18,000 at Passion 06 seek their part in Great Commission

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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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18,000 at Passion 06 seek their part in Great Commission

By Meredith Day -- Baptist Press

2006-01-07 -- WDC Media News -- WDC Media News NASHVILLE --- A capacity crowd of 18,000 college students from all 50 states and more than 20 countries filled Nashville’s Gaylord Entertainment Center Jan. 2-5 for Passion 06. “Our heartbeat is to see the campuses of this nation awaken to God,” Louie Giglio, who founded the Passion movement in 1995, said. At Passion 06, students were discipled by Giglio, Beth Moore and John Piper, worshiped with the David Crowder Band, Chris Tomlin, Charlie Hall and Matt Redman, met in small community groups and were encouraged to visit the “Go Center,” where more than 50 exhibitors from educational institutions and missions agencies shared with them how they can be involved in sharing the Gospel throughout the world. When they entered the mobilization area of the Go Center, students were met by tour guides who listened to their particular interests and then directed them to booths for more information. Many met with representatives from Boston, New York and Toronto -- Passion’s three focus cities. Passion has organized history-making worship gatherings in each of the cities, all of which have large collegiate populations but few professing Christians. In 2004, Passion went to New York City and 3,000 college students united under the banner of Christ. Previously the largest known Christian collegiate gathering there was 500 students. Students who attended Passion 05 and have since been placed on the mission field returned for Passion 06 to celebrate and testify to what God had done in the past year. Susan Loyd was one Passion 05 attendee who responded to the call to share the Gospel in New York. She visited the Go Center and spoke with representatives from New Hope New York, part of the North American Mission Board’s Strategic Focus Cities initiative. “God had already put seeds in my heart for New York City. He was already leading me there. At Passion 05, it was like He was using a megaphone,” Loyd said. In June 2005, Loyd moved to northern New Jersey as part of The Leadership Journey, which gives college students and recent graduates an opportunity to serve with local church-based collegiate ministries in metro New York. “I went to Passion 05 expecting God to tell me to go somewhere,” Loyd said. This year’s Go Center mobilizers, including representatives from the International Mission Board and NAMB, met with many students who are in the process of discerning the somewhere and the something to which God has called them. Abby Rhodes, a recent college graduate from Pine Terrace Baptist Church in Milton, Fla., came to the Go Center seeking clarity about the calling God has placed in her life. “I hear Him saying go, go, go. I’ve had all this time already, and I haven’t done anything yet. I’m not waiting around anymore,” she said. Susan Peugh, who represented NAMB in the Go Center, spent the week sharing about missions opportunities with students like Rhodes. “That’s my job -- making connections and sowing a seed, even though I may never see the result. I’m here to be a link while they’re uncovering the thing God has for them to do,” Peugh said. During the last worship gathering on Thursday morning, a majority of the students stood in agreement saying, “God has called and equipped me to go. I will go. Go across the hall of my dorm, across the country and across the world. I have the best reason to party ... my passions have the highest purpose.”