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What People Are Saying About Signs* REISSN 0819-5633 C RDVOL 97 NO 29 August 1, 1992 What People Are Saying About Signs* NAH 1U/2 I admire the discreet way Bible truth is introduced. A splendid publication. Signs is terrific. I enjoy No n personality stories. Credible science and creation stories are great. Excellent paper. Extremely good tio articles. God bless all your staff. Keep up the good work. Very good. Readable to a wide range of people. Much-improved magazine. Real beaut. Excellent publication. Wonderful evangelistic tool. New blica u p format excellent. Keep on going to the top. I became an Adventist through this magazine. I love the t Signs. Signs is fantastic. More of Gwen's puzzles, please. The copy is excellent. Much better format. Keep up the good work. Great to give out. Friends appreciate the magazine. Keep improving. Very well Pos presented. High quality. Relevant. Enjoyable for all. Excellent format. Can't get enough Signs. Excellent magazine. Something for everyone. Well produced. Convenient new size. Getting better and tralia s better. Enjoyable read. Still delivers message. Thoroughly enjoyable. Great mag, really enjoy reading it. Au Issues are tremendous. Always look forward to it arriving. Al. It's wonderful. Great for general public. by d Can we have more of it? Easier to carry around. Doing a great job. It's a success. Handy size book. re Heard only good reports. Don't water down the message. Much easier to manage. Heard it all before. te is Spot on. Embarrassing copy of Reader's Digest. Written for the last days. Soul winning. Interesting and Reg spiritual. Like the new format. Hate to miss one. Hang in there. Congratulations on the Signs. More important than RECORD. Effective facelift. Fantastic format. Seems old-fashioned. Snippets not always relevant. Most helpful. I look forward to it. Just terrific. Well presented, good variety. Top quality. More open minded, please. Well balanced. A winner. My parents came to be Adventist through Signs. A good step forward. Remain Christ centred. Very presentable. Keep it going. Excellent reading. Enjoy all articles. Truth gently stated. Not as doctrinally oriented as before. Like to pass it to friends. Good work. Even my 10-year-old enjoys it. Better than Reader's Digest. Miss the old format. Artwork is excellent. More news on other churches. Don't ever stop printing Signs. Strengthens outreach. Signs is the best it's ever been. Attention-grabbing covers. Need a teen Signs. Not worth reading. More acceptable to the unchurched. Pray inspiration will continue. More prayer-encouraging experiences. Wonderful form of outreach. Signs witnesses in ways I can't. Terrific new format. Remember non- Christians read Signs. Positive outreach. Wonderful publication. Relevant information provided. Small Signs a good move. Can we have a Teenage Comments page? Well received by other denominations. Shares God's message. Wonderful magazine to share. Sponsored it for 22 years, love it. Appeals to many. Thanks for the new magazine. Signs is excellent. A real family magazine. Only heard good comments. May all stories have spiritual lesson. Wonderful little paper. Even better than the old one. May Signs touch hearts and lives. Terrific! *Comments from a Signs survey conducted in Adventist churches in Australia and New Zealand in the middle of 1992. RECORD EDITORIAL Official Paper Seventh-day Adventist Church Where's the Signs? South Pacific Division Editor Bruce Manners "(jou should be asking yourself, comments from people who sponsor Associate Editor Alan Holman 1 Where's my free copy of the Signs the magazine, the message we consis- Assistant Editor Karen Miller of the Times? For the past few years tently receive is that the mix in the Editorial Secretary Glenda Fairall Copy Editor Graeme Brown church members have received a copy magazine is right. Senior Consulting Editor Laurie Evans of the Signs instead of the RECORD The 64-page format has meant that Correspondents Ray Baird, Lyn Bartlett, Terry on the first Sabbath of August. we can be so much more flexible in Butler, Ray Coombe, David Hay, Maua Kemo'o, Colin Winch, Neroli Zaska Sorry, there's no free Signs this the topics we can present. In each Regional Reporters Nigel Ackland, George Drinkall, year. You see we're so excited about issue we're able to emphasise, in some Eric Greenwell, Colin House, Larry Laredo, Malcolm Potts, Leigh Rice, Lyndon Schick, Gordon Smith, what Signs is doing that we wanted to way, nearly every aspect of positive Chester Stanley, Calvyn Townend. tell you about it and we couldn't do Adventist lifestyle. Local Reporters Church Communication Secretaries that in the pages of a Signs magazine. If you haven't seen a Signs for a Subscriptions South Pacific Division, $A31.00 $NZ43.40. Instead, we've bound and gagged the while, I'd encourage you to check it All other regions, $A64.00 $NZ89.60. Air mail postage RECORD editor and virtually taken out for yourself. It really is an evange- rates on application. Order from Signs Publishing Company, Warburton, Victoria 3799, Australia. over his magazine for today. listic tool for the 90s. Manuscripts All copy for the paper should be sent to Besides, it costs so much more to Twelve months ago we printed The Editor, RECORD, Signs Publishing Company, give every Adventist family a free 32,500 Signs of the Times each month. Warburton, Victoria 3799. Phone (059) 66 9111. Telefax (059) 66 9019. Signs magazine. Keeping costs down is For the August campaign last year we Printed weekly by Signs Publishing Company. still a big factor in keeping the maga- set an aim of 50,000 magazines being zine viable. subscribed to or sponsored. We Directory of the South Pacific Division of the Seventh- We've been overwhelmed by the reached it! Thank you for your support. day Adventist Church, 148 Fox Valley Road, Wahroonga, NSW 2076. positive response we've received from It's appreciated. Phone (02) 489 7122. (Legal Trustee: Australasian church membership. That has been Now the bad news. Signs is still in Conference Association Limited. A.C.N. 000 003 930 Secretary: Tom Andrews, Assistant Secretaries: appreciated and encouraging. Sure, danger. I wish this were just a sales Richard Milne, Properties: Bruce Jackson, Finance.) there has been a rare note or com- pitch to make you feel bad enough to President Bryan Ball ment of concern about a particular take out another subscription or two, Secretary Laurie Evans Treasurer Torn Andrews aspect or article or illustration that but it isn't. Assistant to President Gerald Clifford we've used. Our celebrations were cut short Associate Secretary Vern Parmenter And, because we know we aren't when we looked at production costs. Associate Treasurers Owen Mason, Lynray Wilson Field Secretary Gerhard Pfandl always right, we listen carefully to crit- Even though the support for the mag- icism. azine has increased dramatically, Departments and Services: ADRA Harold Halliday (Director), Neil Hughes, As the editor of Signs, the most satis- Signs is still losing money. Peter Truscott fying thing about the past 12 months has Unfortunately we had underestimated Adventist Health Percy Harrold (Director), HarleN, been the way that the magazine seems costs in a couple of areas. Stanton Adventist Health Services—Life Plus Don Bain to have gained a new life in being what On top of that, we had originally (Director), Val Charlton. it is meant to be—evangelistic. planned to put out the new-look Signs Adventist Media Centre Nat Devenish (Manager) Behind the elements to attract peo- on low-quality paper. But after much Archivist and Statistician Roy Clifford consultation and discussion we knew Auditing Service Max Mitchell (Director), Eric ple to the magazine is a serious and Hokin, Ernie Moffitt, Neville Sawert, Robert Stratford life-saving message. In each issue we that we had to produce a product that Christian Services for the Blind and Hearing attempt to present the gospel or run a had a quality feel about it. That was impaired Ray Coombe Church Ministries Bryan Craig (Director and Family story of how someone found Christ. the correct decision, but it led to Ministries), Wilfred Bili (Stewardship), Colleen Buxton And the magazine presents another cost increase. (Children's Ministries), Barry Gane (Youth), Alwyn Adventists in a positive light. Each While we're doing as much as we Salom (Personal Ministries), Eric Winter (Sabbath School) issue features Adventists doing some- can to keep costs down, we have now Communication, Public Affairs and Religious thing constructive in the community. raised our aim another 10,000 higher Liberty Ray Coombe Education Les Devine (Director), Barry Hill, Ian Each issue features the work of the this year to 60,000. That's achievable. Howie, Owen Hughes, Max Miller, Bob Spoor Adventist Disaster and Relief Agency. And it would make Signs financially Health Food Eugene Grosser (Director), Greg And if you're looking for doctrinal viable. That would mean we can keep Gambrill, Lance Rogers, Allan Staples, Ray Windus Ministerial Association John Gate teachings to share with your friends, the new-look Signs going. Publishing Bruce Campbell there's six articles in each issue on Maybe, if you haven't already sub- Risk Management Service Robert Smith (Manager) Bible teachings that could be called scribed, you could try sponsoring Trust Services Jim Lansdown distinctively Adventist (or subjects, Signs for 12 months. Or if you already such as the second coming, that are are subscribing, why not consider Cover: part of our heritage). another one or two. In responses from our surveys (and Why not think about that while I go we send 500 survey forms, at random, and release the RECORD editor.
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