November 27, 2007

Partners In Ministry

Category: Adventist Review, BC Alive Message, Evangelism, HMS Richards, VOAR — Gordon Pifher @ 1:41 pm

Once a year I attend the year end meeting at the North American Division. This is a wonderful Adventist partnership event!

    • 300 people from all over the United States and Canada gather together to hear reports on how the larger Adventist family is doing • One year Membership Growth Figures for 2006 • North American Division 2% growth • Church In Canada 3.40% growth • BC Conference 0.80% growth • After 7 days of meetings excited about our BC connection with our larger Adventist family

Net Evangelism and Worship Plans

    • Net Evangelism still reaches tens of 1000s. • 2008 NET speaker - Mark Finley • 2010 NET speaker - Lonnie Melashenko (Also a speaker for BC Camp Meeting) • December 23, Adventists will again have a Christmas special shown on the Hallmark Channel • Last year’s special Christmas event was enjoyed so much NBC is going to show it on many of its affiliates for this Christmas as well. See upcoming BC Alive for more details. • Hosted on December 28, 1000s of members taking the bread and wine at the same time. Another first for churches that want to participate in a large church family communion service
BC Conference Highlighted at the NAD Meetings
    • Miracle of VOAR Radio stations as the first Christian Radio in BC • Delegates at the session felt impressed to take an offering to help set up Radio Towers across Canada • Definitely a major milestone for BC evangelism • The next 13th Sabbath offering will help provide more funding for radio stations in Canada
Adventist Review and Adventist World
    • 2 million copies of Adventist World sent out each month • Available in 7 languages • Oldest continuous published Christian magazine • Will undergo major changes in the first quarter of 2008 • 38,000 newly baptized members received a free copy of the weekly Adventist World last year

Adventists are Leaders in Media Outreach

    • 1929 HMS Richards, 2nd longest running religious radio broadcast (Lutheran hour is the 1st) • 1956 It Is Written is the first religious television broadcast in colour • VOAR, oldest and now the largest Christian radio network in Canada 2007 new Web-based Television BIGGYTV has asked the Adventist channel to be the first spiritual religious digital broadcast on the planet • 7000 secular affiliate and Adventists are the only religious affiliate at this time • Founder of BIGGYTV says he asked Adventists, because they have the best variety and quality of religious material in the World

Do your own experiment? Go to www.bcadventist.ca and click on the new Adventist channel launcher

    Your church is on the cutting edge of evangelistic outreach.