Ministries Archives - Great Commission Media Ministries https://www.gcmediaministries.org/category/general/ministries/ Using media to fulfill the Great Commission Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:20:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-favicon_gcm-32x32.png Ministries Archives - Great Commission Media Ministries https://www.gcmediaministries.org/category/general/ministries/ 32 32 The Church is silent, even though the truth cries out—Russian and Ukrainian Christians in the shadow of war https://www.gcmediaministries.org/the-church-is-silent/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/the-church-is-silent/#respond Sat, 26 Jul 2025 02:28:01 +0000 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/?p=9212 What happens when churches fall silent, but truth cries out? On GCMM’s radio program, Russian Yuri Sipko and Ukrainian Sergei Demidovich reveal how war has divided Christians, silenced churches, and made the truth conveyed through the media vital – not only socially, but also as a spiritual calling to serve the body of Christ. The…

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/the-church-is-silent/feed/ 0 Under attack — A letter from Israel https://www.gcmediaministries.org/under-attack-a-letter-from-israel/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/under-attack-a-letter-from-israel/#respond Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:34:01 +0000 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/?p=9205 Amidst the crisis with Iran, Pastors Eitan and Julia Manpel, who serve a Messianic congregation in partnership with GCMM in the city of Ashkelon, share a moving update while activities were suspended due to the war. Here is their letter – requesting prayer and support. Shalom! The situation in Israel has become very challenging. Gatherings…

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/under-attack-a-letter-from-israel/feed/ 0 Ethiopia’s largest church “Mekane Yesus” requests Mega City Campaign https://www.gcmediaministries.org/megachurch-hopes-for-media-mission/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/megachurch-hopes-for-media-mission/#respond Mon, 07 Apr 2025 22:11:43 +0000 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/?p=8954 At the beginning of the year, we received a heartfelt invitation from Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia to come together in a spirit of prayer to discuss having a Mega City Campaign with the leaders of “Mekane Yesus” church. The Evangelical Lutheran Mekane Yesus Church already has 15 million members. By God's grace, the church will soon celebrate its 70th anniversary, and…

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/megachurch-hopes-for-media-mission/feed/ 0 GCMM’s specialized war trauma book goes to press https://www.gcmediaministries.org/gods-psychiatry-book-specializing-in-war-traumas-goes-to-press/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/gods-psychiatry-book-specializing-in-war-traumas-goes-to-press/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:40:33 +0000 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/?p=8881 GCMM Executive Director Hannu Haukka reports from KYIV Encounter with the man who lost everything One of the most tragic moments during a recent trip to Ukraine for Hannu Haukka was meeting a man in Stepnogorsk. The elderly man had been on errands at the local village shop when a missile strike had razed his…

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/gods-psychiatry-book-specializing-in-war-traumas-goes-to-press/feed/ 0 North American city sets sights on Mega City Media Campaign https://www.gcmediaministries.org/a-north-american-in-the-sights-of-a-mission/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/a-north-american-in-the-sights-of-a-mission/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:09:59 +0000 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/?p=8887 Campaign negotiations were held in Montreal, the capital of the “French-speaking” province of Quebec at the end of January. Quebec is the largest province in Canada by area and the second largest by population. Montreal city has a population of 4 million and is known in some circles as the New Age capital of North…

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/a-north-american-in-the-sights-of-a-mission/feed/ 0 Cairo, Egypt — A Door of Opportunity https://www.gcmediaministries.org/a-mission-call-from-cairo-the-capital-of-egypt/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/a-mission-call-from-cairo-the-capital-of-egypt/#respond Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:07:40 +0000 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/?p=8892 Photo: Christian television programs in production for the Arabic world at GCMM’s ministry media center in Finland. Weekly programs are produced in Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Tajik, Berber, and Sudanese Arabic. Programs have also been produced in Somali, Amharic, and Urdu. Egypt, with a population of 113 million, is a country featured throughout the Bible, from…

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/a-mission-call-from-cairo-the-capital-of-egypt/feed/ 0 The Power of Christian Media 2024 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/the-power-of-christian-media/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/the-power-of-christian-media/#respond Sat, 22 Feb 2025 05:09:32 +0000 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/?p=8868 Reaching the Arabic world GCMM produced more than 1,000 evangelistic TV programs conveying the gospel message via 18 satellites to millions of viewers, from North Africa, spanning across the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asian countries. More than 200,000 responses from the satellite viewing audience reach us monthly with questions and feedback from the…

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/the-power-of-christian-media/feed/ 0 Mega City Media Campaigns https://www.gcmediaministries.org/mega-city-media-campaigns/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/mega-city-media-campaigns/#respond Fri, 03 Jan 2025 13:59:00 +0000 http://dev.gcmediaministries.org/2016/03/01/mega-city-campaigns/ [caption id="attachment_47" align="alignnone" width="290"]GCM Ministries has conducted mega city campaigns since 2003.[/caption]

Great Commission Media Ministries conducts media campaigns in difficult-to-reach places in the world.

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/mega-city-media-campaigns/feed/ 0 RUSSIA: Churches Plead For More Bibles, New Testaments, Other Evangelism Literature https://www.gcmediaministries.org/russian-churchs-plea-bibles-new-testaments-evangelism-literature/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/russian-churchs-plea-bibles-new-testaments-evangelism-literature/#respond Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:05:34 +0000 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/?p=5320 [caption id="attachment_500" align="alignnone" width="580"]A leadership conference of 1,000 pastors in Moscow in May 2014. The pastors were deeply concerned about the worsening situation regarding religous freedom in Russia. Recently, 74 pastors were tried under the law on [/caption]

Russia’s ongoing crackdown on religious minorities, missionaries, and evangelists has earned it a spot among the worst countries in the world for religious freedom.

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]]> https://www.gcmediaministries.org/russian-churchs-plea-bibles-new-testaments-evangelism-literature/feed/ 0 URGENT Prayer and Financial Support Needed Now to Launch Our Next Campaigns https://www.gcmediaministries.org/urgent-campaign-need-2019/ https://www.gcmediaministries.org/urgent-campaign-need-2019/#respond Thu, 02 Apr 2020 08:00:30 +0000 https://www.gcmediaministries.org/?p=3811 We have an urgent need for partners to come alongside Great Commission Media Ministries in both prayer and financial support – and we request your help. Three urgent campaigns need prayer and the remaining financial support completion to be fully completed. Will you support one of these campaigns below: Ukraine – A Mega-City Media Campaign…

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