Availability of church news on satellite and the Internet is increasing awareness of the church’s mission internationally. According to the Record, a weekly church magazine in the South Pacific region of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the “Adventist News” quarterly 30-minute satellite program is gaining popularity. Each edition of the newscast, produced in the Adventist Media studios in Wahroonga, near Sydney, largely covers current events and presents features and interviews from the region.

Anchored by Bronwyn Mison, communication director of the church’s South Pacific Division, or region, in Sydney, Australia, the program is suited to provide mission news stories that can be used as part of the worship experience on Sabbath, or Saturday. Mison encourages churches in the region to also use the program as a service to church members who live in isolation, or broadcast it on closed-circuit television.

“Such delivery of information is new to many churches, yet it offers a creative way of sharing in the current developments in the church globally, and it fosters better church awareness within the international Adventist family,” says John Banks, production coordinator of “Adventist NewsLine,” a sister newscast from the world church headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. “The newscast is a great tool to put people in touch with a bigger picture.”

Adventist News is uplinked to the region by Adventist Television Network.