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Partners Sharing the Love of Christ

CBN Partners Are Fulfilling the Great Commission

Called and Sent Read Gordon’s personal story on page 6 More

CBN’S OPERATION BLESSING: LIFE-CHANGING SURGERIES

FROM CONSTANT PAIN TO JOYFUL LIFE

You helped a little girl get the surgery she needed

You helped to relieve Arleth’s pain.

Arleth wished she could be like other children. At only 4 years old, she lived in daily pain, unable to run or play due to an inguinal hernia in her abdomen.

But that is where partners like you stepped in to help. You came to the rescue for this little girl. Not only did she receive the vital hernia surgery, but also postoperative care to make sure that she healed properly.

Although Arleth was born with this condition, her family had been Today, Arleth is a healthy child, unable to do anything about it, because they lived too far from the grateful for the help she received— nearest city in Guatemala—and the all thanks to partners like you. surgery was too expensive for them. 2 frontlines

CBN’S OPERATION BLESSING: HUNGER STRIKE FORCE

RESPONDING TO THE HUNGRY AND HURTING

The gift that keeps on giving

An empty, growling stomach was something Junior experienced often. Going without a meal was not uncommon in his family due to a variety of hardships. The teen’s parents and two sisters often lacked the resources to buy nutritious food. Thanks to you, this family received groceries from a nearby ministry in Norfolk, Virginia— that partners with CBN’s Operation Blessing. They can never adequately express what this help has meant to them. In appreciation, Junior blessed others. One day, he interacted with a homeless man who was hungry. Working with this local outreach, Junior took action and responded, “Here are a couple of bags. Go ahead and be blessed.” Your partnership offers hope to young Junior, his family, and others in need. Thank you for showing great compassion to the hungry and hurting.

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CBN’S ORPHAN’S PROMISE

NEW HOPE FOR A YOUNG BOY

Bringing Jesus to a family in Pakistan

Life is hard for Suleman. His family lives in Pakistan in terrible poverty, so education is something they don’t even consider for the young boy. Thanks to caring partners, CBN’s Orphan’s Promise has been able to step in, providing a quality education for Suleman through a partnering ministry in his community. He now has hope for a life very different from his parents. The future looks bright for little Suleman.

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More important, Suleman has learned who Jesus is and has shared the Good News with his siblings and his parents. The family now prays, reads the Bible, and regularly attends church together. The gifts of CBN partners are transforming lives. Whether it’s food, education, medical care, or help for victims of disaster, when everything is done in the name of Jesus, lives are changed forever.

CBN’S OPERATION BLESSING

HELPING A HARDWORKING MOTHER OB gives assistance to single mother in Peru

Eugenia can better provide for her family.

Holding tight to her crutch, Eugenia shivered in the pouring rain—but she couldn’t go home. Despite her leg disability, the young single mother went into her Peruvian town each day to sell her wares. “I just had to keep selling,” she explained. But it was difficult to fry and prepare the plantains over the small wood fire. Eugenia was so grateful when CBN’s Operation Blessing offered to help.

Thanks to the help of CBN partners, Eugenia was provided with a gas stove, utensils, pots and pans, a sign for her business, and best of all—a wheeled cart, complete with an umbrella! “Thank you very much!” Eugenia exclaimed. “I never thought I would receive a blessing like the one I have been given.” Your faithful partnership offers hope for a brighter future. MARCH 2022 5

Called and Sent by Gordon

Robertson

Come and see what our God has done, what awesome miracles he performs for people! –Psalm 66:5 I praise God for the miracles He has done in my life—and there have been many. At age 12, I had a dramatic encounter with God and was baptized in the Holy Spirit. My family was visiting a church where I made a vow: “Lord, if You show me Your power, I’ll serve You.” He answered, heaven touched me, and I was in a cloud, unable to walk or talk. My parents had to carry me home. Yet, I also saw the enormous personal cost for my mother and father to be in 6 frontlines

Gordon hosts The 700 Club Asia.

So I said, “If you can get the visa, I’ll go.” The next day it was his turn to chuckle when he called me to say, “I got your visa!” I had given my word, so that Monday I was on a long flight to India, followed by a long train ride. Our destination: Rajahmundry, which means City of the King. Huge crowds came to John’s meetings, so I was stunned when he said, “God spoke to me and you’re supposed to preach.” That got me praying, which I hadn’t done in a while, and I preached my very first sermon based on things I’d learned at my father’s knee. I didn’t know how to do an altar call, but when I sat down, people started coming forward to give their lives to Christ. A Brahman couple said, “Your words pierced our hearts like arrows. We cannot help but believe in this Jesus you preach.” That floored me. I knew this was God’s power, not mine!

ministry and launch CBN. We never went hungry and God always provided, yet I saw the struggle. By age 14, I was a rebel and didn’t want to fulfill that vow. My goals were money, power and position, so I went to law school and became a partner in a law firm. Even so, I was profoundly unhappy. One good decision I made during that time was to marry my wonderful wife, Katharyn, a Christian. The turning point came with a phone call from John Gimenez, the pastor of Rock Church in Virginia Beach. He said, “I had a dream that you went with me to India.” I laughed inwardly, like Sarah laughed when God said she’d bear a son in her old age. I thought I’d disqualified myself from ministry and God wouldn’t want me on a mission trip. So I chuckled and asked, “All right; when are you going?” He replied, “Monday morning.” I knew U.S. citizens needed visas to enter India and—since it was Thursday afternoon and the embassy was closed Pat and Gordon have dedicated their lives to on weekends—there wasn’t time to bringing the Gospel to the world. get one.

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So very early one morning, I asked God to forgive me for my rebellion. When I asked Him what He had for me, I got an urge to walk into the city. And here the entire population was out for Shiva, a major Hindu festival. They believe demons sleep between midnight and dawn, so that’s when they can have access to God. There I saw an elderly woman bowing down to worship a stone calf— earnestly praying and pouring out her heart. She was obviously poor, yet she gave the stone cow a platter of fruit and vegetables that must have cost her a fortune. She carefully placed incense sticks so the curls of smoke would rise to the stone cow’s nostrils. I thought, “How can you—made in the image of God—bow down to a stone calf?” Then, from just behind my shoulder, I heard an audible voice speak right into my ear: “No one has ever told her.” It absolutely broke me. It still breaks me. And from that point forward, I couldn’t live for myself. If there are people who haven’t heard about Jesus, how could I be selfish and not share the Good News? I realized that I needed to do anything in my power to tell them. When you have these encounters, it 8 frontlines

changes you. When you have a dream or a vision, the way to know it’s from God is that you can’t say you had it; you now say, “It has me.” And so Katharyn and I resigned our jobs, sold our cars, put things in storage, and moved to the Philippines. First, the Asian Center for Missions was founded to train Filipino missionaries to take the Gospel to Asia. Next came CBN Asia. I knew from my parents how to build a Christian television ministry, yet I had to learn how to create CBN in other cultures. And within five years, there was CBN Asia, CBN Indonesia, CBN Thailand, CBN Hong Kong, CBN Beijing, and CBN India. When I’d ask God for details, a word of confirmation came from Habakkuk 1:5, The Lord replied, “Look around at the nations; look and be amazed! For I am doing something in your own day, something you wouldn’t believe even if someone told you about it.” It is thrilling to see what God can do! He is always seeking to save the lost. Together, you and I are reaching out to the world with the love of God. And as the Bible promises, love never fails! God bless you. Excerpted from The Lesson with Gordon & Ashley. Scripture is quoted from the NLT.

CHOOSE CBN NEWS How should you respond to today’s uncertainties, like “cancel culture” and anti-Christian bias? There’s a battle going on between church and culture. Where you get your news is critical, and discerning people like you are making CBN News their wise choice—a choice that offers: • Stories that matter most to you • Award-winning Christian journalists • A trustworthy, faith-based perspective on world events Watch 24/7 on CBNNewsChannel.com Download the CBN News app

CBN NEWS CHANNEL | BECAUSE TRUTH MATTERS

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CBN NEWS: HEALTHY LIVING

DO YOU HAVE AN EATING ADDICTION? The answer might surprise you…

Have you ever felt like you can’t stop eating once you’ve started? Or, have you ever intended to only eat one cookie but ended up emptying the package? Yet, your spouse or a friend can simply stop after only one or two sweets? If this has ever been you, and you wondered why you feel like you can’t stop—you could have a food addiction. But don’t let that scare you! According to Dr. Susan Pierce Thompson, the author of Rezoom: The Powerful Reframe to End the Crashand-Burn Cycle of Food Addiction, you’re not alone. “One-third of people are highly susceptible to food addiction, onethird are moderately, and one-third are not at all,” she explains. “When we say food addiction is real, it’s important right after that to say, ‘But not everyone is equally affected.’” Don’t panic if you fall into the group that is most susceptible to food addiction! Dr. Thompson has a solution. She created Bright Line 10 frontlines

Discover how to improve your eating habits.

Eating®—complete with a quiz—in order to help people discover what type of inclination they have toward food and help them find personalized dieting solutions. “I think everyone needs to know what kind of brain they have … because that will tell them … what kind of solution is likely to work for them,” Dr. Thompson explains. “What we do is we take people’s hands, and we guide them through really changing the way that they orient to food and rewiring their brain to support them.” To learn more, go to BrightLineEating.com, but check with your doctor before making any changes to your diet.

CBN’S SUPERBOOK

CHANGING A YOUNG GIRL’S LIFE How Shiloh discovered Jesus

Nine-year-old Shiloh in South Africa was intrigued when her mother introduced her to Superbook after seeing an advertisement on The 700 Club. It wasn’t long before Shiloh was hooked, and soon, she could not stop watching. As a special surprise, her mother blessed her with a DVD combo of Superbook episodes. As a result, Shiloh received Christ and even got baptized. Her mother raved about the impact that Superbook has had on her life. The love and support of CBN partners are making an eternal difference to children and families worldwide. Shiloh says that she and her mother are “Superbook fans” and that they love to “tell others to watch it too!” Watch more testimonies from Superbook Subscribe to the Superbook YouTube Channel for full episodes and playlists!

Shiloh was saved through Superbook.

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SEEN ON THE 700 CLUB

YOUR QUESTIONS, HONEST ANSWERS WITH PAT ROBERTSON

As Christians, are we still under the Ten Commandments, or are they just guides or guardrails for us to use to live godly lives?

I wrote a book about the Ten Commandments. When you look at them, they really are for your protection. Don’t commit adultery. Don’t steal someone’s property. Do not do these terrible things. But when you put God at the center of everything—and love the Lord—it controls everything you do. The Ten Commandments are tremendous guides. For example, having a day of rest once every week. In the book of Mark, Jesus said that the Sabbath was made for man. Now everything is going seven days a week. And thou shalt have no other gods before Him. That is what’s happening in the world today—many people are worshiping false gods, getting their authority from the wrong sources. These commandments are brilliant. I recommend them to everybody. They are 10 blessings of getting our lives right.

Watch The 700 Club for more questions and answers from Pat Robertson.

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If you need prayer, please call our Prayer Team at 800-700-7000. 12 frontlines

CBN RECEIVES 2022 NRB AWARD FOR NIGHT OF PROMISE Recently, the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) honored CBN as a recipient of the 2022 NRB Media & Special Service Awards with the production of Night of Promise—in the category of Best Messaging Campaign. CBN shared the honor with Jewish Voice Ministries. Based on the NRB criteria, the recipient must demonstrate exceptional creativity, innovation and excellence in production quality as it stands for free speech and/or against the threats to free speech or religion. The messaging campaign must demonstrate creativity in its presentation of the issue and engage the viewer to action. Thank you, CBN partners, for making this possible.

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Give Hope THAT WILL LAST LONG INTO THE FUTURE

A simple and easy way to leave a legacy—so you can make a lasting impact on your world after you pass on to glory— is to name CBN as a beneficiary of an asset you own. Many assets permit you to name beneficiaries by simply completing a Beneficiary Designation Form including: • • • • •

Bank accounts I RAs and other retirement accounts Brokerage accounts Life insurance Donor Advised Fund

To learn more about Beneficiary Designations, please contact us at 800-333-2373 or email PlannedGiving@CBN.org.

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