Adventist News Network has released a story explaining Adventism’s corporate plan for their Total Member Involvement (TMI) initiative. This year, commencing on February 4, the Adventist organization will begin conducting evangelistic meetings worldwide. The ANN report quotes Duane McKey, the director of Sabbath School and personal ministries for the general conference and the assistant to general conference president Ted N. C. Wilson: “It’s not just about preaching. It’s about what everyone can do; it’s all of us working together to make something happen.”
The article further states, “The evangelistic series, which will begin in February at 4,300 sites in Romania, Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Russia, represent the culmination of months of prayer and other preparation by local church members, and their work will continue long after the end of the meetings.”
ANN explains that this year’s evangelistic programs will be patterned after the highly-acclaimed initiative held in May, 2016, in Rwanda. The Rwandan initiative was the organization’s first Total Member Involvement evangelistic program. It featured simultaneous public meetings held at 2,227 sites around the country and ended with 110,476 baptisms.
Importantly, these evangelistic meetings are preceded by community preparation, with local church members doing community service and medical professionals offering free health clinics prior to the meetings. McKey notes that “multiple meetings held simultaneously has a remarkable effect on baptisms.” In addition, the church’s media outlets such as Hope Channel and Adventist World Radio and also the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) will be actively involved in preparing people for these meetings.
Of the total 113,000 meetings scheduled this year, 2,017 of them will be held between February 10–25 in Romania, and another 20,000 will be staged across East Africa in June. Most of the meetings will be conducted by local members. You may read the ANN news story here.
What you need to know: Christians need to be aware that in spite of Adventism’s public efforts to appear Christian, to partner with Christian churches in humanitarian efforts and public service programs both in local communities and around the world through their Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), they are not Christians. They are actively working to proselytize unsuspecting people by offering free services and exciting programs. They are growing rapidly, especially in the third world, and Christians need to be aware and to pray for truth to be known. We have an obligation, as believers made alive through the blood of Jesus, to expose deception and to offer the truth of the gospel to those being deceived by a subtle but attractive substitute.
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