Editorial

Utilizing Our Resources

MISSION 72 is bringing together the minds and hearts of every phase of our ministerial force. This means that every department is making its contribution to the one great objective. So that you may be more fully informed as to what resource materials are available to help make your local program a success, we present the following listing. These helps present a variety of approaches that can be used in the important work of soul winning. . .

MISSION 72 is bringing together the minds and hearts of every phase of our ministerial force. This means that every department is making its contribution to the one great objective. So that you may be more fully informed as to what resource materials are available to help make your local program a success, we present the following listing. These helps present a variety of approaches that can be used in the important work of soul winning.

Lay Activities Department

  • For Training: (1) A study guide to Christian Service. Ten easy lessons for group discussions or individual study. (2) A study guide to Welfare Ministry. Nine lessons for study groups, prayer meetings, or organized classwork. For Visitation: A new series of ten inner-city tracts, "Soul Food Bible Guides."
  • For Bible Evangelism: (DA new four-color set of Christ-centered gift Bible readings, "Christ Speaks to Modern Man." The same in a special edition for the regional conferences. (2) A new Better Life Picture Roll No. 2 a pictorial help for Bible studies and public lay efforts.

Public Relations Department

  • "A Quick Look at Seventh-day Adventists." A four-page, two-color folder giving concise information about our church. The 1972 edition will be out by the end of this year. $14.50 per 1,000. A series of nine 12-page booklets prepared as a follow-up to the National Evangelistic Advertising Program.

Sabbath School Department

  • An eight-page folder, "Know Your Bible," designed to create a greater interest in the study of the Bible. $3.20 per 100.

Youth Department

  • Packet: "Join the IN Group"; "Just for Youth"; "Get INvolved." Regularly priced at $12.05 per 100, now all three for $5.00 per 100. Use to stimulate INgroups and conduct "Insight Adventures" Bible studies.
  • Leaflet: "The Friendship Team." $4.25 per 100. An eight-week visitation pro gram to prepare the soil for the reaping meetings.
  • Steps to Christ leaflets. $2.50 per 100. Recommended for Friendship Teams. Leave a chapter with each visit.
  • Voice of Youth Guidebook. $1.25; Sermons No. 1 (prophecy), set $1.85; Sermons No. 2 (doctrinal), set $1.85; Sermons No. 3 (the sanctuary), set $1.85; sanctuary visual aids, set of 13 for $10.95; Daniel and Revelation visual aids, set of 10 for $5.50.
  • Voice of Junior Youth Guidebook; contains sermons and other necessary materials, $2.25.

Temperance Department

  • "Home Help Kits." Contains the director's manual, prospectus, sample posters, advertising, and other materials needed. $6.00 each.
  • Leaflets: "Smoke Signals," $36 per 1,000; "Alert," $50 per 1,000.

Health Department

  • "How to Die Younger." A four-page folder by Richard Walden, M.D., Department of Preventive Medicine, Loma Linda University.
  • Your Heart Has Nine Lives. A 32-page condensation of one of the finest books on heart disease. Medical Department of the Corn Products Company, 717 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022.
  • Better Living. Small book to be used either before or during the evangelistic thrust of 1972. 40 cents each.
  • "What Is Your Heart Score?" A game of health. Stocked by the General Conference Health Department. Free.

Ellen G. White Estate

  • Ellen G. White and the Seventh-day Adventist Church, by D. A. Delafield. A 90-page booklet. Ideal for those just becoming acquainted with Ellen White. 40 cents each.
  • Ellen G. White and Medical Science. Just off the press, this 48-page booklet sets forth Ellen White's insights into health and nutrition, along with the confirming evidence of modern medical science.

Faith for Today

  • "Booster Kits." Effective when launching a. mass program for building the TV audience and securing Bible course enrollments.
  • "Bible School Enrollment Cards." "TV Logs" listing all stations offering the program.
  • Tele-Notes. The telecast monthly publication. An invaluable aid in following up interests.
  • Sample "Bible Lesson Kits." No charge in limited quantities. $3.00 per hundred with larger orders.
  • Special coupon booklets for enrollments. Also, colorful enrollment cards for literature evangelists.
  • Letters of invitation to evangelistic crusades. A personal letter from W. A. Fagal, with handbill enclosed, will be sent to all names on the Faith for To day mailing list in your area. 15 cents per letter.

Voice of Prophecy

  • "Focus Lay Evangelism Kit." Prepared especially to help prepare the way for MISSION 72. Phase 1 is geared toward enrolling interests in FOCUS ON LIFE, an eleven-lesson Bible correspondence course on practical everyday living. Phase 2 concentrates on effective fol low-up. Free from Voice of Prophecy Evangelistic Association, Box 1511, Glendale, California 91209.
  • Teen handout cards ("Wayout"). Used by youth in one-to-one contact. Enrollee receives a magazine and a series of foldouts: the key foldout offers the "High Way" scenes (youth Bible course). $8.00 per 1,000. Order from The Wayout, Box 2829, Hollywood, California 90028.
  • "Faith Packet 1." Includes Lesson 1 of Faith Bible Course, letter of introduction, radio log, return envelope. To be used in securing enrollments in the Faith Bible Course. $3.00 per 100. Order from Voice of Prophecy, Department FS, Box 1511, Glendale, California 91209.
  • "Discovery of a Lifetime" cards. Used for securing enrollments in one of the courses. One especially designed for literature evangelists, the other for church members. Free from local conference radio-TV secretary or Voice of Prophecy.
  • "Radio Interest Survey." A community-survey blank and instruction sheet. Effective in increasing radio listening audience and enrollments. $3.50 per 1,000. Order from Voice of Prophecy Evangelistic Association.
  • Radio-log evangelism. Colorful radio logs listing all stations. Bible course enrollment coupon on each log. Up to 2,000 available without cost. Additional logs at $5.00 per 1,000. Order from Voice of Prophecy, Department FS, Box 1511, Glendale, California 91209. Special "imprint" radio logs, listing ten or less stations in one area, also available. Order from VOP Evangelistic Association.
  • Letters of invitation to evangelistic crusades. The VOP will send a letter of invitation by H. M. S. Richards, Jr., with your handbill enclosed, to all names on the VOP mailing list in your area. 15 cents per letter. Applications for this service should be sent to the VOP Evangelistic Association at least five weeks before the crusade is to begin.

Ministry reserves the right to approve, disapprove, and delete comments at our discretion and will not be able to respond to inquiries about these comments. Please ensure that your words are respectful, courteous, and relevant.

comments powered by Disqus

October 1971

Download PDF
Ministry Cover

More Articles In This Issue

Alt Text

A Message to the President

This letter was written by Ellen G. White from North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, September 20, 1892, to Elder O. A. Olsen, president of the General Conference. Its appropriateness to our own day leads us to share it with our MINISTRY readers.

Alt Text

My Testimony

I HAVE fully resigned myself to nothing because I have been nothing, because I have made nothing, and because I shall be nothing. Past struggles have proved me incapable of wresting aside the hands of fate. Those transformations that I would have wrought in those about me have not appeared. Thus, on every side life has shown herself my master. I could not turn the course of history in my environment. . .

Alt Text

Why Be An Ordinary Preacher?

THE center of worship in the Seventh-day Adventist Church service is the pulpit. The climax or disappointment for the faithful tens of thousands who attend a multitude of sanctuaries on Sabbath morning is the pastoral exhortation. No single hour of the minister's week is so impregnated with opportunities. . .

Alt Text

Make Room for Personal Visitation

MY PASTOR and I have recently made some visits in the homes of our members," the first elder of one of our large churches wrote to me recently, "and I find that our people are literally starving to death for the kindly visit from the shepherd of the flock."

Alt Text

Write Simply

IT IS not easy to write simply; in fact, it is more difficult to be simple in communicating than to be complex. But the most effective writing is simple writing. Witness the success of Reader's Digest, a good example of simple writing. . .

Alt Text

The Reading of the Scriptures

IN ADDITION to the pastoral prayer, an other very important part of the Sabbath worship service usually conducted by the local elder is the public reading of the Scriptures. This assignment is not to be taken lightly nor entered into without much prayer and preparation. . .

Alt Text

Seminary '71

None of us taking notes that March day during the first class of the spring quarter, 1971, had any illusions that this class in Christology would be a push-over. We would have to produce read, assimilate, reproduce facts and ideas and more: "Gentlemen, if you give me back, in perfect form, exactly what I have given you, you will receive a B for the course; but if you want an A you must give me more than I have given you. You must study beyond the boundaries and enrich your answers!"

Alt Text

Wanted: Real Live Missionaries

NO DOUBT you remember being in the junior tent at camp meeting when the leader said: "Boys and girls, this morning we are going to have a story from a real live missionary!" "Live" missionaries who remain in the field of service know the vital importance of good health. Physically, mentally, and spiritually they must stay alive if they are to effectively witness for Christ. . .

Alt Text

Harnessing the Church

IN OUR work of evangelism we find that 10 to 60 percent of the audience are not members of our church. But out of this percentage of nonmembers attending, usually 85 to 95 percent have had no previous contact with our church or its members. They come in response to the advertising. . .

Alt Text

The Figurative Language of the Bible

ONE evening after I had finished preaching on "Heaven" a man came up to me with the challenge, "Apparently you are not aware that there is no such place as a heaven, and the texts you have just finished reading are nothing more than mere figurative expressions."

View All Issue Contents

Digital delivery

If you're a print subscriber, we'll complement your print copy of Ministry with an electronic version.

Sign up

Recent issues

See All