SILVER SPRING, Md. -- The Seventh-day Adventist Church is challenging its congregations to distribute 100 million pieces of literature in 2003 as part of its "Sow 1 Billion" program.
The program is a worldwide evangelistic initiative to reach 1 billion homes by the end of 2003, according to the Adventist News Network.
Nearly 3,000 evangelistic meetings will be held before the end of the year to discuss the initiative, said Kermit Netteburg, assistant to the president for communication in the church's North American Division. The meetings are led by pastors, full-time evangelists or lay members.
"The diversity of evangelistic methods in North America introduces a new day, one filled with many ways of preaching the gospel, all of them fulfilling the gospel commission," Netteburg said.
The Adventists report 46,000 churches with more than 10 million members in the United States and 205 other countries.
