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Chandigarh, India - News
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“We were so blessed to have Rich come and do a (media) seminar. There were a record number of pastors and evangelists present in that meeting . . .
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Gurpal owns a shop in India and has spent most of his life going to temples seeking to cleanse himself from sin.
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Deepak and Simmi Dingrah are both native to Punjab, India, and oversee the regional center in Chandigarh, India. Deepak, regional director, was raised in a Hindu family and Simmi’s family is Sikh. This makes them an ideal couple to lead this center in the Punjab region, which is predominantly Hindu and Sikh. Deepak gave his life to Christ after graduating from college.
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The Christian Elementary School was started in 2004 and has 120 children enrolled. These children are from the poorest of poor backgrounds. This is both a Hindi medium school and an English medium school K to 12. 99% of these children are from Hindu and Sikh backgrounds.
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Chennai, India - News
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On May 17, 2006, Good News Productions, International dedicated a third regional center in India. The celebration brought approximately 150 people from four countries and seven major language groups, including Hindi, Telegu, Tamil, Cannara, and Malayalam. At least five well-known Indian Christians involved in composing and recording music for the Tamil movie industry were there.
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Chennai, India - News
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In the November issue of the GNPI newsletter, we listed several opportunities for partnership. These opportunities were in the form of a Christmas Wish List. Several gifts were given toward the projects and equipment and as a result, many needs were met!
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At the request of Doordarshan (the national TV station in India) Good News Productions, International in Damoh, India produced a program that addressed drug and alcohol problems among Indian young people. The station liked it so well, it was aired on Gandhi's birthday, a national holiday in India. Literally millions of people...
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Thanks be to God for the fast-growing spread of the gospel through the partnership of Good News Productions, International and Mid India Christian Mission. Churches using videos in a structured teaching program are growing by 40%. Hundreds of house churches are using them for their regular teaching and preaching programs.
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Nairobi, Kenya - News
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Sudan has had 30 years of war with millions killed and millions more displaced. There has been lots of hopelessness in the past—BUT a new day is dawning in Southern Sudan. David Bikokwa and Kennedy Obura are two servants in God’s plan of hope for that country.
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Steve and Marty McFarland are second term missionaries distributing Christian materials in Tanzania, Africa with KEY CONNECTIONS MINISTRIES. According to Marty, the heart of the ministry is “to serve the African church with the resources that they so desperately need.” They shared about their first experience using Kiswahili filmstrips and a solar powered audiovisual pack supplied by Good News Productions, International.
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Culturally sensitive, contextually relevant, customized productions - these are terms to describe the unique strategy and ministry God has called Good News Productions, International to fulfill globally. And speaking of "global," have you noticed that the young side of the "generation gap" is beginning to look the same all over the world?
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Piedras Negras, Mexico - News
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Did you realize that Spanish is the leading language in 23 nations? Or that Spanish ranks among the top three languages spoken in the world? In order to seize the opportunities to touch millions of Spanish speakers, Good News Productions, International built a center in Piedras Negras, Mexico. It is exciting to be able to show you pictures of that new GNPI regional center!
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Cómo Escapar de las Garras del Yurumí written by Fernando Soto (How To Escape the Anteater's Claws) is a book that GNPI-Mexico recorded into an audio book. This book is an allegory of Satan who comes to kill, steal, and destroy just like an anteater. The audio book CD accelerated the evangelism of one family by helping a man understand his need for a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
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Felipe Recio just wants an opportunity to teach the word of God. He is not on staff with GNPI, nor is he an official volunteer, but he is convinced of the power of media. Now in his seventies, Felipe has been traveling for 32 years all over Mexico, evangelizing in 28 of the 33 states. Felipe’s ministry has been to show 16mm films to draw an audience and then take the opportunity to share the Gospel.
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An article about a storybook for children, written in Spanish, was featured in the April 2006 GNPI newsletter. We are excited to announce that Maya, the Beautiful Macaw (La Bella Guacamaya) has arrived! This book, vibrantly colored and brilliantly written, emphasizes the importance of everyone’s unique gifts. Highlighting the importance of humility, the book appeals to a younger, Spanish-speaking audience.
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Culturally appropriate material is the bottom line for any GNPI project. Concepts that work in one culture won’t work in another. Problems one culture deals with, another doesn’t. But, the problem of addiction blurs the lines separating one culture from another. Alcohol abuse ignores national borders, and the results are always the same. Lives are ripped apart and people die.
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Manila, Philippines - News
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The rumor got out. There was a free movie called All Things New about to start in the cinema at a mall in the Philippines. Kids started to come. They didn’t care that it was a Christian movie—it was free. When it was over, 59 kids came forward at the invitation.
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All Things New is the true story of the radically changed lives of four street kids in the Philippines. What is really unique is how God transformed the kids, in spite of their mistrust and personal pain, and uses them to minister to the adults who...
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Surrounded by dirty, yet bright-eyed children, you might assume that these children are innocent, little ones playing in the street because of a lack of supervision. The truth is that more than one million children live on the streets in the Philippines. Some sell cigarettes or snacks. Often they set up shop outside a tavern where drunken men sexually exploit the little girls.
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We are receiving some encouraging responses from viewers of the Asin at Ilaw program. One of the ministers at a local church in Manila said that he "likes the lessons and issues being tackled. The dramas are swak na swak [hit the bull's eye] to the lesson that we are discussing. The situations presented are so Pinoy na Pinoy [really, really Filipino], and they would make good sermons.
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Chiang Mai, Thailand - News
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Freedom Films Productions in Chiang Mai, Thailand works in partnership with GNPI. Some of the staff recently went on a “mission trip.” They traveled into the mountains of Thailand, bringing with them the necessary video equipment to show the movie Path of Decision, a drama about the dangers of premarital sex and abortion.
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Parents in Thailand have always been outspoken against premarital sex. Despite this stance, the problem of pregnancy outside marriage continues. The current abortion law in Thailand states that a woman may undergo an abortion only if the pregnancy would endanger the woman's health or if the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest.
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Simferopol, Ukraine - News
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NEW! - I believe that the Lord has a design and a plan for mass media in Ukraine, and that the Lord wants Christians to consider evangelization through media.”
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Sergei Golovin and his team of dedicated workers at Good News Productions, International in Ukraine are using what might seem a "normal" idea to us, but for them, it is a revolutionary approach. They are going as "mobile troops" using GNPI materials to tell The Story—the story of hope in Jesus that many have never heard.
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In mid 2007, Sergei Golovin wrote to tell us of a huge blessing—one of those stories that just kind of comes out of the blue and blows you away. The GNPI-Ukraine staff had been working hard with zero complaining in somewhat cramped quarters.
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If you talk to someone who lived in the former Soviet Union, they can tell stories of things that were part of daily life for them that would seem very harsh by some standards; stories of poverty, stories of sickness, stories of survival.
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This drama is geared toward teenagers and their specific challenges. It deals with gender roles and relationships, drugs, sex, abortion, values, and faith. The story is told from the perspective of a girl named Masha. (pictured right) Her personal journey leads her from her deepest conviction that “Love is God,” to the understanding that “God is love.”
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Joplin, Missouri (USA) - News
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What does this really mean? First, let’s look at what media is. One definition of media is “the means of communication, including radio, television, Internet, newspapers, and other publications that reach or influence people widely.” You are reading this because there is a form of media at work.
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One hot August day in 1889 a line was drawn dividing the Christian Churches of the Restoration Movement. This division was the result of changes in “the way church was done,” such as instruments accompanying worship songs and new methods of raising money. In 1906, the non-instrumental Churches of Christ officially recognized this line of division separating them from the Christian Churches.
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Guided by a Board of Directors composed of seasoned Christian leaders, Ziden Nutt has functioned as Visionary, Administrator, Personnel Director, Spokesman, Field Coordinator, and more. Ask a Board member, and they will tell you Ziden is a unique blend of skills, wisdom, spirit and humility seldom found in a single individual.
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Youth - News
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The latest label to be placed on the generation of young people currently in high school and college refers to their habit of being voracious consumers of media. Multitasking is something they do instinctively; surfing the Internet, instant messaging, downloading music and videos, joining multi-player role play games online, all of these done simultaneously. How can the church compete?
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Good News Productions, International is preparing to walk through another door that we believe God has swung wide open. Media Challenge is a new program that will equip and empower young people to use media to tell their peers about their relationship with Jesus Christ. Intensive, weeklong workshops in various locations in the USA and overseas will be the setting for this hands-on learning experience.
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Empowering youth to use media to reach their peers! Beginning this summer! An exciting new series of workshops and future competitions called Media Challenge.
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