Program areas at Global Gospel Action
In 2023, our ministry conducted, sponsored, and organized 55 Gospel festivals in addition to conferences, school campaigns, and services with an attendance of 500 to 50,000 people a night in Brazil and Ethiopia. We reached close to 300,000 individuals in person in addition to daily TV programs running in Asia. We work closely with local churches of many different denominations, support and train them, and help them mobilize volunteers for the event and future ministry opportunities or church planting. The week-long campaign often brings hundreds of local and international volunteers together while creating events like conferences, anti-suicide and anti-drug campaigns in form of school outreaches, neighborhood food outreaches, children services, etc. alongside with the big events.
We understand that nowadays, communication and search for information occurs mainly via the internet or TV. We are trying to adjust to this generation's communication and interaction style by investing in social media presence and internet platforms. We provide online teaching material, mentorship programs, interaction, and updates in a digital form. Our TV program broadcast in Pakistan still runs daily on three different channels transmitting to vast areas reaching several countries in Asia. We continue to distribute ebooks as an alternative to printed literature.
As a publicly funded charitable organization, we take grant giving very seriously, both as an act of giving back to community while overseeing grantviging cautiously. We invest heavily in food donations when our mission teams visit needy places and areas. Our organization requested the dba Feeding Families and also owns the website feedingfamilies.org. As our team travels to needy areas, we realized a growing nutritional needs of families we encounter as well as the desire of partners to provide disaster relief and food. In 2023, we donated approximately 84,600 meals to the poor. Our ministry also distributes literature for free in print. We distributed close to 50,000 booklets last year. In addition to those grants, the board decided to start a mentorship and leadership training program that can grant scholarships to students in need. We received donations specifically designated for scholarships for seminar or college courses in the area of theology or education. The subsequent tuition payments were done directly to the educational institution. Some candidates of our mentorship program received sponsorship for mission trips with our organization. GGA also sent grants to some foreign missionaries and charitable organizations in the U.S. and abroad.