En Pologne, les Adventistes se préparent à la sortie du film de Mel

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In Poland, Adventists gear up for release of Mel Gibson’s
‘Hacksaw Ridge’
A copy of Victor Hulbert’s magazine about Desmond Doss lying on the meeting table in
Warsaw, Poland, on Sept. 13.
Posted September 13, 2016 | Poland | Andrew McChesney, news editor, Adventist Review
Seventh-day Adventist leaders in Poland are looking forward to release of Mel Gibson’s film
“Hacksaw Ridge” about the life of U.S. World War II hero Desmond Doss.
Their interest is not in promoting the movie but in sharing the story of a Doss, an Adventist
medic who stood true to God and saved the lives of 75 soldiers during a single battle. Doss
became the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
“We believe that this will be a great opportunity to tell people about Jesus Christ,” Jaroslaw
Dziegielewski, president of the Adventist Church in Poland, said at a regularly scheduled
meeting of local church leaders in Poland’s capital, Warsaw, on Tuesday.
Marek Micyk, youth director for the church in Poland, presented plans for how Adventist young
people would use the release of the film in November to share their faith in this predominantly
Roman Catholic country of 38.5 million people and only 5,820 Adventists.
The eight-point plan — which Micyk, 37, said was inspired by Adventist public relations specialist
Michal Rakowski, 25, and prepared by an eight-member group of young people — has already
begun with young people translating Doss’ English-language Wikipedia page for the Polish
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version of Wikipedia. In addition, the church registered the DesmondDoss.pl web domain this
week so Poles who enter his name in search engines will be able to find a website with
information about Doss, the Adventist Church, and related Adventist issues such as
vegetarianism and the Sabbath.
Jaroslaw Dziegielewski, left, president of the Adventist Church in Poland, and Marek Rakowski,
the church’s executive secretary, participating in a discussion about Desmond Doss at a
meeting at the church’s headquarters in Warsaw, Poland, on Sept. 13. Image by Victor
Hulbert/TED
On the streets, young people will be stationed outside movie theaters with free booklets about
Doss — possibly a translated version of a 32-page booklet that is being prepared by the
church’s It Is Written television ministry for distribution in the United States.
“People like to hear true stories,” Micyk said. “So people will come out of the movie theaters
wanting to learn more about Desmond Doss, and we will try to share something more.”
An outdoor running challenge is being considered for Warsaw and other cities. Participants will
be invited to carry a heavy object around a course, similar to Doss’ heroic actions when he
carried 75 wounded soldiers one by one to safety in Okinawa in 1945.
“People will not carry other people as Desmond Doss did, but they will be given some kind of
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weight and they will run,” Micyk said.
USB memory sticks with materials about Doss and the Adventist Church will be distributed to
journalists, and popular Polish YouTubers will be offered information that they can use to record
programs about Doss.
“We want to reach young people, and they use the Internet more than television,” Micyk said.
The local Adventist publishing house will print a Polish edition of the book Desmond Doss:
Conscientious Objector, a 2005 biography by Doss’ wife Frances M. Doss, and the local Hope
Channel is putting Polish subtitles on Terry Benedict’s 2004 award-winning documentary
“Conscientious Objector.”
The Polish plans won immediate praise from Victor Hulbert, communication director for the
Trans-European Division.
“I am very impressed with what you are doing,” said Hulbert, who attended the meeting of
church leaders in Warsaw on Tuesday. “I am glad that you have seen the big picture, what is
happening out in the world, and saying, ‘We can do something with this as a church.’”
Hulbert has been preparing for the film’s release for more than a year and put together a
special sharing magazine with Doss’ story and his beliefs. The content of Hulbert’s magazine,
published by the Adventist Church in Britain, is being offered to churches worldwide, and the
Polish-language Signs of the Times magazine has translated several articles for its next issue.
Other parts of the world church also are gearing up for the movie’s international premiere on
Nov. 4. The church in Australia and Serbia are also reprinting portions of Hulbert’s magazine.
In North America, Pacific Press will rerelease the book Desmond Doss: Conscientious Objector,
and Tennessee-based It Is Written will oversee the church’s local response to an expected
inflow of questions connected to the Doss story.
Miroslaw Karauda, evangelism director for the Adventist Church in Poland, said the outreach
initiatives planned for Poland might not only point people to Jesus but also help energize local
Adventist young people.
“It would be great if our youth could engage in all these outreach initiatives,” he said. “We hope
that these ideas could serve as a revival for our youth and inspire them.”
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