This issue of Friday FAX is available online in HTML and 1-page PDF versions at http://www.nadadventist.org/fridayfax.

IN THIS ISSUE -

** You Have a Media-Buying Agency at Your Disposal
** Adventist Recovery Ministries Service Board Established
** Adventists and Addictions by Adventist Review, Free Distribution
** Dove Award for Adventist Spanish Language Album
** New Spanish Language Adventist Book Center Website
** New, "Prophecy of Hope" Bible Studies
** Upcoming Events


FRIDAY FAX
May 6, 2005
A News and Information Service for Leaders in North America


- RESOURCES -

** ONE OF THE "BEST-KEPT SECRETS" IN THE ADVENTIST CHURCH is the Adventist Media Services (AMS) Agency. It is located at the Adventist Media Center and is the official media buying agency for the North American Division. AMS can help you advertise an evangelistic series, cooking school, or any other church activity. It can produce, or help you produce, a weekly or daily radio program. As an agency, it can purchase discount radio and airtime for evangelists, pastors, and churches. It can help you put one of the media ministries such as Voice of Prophecy, La Voz, or It Is Written, on your local public access stations, usually at no charge.
Contact: 805-955-7606 in Simi Valley, California, for information.

** ADVENTIST RECOVERY MINISTRIES HAS ESTABLISHED A SERVICE BOARD that will provide general administrative services for the various Adventist recovery-related entities operating in North America. These include Regeneration Ministries, Regen-Teen, Association of Adventist Parents, and others.
The spiritual recovery programs are based on a Christ-centered approach to the Twelve Steps of Recovery and are based on the belief that Jesus is the highest power. Their primary purpose is to provide recovery from compulsive-addictive behaviors and their dysfunctions, and offer lifetime support.
Contact: www.adventistrecovery.org for more information.

** ADVENTISTS AND ADDICTIONS, AN ADVENTIST REVIEW special issue, is available for free distribution, thanks to a generous donor. It contains first-hand accounts by those who have struggled with addictions, and provides help and medical resource information.
Contact: smithj@gc.adventist.org and give your name, street address (no P. O. boxes please), and number of requested copies. First come, first served, as long as they last.

** ADVENTIST SINGER/PRODUCER WINS 2005 DOVE AWARD - Eulises Canada won a Dove award for Spanish Language Album of the Year, ¿Te Amo Dios?, an inspirational praise and worship production containing all original songs.
Contact: Kreative Sounds at 813-391-3857 for more information.

** NEW SPANISH VERSION OF ADVENTIST BOOK CENTER WEBSITE - Pacific Press has launched an all-Spanish website called, LibreriaAdventista.com to better serve Hispanic customers. The site features all-Spanish-language products, including books, Bibles, music, and magazines. It also features the Spanish Book of the Month and other information, and offers the option to read sample chapters of Spanish books.
Contact: www.LibreriaAdventista.com.

** NEW BIBLE STUDIES, "PROPHECY OF HOPE," have been released by Pacific Press. Written by Gary Gibbs, associate director for the Hope Channel, they are a full-color, fill-in-the-blank set of 26 lessons, addressing Bible truths within a prophetic context. Lessons are on glossy, 8½" by 11" paper and hole-punched for use in a binder. They are being used in conjunction with the new Prophecy of Hope program hosted by Gibbs on the Hope Channel.
Contact: ABC Nationwide at 800-765-6955 or www.AdventistBookCenter.com. Cost: US$5.99/ 26-lesson set, or US$10.99 for 50 individual lessons.




- UPCOMING EVENTS - A quick view of events sponsored by the North American Division

* InMinistry Intensives for Pastors, www.plusline.org/article.php?id=4510

* 2005 Online Adventist Virtual Learning Network Conference, "Global Collaboration for Quality Christian Education," May 9-12 - www.avln.org/conference

* Florida Conference Camp Meeting, via ACN Satellite, May 27-June 4 - www.acn.info

* SEEDS Plus! International, June 22-27, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan - www.nadei.org and www.plusline.org

* General Conference Session 2005, St. Louis, Missouri, June 29-July 9 - www.gcsession.org

* "From This Day Forward" Marriage Conferences, various dates and locations (next event, September 17, Bellevue, Washington; October 8, South Bend, Indiana)- www.plusline.org/article.php?id=4961

* Nonprofit Leadership Certification Program, Level II, October 10-14, Hinsdale, Illinois - www.plusline.org


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Managing Editor - Lynetta Murdoch
lynetta.murdoch@nad.adventist.org
Fax 301-680-6464
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