues. My greatest joy is that the MEU pastors are willing to be engaged in God\u2019s Plan in order to make our Lord known in their surroundings, and inviting people to become part of His Story.\u2019 Kovacs-Biro concludes.<\/p>\n<p> Kjell Aune, Middle-East Union (MEU) President comments: \u201cWithin MEU we are quite focused on basic and continuing education for our pastoral staff. This quinquennial council proved to provide quality teaching besides having a collegial and social value.\u2019 Aune emphasis: \u2018Our team was knit closer together and we made new friends. All-in-all we had a very rewarding week together by the Red Sea in Egypt and we are thankful to all who contributed to this success.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about the Seventh-day Adventists in the Middle East please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventistmeu.org\">www.adventistmeu.org<\/a> [<em>ted<\/em>NEWS]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>ted<\/em>NEWS Staff: Miroslav Pujic, director; Deana Stojkovic, editor<br \/> 119 St Peter&#8217;s Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3EY, England<br \/> E-mail: tednews@ted-adventist.org<br \/> Website: www.ted-adventist.org<\/p>\n<p><em>ted<\/em>NEWS is an information bulletin issued by the communication department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Trans-European Division.<br \/> You are free to re-print any portion of the bulletin without need for special permission. However, we kindly request that you identify <em>ted<\/em>NEWS whenever you publish these materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rteleft\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>20 September 2011, Ain-Al-S<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"..\/sites\/default\/files\/pastors%27%20council_0.jpg\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>okhna, Egypt<\/strong><\/span> [Jony Hajaj, <em>ted<\/em>NEWS] Approximately 80 pastors of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Middle East gathered together for Pastors\u2019 Council for professional, theological and pastoral training in Egypt from September 12-18, 2011. Hand in hand with the Arabic Spring, the Adventist pastors from all of the Middle East territory had its own \u2018New Spring\u2019 of sharing and being part of God\u2019s Story.<\/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":[1576,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-development","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}