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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1,2002

In the Spirit

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Carolene

State Representative District 94 Pull Lever 7B Endorsed by □ Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce □ Indiana State Teachers Association □ Indiana Federation of Teachers □ Indiana AFL-CIO □ uaw c.1

I'm looking forward to continuing my service to the community as your new State Representative. Carolene Mays President and General Manager The Indianapolis Recorder

Author and evangelist Rev. Dr. Millicent Hunter arrived from Pennsylvania last weekend to serve as guest speaker for the “Pre-Women’s Day 2002” service at First Baptist Church North Indianapolis.

The Phillips Temple Liturgical Dancers perform during the recent gospel brunch. (Photos/ Shiri W.)

Cloud Ten Pictures to launch TV series based on Left Behind

Series to debut in early 2003 Special to The Recorder Cloud Ten Pictures’ CEO Peter Lalonde, has announced that the world’s largest and most successful faith-based film studio is launching its first television series. Based on the New York Times’ bestselling book Left Behind, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, the program will be broadcast in Canada in early 2003. “We only control limited television rights,” Lalonde pointed out, “but the series will be available on video and DVD in both the United States and Canada.” The storyline will follow the

inside workings of Nicolae Carpathia’s global command center as well as the Tribulation Force’ s efforts to undermine and expose the man they believe to be the biblical antichrist. “The beauty of this format is that it allows us to go into much more detail than our two-hour films based on the same book series,” said Cloud Ten production head Andre van Heerden, who will also serve as the series’ showrunner. “The series will parallel and compliment Left Behind, but it will have the time to go into the kind of detail that the book does.” Cloud Ten intends to produce at least 13 episodes for the first season. Negotiations with several broadcasters are under way. Financing is in place and cameras are set to roll early in the new year with the first episodes due in the spring. “The authors will be kept in the loop on the series as much as they

wish to be, and we will certainly run scripts and concepts by them,” said Lalonde. “In the end, of course, they will decide what amount of creative input they would like to have.” A site dedicated to the TV series will go online in the coming weeks. The announcement as Cloud Ten released the feature film “Left Behind II: Tribulation Force.” Using much the same highly successful and innovative release strategy used with “Left Behind," Cloud Ten released the film first to DVD and video on Oct. 29. It will be available at mass-market outlets including Wal-Mart, Sam’s, Costco as well as the specialized outlets that make up the CBA marketplace, including Family Christian, Parable and Lifeway stores. Then on Dec. 31, the film will hit theaters and church screens on the same day-in a never-before attempted combined release strategy.

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Faith-based groups promote energy conservation Special to The Recorder 2002 on Nov. 9 at the Blue Ribbon exist are largely those of how to Pavilion of the Indiana State Fair- meet the challenges climate change In an attempt to help people g roun( j s xh e Pnus, which can get continues to present. , ' n T n r»° “vr- ^ change, the Indiana Faith-Based for as much as a $2,000 tax deduc- Indiana Faith-Based Climate & Global Climate & Energy Cam- tlon ’ Wl11 ** provided by Terry Energy Campaign, a program of paign and campaigns in 20 other O’Brien Toyota. the Church Federation of Greater states holding events on the week- Global climate change is called Indianapolis was launched in end of Nov. 9-10 that will feature the environmental crisis of the new March 2000. Since then the camhybrid gas-electric vehicles. millennium. Most scientists now paign has sought to engage people The Indiana campaign will dis- believe that it is real and threaten- of faith in two areas of environplay a Toyota Prius at FaithFest ing. Whatever disagreements still mental justice: advocacy and education, because they believe that the Earth is the Lord’s and that people are to be good stewards of this gift. Currently, there are campaigns in 21 states, working from a grant provided by the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, which is a formal alliance of major faith groups and denominations across the spectrum of Jewish and Christian communities and organizations in the United States. People of all faiths are encouraged and welcomed into the scope of this important justice work.