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Adventist Today magazine, now in its thirteenth year of publication, is expanding its ministry with an email service, ATNewsbreak: Reporting 21st Century Adventism. As explained in the next section, we are beginning with special daily reports on the upcoming General Conference Session in St. Louis, Missouri. Beginning in August, we will be sending out a regular monthly email report. Remember, these reports are absolutely free and without any obligation.

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General Conference Special Reports

You are invited!

Adventist Today magazine, now one of the fastest-growing publications among Adventists, invites you to enjoy up-to-the-minute e-mailed reports from General Conference Session in St. Louis, Missouri, beginning in just a few days, June 28.

Adventist Today Foundation is a non-profit organization established by Adventists, for Adventists, with emphasis on providing unbiased reporting on the Church’s theological trends, ministries, controversial issues, and denominational decisions—the kind of thoughtful, expansive, carefully documented writing you may not be finding readily elsewhere.

If previous General Conference sessions are any indication (and this is the fourth Session Adventist Today is covering), the St. Louis Session will function on many levels simultaneously: as festival, forum, revival meeting, reunion, camp meeting, ecclesiastical council, political rally, bazaar, and complex act of affirmation.

Anthropologists and sociologists might label it “A Rite of Intensification,” an occasion for a defined community to come together to reaffirm shared values and sacred stories.

For many first-generation Adventists from Third World countries, St. Louis will be a pilgrimage destination of profound spiritual importance. Among other functions, the meticulously choreographed rituals enacted during the meetings will mark time inspirationally and creatively, while important political decisions are being made behind the scenes.

Whatever occurs, Adventist Today will be there to record and report what really is happening both in front of and behind the scenes.

A Friend Told Us!

This invitation does not come to you by happenstance. Your name has been referred specifically to us by mutual friends who know you as a thought leader in Adventism—who recommend you as well read and vitally interested in the well-being and progress of the worldwide Adventist community.

If you do not wish to receive these reports, simply move your cursor to the bottom of this page and and click “Unsubscribe from this newsletter.”

But before you do that, sample several condensed reports Adventist Today published about the General Conference Session five years ago. To do that, go to our web site, www.atoday.org, click on “archives,”and then click on “July-August 2000.” Or you may simply click on the “Go to 2000 Adventist Today General Conference Session reports."

Pass it On!

Just a few days remain before these first AT Newsbreak issues begin coming your way, but there’s still time to forward this email to your valued, thoughtful friends, who you know to be interested in the substance of what happens at General Conference. If we receive additional emailed requests by June 20, we will include those addresses in our e-mailings, beginning June 28.

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Adventist Today reports on contemporary issues of importance to Adventist church members. Following basic principles of ethics and canons of journalism, this publication strives for fairness, candor, and good taste. The magazine publishes six issues per year.

Adventist Today offers . . .

1. Reliable, unfettered news reporting on events, people, institutions and theological movements associated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

2. Literary reflection on Adventist culture through essays, narratives, interviews, poetry, sermons and book reviews.

3. A sense of connection among people who treasure their Adventist heritage while rejecting some fundamentalist elements of historic Adventism.

4. Creative conversation about how to preserve and promote the best of Adventism.