{"id":5828,"date":"2020-08-11T06:27:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T06:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/2020\/08\/11\/three-new-courses-for-the-uk-adventist-discovery-centre\/"},"modified":"2020-08-11T06:27:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T06:27:24","slug":"three-new-courses-for-the-uk-adventist-discovery-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/three-new-courses-for-the-uk-adventist-discovery-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Three new courses for the UK Adventist Discovery Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>11 August 2020 | Watford [Maureen Rock\/<em>ted<\/em>NEWS]&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenges of working from home, staff on furlough and working reduced hours, the Bible Correspondence School in the British Union Conference, aptly named the Adventist Discovery Centre (ADC), has managed to launch three new courses. <\/p>\n<p>Right through the lockdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the ADC has continued its work, albeit with reduced staffing and working hours. With many people isolated at home and with time on their hands, staff discovered that new students were enrolling for online courses on a daily basis. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/images_news-2020_KidZone-guides.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-5826\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 5px 10px; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/sitenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/images_news-2020_KidZone-guides.jpg\" alt=\"KidZone guides\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/images_news-2020_KidZone-guides.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/images_news-2020_KidZone-guides-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/images_news-2020_KidZone-guides-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/images_news-2020_KidZone-guides-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/images_news-2020_KidZone-guides-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/images_news-2020_KidZone-guides-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/images_news-2020_KidZone-guides-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/images_news-2020_KidZone-guides-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>As a result, the primary focus became increasing the menu of online courses offered on the ADC website. This includes an addition portal <a href=\"https:\/\/bibleschools.com\/?locale=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bibleschools.com\/<\/a>.&nbsp;This is available on direct access or via the main <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoveronline.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ADC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The most exciting challenge was for the team to develop and launch <a href=\"https:\/\/adventist.uk\/news\/article\/go\/2020-07-30\/new-courses-for-adventist-discovery-centre-uk-ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three additional online courses<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>Ten Questions for God \u2013 aimed at Teens and Young Adults.<\/li>\n<li>KidZone \u2013 A fun and informative way to teach children about God.<\/li>\n<li>Troubleshooters \u2013 A series of six booklets covering some of the life challenges children experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Church members are encouraged to share these new resources with family, friends, neighbours and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Special heartfelt thanks goes to Paula Carrillo, IT Director at the BUC, for her professionalism, patience, dedication and support as she helped prepare for this launch. The entire team is excited to see the impact that these new resources can make.<\/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>11 August 2020 | Watford [Maureen Rock\/<em>ted<\/em>NEWS]&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenges of working from home, staff on furlough and working reduced hours, the Bible Correspondence School in the British Union Conference, aptly named the Adventist Discovery Centre (ADC), has managed to launch three new courses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1577,1588],"tags":[717,718,719,720,128,136,721],"class_list":["post-5828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-organisational-updates","category-united-kingdom-ireland","tag-adc","tag-adventist-discovery-centre","tag-bible-correspondence-school","tag-bible-course","tag-bible-study","tag-buc","tag-childrens-bible-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828","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=5828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}