HOW YOU CAN USE CIS-INC

A Letter of Invitation...

How CIS-INC Works to Grow
Your Church Outreach
Ministries or Missions

Dear Pastor or Church Outreach Executive Leader,

If you’re a wise Senior Pastor or spirit-led church outreach leader, you already know our world is turning upside down. This applies double to the whole communications, fundraising and media scene. Everything is changing right before our eyes – and a church that needs to use it media effectively today must have confidential, professional help.

... AND if you know you need help to cope with the challenges you face in this End Times collapse, then I have a special invitation for you.

There is a way you can get the development assistance you need in this down economy. The extra help with to deal with ... new technologies ... creative challenges ... outsourcing ... deadlines ... whatever problems you are facing.

If you lead a local or metropolitan church outreach, then I invite you to privately join our CIS-INC development team as a Senior Pastor, Missions Pastor or Outreach Director.

If you’re anything like me, I’m sure you want to get on with the work of God and forget worrying about the details of the fundraising and public relations world. While no effective pastoral leader can totally take his hands off this part of the work – the good news is that you can delegate it to media professionals.

But who can you prayerfully trust with this critical communications task? Like the New Testament apostles, you need to find someone to "wait on" mass media tables for you so you can get out with the business of prayer and teaching the word.

That's how we can help. The CIS-INC Talent Team is ready to come along side you and your staff. I know we can’t solve all your problems, but we can help you place your message effectively, efficiently and at the lowest price possible.

In fact, I founded CIS while working as a bi-vocational missionary leader. So I know something of what it’s like for you to lead a church outreach ministry – AND also have to mediate your message and fundraise at the same!

Our fellowship began as a group of Christians called of God to work vocationally in the media and communications arts. We organized the Christian Media Fellowship (CMF) to encourage one another. Out of that grew the many ministries of CIS-INC today.

Some of us also wanted to offer our special skills in support of churches, missions and ministries like yours. This called for working in temporary positions and project assignments – sometimes with co-workers who rarely understood media values or the long-term perspectives of communications and development professionals.

It was out of this perfectly natural “conflict of interest” that I realized that CIS-INC had an institutional role to play in helping Christian churches, pastors and ministry leaders communicate their visions professionally.

Through the years we informally experimented and helped one mission after another with increasing degrees of success. There were some failures, but mostly by the grace and mercy of God there were successes:

• One of the first pastoral missions I helped began on kitchen table and had less than $300 a month income at the start. Today, it has now grown to over $50 million a year income. It works with indigenous missionaries in 38 nation states of Asia and has planted thousands of indigenous churches under intense persecution and opposition! All glory to God for the great things He has done!!
• Another early mission was much bigger when we began to help, already bringing in $12 million a year back then. We thought that was huge, but today it grosses over $3 billion a year and operates in almost every country of the world. Now, it is among the three largest charities in the USA. Again, all glory to God!!
• Similarly, we worked with a large national denomination that is highly structured. One campaign we were instrumental in designing is still being used effectively in nearly 3000 counties throughout the United States by nearly 10,000 local churches.
• But I still appreciate start-ups the most. Another pastor we helped was able to build a local TV ministry that reached an entire metropolis. Today the ministry goes on through syndication and covers the entire USA.

But the times they are a changing as you well know.

New technology, the Internet, and a new generation of media-saturated youth are taking the stage. That means you will have to move with them while you continue to care for your existing support base. The “end times” decade just ahead requires intense spiritual warfare – conflict on a battlefield that Satan has illegally occupied. We must take it back.

If this makes sense to you, please consider the “pros” and “cons” of CHURCH LEADER MEMBERSHIP in this invitation letter. Then, after you have prayed, call me to talk about what your church ministry needs. (Remember to join CIS first as an individual!)

CIS CHURCH MEMBERSHIP helps leaders like you reach your fund raising and growth goals. I have successfully worked with the "five-fold" ministry in churches and missions for over 45 years and so by the grace of God alone, I have the divine wisdom to help you succeed in your Christian outreach.

Pray about it. Maybe this is for you – especially in these changing, difficult financial times for churches … as well as any church-based 501(c) 3 charities, ministries and missions you must lead. Here is what we offer to pastors and metropolitan church leaders like you...

• COUNSULTATION AND COACHING: Experienced and qualified account executives will help you plan strategic campaigns in a systematic way, and then give tactical advice when you need it most.
• SKILLED CHRISTIANS IN MEDIA: Besides qualified account executives, we offer links to carefully screened and experienced Christian and secular artists, broadcasters, computer specialists and software engineers, designers, editors, filmmakers, fundraisers, Internet and World Wide Web marketers, journalists, logistics experts, PA’s, photographers, publicists, producers, proof readers, videographers, writers and all kinds of other creative and communications skills. (We vet and pre-screen young interns in all these areas too, especially PA’s and "in-house" traffic managers to work on your location.)
• HOW IT WORKS: We assign CIS-INC PCEN Talent Team members from our experienced PCEN talent bank. Screened introductions to these contractors are FREE with your acceptance into CIS-INC CHURCH MEMBERSHIP.
• ADDITIONAL SERVICES: The CIS offices provide CIS-INC CHURCH MEMBERS with support services that reduce your costs of operation by providing billing, receipting, scheduling and the other support services you need on an affordable “cost plus basis.” This access to division of labor frees you up to do what God has called you to do best.
• ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE: Right now, I am the Senior Account Executive but as we grow, we will soon have more Account Executives or sub-producers who will manage your work assignments. Why should you "wait tables" in the media world when God has called you to serve elsewhere in his harvest field?
• MUTUAL ACCOUNTABILITY: Remember, you’re not alone when you sign up for CIS-INC CHURCH MEMBERSHIP. I am here to watch your back as you watch mine – and I am dedicated to providing you with confidential, honest coaching. "No human being wants you to succeed more in your divine mission than I do" – that’s my personal mission statement when it comes to your church outreach mission.

Hopefully, you’ll find all this an answer to your prayers. I want you to be totally fee to serve the Lord with all your heart. I, and the whole CIS Talent Team, will work to make your ministry efficient, excellent, Christ-honoring and sustainable.

If you’re tired of struggling alone with your communication problems, why not decide now that you will in faith, unity and harmony with others? You need the support of the CIS Talent Team. I look forward to hearing from you TODAY. Send in your MEMBERSHIP check now or CLICK HERE to sign up right here on the website.

Yours in Christ,

Bill Bray, Founder and President

P.S. Please call me for your first consultation, but only after you’ve joined CIS, Inc ($29) and prayerfully read the "pros" and "cons" below. I am waiting to talk with you about your needs and God given vision. CLICK HERE to join now ... and then call me.