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#153104 - 01/24/08 05:00 AM TED News Bulletin - January 23, 2008
magilly46 Registered: 10/29/02 Posts: 140 Loc: BC	TED News Bulletin Trans-European Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church 23 January 2008 In this issue: ------------------------- * England: Innovative Evangelism Receives Funds * Slovenia/England: Centred in Jesus * Taiwan: Impact Taiwan - A World Youth Event ------------------------- INNOVATIVE EVANGELISM RECEIVES FUNDS...[Bertil Wiklander/TED News Staff/ TED News] St Albans, England - Every year the Adventist world church headquarters, through the "The Council on Evangelism and Witness" committee, gives funds for innovative projects in outreach that can provide models for other areas across the world. Last year, in the territory covered by the Trans-European Division (TED), Finland was the only recipient of a grant. This year a total of $53,000 has been granted for three exciting projects: In the Adriatic, $20,000 has been granted for teaching and training local pastors and members concepts of church growth to understand and reach people with post modern values. In Zagreb, Value Mediation Agency has been in the experimental stage, and shown significant results, and this grant will help extend this in other areas. Hungary received $20,000 to support their involvement at the annual Sziget Music Festival, an event which totals up to 60,000 young people in attendance. This is a great opportunity for young people to witness to their peers. The Sziget Music Festival is the largest annual weeklong multicultural festival in Europe. For 11 years the Seventh-day Adventist Church has organised a drop-in centre at the Festival, with more than 500 young people visiting in a week for spiritual advice and counselling. Peter Horvath, the Youth Director in Hungary says that this grant will help both extend this project to another large cultural event, "The Valley of Arts"; and enable concerts and follow up programmes to be run. A third grant of $13,000 has been given to the Netherlands for Faith Challenge weekends, taking place three times a year, and aimed at 16 - 30 year olds. "Participants learn about their faith, church, worship etc, and put it into practice, including weekend outreach", explained Gerard Frenk, Executive Secretary of the Adventist Church in the Netherlands. During and after these projects, each will be asked to send a report, so that other areas can learn and benefit from these initiatives. TED President, Bertil Wiklander said, "We congratulate these unions and pray that God will give them wisdom and energy for a successful completion of these projects." CENTRED IN JESUS...[BUC News/TED News Staff/TED News] Slovenia/England - LIFEdevelopment training and equipping session have been held in Slovenia and in the UK recently. Dr Miroslav Pujic (Director of Centre for Secular and Postmodern Ministries at the Trans-European Division and the world church) and Pastor Eglan Brooks (responsible for LIFEdevelopment in the United Kingdom) respectively led out in these programmes. LIFEdevelopment is based around the principle of Jesus that He, "mingled with men as one who desired their good. He showed His sympathy for them, ministered to their needs, and won their confidence. Then He bade them, 'Follow Me'. "The concept is very simple. Pastor Mike Simpson from Manchester said, "It seems like it is a task to reach people, but people are looking for friends. That's what Jesus did. Jesus was just remarkable. We just want to make friends." There are currently 47 separate projects in the world following Life Development discipleship concept, which is based on Biblical Principles of building authentic friendships with unchurched individuals and leading them to Jesus Christ through the discipleship process and nurturing them on life's journey. Dr Pujic says that his goal for this year is to have 100 projects working by the end of this year; of which 35 will be in the TED territory. British Union Conference President, Pastor Don McFarlane, endorses this concept. He would like to see LIFEdevelopment permeate the entire church in the British Union. "When members realise that LIFEdevelopment is no more than seeing every person as a candidate for heaven and taking the time to nurture that person for the Kingdom, I believe there will be an explosion of support for this evangelistic process." Pastor Brooks is amazed at the tremendous prospect LIFEdevelopment offers for the future of the Church. "Can you imagine thousands of Seventh-day Adventists connecting, reaching new people who have never known the Lord, touching families and friends with deep, meaningful and caring relation-ships?" he asks, encouraging each member to catch the vision. "However," he notes, "this vision, this programme of LIFEdevelopment and any future plans to engage our members in evangelism is useless unless each one of us as Adventists first make Jesus the centre of our lives." For more on LIFEdevelopment visit: <lifedevelopment.info>.. IMPACT TAIWAN - A WORLD YOUTH EVENT...[Link2Uth/TED News Staff/TED News] Taipei, Taiwan - Youth and church leaders from all over the world met in Taiwan for 'IMPACT Taiwan' - the second world conference on Youth and Community Services (WCYCS), organized by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, spanning the Christmas and New Year period, 2007/8. Having raised funds prior to the event, organized teams of young people from around the world participated in community service projects in Taiwan, offering their time, skills and efforts in running health expos, carrying out construction work, classroom improvements, sports training, evangelistic meetings and more. "Everywhere we turned, we saw them working on community and village projects. Hundreds of Seventh-day Adventist young people swarmed the city and the country side in an effort to serve the needs of Taiwan. I fully believe that because of their work, the city of Taipei will never be exactly the same again", said Dr Leslie Pollard, of Loma Linda University. Towards the second week, more young people surged into Taipei, to join the Youth Conference held on 1-5 January; to enjoy the fellowship in worshipping God together; to celebrate the 100 Years Anniversary of the Adventist Youth Ministry, and to share experiences gained through the community service projects. Two participants from the British Union Conference, Alycia Hanson and Clarissa Lewis, volunteers teaching English and Health, said: "We felt quite privileged to be part of the WCYCS 2008, and were truly blessed throughout the conference; which motto was 'Love, Care and Serve'. We learnt many things from the seminars, and also culturally in fellowship with hundreds of other young people from all around the world, being able to worship and lift up God's name and, even with language barriers, we still felt as though we were in one accord. We truly Impacted Taiwan...and [we] plan to make another visit!" Trans-European Youth Director Paul Tompkins commented: "The second WCYCS was an excellent event...At the convention 100 Years of Adventist Youth Ministry was celebrated and as part of the programme each division received two awards for youth/leaders who had given outstanding service. The TED nominations were for Kaare Lund (Norway) and Yvonne Bauwens (Scotland). In the case of Kaare Lund the award was presented posthumously following his tragic death on ADRA duty in 2003 and in recognition of his outstanding contribution to both Youth and Pathfinder work in the division. Both awards will be presented locally at an appropriate time early in 2008." "Overwhelmed by the response of church and community members to their voluntary community initiative, the youth have returned to their local fields to become catalysts for community impact programmes. This was indeed a programme that made us proud to be Seventh-day Adventists and anxious to upgrade the youth Ministries brand of the twenty first century", concluded Balvin Braham, Youth Director in the Inter-American Division. Pictures from the event are available at: http://www.wcycsphotos.com/index.php The next IMPACT will be held in Cape Town, South-Africa, in 2013.. ___________________________________________________________________ TED News Staff: Paul Clee, News Director and Editor Heidi Kamal Kendel, Editorial Assistant 119 St Peter's Street, St Albans, Herts., AL1 3EY, England E-mail: tednews@ted-adventist.org Website: http://www.ted-adventist.org TED News is an information bulletin issued by the Communication department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Trans-European Division. You are free to re-print any portion of the bulletin without the need for special permission. However, we kindly request that you identify TED News whenever you publish these materials. .
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