Alumnus Named President of Hope Channel

Derek Morris, editor of Ministry magazine, has been named president of Hope Channel, the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s international television network with 43 affiliate channels.

Morris succeeds Brad Thorp, president of Hope Channel since its inception in 2003. Thorp will continue to serve as a field secretary of the Adventist world church and is on special assignment from church president Ted N.C. Wilson to facilitate special evangelism projects.

Morris, an associate secretary for the Adventist world church’s Ministerial Association since 2010, begins his new role with an already established relationship with Hope Channel. For more than six years he has served as host of Hope Channel’s most-watched program, “Hope Sabbath School,” a weekly, interactive Bible study program.

“I believe God has a great work to be done through television,” Morris said. “We need to tap into all media platforms to reach everyone we can for God’s kingdom. And Hope Channel has opportunities every moment of every day to reach searching hearts with the message of God’s redeeming love.”

Morris holds a doctorate in Ministry in Preaching from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a doctorate in Ministry in Practical Theology from Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan.

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