{"id":357,"date":"2014-08-29T08:53:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T08:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2014\/08\/29\/mark-finley-returns-to-belgrade\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T08:53:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T08:53:13","slug":"mark-finley-returns-to-belgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/mark-finley-returns-to-belgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Finley Returns to Belgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>28 June 2012 Belgrade, Serbia [Marija Trajkovska, ted<\/em>NEWS]<\/span> Pastor Mark Finley and his wife, Ernestine, met with two hundred pastors in Belgrade, Serbia from 19-23 June 2012 to share their insights and experiences of evangelising in a postmodern society. They had a one-day field school with the pastors, elders and other church leaders from the local churches across the Union sharing their ideas on the topic \u2018Evangelism in the Postmodern World: Reaching People for Christ in the Twenty-First Century.\u2019 After those meetings, they met with the Union leadership and departmental directors to discuss plans for the future urban evangelism.<\/p>\n

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Pastor Finely was in Serbia in 1988 for the first time, where he held an evangelistic programme under the theme \u2018The Dimensions of Life\u2019. Many people attending the meetings made a decision to come closer to God and some made a decision to be baptized.<\/p>\n

This time he held a new series of programmes, \u2018A Man for All Times\u2019, which lasted four days. The topics \u2018Never Alone: Someone You Can Trust When the Whole World Falls Apart\u2019, \u2018Life with Purpose\u2019 and \u2018Hope for Today, Tomorrow and Forever\u2019 brought a new hope and sense in the lives of many people that attended the programmes. Every night many people deeply and earnestly responded to the calls to follow Jesus Christ.
\"\"<\/a>The last day of the programme was a true celebration for more than a thousand people gathered in the main Belgrade Seventh-day Adventist church. The greatest joy of the day was the decision of four people to follow Jesus Christ and be baptized.<\/p>\n

Both, church members and visitors, expressed their desire for Pastor and Mrs Finley to return to Belgrade and hold a longer programme. The suggestion was to have these meetings in New Belgrade, part of the captial city with a growing population of businessmen, young people and students.<\/p>\n

Serbia is part of the South-East European Union Conference (SEEUC) where we have a very dynamic church and over 8000 member. For more information about the church is Serbia, please visit their website: www.jieu-adventisti.org<\/a>. [ted<\/em>NEWS]<\/p>\n

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