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Movies:
Hidden Secrets
One Night with The King
Radio: Jay Sekulow Live
TV: LivePrayer with Bill Keller
Books: Danger Road
Networks: TBN
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TBN's Acquisition Of 'Holy Land Experience' Theme Park Seeks To Change More Lives
June 9, 2007 ORLANDO -- Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), the world's largest religious broadcaster and America's most-watched faith channel, hopes to change more lives through its addition of the "Holy Land Experience" theme park in Orlando, Fl., to the TBN family. Through the acquisition, TBN will bring an integration of the powerful living recreation of ancient Jerusalem with a cutting edge facility that will be used for television production, dramas, musical concerts, special events and movies.
"This marriage will bring an unprecedented synergy to both ministries and the production that is done there will be seen by a worldwide audience. TBN's involvement made sense, because both ministries are about changing and effecting people's lives. We've been doing that for 34 years," said Paul Crouch, Jr., TBN Vice President of Administration. "We believe this opportunity was heaven sent because it bought TBN an Orlando-based facility to fulfill it's local programming obligations for WGTL CH-52 and it will provide "The Holy Land Experience" with much needed promotion to bring more people to the theme park and Orlando as a whole."
The Holy Land Experience could well be considered Orlando's most inspiring destination as visitors experience a full day of discovery that takes them 2,000 years back in time to the world of the Bible. It brings to life ancient Israel as a unique, thriving world filled with fascinating exhibits and venues. Visitors learn about the Wilderness Tabernacle and the Great Temple; discover the amazing history of the Bible; explore the city of Jerusalem in miniature; see re-enactments of Jesus' ministry, His life, death, and resurrection; and feel the power and passion of our original musical productions.
WGTL TV, Channel 52, has a reach of over four million viewers in the Orlando and Cocoa Beach metropolitan areas with TBN's wide range of innovative faith-based programming. In October of 2006, TBN celebrated the inaugural broadcast of WGTL Ch-52 in Orlando with a dedicatory service attended by TBN founders Paul and Jan Crouch, Pastor Benny Hinn, Singer and Preacher Judy Jacobs hosted by Pastor George Cope and Calvary Assembly in Winter Park, Fl.
The combination of the production facilities and the Holy Land Experience offers Orlando visitors a powerful and unique faith based experience that can be promoted worldwide through the TBN network. The promotional capability can drive visitors to the complex.
"Some of the staff was asking what is going to be the immediate effect here at the park and my answer was 'I'm planning on you having more people coming through the turnstiles this summer,'" said Crouch. "Universal Studios does the same thing. We want the 'Holy Land Experience' to be a faith-based version of that."
About TBN
TBN is the world's largest religious network and America's most watched faith network. Each day TBN offers 24 hours of commercial-free inspirational programming that appeals to people in a wide variety of denominations. Beginning in 1973 as a single UHF station in southern California, TBN now reaches every major continent via 65 satellites and more than 12,500 television and cable affiliates worldwide. In the United States, TBN is available to 92 percent of the total households. Its website receives more than 27 million visitors monthly. For more information on TBN, visit www.tbn.org
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Christian News and Media Agency
By Baptist Press
2006-06-16 -- WDC Media News -- WDC Media News
Photo: New Southern Baptist Head Frank Page
A Baptist pastor from South Carolina has been chosen to lead the Southern Baptists, the nation’s largest evangelical denomination. Frank Page, pastor First Baptist Church in Taylors, S.C., was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention June 13 by messengers to the SBC’s annual meeting in Greensboro, N.C.
In a three-candidate race, Page on the first ballot defeated Ronnie Floyd, pastor of First Baptist Church in Springdale, Ark., and Jerry Sutton, pastor of Two Rivers Baptist Church in Nashville, Tenn.
Of the 8,961 votes cast, Page received 4,546 votes, or 50.48 percent. Floyd was second with 2,247 votes (24.95 percent), followed by Sutton with 2,168 votes (24.08 percent). In the election for first vice president, Jimmy Jackson, pastor of Whitesburg Baptist Church in Huntsville, Ala., was elected in a runoff. In the election for second vice president, Wiley Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, Calif., was elected on the first ballot over three other nominees.
The presidential election was the first highly contested presidential race at an SBC annual meeting since 1994, when Jim Henry defeated Fred Wolfe in Orlando.
Page succeeds Welch, pastor of First Baptist Church of Daytona Beach, Fla., who served two terms as president.
Forrest Pollock, pastor of Bell Shoals Baptist Church in Brandon, Fla., nominated Page for president.
Pollock described Page as a man who will “not only love the Word of God -- the inerrant Bible -- but also will support the Cooperative Program.”
“We’ve got to work together if we’re going to accomplish the Great Commission,” Pollock said. “That’s the reason that we started the Cooperative Program in the first place -- so that granddaddy’s church could work with your church and my church to reach the world for the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Page’s church gives 12.4 percent of undesignated receipts to the Cooperative Program, Pollock said.
“This issue is not about theology; it’s about methodology,” Pollock said. “Are we going to support our missionaries or not, and who has the credibility to stand before us and challenge us to do more? You see, we can’t have a double standard.... All of us must give if we’re going to reach this world for Christ.”
Pollock said Page is “not a high flying preacher, just a soul-winner.”
Pollock ended the nomination emphasizing the importance of electing a president who supports the Cooperative Program.
“My granddaddy didn’t have a seminary degree but even he understood you can’t even spell SBC president without a ‘C’ and a ‘P,’ Pollock said.
Page has been pastor of First Baptist Church in Taylors, S.C., the past five and a half years. He previously served as pastor of Warren Baptist Church in Augusta, Ga.; Gambrell Street Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas; and LaFayette Baptist Church in Fayetteville, N.C.
He has served on the executive boards of the South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina state Baptist conventions.
Page is the author of the book, “Trouble with the Tulip: A Closer Examination of the Five Points of Calvinism,” released in 2000 by Riverstone Group Publishing.
He earned a doctor of philosophy degree in Christian ethics and a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
Page is a native of Greensboro, N.C. He and his wife Dayle have three grown daughters.
Johnny Hunt, pastor of the Atlanta-area First Baptist Church, Woodstock, nominated Floyd, pastor of First Baptist Church in Springdale, Ark., as a seasoned leader who has displayed visionary leadership locally, nationally and globally. Hunt also noted Floyd’s “incredible administrative capacity.”
Hunt illustrated Floyd’s heart for northwest Arkansas and the surrounding states by relaying an anecdote about him swiftly presenting a $25,000 gift for Hurricane Katrina relief to Chuck Kelley, president of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
“Dr. Ronnie Floyd is on mission and is leading his church to be a mission-minded church on every front,” Hunt said.
Hunt also mentioned Floyd’s 10-year service on the SBC Executive Committee, including two years as chairman. He talked about Floyd taking a group of his church members and encouraging International Mission Board missionaries in Asia, at his own mission expense.
Floyd’s devotion to his wife of 30 years, Jeana, and his “wonderful, godly” sons, Josh and Nick, were also noted by Hunt.
Calvin Wittman, pastor of Applewood Baptist Church in Wheat Ridge, Colo., nominated Sutton. In a day when Southern Baptists are in a time of “denominational uncertainty and transition,” Wittman said Sutton is the man who will “strive for unity, facilitate diversity and model charity.”
He pointed to Sutton’s passion for evangelism. Over the past 20 years at Two Rivers Baptist Church, Sutton has baptized 3,380 new believers.
“That’s a commitment to evangelism,” Wittman said.
Wittman also called Sutton a committed conservative, a humble man and a pastor whose track record “speaks loudly of stewardship.” Two Rivers Baptist Church in Nashville has over 20 years given an average of 13.4 percent annually to the Cooperative Program and other Southern Baptist mission causes, Wittman said.
“Dr. Sutton is one of us, a grassroots pastor, committed to keeping this convention in the hands of the churches it serves,” Wittman said.
In the election for first vice president, Jackson received 51.44 percent (1,107 votes) of the votes, edging Mark Dever (47.86 percent, 1,030 votes), pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., in the runoff.
On the first ballot, Dever received a plurality of the votes, with 29.72 percent (1,090 votes) of the vote to Jackson’s 27.48 percent (1,008 votes). Convention rules state that the top two vote-getters advance to a runoff. On the first ballot Kelly J. Burris, senior pastor of Kempsville Baptist Church in Virginia Beach, Va., received 22.76 percent (835) while Keith Fordham, an evangelist from Fayetteville, Ga., received 19.79 percent (726 votes).
In the election for second vice president, Drake received 50.37 percent of the vote (2,408 votes) on the first ballot over three other nominees.
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