FIJasonSeliskar

Pomona First Baptist is a church that is Real, Relevant and Relational. PFB is a church that reaches out to the community in different ways. The homeless ministry does an excellent job to help the homeless get fed and clothed. Once a month, this ministry has meals cooked and clothes to give on one of the Saturdays. Pomona also has missionaries that are in many countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan and others. During Christmas Pomona has a re-creation of Bethlehem called Bethlehem Marketplace. The church converts the parking lot into Bethlehem as it may have been during the first Christmas. This is an outreach to the community for the local families with a night out of games and food along with the experience of Bethlehem. Around Easter the church rents out the Pomona Fairplex for Easter service for over ten thousand people. Pomona Youth Community is an outreach for local kids to connect and learn a skill. This helps them get off the street for a few hours and learn something they might not normally learn. There are many others outreaches Pomona is active in.

Pomona First Baptist is a great church when it comes to using technology. I see it first hand as I help with the media on several Sundays of the month. PFB has a website that has transformed as just a informational sight to a multi media site. Pomona First Baptist has a website http://pfblive.tv/ and it has many technology tools for outreach. Ustream is used to broadcast all three services over the Internet. For those who do not have means of getting to church can view from their computer. Being on the Internet and using Ustream allows for any audience on the web. On the website past sermons are posted according to topic and included is the sermon notes in pdf format. These past sermons are both in video and audio formats. Also, you can subscribe through iTunes. Online giving is a way to tithe or donate to the church for those who prefer to give over the Internet. Even Twitter is used to follow church events and upcoming sermons. The local cable company plays tapes on one of the channels that broadcast back east.

Sharing my faith with others is something that at times is hard to do. Sharing my testimony in various lengths helps convey my faith to others. Being able to point information about my church via a website is very helpful. Being able to burn a CD from a podcasted sermon I can pass on a message to someone that may need to here it. Inviting them to the outreach activities and opportunities for them to hear the message of my faith. As our pastor says, invite them and bring them to church and leave it up to the leadership to share the God’s message. With all the technology that is at our disposal the most powerful sharing is someone’s testimony.