The Advent Care Europe network, an Adventist Health institutions network created in 2014, met in Norway for its third annual meeting from June 14th ot June 16th 2018.
Seven institutions representing seven countries took part in this event organized at the Adventist rehabilitation Center “Skogli” in Lillehammer, Norway.
Leaders of health institutions coming from Switzerland, Italy, Romania, Spain, Norway and also South Africa as special guest, accompanied by the Inter-European Health Ministries Director, Valérie Dufour, and the newly appointed associated Director for the Health Ministries of the General conference, Torben Bergland, shared their visions on the following theme: Cross leading. Messages on leadership within health institutions, be they nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, medical centers, psychiatric hospital or lifestyle centers were delivered and enabled all to come out resourced.
This event was also an occasion to create and reinforce the links between European institutions at the three Divisions level and to connect with a South African psychiatric clinic while sharing about preoccupations and challenges common to our organizations. Through presentations, group discussions and informal conversations, the meeting also fulfilled the mission to develop an international network providing support and expertise to the leaders of health institutions and services in line with the Seventh-day Adventist health message.
More information on the Advent Care network and its next session at www.advent-care.eu. The next meeting will be held in the spring 2019 in Barcelona, Spain. We expect to have a larger number of participants.
For the steering committee, Alf Magne Foss, Joel Moyano and Nicolas Walther.