Creating an awareness that community service is "a way of life"--or should be one for Seventh-day Adventists--is a current goal for church leadership. Traditionally, Adventists have scored low in community involvement.
Coordinators for Sow 1 Billion--the Seventh-day Adventist Church's effort to distribute 1 billion invitations to study the Bible--are reporting an extraordinary response in the initial stages of this global effort.
The magazine started in conjunction with the Seventh-day Adventist Church's outreach initiative in Europe, LIFEdevelopment, is celebrating one year of ministry--and a wider distribution than was expected.
"Seventh-day Adventists operate more than 67 publishing houses in the world, [but] at the present time, there is no Vietnamese [Adventist] press operating in Vietnam," noted Velino Salazar, secretary of the Southern California region of the church, as he
Hebrew-speaking residents of Israel can now learn about the Gospel of John from the 2004 "Sabbath School Quarterly," which, for the first time, has been translated into the language of the patriarchs and prophets by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Christoph Silber is a rising star in German cinema. The screenwriter is a devout Seventh-day Adventist who's most recent project, "Goodbye Lenin," won six top prizes at the European film awards in Berlin earlier this month.