Quarterly Ministry Report - Second Quarter, 2020 |
This is the second quarterly (June-August) ministry report of 2020. Certainly, a lot has been accomplished and people are being reached for the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ. I know for a fact as much data from the various internet platforms we use is trackable through the "back office" along with the emails we receive. I am thankful and give all glory to the Lord Jesus Christ.
The flagship ministry that has truly placed Church Focus Ministries (CFM) on the internet radar is Master's Touch Internet Radio (MTIR). We currently have hundreds of listeners tuning in to Master's Touch Internet Radio each month. At present, the station seeks to offer distinctively Christian music as well as brief Biblically sound devotionals throughout the day. Thankfully, we were approved by Apple and Google to provide apps for listeners to download onto their devices. We now have ITL (Invite To Listen) cards available for you to give to others so they can know about this ministry outreach. MTIR broadcasts seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. On a regular basis, we have listeners from the US, Canada, Brazil, Philippines, and Peru just to name a few countries.
As I write this, I am preparing a slide presentation for the website that will highlight some of the various outreaches of Church Focus Ministries. There are many areas of ministry, but trying to inform people of these tools is a challenge. I believe the presentation will be an effective tool that can be viewed easily.
Plans are underway to begin a weekly featured sermon that will be video simulcasted every Sunday morning and then made available throughout the week. I am learning a new platform that these videos will be hosted on. This same platform will also host a new study series I will be teaching on the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. This study will be a more advanced learning time for those desiring to go deeper into God's Word. These lessons will be archived and available on demand.
Much of the work we do involves video. While we are primarily using Vimeo for our video hosting, we have also developed a specific series of devotionals called 'Bible Bites with Dr. Mark Wash' which will be uploaded to YouTube. The downside is that YouTube creates revenue through advertising (which we have very little input regarding ads) but is currently the largest video-sharing platform in the world.
We are also going to try to leverage social media platforms to spread the Gospel. Currently, CFM now has a LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest account. These accounts need to be utilized more but it all takes time and patience to learn and then to add quality posts.
In regards to quality, I personally want to do my very best to only offer quality materials that are distinctively Christian and biblically sound. This has become a tag line on MTIR but should also be the goal throughout all of the various outreaches we seek to become associated with at CFM.
Please pray as we desire to be a mission-minded organization. I have and continue to receive requests to produce certain specific tools for Christian growth. I personally take time to read and pray over each request. Certainly, there is no way to rise to every challenge set before us. However, a request came this past May from a specific people group in the Middle East. Although I am not at liberty at this time to speak in detail of this, I am aggressively discussing the possibilities and we are praying for an open door of evangelism and training.
Thankfully, we have quality tools to use for the Master. God has blessed us with a video production desk, a dedicated radio station as well as a video studio. All are outfitted with equipment and 100% complete as of this writing. We are still making every effort to get the "bugs" worked out as well as learning and understanding the technical aspects better, but that will probably always be the case. I have come to realize that internet outreach and evangelism is here to stay and it offers us the ability to go to unreached people areas with the Gospel that may have otherwise been nearly impossible for us to communicate God's love. Please pray that we will use all the internet affords to reach people for Christ in the spiritually dark day in which we live.
Entrusted with the Gospel,
The flagship ministry that has truly placed Church Focus Ministries (CFM) on the internet radar is Master's Touch Internet Radio (MTIR). We currently have hundreds of listeners tuning in to Master's Touch Internet Radio each month. At present, the station seeks to offer distinctively Christian music as well as brief Biblically sound devotionals throughout the day. Thankfully, we were approved by Apple and Google to provide apps for listeners to download onto their devices. We now have ITL (Invite To Listen) cards available for you to give to others so they can know about this ministry outreach. MTIR broadcasts seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. On a regular basis, we have listeners from the US, Canada, Brazil, Philippines, and Peru just to name a few countries.
As I write this, I am preparing a slide presentation for the website that will highlight some of the various outreaches of Church Focus Ministries. There are many areas of ministry, but trying to inform people of these tools is a challenge. I believe the presentation will be an effective tool that can be viewed easily.
Plans are underway to begin a weekly featured sermon that will be video simulcasted every Sunday morning and then made available throughout the week. I am learning a new platform that these videos will be hosted on. This same platform will also host a new study series I will be teaching on the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. This study will be a more advanced learning time for those desiring to go deeper into God's Word. These lessons will be archived and available on demand.
Much of the work we do involves video. While we are primarily using Vimeo for our video hosting, we have also developed a specific series of devotionals called 'Bible Bites with Dr. Mark Wash' which will be uploaded to YouTube. The downside is that YouTube creates revenue through advertising (which we have very little input regarding ads) but is currently the largest video-sharing platform in the world.
We are also going to try to leverage social media platforms to spread the Gospel. Currently, CFM now has a LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest account. These accounts need to be utilized more but it all takes time and patience to learn and then to add quality posts.
In regards to quality, I personally want to do my very best to only offer quality materials that are distinctively Christian and biblically sound. This has become a tag line on MTIR but should also be the goal throughout all of the various outreaches we seek to become associated with at CFM.
Please pray as we desire to be a mission-minded organization. I have and continue to receive requests to produce certain specific tools for Christian growth. I personally take time to read and pray over each request. Certainly, there is no way to rise to every challenge set before us. However, a request came this past May from a specific people group in the Middle East. Although I am not at liberty at this time to speak in detail of this, I am aggressively discussing the possibilities and we are praying for an open door of evangelism and training.
Thankfully, we have quality tools to use for the Master. God has blessed us with a video production desk, a dedicated radio station as well as a video studio. All are outfitted with equipment and 100% complete as of this writing. We are still making every effort to get the "bugs" worked out as well as learning and understanding the technical aspects better, but that will probably always be the case. I have come to realize that internet outreach and evangelism is here to stay and it offers us the ability to go to unreached people areas with the Gospel that may have otherwise been nearly impossible for us to communicate God's love. Please pray that we will use all the internet affords to reach people for Christ in the spiritually dark day in which we live.
Entrusted with the Gospel,
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Dr. Mark Wash
1 Thessalonians 2:4 |