CBN Asia

CBN Asia or Christian Broadcasting Networks Asia is a non-stock, non-profit corporation established in the Philippines in 1994. Its vision, mission and ministries are inspired by those of Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), founded in the United States by Pat Robertson in 1960 and which is now one of the world’s largest multi-media Christian organizations.

The mission

CBN Asia serves as a strategic organizational base for reaching Asia with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through mass media programs and community-based humanitarian-aid missions.

ACM’s vision is to train and send Asian missionaries to make disciples and plant churches among the unevangelized people groups of Asia.

trategy

CBN Asia undertakes several ministries in reaching Asian nations with the Gospel. Its major thrust is through The 700 Club Asia, a locally produced weekly television program, as well as other TV specials that are viewed nationwide and in other countries in the Asian region. Its ministries include humanitarian aid and community development projects through Operation Blessing Foundation. The Asian Center for Missions enables reaching different people groups in Asia through the deployment of Asian cross-cultural missionaries.

ACM’s unique missionary strategy is to train and deploy Asians as church-planting teams utilizing community development and other holistic ministries to reach the unevangelized.

Asian center for missions

The Asian Center for Missions was formed in response to Christ’s call to “go and make disciples of all nations . . .” (Matthew 28:19). It is not exclusively a CBN Asia project, but an Asia-wide network for spreading the Gospel, comprised of the following ministries: Philippines for Jesus Movement (PJM), the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC), the Asian Seminary of Christian Ministries [http://www.ascm.net] (ASCM), the International Bible Society, and other Asian church and fellowship groups.

Operation blessing foundation

Operation Blessing Foundation Philippines, Inc. (OB) is a non-profit humanitarian aid foundation that provides short-term medical, disaster relief, feeding and community development assistance to economically disadvantaged people in the Philippines and Asia. OB is committed to responding with appropriate resources to people in dire need by mobilizing volunteer medical teams, logistics and other trained emergency relief personnel to handle the procurement, transportation and distribution of food, clothing, medical and other supplies. OB continues to enhance its capacity to provide community assistance programs to serve as many people as possible.

TRUCTURE

OB works with the appropriate government agencies, such as the Department of Health and the Department of Social Welfare and Development, and with non-government organizations in the target localities. It is duly registered with the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Department of Social Welfare and Development as a donee institution.

Background

OB is the Asian counterpart of the US-based Operation Blessing International. Since 1994, OB humanitarian missions have expanded their reach from areas all over the Philippines to other Asian countries like China, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Taiwan. In 1996, OB officially became the humanitarian arm of CBN Asia, Inc. which was founded by Gordon Robertson, son of The Christian Broadcasting Network Chairman and Founder M.G. “Pat” Robertson.

tatistics

Since 1994, OB has served over half a million people in the Philippines and several other Asian countries. More than 5,000 doctors, dentists, surgeons, nurses, and other non- medical volunteers have given their services for free in over 70 humanitarian missions.

Programs

OB is committed to initiate a variety of strategic national and Asia-wide programs, partnerships, and special projects to relieve human suffering by providing the basic necessities of life and developing healthy, self-sustaining communities.

Development Program for Impoverished Children

A community development assistance program involving feeding, medical, dental, and educational projects for impoverished children in Payatas, Commonwealth, Las Piñas and other underprivileged areas. Livelihood programs for children’s parents and guardians are also provided. Special holiday gift-giving outreaches and values-formation summer camps form part of the program.

Quick-Response Disaster Relief Mission

Provides aid to victims of earthquakes, floods, fires, and other natural and man-made disasters, such as the flood in Anhui, China in August 1999, the earthquake in Taiwan in September 1999, the Mayon Volcano eruption in the Philippines in March 2000, and the Payatas trashslide in July 2000

Medical Mission for Unreached, Underserved

Provides a diverse range of medical services, including general medical treatment, dentistry, out-patient surgery, and health education to address the unmet medical needs of underserved communities.

The 700 club counseling center

Aside from providing professional yet personal through the phone lines, The 700 Club Counseling Center shares its resources as well as expertise with other churches and ministries that share its vision.

Serving as an ideal prototype, the Center conducts day trainer's training seminars here and abroad in response to requests made various groups planning to establish their own counseling centers . In the past, a counseling team was sent to different provinces in the Philippines and other Asian countries such as Taiwan and India to conduct training seminars and train up counseling centers handling common problem situations and trauma cases.

Website

* [http://www.cbnasia.org CBN Asia's official website]