{"id":465,"date":"2014-09-01T08:50:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T08:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2014\/09\/01\/european-health-conference-on-healing\/"},"modified":"2014-09-01T08:50:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T08:50:15","slug":"european-health-conference-on-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/european-health-conference-on-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"European Health Conference on Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>15 May 2013 Prague, Czech Republic [Miroslav Pujic, ted<\/em>NEWS] <\/span>Six hundred Adventist medical experts, health advocates and church leaders met for the European Health Conference in Prague, Czech Republic last month. This conference focused on the theme of Healing, not just physical healing but also mental, emotional, social, and spiritual healing.<\/p>\n

The organisers, Inter-European, Trans-European and Euro-Asia Divisions, brought together a rich ensemble of Adventist experts in the medical and health-related fields \u2013 people who know what they are talking about. People drawn from health institutions, universities and research facilities across Europe and the Americas.<\/p>\n

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In his keynote address, Dr. Viriato Ferreira, Health Ministries Director for the church\u2019s Inter-European Division, explored the emotional and spiritual suffering that often accompany physical illness. \u201cWe need healing from life\u2014not just physically, but also spiritually and emotionally,\u201d Ferreira told delegates from some 40 countries across Europe. He urged them to accept complicated realities and recognise that \u201csuffering may be part of healing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThis conference confirms Trans-European Division commitment to strengthen a blended health ministry approach, based on how Christ ministered while on earth.\u201d says Steven Cooper, TED Health Ministries Director. \u201cChrist’s ministry was to bring healing to all, whether it was physical, mental, emotional, social or spiritual.\u00a0 By God’s Grace, TED will work with our unions in encouraging this transformation.\u201d concluded Cooper.<\/p>\n

Many of the TED conference participants reiterated the need for training.\u00a0 From this conference, plans are being developed for appropriate programmes which encompass many of the healing issues discussed during the conference.\u00a0 Through a balanced, non-judgmental, evidence-based approach, it is envisaged church members and community alike will be drawn into living life to the fullest and experiencing the joy which comes from God.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dr Bertil Wiklander, TED President, who was one of the devotional speakers at the conference, says: \u201cMy hope is that through this conference there will be a renewed focus on a balanced, evidence-based approach to our health ministry and healing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I listened to the presentations \u2013 especially the plenary sessions and workshops \u2013 I had a growing conviction that the \u2018health message\u2019 and \u2018health ministry\u2019 of the Adventist Church is one of our greatest assets. Not just for us personally, but as a means for us to make a positive impact for Christ in this day and age. We have what our neighbours need!\u201d says Julian Hibbert, the Editor of Messenger and Focus magazines in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It was wonderful to see so many with a deep desire to renew the work in our health message with Christ being at the center of this ministry.<\/p>\n

The Adventist Church has been emphasizing healthy living for about 150 years. The health ministry of the church includes a global network of hospitals, clinics and medical universities.<\/p>\n

The Health Ministries Department at the General Conference will organise Global Health Conference which will be held in Geneva, Switzerland from 7-12 July 2014. You do not want to miss it!<\/p>\n

To see more photos from the Conference, please click here. \u00a0[ted<\/em>NEWS]<\/p>\n

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The organisers, Inter-European, Trans-European and Euro-Asia Divisions, brought together a rich ensemble of Adventist experts in the medical and health-related fields \u2013 people who know what they are talking about. People drawn from health institutions, universities and research facilities across Europe and the Americas.<\/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":[1574,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-wellness","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}