Adventist Mission DVD now in four languages

The Adventist Mission DVD highlights mission projects worldwide. The quarterly resource is now available in four languages.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church's Office of Adventist Mission last week debuted its first multi-lingual edition of the Adventist Mission DVD, a resource informing members of mission projects worldwide.

In addition to English, the free quarterly DVD now includes French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Vitoria will be featured in an upcoming edition of the Adventist Mission DVD. The nine-year-old leads a small group for her friends in their neighborhood along the Amazon River. [photos by Ansel Oliver]

Since 2006, the free quarterly DVD has been sent to every Adventist congregation in North America and each administrative office around the world. While some regions will continue to reproduce the audio for their language group (such as Korean and German), this marks the first time the DVD has been mass-produced in multiple languages.

"We're already getting great feedback on this from Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries," said Dan Weber, one of the DVD's producers.

More people in different regions will be able to use the new version, according to several church leaders. "[This] will enable us to bring this material to some 80 percent of the congregations in Central America," said Carlyle Bayne, a ministries director for the church's Inter-American region.

Adventist Mission DVD producer Dan Weber on location in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in December.

Each DVD features about a dozen stories of varying length showing ways Adventists around the world are sharing God's love through mission. The DVD is typically viewed during Sabbath School, church, between services or in homes. Each DVD has at least one story written for and narrated by a child.

Stories on this quarter's DVD include features on a floating clinic in Indonesia, a believer's commitment to faith in hostile surroundings in Cote D'Ivoire, and other projects throughout Southeast Asia and Africa.

To order a complimentary copy of the Adventist Mission DVD or to watch stories online, visit AdventistMission.org.