2016 Report and Ministry Highlights

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SEIBERT FAMILY UPDATE 2016-11-17 – YEAR IN REVIEW ! SIMPLY AWESOME !!!

[NOTE – This is a YEAR END REVIEW – so it is a bit longer. PLEASE GLANCE AT IT NOW if you are short on time, but READ IT MORE DEEPLY OVER THANKSGIVING BREAK!. AMAZING STUFF!]

Dear Friends,

As Thanksgiving approaches, our hearts our overwhelmed with Thanks to God for all He has done this past year. And Thanks for You!!!

As friends, prayer partners, and supporters, I want you to have a clear picture of the impact your involvement has made.   Below, I provide a quick summary of ministry highlights and then a lengthy Appendix that includes links to all the new video content we have developed this year.

It simply has been an amazing year.   This year end, we are hoping to raise $30,000 to help us accomplish what God has assigned to us for 2017.

Please consider tagging this email or saving it in a word document and over Thanksgiving go through the video links list and selecting some of them to watch. Here is one, just to give you a taste - News 12 – The Stranger in Our House – A Parable For Our Times – 3m

Remember or Purpose in doing all of this is to “be active in sharing our faith in the here and now” AND to help “keep it safe for this and future generations to live out and share their faith”.

Thanks for being involved.

Craig, Rebecca, Kristen, Ben

Contributions Can go to

WPI – Special Year End Giving

c/o Craig Seibert

406 Lynderhill Lane

Matthews, NC 28105

PS – We can accommodate appreciated stock gifts

PSS – We have had some Family Foundations give toward our efforts. If you have a connection to a private foundation that would be interested in our work, I can provide the necessary support documentation they would nee in order to give.

[2016 YEAR IN REVIEW]

I thought these sample comments might be an “encouraging word” to all of you, so I decided to put them first.

Comments About How We Are Making a Difference

  • “It seems that this ministry and your calling is for such at time as this.”
  • “Amazing training.       I am in charge of the history department at our school and I have never heard anything like this.”
  • “Your training and materials were incredibly helpful to me and to several others that I shared them with”
  • “You not only challenge us, but you ‘disturb’ us out of our complacency”
  • “It is awesome that you offer these videos for free so that I can train my group.”
  • “Our pastors, our staff, our entire denomination should hear these things”
  • “Thank you for your boldness and courage”
  • “This material and concepts are brilliant”

 

Quick Highlights

  • Christian Civics Training – We served up 145,000 free videos this year that were watched across the country and across the world on how the gospel impacts society and is lived out in society and the Civic Space.  Likely 300,000 to 500,000 people impacted because of content being used in families, small groups, and schools.
  • Curriculum – Over 60 New Video Trainings and Digital Resources – This year we produced over 60 new video trainings and digital resources on topics that were super relevant to culture and faith. This was one of our HUGE goals for this year that we stated in our December 2015 newsletter. We had hoped to produce 30 trainings. We doubled that !!!   Our trainings are unique – there is nothing else like them on the internet based on content, format and length. (see the listing below).
  • Cultural Impact Teams - Worked with several churches in helping to advance the idea of believers being “salt and light” in culture and solidify these efforts with the development of Cultural Impact teams.
  • Live Teaching and Training in Person - Taught a 15 week Worldview Institute to 80 people in Charlotte - On the topic of Worldviews, Biblical Worldview Formation, the Cycle of Civilizations,       the Four Dynamics of a Healthy Society, and God’s Providences in our Lives and in History.
  • Networking with other Local and National Ministries - Reached out and nurtured the relationships we have with both established and new ministry partners. We frequently offer up our resources for others to use and leverage in their own organization or sphere of influence so that we might achieve a greater impact.  One organization wants to see if we can partner together to train 10,000 of their members using internet training.
  • YMCA Mission National Renewal Movement - I continued to serve with the leadership team of a renewal movement that seeks to advance the gospel in the YMCAs across the country.

Our goals for 2017 include: producing at least 30 new trainings and digital resources, producing a Christian Civics Training Booklet, further leveraging our internet assets, expanding our live training, continuing to build “The Institute for Christian Citizenship and Statesmanship”, and networking and partnering with churches on Outreach and Biblical Worldview Training.

Your prayers and support make this all possible !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Each year in December God works through faithful friends like you to circulate His Kingdom Resources to the ministry work He has assigned to us for the year ahead.   I cannot emphasize enough what a difference it makes and how “your listening to the Lord” on these matters confirms and blesses what we are doing.

[APPENDIX]

VIDEO TRAININGS AND RESOURCES – RELEASED IN 2016

Just skim over these 60 video trainings and digital resources developed this year !!!!!   Click on some of the titles that look interesting to you and sample the content. Cut and paste some of the links and put them in an email or Facebook page or other social media and share with others.

A Worldview Voting Resource

The Cycle of Freedom

A recurring pattern of history of how people go from bondage to spiritual freedom to prosperity to apathy and back to bondage.

 

God’s Providences in American History

God’s Amazing Providences are put on display in our countries history. Simply astonishing. To understand God’s providences is to marvel at His plans and purpose.

 

 

The Rise of the Elites

Francis Schaeffer predicted 40 years ago the Rise of a Ruling Class of Elites whose quest for power over their fellow man knows no bounds.   This class of Elites seeks to force the values of humanism on all of culture and life.

 

 

News

Simply put, the nature of News constantly deconstructs culture, propagates false hoods, and manipulates the public by what it reports, how it reports, and the images it uses in its reports.

 

 

The Cycle of Agitation

This series shows how the agitation tactics of Saul Alinsky and other groups undermine civil society and are used to persecute people of faith.