Furthermore, many of you last year pledged to return in 2006 and bring one or more friends or family members with you. For the first time, we will have an introductory class that will be formatted in such a way that it will benefit newcomers to Preterist eschatology. Please feel free to register and bring as many friends and family members with you as you possibly can.

The past year has been a wonderful year of growth for our movement and amazing growth for planet preterist. A lot of new friendships and new relationships have been built that have helped promote the growth of the ministry. Because so many of you give us moral and financial support, we consider it appropriate to keep you updated with some of the things that have been accomplished in the past ten months:

We launched “The Open Bible Project,” which is an online collaborative project under the editorial charge of Sam Frost. The project aims to develop the very first Preterist Study and Commentary Bible. The aim of the Open Bible Project is to put in print a Preterist study bible that will help many believers understand the importance of Covenant Eschatology. You can participate or learn more about this project at http://openbibleproject.org

Thanks to several volunteer translators we have been and continue to be developing a multi-lingual website where Preterist articles will be available simultaneous in several languages. This site will be launched at TruthVoice 2006.

Several of us traveled to Yale Divinity School in order to participate in the 2006 Emergent Theological Conversation. This was a wonderful opportunity to meet many scholars, make new friends and present Preterism to many individuals for the very first time. We were pleasantly surprised to see the openness to Covenant Eschatology.

Randall East successfully got off the ground the “TruthVoice Podcast.” With the help of David Edwards and many willing guests, we now have fifteen very popular episodes out. If you want to listen to the Podcast, please go to http://planetpreterist.com and click on the Downloads link in order to download each episode.

In the past two months, Planet Preterist was able to interview two important figures in the world of Christianity. Jared Coleman was able to interview Dr. Miroslav Volf, who is currently teaching at the Yale Divinity School. The interview was about Dr. Volf’s upcoming book “Free of Charge” and it can be read here:

http://blog.planetpreterist.com/index.php?itemid=587

I also had the privilege of interviewing Brian McLaren. Brian had many positive things to say about Preterism and my interview with him can be read here:

http://planetpreterist.com/news-2774.html

In closing, I wanted to thank our volunteers put in all these ministries. Many times the efforts they provide go above and beyond those of a full-time job. It is quite obvious that these efforts have produced much fruit. We are thankful that God has smiled on our ministry and blessed the hard work. We want to thank all of you for your support and trust that all of our 4,419 registered Planet Preterist users will decide to show up for TruthVoice 2006. We WILL make space for all of you and we won’t turn anyone away. There will be several new speakers and a new basic program. Come help us learn from each other!

We hope to see you all in June, and if not, see you all online!

In Christ’s Living Presence,

Virgil Vaduva
PlanetPreterist.com