The rest of the staff has a constant flow of reporting and writing assignments, both for the Visitor and other communication projects. This is the trained, technical team that the Church relies on for communication, marketing and public relations in our eight-state region. More than the Visitor Communication is more than the union paper. About half of Adventist homes have access to the Internet. Fax newsletters can deliver in minutes what it takes six weeks to publish in the Visitor.
Videos convey stories that print media can never really tell.
In this communication age, the Church has a message to give, and there are lots of other possibilities. For example, our congregations, like Adventist churches in the northwest, could be helped to get one of the new, low-power FM radio licenses the government recently announced. After eight months without a communication director, Monte Sahlin, vice president for creative ministries, was pleased to have Denise Valenzuela join the team January 1. The conferences do not have full-time communication professionals on staff. Valenzuela also brings a bilingual aspect to the team.