Adventist Church president to appear on international television network show
| Paulsen
discusses church's history, growth on Bloomberg's Night Talk |
Following a recently taped interview with Bloomberg TV's Mike Schneider, Adventist world church president Jan Paulsen said such media appearances are a valuable way church leaders can shape public perceptions of the church and its mission. The interview is scheduled to air on the February 11 edition of Night Talk. [photo: Rajmund Dabrowski/ANN]
Seventh-day Adventist world church president, Pastor Jan Paulsen,
is scheduled to appear as a guest on the February 11 edition of
Night Talk with Mike Schneider, a one-hour program airing on
Bloomberg TV.
This is the first time the church's president has granted an
interview with a major international television network.
"We've never, as a church, had the opportunity to present our face
to the public in this manner," Paulsen said following the show's
January 24 taping in New York City. "I've said to many of my fellow
leaders to both seek and use the opportunities that come your way to
profile the church before the public."
"We have something to say to the public, not only when we run the
evangelistic campaigns or when we preach Sabbath morning," Paulsen
later told Adventist News Network. "We represent a community of so
many values. People will know about us in the most unbiased,
informed way if we tell them ourselves."
Program host Schneider asked questions about the church's history,
growth and diversity, as well as its relation to contemporary
issues.
When asked about the church's future goals, Paulsen said, "My goal
for the church is that we become more effective in communicating not
only ideas, but care for people, so that they may discover that
Seventh-day Adventists are good people to get to know."
Rajmund Dabrowski, director of communication for the world church,
said "often times, when there is a lack of information, people tend
to create who you are by connecting with rumors and hearsay. These
caricatures do not do justice to the church or its mission.
Interviews like this go a long way in establishing who we are."
Night Talk airs on the Bloomberg television network in the United
States, Europe and Asia on Bloomberg TV at 10 p.m. and midnight on
weeknights and is simulcast on Bloomberg Radio at 10 p.m. For more
information see www.bloomberg.com.
