wfn.org | Major Bible Information Website Expands

["Christian B. Schäffler" <APD_Info_Schweiz@compuserve.com>]

February 7, 1999
Adventist Press Service (APD)
Christian B. Schaeffler, Editor-in-chief
Fax +41-61-261 61 18
APD@stanet.ch
CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland

Major Bible Information Website Expands

San Diego, CA/USA. [APD/AEI] Bibleinfo.com, 
a website featuring an extensive database of bible 
questions and answers, is set to expand and develop 
in 1999, according to its director John R. Loor, Jr.

Participating at the Annual Convention of Adventist 
Editors Internatinal (AEI) in San Diego on January 19-
24, Bibleinfo.com is to develop the multi-language 
aspects of the site to include Chinese, Spanish, 
Romanian, Russian, French, German and Swedish. 
Currently the site with its easy to understand format 
of questions with answers directly from the Bible is 
receiving well over 10,000 visits a month.

"Since going online in February 1996 the site has 
received over 200,000 visits, and in 1998 alone we 
sent out 26,000 free copies of the book 'Your Bible 
and You,'" reports Loor. "To date we have received 
questions about the Bible from 140 countries around 
the world, including students working on term papers, 
university professors, and media reporters and 
producers."

This primary Bible resource began in 1995 as the Bible 
Information Line under the leadership of Max Torkelsen 
by providing a phone service of Bible answers on over 
300 subjects through the U.S. toll-free number 1-800-
97-BIBLE. The phone service still provides Bible 
answers while the website continues to develop. The 
site provides the interactive opportunity to ask 
specific questions not covered in the question-and-
answer topics.

"We are delighted at the impact that bibleinfo.com has 
made in making the Bible's message better known 
through this new technology," says Loor. "People 
appreciate the fact that we are not giving opinions, 
but simply responding to questions with answers 
straight from the Bible. It's a non-threatening, 
helpful, and easy to use resource that we hope will 
make a real difference in people's lives."

The website at www.bibleinfo.com is supported by the 
Seventh-day Adventist Church's Upper Columbia 
Conference in Spokane, Washington, with most of its 
running costs being funded by donations. [99/04/05]