A lifestyle series presented by an Australian Seventh-day Adventist evangelist has proved popular in Singapore.

Average attendance for each of the programs in Pastor Peter Jack's Taking Charge series ranged from 150 to 290 over three months. The Adventist Media evangelist presented the programs at the Singapore Conference Hall and the Singapore Power Auditorium.

"An Australian-based life management presenter working in Singapore at the time attended all the programs with his Singapore-based marketing director," says Pastor Jack. "She attended initially with reservation because she belongs to a non-Christian religious faith. But the programs changed her life and she's now started her own business."

Pastor Jack created the Taking Charge series, which includes the seminars Taking Charge of Your Life (currently screening on Optus TV's Australian Christian Channel), Living Your Dreams and Taking Charge of Your Future, as an alternative to the church's traditional archaeological-based evangelistic programs. "The series appeals to post-modernists by addressing their emotional, relational and personal development needs. I blend biblical content into all the seminars. Taking Charge of Your Future intentionally presents our church's message and is designed to lead people to Christ."

Pastor Jack speaks of presenting the series in Sydney when Pastor Bill Townend served as president of the church in the city. Pastor Townend is now president of the church's Southeast Asia Union Mission. "We saw the series as having the same impact in Singapore where the culture is, arguably, even more sophisticated than here in Australia," says Pastor Jack.

Pastor Jack lived in Singapore 20 years ago while serving as the evangelist for the church's former Far Eastern Division. [Editor: Brenton Stacey for ANN-Australia and APD]