wfn.org | News Coverage of Church World Session 2005 on Adventist Radio

[Christian B. Schäffler (APD Schweiz)]

May 15, 2005

Adventist Press Service (APD)

Christian B. Schaeffler, Editor-in-chief APD

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News Coverage of Adventist World Session 2005 on Adventist World Radio

St. Louis, Illinois/USA, 06.05.2005/APD    For 10 minutes each day for

about two weeks this summer, Adventist World Radio (AWR) will add

something new to its regular broadcast. It will broadcast highlights

of the Seventh-day Adventist Church?s 58th General Conference Session,

which will be held from June 30 to July 9, 2005, in the America?s

Center in St. Louis, Missouri (USA).

In keeping with its mandate to share the Adventist hope in Christ

with the hardest to reach people groups in their own languages,

Adventist World Radio will be working with a team of other Adventist

media outlets to produce daily reports of the church?s largest

business, this summer.

The reports?which will be produced in English, French, Portuguese,

Spanish and Swahili ? will be broadcast across their global network.

Two or three additional 10-minute daily will be created in Spanish.

AWR Senior Vice President Greg Scott, says he is especially excited

about the Swahili segment. "It will be a GC Session first," he explains.

Covering GC Session in Swahili reflects the phenomenal growth of this

protestant mainstream church in East Africa, says Scott. "We try to

look at where the biggest demand would be. We offered to sponsor

production of news bulletins in Mandarin for those in China but the

Chinese producers in Hong Kong didn?t think it was needed."

Scott explains that AWR works closely with church leadership to

decide what languages are needed for coverage.

Creating the reports will be a team of 15 AWR producers, engineers

and volunteers at the AWR production center in the America?s Center

exhibit hall. "The production center will be fully outfitted with

two production studios and four editing workstations, with the

capacity to add four more laptop workstations,? said Scott.

AWR?s GC Session multilingual news broadcasts will be available

through different mediums based on region. English, French and

Spanish will be broadcast on shortwave, satellite and local radio

stations in Europe. Swahili, English and French will air on local radio

stations and shortwave in Africa, and Asia will receive English via

shortwave.

Portuguese will air on local radio stations in Brazil and Portugal.

The additional Spanish segments will be broadcast on more than 50

local stations in Spain, Central and South America. Each news segment

will be archived on the Internet at http://www.gc2005.awr.org
<http://www.gc2005.awr.org/>