CBN Asia undertakes several ministries in reaching Asian nations with the Gospel. Its major thrust is through The 700 Club Asia, a locally produced weeknight television program, as well as other TV specials that are viewed nationwide and in other countries around the world. Its ministries include the humanitarian aid foundation called Operation Blessing Foundation.[1] The Asian Center for Missions enables reaching different people groups in Asia through the deployment of Asian cross-cultural missionaries.
ACM's missionary strategy is to train and deploy Asians as church-planting teams utilizing community development and other holistic ministries to reach the unevangelized.
Operation Blessing Foundation Philippines, Inc. (OB) is a nonprofit humanitarian aid foundation that provides short-term medical, disaster relief, feeding, and community development assistance to economically disadvantaged people in the Philippines and Asia. OB is committed to responding with appropriate resources to people in dire need by mobilizing volunteer medical teams, logistics, and other trained emergency relief personnel to handle the procurement, transportation, and distribution of food, clothing, medical, and other supplies. OB continues to enhance its capacity to provide community assistance programs to serve as many people as possible.
OB is the Asian counterpart of the US-based Operation Blessing International. Since 1994, OB humanitarian missions have expanded their reach from areas all over the Philippines to other Asian countries like China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Taiwan. In 1996, OB officially became the humanitarian arm of CBN Asia, Inc., which was founded by Gordon Robertson,[2] son of The Christian Broadcasting Network Chairman and Founder M.G. "Pat" Robertson.
A community development assistance program involving feeding, medical, dental, and educational projects for impoverished childreninPayatas, Commonwealth, Las Piñas, and other underprivileged areas. Livelihood programs for children's parents and guardians are also provided. Special holiday gift-giving outreaches and values-formation summer camps form part of the program.
CBN Asia provides aid to victims of earthquakes, floods, fires, and other natural and man-made disasters, such as the flood in Anhui, China in August 1999, the earthquake in Taiwan in September 1999, the Mayon Volcano eruption in the Philippines in March 2000, and the Payatas landslide in July 2000.
Provides a diverse range of medical services, including general medical treatment, dentistry, out-patient surgery, and health education to address the unmet medical needs of underserved communities.
The Prayer Center conducts one day trainer's training seminars in the Philippines and abroad in response to requests made by various groups planning to establish their own prayer centers. In the past, a counseling team was sent to different provinces in the Philippines and other Asian countries such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and India to conduct training seminars and train up counseling centers handling common problem situations and trauma cases.
