Catch the HOPE Spirit!
Hope Channel Launches Broadband Video
By Lori-Anne Charlton

Last December, Christians around the world were brought closer together when the Adventist Television Network launched Hope Channel, a 24/7, spiritually based broadcast designed to reach people searching for Bible truth and the real meaning of life.

This month, Hope has hit the cyber world with streaming video on its new website (www.hopetv.org), putting the virtue back into virtual, so to speak, and making it accessible to the masses. 

Now, Hope Channel is looking for assistance to get the message of hope out to the world’s half-billion computer users, and would like to solicit your help.

As an outreach effort, it’s a new approach by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. While they’ve long utilized the technology for transmission of select programs and satellite evangelism events, this is their first official fulltime television channel.

The programs selected so far have been chosen for their global perspective, diversity and ability to present God’s Word with a fresh approach that’s appealing to both the spiritually inquisitive public and Seventh-day Adventists.

In addition to such classics as It Is Written, Faith for Today, The Quiet Hour and Voice of Prophecy, the Hope Channel has a catchy mélange that includes titles like Faith Factor, Faith and Freedom, Janice’s Attic, Sabbath School University and Mind the Gap.

Programs are produced by Adventist churches, colleges, hospitals and institutions, as well as other sources whose message is in harmony with the philosophies of the Hope Channel.

While the greater goal is to communicate the hope found in Jesus Christ and His soon return, the Hope Channel wants to do it in a way that’s realistic, practical and authentic, through programming that is informational as well as inspirational.

In the Footsteps of Paul takes viewers, with host Tony Moore, on a journey through the ancient ruins of familiar Bible sites, weaving in the Scripture’s distinctive teachings on such topics as the Sabbath, death and Christ’s second coming.

Faith Alive is a devotional series by Mark Finley and Shawn Boonstra of It Is Written, featuring spiritual vignettes designed to add interest to personal and family worship.  You’ll also enjoy Mark Finley’s new series, Faith Against Odds which premiered this past weekend on Hope Channel.

A new program called Cliff Goldstein Live! tackles many of the difficult and controversial issues people face today.  Goldstein, a well-known author and speaker, will engage in lively conversations with many of today’s leading writers, theologians, philosophers, artists and newsmakers to discuss vital questions on the minds of many today. 

Other shows explore God’s connection with this world through tranquil scenes and meditative music from around the world.

We have a feeling you’ll like it.  So go on line.  Check it out. And then, tell a friend….or maybe 100.

Below is an invitation, with a media link to a 30-second animation introducing the Hope Channel. If everyone on our mailing list forwards this invitation to everyone on their mailing list, it shouldn’t take long for the Hope Channel to fulfill its ambitious slogan: “The fastest way to reach a billion.”

Thanks for your help.

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Hope Channel Invitation

Here’s a great new website I thought you’d be interested in: www.hopetv.org. It’s actually the homepage to a new TV station called the Hope Channel, which was launched in December, but they’ve recently added webstreaming – which means we can watch their programs for free, anywhere in the world, 24-hours a day, on our own computers. The point is to make Jesus, the only lasting source of hope, relevant to life today—which really makes sense.

To see what I mean, hit the included link for a 30-second introduction to the Hope Channel.  mms://media.hopetv.org/atn/hope-v3.wmv 

For optimum viewing you may need to update the latest Windows Media Player.  Windows Media 9 Player.

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