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CBN Asia or Christian Broadcasting Networks Asia, is a non-stock nonprofit corporation established in the Philippines and Hong Kong on October 1, 1994. Its vision, mission, and ministries are inspired by those of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), founded in the United States by Pat Robertson in 1961 and is now one of the world's largest mass media Christian television organisations.

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Strategy

CBN Asia undertakes several ministries in reaching Asian nations with the Gospel. Its major thrust is through The 700 Club Asia, a locally produced weeknight television program, as well as other TV specials that are viewed nationwide and in other countries around the world. Its ministries include the humanitarian aid foundation called Operation Blessing Foundation. [1] The Asian Center for Missions enables reaching different people groups in Asia through the deployment of Asian cross-cultural missionaries.

ACM's 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, comprising the following ministries: Philippines for Jesus Movement (PJM), the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches (PCEC), the Asian Seminary of Christian Ministries (ASCM), the International Bible Society, and other Asian church and fellowship groups.

Missions and Operations

Operation blessing foundation

Operation Blessing Foundation Philippines, Inc. (OB) is a nonprofit 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 provides resources to people in 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 increase its capacity to provide community assistance programs to serve as many people as possible.

Structure

OB works with the Department of Health and the Department of Social Welfare and Development, and with non-governmental organizations in the target localities. It is 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, [2] son of The Christian Broadcasting Network Chairman and Founder M.G. "Pat" Robertson.

Quick-Response Disaster Relief Mission

CBN Asia 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 landslide in July 2000.

CBN Asia Prayer Center

The Prayer Center conducts one day trainer's training seminars in the Philippines and abroad in response to requests made by various groups planning to establish their own prayer centers. In the past, a counseling team was sent to different provinces in the Philippines and other Asian countries such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and India to conduct training seminars and train up counseling centers handling common problem situations and trauma cases.

Programs

Filmography

CBN Asia produced a telefilm and documentary which has occasionally aired on GMA Network and ABS-CBN, usually during the Holy Week.

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References

  1. ↑ "Operation Blessing". The Manila Times. 11 January 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  2. 1 2 Marley, David John (2007). Pat Robertson: An American Life. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 183. ISBN   978-0-7425-5295-1 . Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  3. ↑ "Kids Rule!". Philippine Daily Inquirer. 8 May 2005. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  4. ↑ "Jan Manual in Tanikala's My Sister, My Lover". The Philippine Star. 15 April 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2022– via PressReader.
  5. ↑ "The 700 Club Asia Presents Nuno: BJ 'Tolits' Forbes, Tortured By Nuno!". Orange Magazine. 11 April 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  6. ↑ "CBN Asia Presents In My Father's Arms: Jodi Sta. Maria, A Prodigal Daughter Now At Home In Her Father's Arms". Orange Magazine. 11 April 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  7. ↑ "Tirso Cruz III claims "May Forever!" in 'Wanda's Wonderful World'". LionhearTV. 21 March 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
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