Messages-To-Go™ Ministry helps Bethany Presbyterian Church double in size to more than 1,000 people!
Pastor Young Jin Kim and family
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A vital Media Ministry now flourishes …
Just 6 years ago, Bethany Presbyterian Church had less than 500 people attending the church each week. Many people came to the church each week and heard the weekly sermon. But their pastor felt very strongly that God’s message needed to be delivered to as many people as possible. Their pastor saw the value of God’s word being shared and knew it was of great importance that they provide others the opportunity to hear it.
A media ministry is born…
And so, the Media ministry was born. Since then, the church has experienced explosive growth – in both the media ministry and the number of people who attend Bethany. Young Lee, the team leader for the media ministry at the church, attributes a large part of the growth to their CD & Tape ministry.
Church grows to more than 1,000 people in 6 short years!
Today Bethany Presbyterian Church has more than 1,000 people at the church and distributes almost 500 messages every week! Young Lee explains that the Messages-To-Go™ and media ministry help many people. In addition to reaching people with God’s message who might not have otherwise heard it, he says that there are many people who are struggling in the faith. Being able to hear the messages can help them grow in their faith. And there are others who might miss church because they have to work, or for other reasons. So copies of the messages are made available, and even mailed to people who want them.
Young Kye Lee, Team Leader of the Media Ministry for Bethany Presbyterian Church
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A CD in a grocery store helps woman with cancer find God!
Young Lee tells about a lady who was very successful in life, according to the world’s standards. She was very wealthy and had a good job. She would work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week because she wanted to become very accomplished. She didn’t believe in God. She didn’t care about God because she had money and thought she was happy. But then she got cancer. She couldn’t work and was spending a lot of her money on hospital and insurance bills.
One day, she picked up a CD at a local grocery store. The message was about Jonah and how he had been caught up by a whale because he wasn’t following what God said. God was telling Jonah “Follow me,” but Jonah didn’t listen...Read more...
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Humbling yourself to the call of God
Sheik performs a 'plie' on the 700 Club television program.
Kingdom’s beginnings are very unique.
Kingdom started after Johnny Berguson had created his horse training course on cassette tape. Johnny was purchasing large quantities of tapes and albums, plus he had purchased his cassette duplicator to produce the horse training course.
Local cassette ministries started to flourish, as Johnny started sharing extra blank cassette tapes at discount prices. This was the beginning of Kingdom when an industry leader was born!
On the road with Johnny & the Sheik …
But there’s more to the story … What were those years like before producing the horse training course in the basement of the Berguson home? What was life like for the Bergusons before Kingdom?
For years, Johnny traveled as an evangelist. He traveled with his trick trained Arabian horse, Al-Marah Majestic Sheik – just Sheik for short. The duo was known as “Johnny and the Sheik.” Johnny could get that horse to do just about anything. Anyone who got to experience Johnny and the Sheik will tell you what an amazing show they could perform! During the Johnny and the Sheik performances, Johnny would also share a short Gospel message.
Johnny practicing a headstand on Rachael's toy horse. In the background is the truck used to transport Sheik. When the truck was 22 years old it permanently broke down right across the street from an Arabian horse farm ~ 1978 photo
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Johnny is a man of faith and trusts God completely. It was no different back in those early years, when Johnny traveled with Sheik … and his wife and 2 very small children!
Answering the call to spread the Gospel of Christ …
Life was pretty normal for Johnny and Juanita. They were pretty typical. Johnny had jobs he worked during the week. On weekends, Johnny and Juanita would head off to a horse show or a rodeo where Johnny and the Sheik would perform and Johnny would share his faith. Seems simple and pretty typical other than the witnessing. Lots of people mold their lives around making a living and enjoying a hobby.
The 28-foot horse trailer given to Johnny, Kingdom President, and Juanita Berguson by a Jewish man shortly after Johnny witnessed to him. Also pictured are their two children, Rachael and Jonathan, Johnny's cousin Gordie (Gordon) and wife Joanie(Joan)~ 1981 photo
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Johnny and Juanita were living in a townhouse in Williamsport, PA, when Johnny felt the call of God on his life to spread the Gospel of Christ full time. This was a huge decision to make and one that required some sacrifice for Johnny and Juanita. One of the things they had to do was leave their own place and move in with Johnny’s parents.
“We planned to move in with my parents for what we thought was 3 months,” Johnny explains. “It ended up being 3 years. This was hard on Juanita...”
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