The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Yugoslavia has “developed a plan for building a new 300-metre square studio for radio and television programs,” reports Miodrag Zivanovic, communication director for the Adventist Church in Yugoslavia.

“Technology and the mass media have forever changed the ways in which we process information,” says Miroslav Pujic, communication director for the Adventist Church in the Trans-European Division regional territory, based in St Albans, England. “There is still a great deal of interest in certain issues relevant to everyday life, and the Bible has the answers to those issues. Technology does not give the answers, but can be used as tools to deliver information.”

“Society has changed its way of thinking today under the influence of the mass media-television, radio, Internet, computers, CD-ROMs, and videos,” Pujic adds, and says that he believes the media center will offer information for contemporary audiences.

“The studio will be equipped with up-to-date technology that will provide good quality television programs for broadcasting and serve for developing video sets for use at home and in churches,” says Zivanovic.  In addition to audio and visual productions, the media center will be equipped for Internet services. Completion is expected by fall of this year.

Currently, “the old studio in Belgrade-Rakovica is still in use but is not big enough for the present needs, and is audio only. The new studio will be on the 5th floor of a new building in Novi Sad,” says Pujic,.

Three pastors on five television channels are preaching to a potential audience of 3 million every week, reports Radivoj Vladisavljevic, president of the North Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Yugoslavia.  The territory of the North Conference covers Vojvodina, a province of Yugoslavia; however, the television broadcasts reach beyond this province including the neighboring countries of Bosnia, Croatia and Hungary. Several FM radio stations are also broadcasting in many towns and villages.