More than 200 Seventh-day Adventist young people from Australia and around the world are taking part in the More Than Gold evangelism initiative that aims to make an impact at the Sydney Olympics. In cooperation with Quest Australia, an inter-denominational Christian organization, the young people are distributing literature and food, providing street entertainment, performing free health checks at the Adventist Church’s health assessment van and staffing a Tent Café.

Quest has chosen Signs-a magazine published by the Adventist Church in Australia-as the official magazine of its Olympic initiative. One hundred thousand copies of a special edition of Signs will be handed out to Sydney’s residents and visitors during the 14 days of the games.

“Our aim was to introduce people, first of all, to Christianity, as we assumed there would be many non-Christians attending the games,” says Lee Dustan, senior assistant editor of Signs magazine. “And secondly, we wanted to give them the basic beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.”  The special edition include a range of international Adventist authors, and covers topics such as healthy lifestyles, faith in Christ, baptism and the seventh-day Sabbath.

Small groups called Olympic Ministry Teams will be at various sites around the city, says Gilbert Cangy, the Adventist Church’s youth leader in Australia. “While the athletes and observers will be enjoying the games and securing the gold medals, our youth will be involved in the most important business in their daily lives-bringing Jesus to the many thousands of people through the various tools of evangelism.”