Family Ministries of the General Conference facilitated Seventh-day Adventist involvement in the United Nations International Year of the Family and was the only religious organization to receive a testimonial award from the UN Committee on the Family.
Light Bearers Ministry from Malo, Washington, has sent 200 million pieces of present-truth literature, translated into more than 20 languages, all over the world.
Outpost Centers, Inc., just sent a group of young people to south Sudan to build the first permanent Adventist churches! They also organized a countrywide evangelistic effort in Honduras in the year 2000, with 154 series going on simultaneously. The plan for 2001 was to have 150 series in the Dominican Republic.
TAGnet is an Internet presence provider that empowers more than 2,400 ministries by providing Web, e-mail, audio, and video services. These ministries have, on the average, more than 60,000 visitors weekly!
ASI commissioned Digital Media to develop a DVD-format graphics package of 26 evangelistic meetings, which will soon be available to any layperson who wants to present the third angel's message with confidence. Several ASI officers gave the tool a test run by conducting their own evangelistic campaigns in the Philippines this past spring. Two women and two academy seniors presented their very own series.
Laypersons Frank and Hazel Goodwin and David Ryder conducted an evangelistic series using the same DVD package, in Dunlap, Tennessee, resulting in seven baptisms. Frank is a building contractor and David is an engineer.
LLT Productions from Angwin, California, is in the process of producing a series of documentaries on the history of the (seventh-day) Sabbath, which they will air on the History Channel. When the founder of the ministry, Jim Arrabito, tragically died in a plane crash, his widow took over and is seeing the Sabbath project through to completion. What an amazing woman!
