At the request of the Korean Union Conference (KUC), the Northern Asia-Pacific Division departments of Sabbath School and Personal Ministries conducted special training sessions on March 7–8 and 13–15, 2023, for Project 2.0: The Great Controversy of Each Age at KUC's five annual pastors' conferences. The 600 Korean pastors in attendance had a valuable opportunity to understand and commit to this global project.

These are the details of Project 2.0:

It is a global effort by Seventh-day Adventist churches, organizations, and believers around the world to deliver a copy of The Great Controversy to every home in their community. In 2012, The Great Controversy 1.0 project enabled Seventh-day Adventists around the world to deliver 1 million printed copies of The Great Controversy. Now, in 2023 and 2024, when the impact of the pandemic has caused many in the world to think about the end of the world, the global church will distribute 1 billion copies of The Great Controversy, a precious Gospel message for the last days, in both printed and digital forms.

On April 15, 2023, each person will make a “book dedication” as a commitment to this project. Then, for 20 months, from May 2023 to December 2024, they will spend every day sharing the message of mercy for the end of the world.

This precious project will involve all Seventh-day Adventist churches, organizations, and members living around the world. The church has a great mission to "Tell the world." The response of Total Member Involvement (TMI) is to expand on that and participate in this great mission through "I WILL GO!" Everyone—no exceptions.

Members can start by reaching out to those who are geographically nearby, such as one’s local church community. And they can share the message with those who are emotionally close, such as family, relatives, friends, coworkers, and those with whom they share similar interests. They can make a list of names and adjust their outreach accordingly. Printed and digital books will be the most powerful missionary tools, so everyone is encouraged and challenged to pray and pass them on.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is privileged to be part of this valuable 20-month project. The recommended method is for each person to share one printed copy of The Great Controversy per month—20 people in 20 months. Additionally, members can share a digital copy with four people they know per month—80 people in 20 months. Therefore, one person can reach 100 people in person and digitally.

In summary, if 10,000 members participate in this project, the Korean Union Conference will have distributed 200,000 printed books and 800,000 digital books. Overall, 1 million copies of The Great Controversy will be available online and offline.

Ellen White has written why it is so important to share this book with one’s sphere of influence: "The Great Controversy should be very widely circulated. It contains the story of the past, the present, and the future. In its outline of the closing scenes of this earth's history, it bears a powerful testimony in behalf of the truth. I am more anxious to see a wide circulation for this book than for any others I have written, for in The Great Controversy, the last message of warning to the world is given more distinctly than in any of my other books" (Colporteur Ministry, p. 127).

The world speaks of despair, but the Bible speaks of the hope of the second coming. And the church has detailed a time navigation toward that hope. It has a golden opportunity to share that truth the world does not yet know.

The apostle Paul said, "Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful" (1 Corinthians 4:1–2, NKJV).

Seventh-day Adventists are to be servants of Christ. The Greek word translated "servants" here is huperetai, which "originally described an oarsman on a warship” (Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary on 1 Corinthians 4:1–2).

The idea of laborers working together as a community of like-minded people for like purposes is at the heart of this work. The Lord has given marching orders for the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide. Let all members do their best to keep the battleship of faith moving forward in unison toward the one goal of world missions.

The original version of this story was posted on the Northern Asia-Pacific Division website.