Howard B. Weeks

The new Seventh-day Adventist roadside sign now being made available to all our churches had its beginning at the Ministerial Council in San Francisco in 1954. The council's recommendation has resulted in this simple but effective marker.

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As write, the lovely chimes of the First Methodist church just across the street from my hotel are pealing forth that old Baptist hymn, "Blest Be the Tie That Binds." At once it seems a significant symbol of the fellowship so characteristic…

There she stands, 'way down in the cow pasture the old Model T! Almost hidden by brush and weeds, the old wreck is just a memory of days long past. Thirty years ago that antiquated machine was the pride and joy (and often the exasperation)…

THE public relations pro­gram of our denomination is now a well-seasoned fifty years old! Often thought to be one of the new depart­ments, the public relations work will observe its golden anniversary in 1962. It was launched in 1912, with…

THE historical role and character of public evan­gelism as an instrument of Seventh-day Adventist action have largely de­pended on the relative dominance of prophetic versus institutional inter­ests within the church. The modern era of large-scale…

IN THE brief compass of this series of THE MINISTRY articles, it is difficult if not impos­sible to review all the colorful detail of sixty-five years of Ad­ventist evangelistic history. The original work from which the articles thus far…

LED by General Confer­ence President A. G. Daniells, Adventist evan­gelists during the early years of World War I stimulated the most rapid rate of member­ship growth the church has experienced in the twentieth century. Last month's installment…

WITH the hour of their great evangelistic break­through at hand, ,the Adventists were ready. For five years they had been intensively culti: vating evangelistic tal­ent. The unstinting com­mitment of the leader­ship of the denomina­tion to…

Editorial Note: An overseas reader writes that while pre­paring for a public relations weekend, he consulted again the excellent publication Breakthrough by Howard B. Weeks. Chapter 21, "Public Relations, Advertizing, and Evangelism,"…

Crisis in Communication, Malcolm Boyd, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 128 pages.

A Christian examination of mass communica­tions, how ministers, churches, and the church can both use and…

When we consider the ways in which the message might have a greater impact on the public we often we often think in terms of a more massive volume of literature, efforts, broadcasts, and publicity.

Yet we recognize that all the volume…

Some pastors are always in the news; some are never in the news. The first may be "live wires" around the town, or they may be merely a bit too eager. The second may have an inaccurate concept of the place a minister rightfully occupies…

New York City, with a population almost as great as that of the entire State of California, presented some serious problems to the advertising committee of the Carnegie Hall evangelistic campaign when the promotional plans were being…

It may be unpleasant to face, but we cannot ignore the fact that, in spite of our best efforts, the general public is grossly ignorant of what Seventh-day Adventists believe and why. And yet our commission is to "preach the gospel to every…

JUST fifty years ago, A. G. Daniells, inspired by the counsels of Ellen G. White, led Seventh-day Adventists to a dramatic breakthrough in city evangelism in a remark­able series of meetings in Portland, Maine, during January and February,…