God Centered Life Ministries Executive Director Stann Leff

Stann Leff

At God Centered Life, our passion is the gospel. Our vision is all generations living for God.

God Centered Life (GCL) is an extension of College Church’s ministry outside of its four walls—the broader media ministry of Senior Pastor Josh Moody. Each day it distributes Bible teaching from the pulpit ministry of College Church to a growing audience in the United States and around the world. The ministry features a daily Bible teaching broadcast now heard on more than 50 radio outlets and several internet channels, as well as an array of devotionals, articles and other helpful resources. The ministry website, www.godcenteredlife. org, ministers to more than 4,000 users each month and has seen visitors from 186 countries in the last year and all 50 states.

Ministry Impact

International reach is inspiring. How wonderful that God Centered Life can leverage the teaching of Pastor Josh and share it globally. The media ministry truly is an extension of College Church’s global mission effort. Yet touching individual lives with the gospel is what the work of GCL is all about. Here is a sampling of the notes and letters the ministry has received:

I ended up re-dedicating my life on Monday, then I ended up turning on Moody Radio Tuesday… I want to be truly a godly believer like James 1 says. I need the implanted word. I raised my hand at home. God bless your ministry!

God bless you in Wheaton especially at this time. Thanks for these messages.

Thank you for your daily message and resources to keep us on the narrow path.

Thank you for all of your wonderful broadcasts. I listen to them most weeknights. Please keep up the great work.

God Centered Life has been encouraging and has sent some great resources in the mail and I really do appreciate all of that very much. Thank you so much.

Website Traffic – Visit godcenteredlife.org

God Centered Life features a robust web presence providing access to audio teaching, blog posts, devotional materials and articles. These resources are vital as they encourage spiritual growth and provide a means to allow listeners to catch portions of messages missed on the radio. The potential for reach is virtually unlimited online. The website saw more than 50,000 users for the 12 months ended March 31, 2021. This is up from 28,900 during the 12 months prior, reflecting an increase of 74%! The devotional pages are particularly popular among users and were visited over 100,000 times in the last 12 months. If you would like to receive Pastor Josh’s daily devotional via email, simply visit the website at www.godcenteredlife.org and go to the devotional page.

Online Broadcasting – Visit www.oneplace. com/god-centered-life/

God Centered Life’s daily Bible teaching program is offered online at the GCL website, but is also distributed on several other online platforms, including OnePlace.com, MyHope- Now.com, twr360.com (the worldwide ministry platform of TransWorld Radio) where you can hear both the most recent program as well as archived sessions. In addition, the largest Christian radio Bible teaching station in the Dallas area hosts God Centered Life in its limited circle of trusted Bible teachers at teaching. kcbi.org

Online teaching portals provide specific and clear mechanisms for measuring listening audiences (which is difficult with Christian radio). For example, OnePlace.com has seen more than 44,000 streams of GCL content delivered to users in the past year, and more than 1,300 individuals have registered to become connected with the ministry.

Radio

The radio station network has expanded over the past year. In addition to the flagship broadcast here in Chicago, heard Monday through Friday at 10 p.m. on WMBI (90.1 FM) and at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday evening, God Centered Life is heard in Cleveland, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Madison and on nearly 50 other radio stations in Iowa, Minnesota, Georgia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and downstate in Central Illinois. Each of these stations has expenses associated with the radio broadcasts, and God Centered Life relies on its partners (mostly here in the Chicago area and many from College Church) to support the broadcast financially. We anticipate donors in other areas will begin to cover the local costs of broadcasting in the future.

The weekly radio listenership on the stations airing God Centered Life is difficult to estimate, but certainly exceeds 100,000. We praise the Lord for this powerful ministry tool which reaches far beyond the walls of our church. While some feel radio is no longer a vital medium of communication, it still reaches more than 90% of all Americans over the age of 18 every week. For years to come, radio will be a vital ministry tool, even as other audio teaching mechanisms (online, podcasts, smartphone apps, etc.) grow alongside it. As additional resources become available, more stations will be added.

About the God Centered Life Team

The ministry of GCL is led by Stann Leff serving as executive director who oversees a capable team, all of whom serve the ministry on a part time basis. Todd Busteed serves as the on-air host of the broadcast and engineers the technical side of the program; Dick Epps, former longtime member at College Church, assists in stewardship development for the ministry; Anna Litfin assists with administrative support, and Robb Hansen and the firm Next Level Insights provide station relations services, broadcast strategy and website support. We also are supported by an elder liaison. Josh Moody is our president, and our board of directors includes Nancy Singer, David Gieser, Howard Costley, Bruce Howard and Tom Paulsen.

To learn more about God Centered Life, go to www.godcenteredlife.org and sign up to receive the weekly devotional. Also, follow us on social media @godcenteredlife on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.