General Information
The Conference starts on February 4, at 20.00.
Arrival is on February 4; dinner will be provided from 19.00-19.20.
We finish the meeting with a special evening "Called and Sent Out" on February 7.
Departure is on February 8; breakfast will be provided from 7.30-7.45.
Venue
Italian Adventist University
Via del Pergolino 12
50139 Florence, Italy
Program (Update January 25, 2024)
Special Dinner on Tuesday
Location: Pizzeria ZeroZero 00, Via Giovanni Lorenzoni, 8, 50134 Firenze FI, Italien
More information given on spot.
Speakers
Audrey Andersson is Irish by birth and Swedish by choice and adoption. She was born in Ireland and grew up in a pastor’s family, moving around the British Isles and Canada. However, in 1993 she married a Swedish farmer and became a naturalized Swede some years later. She trained for ministry at Newbold College obtaining her BA in Theology. She made a detour into the publishing world, working as a Legal Editor in London, where, among other things, she developed and ran one of the first daily online news services from the UK High Court. Subsequently, she ran her own communications company in Sweden. She was one of the writers and editors of the GraceLink curriculum, participating in the development of the Beginner to Primary curricula.
In 2002 she was called to work for the Swedish Union Conference of Churches as Executive Secretary, Communications Director, and Women Ministries Director, a position she held until 2010 when she was called to serve as the Executive Secretary of the TED. Looking back the detour into the business world, uniquely equipped her for her Secretariat role. While working in Sweden she completed her Masters in Pastoral Ministry, at Newbold College. Her burden is winning, nurturing, and reclaiming people for the Kingdom
Dr. Edyta Jankiewicz is currently serving as Associate Ministerial Secretary at the South Pacific Division. She was for many years the wife of a pastor in Australia, Fiji and the United States. Until 2019, she served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Discipleship and Religious Education at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University.
She lives in New South Wales with her husband and two young adult daughters.
Kessia Reyne Bennett is the lead pastor of the Pleasant Valley Church in Oregon, USA, as well as a wife and a mother of two daughters. Kessia Reyne grew up in a non-religious household but became a follower of Jesus as a teenager when she was introduced to Him through an Adventist church community. From the start she was energized by ministry and theology, and counts it a pinnacle blessing of her life that she has been able to serve God in His church. She holds a PhD in Theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and an MDiv from Andrews University.