Hermano Pablo Ministries

Summary

Hermano Pablo Ministries ("HPM") is a radio and TV broadcast ministry reaching the Spanish speaking world for Christ. Un Mensaje a la Consciencia [A Message to the Conscience] is a four-minute radio and television program. The program is seen, heard or read throughout thirty countries over 20,000 times per week and is in over 80 periodicals. Airtime is donated by radio or television stations or by local believers. Paul Finkenbinder (Hermano Pablo) began broadcasting in 1962. Paul is Board Chairman and travels extensively across Latin America conducting seminars, conferences and evangelistic crusades. Charles Ray Stewart with his wife Linda joined the ministry in 1995 and directs the day-to-day operations of the ministry. He also records all new programs. The ministry estimates that the current value of radio and TV airtime donated last year was $64 million.. Most of the ministry's messages are transmitted through secular media, and the majority of its listeners are non-Christians. This organization is a nonprofit. Contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

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Hermano Pablo Ministries ("HPM") is a radio and TV broadcast ministry reaching the Spanish speaking world for Christ. Un Mensaje a la Consciencia [A Message to the Conscience] is a four-minute radio and television program. The program is seen, heard or read throughout thirty countries over 20,000 times per week and is in over 80 periodicals. Airtime is donated by radio or television stations or by local believers.

Paul Finkenbinder (Hermano Pablo) began broadcasting in 1962. Paul is Board Chairman and travels extensively across Latin America conducting seminars, conferences and evangelistic crusades. Charles Ray Stewart with his wife Linda joined the ministry in 1995 and directs the day-to-day operations of the ministry. He also records all new programs.

The ministry estimates that the current value of radio and TV airtime donated last year was $64 million.. Most of the ministry's messages are transmitted through secular media, and the majority of its listeners are non-Christians.

This organization is a nonprofit. Contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

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Hermano Pablo Ministries uses the following to communicate the mission:

"Our mission is to be God's voice to the conscience of every Hispanic in the world."

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February 2004 Accomplishments


• Number of Countries where A Message to the Conscience is seen, heard or read: 30
• Total airtime value in 2003: $67 million
• Amount HPM paid for airtime in 2003: zero!
• Programs produced in 2003: 312
• Actual cost per broadcast: 31 cents! (6 cents less than in 2002)
• Times in the year 2003 that A Message to the Conscience was broadcast or published: 1,116,772
• Actual cost of production, distribution, and follow-up of each program: $1,126 ($146 less than in 2002)

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Hermano Pablo Ministries ("HPM") was founded by Paul Finkenbinder (Hermano Pablo). Paul felt called by God to be a minister of the Gospel in 1938 at the age of seventeen. At age twenty he married his wife, Linda. Their ministry began in 1942 in a Spanish mission in New Mexico, and on Thanksgiving Eve, 1943, Paul, Linda, and their son, Paul Jr., began serving as missionaries in El Salvador.

For the first thirteen years in El Salvador he taught in Bible Schools, ministered in churches, directed youth outreaches and made himself available in many different areas of need all over the country.

Then in 1955 God gave him the vision for mass evangelism through radio. Since that time he has utilized every possible tool--radio, television, the printed page, crusades, and special events--to present the Gospel of Christ to the entire Latin American continent.

In 1960 he pioneered the use of "Christian drama" to present parables and Bible stories on television. The response was overwhelming. This led to the production of six Bible drama films that are still in use today throughout Latin America.

In 1964 Hermano Pablo and his family returned to the United States and established their headquarters in Costa Mesa, California. After four years in a makeshift recording studio in their garage, God provided a building for their studios and offices. Today the Spanish language radio and television programs and the newspaper and magazine columns are shipped to 30 countries of the world.

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