{"id":4727,"date":"2020-03-19T13:54:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2020\/03\/19\/words-of-hope-ted-leaders-react-to-coronavirus-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2020-03-19T13:54:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:54:24","slug":"words-of-hope-ted-leaders-react-to-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/words-of-hope-ted-leaders-react-to-coronavirus-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of Hope \u2013 TED Leaders react to coronavirus pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>19 March 2020 | St Albans, UK [tedNEWS]&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With school and churches shut, travel clampdowns world-wide, self-isolation and social distancing becoming the new norm, the Trans-European Division has responded with Words of Hope in a video released today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coronavirus: TED Words of Hope 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v-7b9YVt8rE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Raafat Kamal, Helgi J\u00f3nsson and Patrick Johnson all speak about the issue of how to be positive and share our Christian values during the crisis. The nine-minute video is hosted by TED Communication Director Victor Hulbert.<\/p>\n<p>Kamal is grateful for positive reports that he has been hearing from across the Division, noting especially churches that have generated specifically tailored live streams for worship, sometimes as very short notice, when their physical buildings have closed. He also had a special message for those who are spontaneously sharing their care in practical ways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_words_of_hope_from_ted.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-4723\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_words_of_hope_from_ted.jpg\" alt=\"words of hope from ted\" width=\"500\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_words_of_hope_from_ted.jpg 1441w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_words_of_hope_from_ted-300x60.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_words_of_hope_from_ted-1024x206.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_words_of_hope_from_ted-768x155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_words_of_hope_from_ted-350x70.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_words_of_hope_from_ted-700x141.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_words_of_hope_from_ted-900x181.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_words_of_hope_from_ted-1100x221.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_words_of_hope_from_ted-560x113.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank those who are taking care of the elderly, or vulnerable neighbours \u2013 or, for example, those teenagers in Vejlefjord, Denmark. Their school is closed, but to keep essential services running they have offered to babysit for key health workers, leaving them free to continue saving lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_TED-worship_edited.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>TED staff worship is now by video link. On Tuesday, Helgi J\u00f3nsson, TED Health Ministries director, shared a biblical message on overcoming social distancing, preaching from his living room in Reykjavik, Iceland. He emphasised that \u201cyour relationship with other people is reflective of your relationship with God.\u201d Focusing on the parable of the 10 virgins, and Jesus\u2019 description of the attitudes of the sheep and the goats, J\u00f3nsson noted that the essence of both stories was relationship. \u201cIf there ever was a time for this message, it is now,\u201d he emphasised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_Bergen.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-4724\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 5px 10px; float: right;\" title=\"Live-stream from Bergen church, Norway.\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_Bergen.jpg\" alt=\"Bergen church, Norway\" width=\"250\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_Bergen.jpg 1490w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_Bergen-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_Bergen-1024x426.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_Bergen-768x320.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_Bergen-350x146.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_Bergen-700x291.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_Bergen-900x374.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_Bergen-1100x458.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_Bergen-560x233.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>In the final part of the message Patrick Johnson, Ministerial Association secretary, speaks specifically to leaders. He notes that \u201cit is in times of crisis that our true character shines through.\u201d He adds, \u201cEven though we cannot go to church, we can still be church.\u201d He then expands this in practical terms, concluding with the promise of Isaiah 26: \u201cYou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Making video with a phone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With TED staff following government advise to, in the main, work from home, using video conferencing and phones have become important and effective tools to stay in contact and continue working. This created some logistical difficulties in filming this video message.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_v.hulbert.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4725\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px 5px 5px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_v.hulbert.jpg\" alt=\"Victor Hulbert\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_v.hulbert.jpg 1916w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_v.hulbert-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_v.hulbert-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_v.hulbert-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_v.hulbert-1536x866.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_v.hulbert-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_v.hulbert-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_v.hulbert-1100x620.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_v.hulbert-350x197.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_v.hulbert-700x395.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_v.hulbert-900x507.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/images_news-2020_v.hulbert-560x316.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>\u201cWe realised that it is the message that is important,\u201d Hulbert states. \u201cThe technology is just a tool to transmit it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this case, that tool was mobile phone technology. Each participant filmed themselves on their smartphone and then sent the result to Hulbert via dropbox. He then pulled the clips together on his laptop. \u201cThere is so much bad news and fear out there at the moment,\u201d Hulbert stated. \u201cWe hope this compilation will encourage our members right across all our countries.\u201d He also noted that maybe intentionally making this on simple phones can encourage our members and pastors to also use whatever technology they have got, to share positive messages and communicate with our members and communities.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>ted<\/em>NEWS Staff: Victor Hulbert, editor; Deana Stojkovi\u0107, associate editor<br \/>119 St Peter&#8217;s Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3EY, England<br \/>E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:tednews@ted.adventist.org\">tednews@ted.adventist.org<\/a><br \/>Website: www.ted.adventist.org<br \/><em>ted<\/em>NEWS is an information bulletin issued by the communication department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Trans-European Division. Readers are free to republish or share this article with appropriate credit including an active hyperlink to the original article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 March 2020 | St Albans, UK [tedNEWS]&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With school and churches shut, travel clampdowns world-wide, self-isolation and social distancing becoming the new norm, the Trans-European Division has responded with Words of Hope in a video released today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1576,7,1588],"tags":[471,472,495,227,494],"class_list":["post-4727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership-development","category-news","category-united-kingdom-ireland","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-message-of-hope","tag-ted","tag-words-of-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}