The National Committee of the Bible Society in Poland has awarded the title "Honorary Member of the Bible Society" to Dr. Bert B. Beach, director for inter-church relations for the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide.
The National Committee of the Bible Society in Poland has awarded the title “Honorary Member of the Bible Society” to Dr. Bert B. Beach, director of inter-church relations for the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide. The honor, awarded at a June 12 ceremony, has been given to only three other people.
Beach’s support of the work of the Polish Bible Society has spanned more than four decades. In giving the award, Bible Society leaders called Beach “a spokesman for reconciliation and freedom in Poland.” While Poland was still under communist rule, Beach carried Bible Society documents from Warsaw to England to avoid unnecessary complications. Beach says that over the years he has encouraged Adventist Church members to support the Bible Society as a way of “getting involved in something beyond their own communities.”
“This honor came as a total surprise to me,” says Beach. “It is really an honor to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Poland and its great support of Bible translation and distribution of the Scriptures.”
