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“Faith Map” Milestone!
If
you visit our
BiblePop.com website today, you’ll notice a new green
tab to the left of the main screen.
If you click it, you’ll immediately be led to two
columns labeled “What I Need to Do” & “What I Need to Know”,
which together contain around 80 video titles.
We’re excited to announce with this newsletter that
these two columns now essentially comprise an entire “online
video catechism” for the masses!
A catechism is a full summary of the essential
beliefs & practices of the Christian faith.
Offering a video version of this idea online – in
“tasty bite-size pieces” (per our vision statement) – is
definitely an idea whose time has come!
Leading researcher
George Barna recently stated that “the
Christian body in America is immersed in a crisis of
biblical illiteracy.” (See
http://magazine.biola.edu/article/14-spring/the-crisis-of-biblical-illiteracy/).
More specifically, those who today claim to be “Born
Again Christians” have actually internalized precious little
about what their faith calls on them to know and to do.
Dominic has been burdened by this fact since authors
began sounding the alarm back in his Bible School days.
That’s why he did his Master’s Degree thesis on “The
Concept of Catechism & the History of The Church.”
And that’s why one of Dominic’s BiblePop goals has
long been to eventually create a “Catechism in the Sky” –
using the Internet – to help re-communicate in a
storytelling & word-picture style, the foundational core
beliefs & practices of the Christian faith.
The topics to be covered have long been mapped out,
and he and Jim Ackert have been working step by step toward
completing that “map” while doing other projects.
Now, as of this past month, that “Faith Map” is
complete and ready for prime time!
To God be the glory!
“When the enemy comes in like a flood, God always
raises up a standard against it” (Isaiah 59:19).
Thank you for helping BiblePop to be a part of God’s
raised up Internet standard!
One Family at a Time
The bi-line on our website home page
reads “Family-Time Faith Made Easy for the World!”
But when we receive feedback like this, we are
reminded that the ministry you are helping us to provide is
also happening right in our own back yard (Livonia being the
location of the church where Dominic is Pastor):
“Biblepop is awesome, and has been a huge blessing in our home!
I have two sons, ages 3 years and 18 months, and they
both love Biblepop!
We have the Officer Do-Good DVD, which I highly
recommend. It is
wonderfully done.
The songs are catchy and cute, the cartoons and the
kids are funny, and the message is always meaningful.
It is most definitely one of the most watched DVD’s
in our home! My
older son loves to imitate the characters that are
portrayed, and when we read a corresponding Bible story like
Jonah later in the day, he remembers the cartoon and song he
watched on the DVD.
My older son also loves to watch the short Bible
“Pops” from your website, as part of his bedtime routine :)
They are all family friendly and everyone can watch!
Thanks for everything that you do for us through the
Biblepop ministry.
You certainly have a gift.
The Hung Family of Livonia, MI
Biblepop.com website visits two most recent days in
April 2015
A Match Made in Heaven
Spring 2015 also marks the 10 year
anniversary of Dominic’s association with Artists in
Christian Testimony, International (ACT), the
Nashville-based missionary organization under whose auspices
BiblePop.com operates (https://actinternational.org/).
What started out as a way to establish a Storytelling
Institute based on principles laid out in Dominic’s
“Storytelling Evangelism” manuscript (see the BiblePop
homepage) – and a donations-conduit through which four
mission trips to Nicaragua were funded – eventually became
“BiblePop.com”, officially launched under ACT in 2011.
To quote the info page regarding a recent Chicago
gathering led by ACT President Dr. Byron Spradlin:
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A.C.T. Intl is a Ministry to and for artistic & innovative
ministries and missionaries doing Christian
work around the world.
A.C.T. Intl exists to address three serious challenges facing
the Church today:
- First, today's culture listens
better to artists than to preachers.
- Second, the Church has not always
adequately understood and embraced artistic
people, strategies and methods. As a result,
there are few places that integrate
innovative and artistic ministry people and
projects.
- Third, the Church is losing the
assets of some of God's most powerful and
effective servants.
Byron says, "We are providing artists and innovators the
coaching, accountability, organization,
non-profit status, validation and
administrative systems they need to move
forward in ministry. And in the process we
are helping the Church embrace artists and
the arts for Christ's work worldwide. We are
the largest ministry in the world focusing
on this task."
Talk about a match made in heaven!
Dominic could not be happier about this
BiblePop/ACT partnership.
Please pray with us for Byron, the
entire ministry of ACT, and the important
work being done by its artistic missionaries
around the world.
Pray also that God will continue to
enable BiblePop to penetrate the Muslim and
Hindu areas of the world via the Internet,
and through the other indigenous ministries
that are currently re-broadcasting our
videos, or desire to do so.
Thank you so much for your prayers
and your financial support!
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