{"id":392,"date":"2014-08-29T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T09:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2014\/08\/29\/unusual-visitor-at-epc\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T09:41:10","slug":"unusual-visitor-at-epc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/unusual-visitor-at-epc\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Visitor at EPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"color: #696969;\">24 August 2012, Roga\u0161ka Slatina, Slovenia\u00a0[Julian Hibbert,\u00a0<em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">ted<\/em>NEWS]\u00a0<\/span>One of the unusual visitors attending the EPC is Micha? Rakowski \u2013 he is neither a pastor nor a pastor\u2019s spouse, nor part of the support team. What is he then? Micha? is a twenty-one year old \u201cpreacher\u2019s kid\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">When this sociology student from Krakow, Poland, read about the EPC on <a href=\"..\/epc\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ted-adventist.org<\/a> and saw the interesting programme planned for it, he asked his father to sign him up \u201cand pay for the conference, please\u201d \u2013 even though the closing date for registration had passed. Fortunately, his father, Marek Rakowski (Polish Union Conference Secretary and Communication Director) was willing to do just that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Micha? says he <em>\u201cknew, that it was going to be great \u2013 a blessed time. And I wasn&#8217;t wrong.\u201d He has found the EPC programme full of \u201cgreat lecturers, preachers, testimonies and music.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">As far as he is concerned: <em>\u201cGod is blessing me so much, that every workshop I choose is magnificent! I attended \u2018Social Media Revival\u2019 on Tuesday \u2013 evangelistic work in social media is what I\u2019m keen on. Yesterday Paul Thompkin\u2019s workshop on \u2018What to do, if young people turn from God\u2019 was especially important for me, as I am a Youth Leader in Krakow. Janet Page\u2019s \u2018Ignite Your Prayer Experience\u2019 workshops were also just what I needed\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Micha?, who has some journalistic experience, not only listens, but he also shares: <em>&#8220;Everyday I prepare a report from EPC for our official church website back in Poland&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Well, if this \u201cunusual visitor\u2019s\u201d comments tell us nothing else \u2013 they certainly suggest that the EPC programme content has been highly stimulating and relevant! [<em>ted<\/em>NEWS]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><em>ted<\/em>NEWS Staff: Miroslav Pujic, director; Deana Stojkovic, editor; Dragana Selakovic-Duval; Frederic Duval &amp; Tor Tjeransen, photographers<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.<br \/> \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtejustify\"><span style=\"color: #696969;\">24 August 2012, Roga\u0161ka Slatina, Slovenia\u00a0[Julian Hibbert,\u00a0<em style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">ted<\/em>NEWS]\u00a0<\/span>One of the unusual visitors attending the EPC is Micha? Rakowski \u2013 he is neither a pastor nor a pastor\u2019s spouse, nor part of the support team. What is he then? Micha? is a twenty-one year old \u201cpreacher\u2019s kid\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">When this sociology student from Krakow, Poland, read about the EPC on <a href=\"..\/epc\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ted-adventist.org<\/a> and saw the interesting programme planned for it, he asked his father to sign him up \u201cand pay for the conference, please\u201d \u2013 even though the closing date for registration had passed. Fortunately, his father, Marek Rakowski (Polish Union Conference Secretary and Communication Director) was willing to do just that.<\/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":[7,1577],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-organisational-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}