'Me and My Household' Initiative Challenges Americans to Pray for Their Households, Communities and Households around the World
HCJB Global Announces Initiative at NRB Convention
Contact: Palmer Holt, 704-663-3303, PHolt@InChristCommunications.com; Download complete press kit at www.hcjbglobal.org
NASHVILLE, Feb. 9 /Christian Newswire/ -- HCJB Global, an international media and healthcare ministry, announced at the National Religious Broadcasters convention today a new initiative that challenges Americans to pray for their households, reach out in their communities through service and pray for the unreached households of the world.
The "Me and My Household" initiative is based on research that shows HCJB Global is reaching more than 1 million households in the Arab world through its radio ministry. The concept is also supported by studies that show households are still the foundation of society in non-Western cultures.
HCJB Global also seeks to reach millions of unsaved households in other ministry regions, including Euro-Asia, Latin America, Asia Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa, through its breakthrough radio and healthcare services. The global ministry represents the "Voice and Hands of Jesus" to the unreached.
"Households have always been a significant part of the Christian faith," said HCJB Global President Wayne Pederson. "Since the days of the early church, households were traditionally places of worship, teaching, prayer and fellowship."
Pederson said that while households are still the center of life for the majority of the world, many of today's Western households are fragmented and no longer uphold these values and traditions. By focusing on households globally, HCJB Global aims to engage Western households in prayer and local service in an effort to then join together and reach unsaved households globally.
"These are serious times for families and households in America and around the world," said Pederson. "As families and households change, communities change. As communities change, cities change. As cities change, nations change. And as nations change, the world will be changed."
The "Me and My Household" initiative, which is based on the Joshua 24:15, is offering a free prayer e-card that Christians can use to send a prayer for their households to their immediate and extended families.
The organization also will be sponsoring a nationwide contest that allows Christians to submit outreach projects based on HCJB Global's commitment to declare and demonstrate Jesus to others. Contest winners will receive cash prizes to complete the local project they submitted.
In addition, HCJB Global will be challenging the households of America and the world to pray for unreached households and to give $1 to reach one household in the Arab world for one year.
The e-card can be accessed at www.hcjbglobal.org/myprayer and more information about the "Me and My Household" initiative can be obtained at www.hcjbglobal.org.
"It is our hope that hundreds of thousands of families across America will join us in this effort to pray for our households, and then pray for and support millions of families and households around the world with the 'good news' of Jesus Christ," said Pederson.
HCJB Global (www.HCJBGlobal.org) is based in Colorado Springs, Colo. For 77 years the ministry's passion has been to be the Voice and Hands of Jesus to the unreached. Using media and healthcare, while working with partners around the world, HCJB Global has ministries in more than 100 countries. The gospel is aired in more than 120 languages and dialects. Thousands of listeners and healthcare patients are meeting Jesus. Local believers are being trained as missionaries, pastors, broadcasters and healthcare providers.
