Feb. 27, 2007 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

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United States: ‘The Seventh Day’ Documentary to Debut on Hope Channel ... The Seventh Day: Revelations from the Lost Pages of History, a five-part documentary series tracing the history of the Seventh-day Sabbath from Jesus’ revolutionary teachings to the Sabbath-keeping Taiping revolutionaries of 19th-Centruy China, will air on the Seventh-day Adventist church’s official television network, Hope Channel, beginning April 6, 2007. Produced by northern California-based LLT Productions, The Seventh Day is hosted by Hal Holbrook and features interviews with some 50 scholars from Catholic, Jewish, Orthodox and Christian communities. Even though the series’ belief-confirming historical angle is appreciated by Adventists, writer and associate producer Jim Wood says he and others on the project have the general television audience in mind. “The Seventh Day is designed to raise questions in the minds of people who have always taken for granted that Sunday is the Biblical Sabbath.” Much of the material on The Seventh Day is based on extensive research by the late James Arrabito, who spent three years traveling the world to trace evidence of historic Sabbath-keeping. For The Seventh Day broadcast times, visit www.hopetv.org. To learn more about the series, visit www.the7thday.org. [Hope Channel/ANN Staff]

United States: Adventist University Advances ‘Connecting with Jesus’ Project ... Two years ago at the General Conference Session in St. Louis, Missouri, Pastor Ted Wilson, one of the Seventh-day Adventist world church’s vice presidents, presented a project called ‘Connecting with Jesus,’ meant to promote the reading and study of writings by Ellen White, one of the church’s pioneers. Over the past six months, seminary students at Adventist-owned Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan have participated in the project’s goal to publish two million copies of ten Ellen White books. Since the project envisions Ellen White books not merely being bought but actually studied, dozens of seminary students, along with faculty and staff members from the Seminary and the James White Library, have developed study questions to be published at the end of each of the books’ chapters. ‘Connecting with Jesus’ project leaders hope the questions will help enhance readers’ understanding of Adventist identity and beliefs and nurture spirituality among church members. [Colleen Jousma/ANN Staff]

World Church: Organization and Structure ... Over the next few weeks the weekly Ground 7 News will feature a series of short informational interviews explaining the structure and organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Ground 7 News features Adventist News Network stories as well as commentaries from Adventist leaders. It is available free from iTunes and at http://www.ground7news.org

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