In addition to his role with the Mid-America Union Conference, Weber served at the Voice of Prophecy in 1983 and two years later became assistant to the director at It Is Written. Weber’s four decades of employment by the denomination on five continents uniquely equip him to serve the Adventist market through Logos. These materials would be available to the wider Logos user base across denominational lines. Weber said he wants to “work in collaboration with existing Adventist publishers, seeking ‘win-win’ partnerships for the sake of benefiting church members globally.”Īnother advantage for Adventists, Weber said, is that evangelists and pastors can publish Ebooks through Logos, opening up distribution to the entire Christian marketplace. Participating Adventist publishers and authors would receive royalties from Logos sales of their documents. The whole mass of documents can then be searched specifically, so that any Adventist document included in the database that used the word “Millerite” will be instantly discoverable. Ultimately, he said, thousands of articles in the archives of numerous Adventist publications can be bundled into general categories such as spirituality, outreach, Adventist history, prophecy, etc.
Weber is working with Logos management to provide Adventist materials in languages other than English, giving priority to Spanish, Portuguese, French and German. Logos hopes to package the written transcripts of their messages, and those of more than a dozen other beloved Adventist teachers past and present-with their original audio or video-thus opening up a multimedia trove of materials. Richards was recorded speaking the word “Gethsemane” in his nearly five decades of radio talks or every time noted evangelist George Vandeman used the word “Armageddon” in his 35 years of television sermons. Potentially, a user could instantly discover every time Voice of Prophecy founder H.M.S. Logos can also transcribe into print format various Adventist audio and video archives and make them searchable with a keystroke by users. 14:6” and see where every Adventist author in the database has ever quoted that text. For example, it will be possible to type “Rev. Logos has a proprietary database system in which thousands of documents can be searched at once for highly specific results. “I’m hoping to take leading Adventist writers and speakers, contemporary and historical, and have them available in an Adventist-specific package,” he said. Weber, in a telephone interview, said his task will be to expand the list of Adventist-related publications-which now stands at 18, including the recent addition of the Andrews Study Bible notes-to cover a broad range of the movement’s writers and thinkers. Logos is believed to be the first interdenominational publisher to launch an initiative specifically aimed at serving the Adventist market. White writings as part of an integrated Bible software package.
It is the only electronic publisher to offer The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary and the Ellen G. With users in more than 210 countries, it publishes in more than 30 languages. A story released by the Adventist News Network (ANN), the denomination's official news service, written by Mark Kellner, news editor of the Adventist Review, has announced that Pastor Martin Weber, who retired recently as communication director for the Mid-America Union Conference, has been employed by Logos as the firm’s Adventist product manager.īased in Bellingham, Washington, Logos has more than 2 million customers that use its Bible software worldwide. Logos Bible Software, the leading publisher of Bible software and digital media for churches, has hired a Seventh-day Adventist pastor to develop a new line of products for the Adventist market.