These are the details of Project 2.0:
The Great Controversy of Each Age 2.0 Project is a global effort by Seventh-day Adventist churches, organizations, and believers around the world to deliver a copy of The Great Controversy to every home in their community. In 2012, The Great Controversy 1.0 project enabled Seventh-day Adventists around the world to deliver one million printed copies of The Great Controversy. Now, in 2023 and 2024, when the impact of the pandemic has caused many in the world to think about the end of the world, our global church will distribute one billion copies of The Great Controversy, a precious gospel message for the last days, in both printed and digital forms.
On April 15, 2023, each person will make a “book dedication” as a commitment to this project. Then, for 20 months, from May 2023 to December 2024, we will spend every day sharing the message of mercy for the end of the world.
This precious project will involve all Seventh-day Adventist churches, organizations, and members living around the world. The Seventh-day Adventist Church has a great mission to “TELL THE WORLD”. The response of “TMI” (TOTAL MEMBER INVOLVEMENT) is to expand on that and participate in this great mission with “I WILL GO!” Everyone, no exceptions.
We can start by reaching out to those who are geographically near to us, such as our local church community. And we can share the message with those who are emotionally close to us, such as our families, relatives, friends, coworkers, and those with whom we share similar interests. Make a list of their names and adjust your outreach accordingly. Printed and digital books will be our most powerful missionary tools, so let’s pray and pass them on.
We are privileged to be part of this valuable 20-month project. The recommended method is as follows: first, we will share one printed copy of the Great Controversy per person per month—20 people in 20 months. Additionally, we can share a digital copy with four people we know per month—80 people over the course of 20 months. Therefore, one person can reach 100 people in person and digitally. In summary, if 10,000 members participate in this project, the Korean Union Conference will have 200,000 printed books and 800,000 digital books distributed. Overall, 1 million copies of The Great Controversy will be available online and offline.
Ellen White has written why it is so important to share this book with those around us: “The Great Controversy for each age should be widely distributed. This book contains the whole story, past, present, and future. In describing the final scenes of this earth’s history, it bears a powerful testimony for truth. I am very anxious to see it more widely circulated than any other book I have ever written, for in the great struggles of each age the last message to the world is more clearly revealed than in any other book I have ever written” (Christian Writings 358).
The world speaks of despair, but the Bible speaks of the hope of the Second Coming. And we have detailed a time navigation toward that hope. We have a golden opportunity to share that truth that the world does not yet know.
And the Apostle Paul says: “Let men rightly regard us as ministers of Christ, and as entrusted with the mysteries of God. And what is required of those who have been entrusted with them is loyalty” (1 Corinthians 4:1-2).
We are “laborers” of Christ. The Greek word translated “laborer” here is “huperetai,” which “originally described an oarsman on a warship” (SDABC Commentary on 1 Corinthians 4:1-2).
The idea of laborers working together as a community of like-minded people for like purposes is at the heart of this work. The Lord has given marching orders for the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide. Let us do our best to keep our battleship of faith moving forward in unison toward the one goal of world missions.