As we joyfully celebrate our incredible 20-year mark in ministry, we’re overflowing with gratitude to God for leading us here. Thanks to your unwavering dedication to spreading Jesus’ love, over 290 million worldwide have chosen to follow Christ.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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From Our Hearts to Yours
GMO Growth (KPIs)
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Key Milestones (2004-2011)
Transformational Stories
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Key Milestones (2014-2022)
Language Team & Discipleship Timeline
25-26 Looking Ahead
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As we joyfully celebrate our incredible 20-year mark in ministry, we’re overflowing with gratitude to God for leading us here. Thanks to your unwavering dedication to spreading Jesus’ love, over 290 million worldwide have chosen to follow Christ. God granted our founder, Walt Wilson, an incredible vision for the Internet as the modern-day digital vehicle to take the Gospel worldwide. Initially met with skepticism, Walt’s vision has since rallied thousands of volunteers and donors. As a result, Global Media Outreach doubled its original goal by sharing the Gospel over 2 billion times by 2020—only possible through God’s provision and your support.
FROM OUR HEARTS TO YOURS
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At an event where Walt shared his vision for Global Media Outreach for the first time, businessman Lee Martin recalls, “Walt stands up and says, ‘Gentlemen, I’m going to present the Gospel message 1 billion times on the Internet by 2020.’ You could have heard a pin drop. The people in the room were too respectful to roll their eyes, but they thought he was crazy. They thought he was nuts. My response in my heart and my spirit was, ‘This guy’s either crazy or the Lord has to do this.’” Through each milestone, it has been you, our supporters, prayer warriors and volunteers, working together to fulfill the great commission. We could not have reached any goals without your faithful support. We appreciate each of you and cannot wait to see what God is going to accomplish in the coming years.
With your help, we remain fully committed to leveraging technology so that all people can come to know Jesus Christ as Savior and grow in a personal relationship with Him. Please join us in commemorating this Gospel legacy as we celebrate 20 years of sharing the salvation message of Jesus globally online.
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GOSPEL REACH
128,163 1,132,292 14,215,528 25,059,691 37,490,695 80,754,140 185,439,630 307,025,098 481,887,357 751,381,367 1,156,820,295 1,440,137,367 1,566,469,799 1,670,766,827 1,793,719,805 1,923,576,294 2,054,787,458 2,222,934,163 2,363,211,907 2,564,785,142
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2008
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NEW CONTACTS 2004
2023
2008
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INDICATED DECISIONS
2004
21,066 172,114 587,946
1,602,460 3,907,333 11,603,961 26,141,599
2008
42,355,908 66,437,564 98,319,574 134,073,873 157,959, 511 169,561,568 181,566,425 197,805,350 218,755,767 236,676,248 254,681,966 267,173,115 286,150,464
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2018
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2023
2013
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20 YEARS OF
Our founder, Walt Wilson, explaining an overview of the ministry.
2004
OUR DRIVING QUESTION “What if we can reach 1 billion people with the Gospel by 2020?”
The first GMO campaign begins with a spiritual website in conjunction with the film “The Passion of the Christ,” which leads GMO to build a global website in more than 20 languages.
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2005 MILESTONES John Beckett partners with GMO to launch (Life’s Greatest Questions, which is now called caniknowgod.com), a website geared towards business professionals.
2006
More than 40 different websites for evangelism and discipleship are launched and a secure, state-of-the- art email response system (ARC) is developed which allows Volunteer Online Missionaries (OM’s) to safely communicate with people in some of the world’s most dangerous and closed areas of the world.
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2024
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The evolution of phones since the start of the ministry.
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The U.S. launch of the first iPhone, followed by Android a year later, marked a monumental shift as over 90% of web traffic moved from computers to mobile devices, taking the Gospel to the world’s most remote corners.
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2008
More than 12 million people visited Global Media Outreach websites. Indicated decisions more than doubled to 2.3 Million from the previous year (one every 15 seconds). The GMO witnesstoall.com map is launched, which shows live results of Gospel impact.
2009
Within five years, GMO shared the Gospel with more than 80 million people across 14 languages, more than 11.5 million people indicated decisions to follow Jesus, and 1.7 million initiated follow-up and discipleship.
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2010
More than 14 million indicate decisions for Jesus. Online Missionaries respond to over 1.9 million requests for follow-up.
2011
GMO launches a new website, GodLife.com, to continue reaching seekers worldwide, and 16.2 million people indicate decisions for Christ.
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2016
2023
Top Image: An early Google display ad Bottom Image: YouTube Video Ad for the Authentic You campaign
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Online Missionaries responded to more than 2 million new contacts. At the same time, over 24 million indicated decisions for Jesus, and over 174 million people saw a Gospel presentation through one of our 150 websites. GMO begins running ads on Facebook, revolutionizing Gospel outreach.
2012
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We have been involved with GMO since 2012. That year, we chose to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary on June 2, 2012, by making our first significant gift to the ministry with the objective of reaching a million folks with the Gospel in a 24-hour period. The Lord blessed that decision with over 1 million Gospel presentations and 168,901 decisions for Christ. Over the years, GMO has become one of the top five charities we support financially. We have continued to support the ministry because we love the mission of reaching the world with the Gospel through leveraging technology using Internet ads and ubiquitous cell phones. We also enjoy being able to participate in the annual inspirational and fun partner gatherings as a couple.
Sam and Linda Bradshaw Houston, Texas
2013
GMO partners with Pastor Greg Laurie and Harvest America. The partnership model is used worldwide to increase on- the-ground connections in-country.
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A JOURNEY FROM NONBELIEVER TO ONLINE MISSIONARY A story about Liz Lee
I was in a very dark place in 2007. I had everything I could possibly want: a great husband, a wonderful child, a great job, and great friends. However, I was very discontented with life. I wanted to divorce my husband for someone more fun as I had only one life to live, and he was not meeting my needs. I was always looking for happiness and making checklists of things to make me happy. I Googled ‘happiness,’ and this Global Media Outreach website kept coming up. I said, ‘Christianity … been there, done that, doesn’t work,’ ... but it kept popping up. So, one day, I clicked on it and said the sinner’s prayer. I am a sinner, and Jesus is my Savior. What did I have to lose? It said my life would never be the same. The moment I said the prayer on December 1, 2007, I felt the Holy Spirit descend on me, and He changed me from the inside out. I wanted to go to church all the time and read the Bible all the time. I saw my sin and depravity (I thought I was a good person before), I stopped cursing (I
used to curse like a sailor and tried to stop but couldn’t), and I just became so sensitive to God. I thought about Him all the time and talked to Him. I looked forward to my 30-day walk with God and read it faithfully. I continued to walk with the Lord, and a few years later, I felt like I was not as close to Him as I wanted to be and looked up the GMO website again. I signed up for the 30-Day Guide on GodLife. I hadn’t thought about GMO much until I was on a mission trip recently and heard a friend talking about GMO. I mentioned that I thought that was the website that had brought me to the Lord and looked it up. Sure enough, it was! She just happened to be friends with a GMO employee in Houston, and I got an opportunity to meet him and encourage him. She also told me about ways to serve as an Online Missionary. So here I am giving back to others through GMO as an Online Missionary as it has been used as a platform to change my life radically.
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Global Media Outreach milestone — GMO presents the Gospel to 1 billion people, six years ahead of the original goal. 2014
2015
GodLife.com is translated into nine different languages and GMO launches a Gospel site to reach Arabic women with the hope of Jesus.
2016
Global Media Outreach becomes YouVersion’s largest referral partner, resulting in more than 430,000 downloads of the Bible app.
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2017
GMO decentralizes its language team worldwide which ensures that new contacts are seamlessly connected to an Online Missionary who possesses a profound understanding of their culture and life experiences. As a result, indicated decisions increased by 46 percent and new contacts by 100 percent.
2018
GMO expands its reach to Muslim-majority countries. GMO sees a 44% increase in new contacts across all language teams, with more than 1.5 million people connecting with our Online Missionaries.
2019
Indonesian Language Team launches special campaigns in response to a major earthquake and tsunami, reaching seekers at their most vital spiritual point of need.
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2004
2024
The evolution of Apple laptops since the start of the ministry.
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Global Media Outreach milestone—GMO reaches 2 billion people with the Gospel on May 18, 2020, doubling our original goal of 1 billion by 2020!
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Global Media Outreach acquires Explore God ministry. ExploreGod.com is designed to reach a Western audience bringing 12 million followers on social media, along with hundreds of articles and video content for audiences in English and Spanish.
2022 The Middle East/North African (MENA) team launches its first online virtual Bible study, which offers prayer, Bible studies, and discipleship and allows attendees to interact anonymously.
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GMO launches a special Reach America campaign advertising both GodLife and Explore God ads across Google and social media channels, while airing a 15-second “Heaven or Not” commercial on various channels and programs such as ESPN, Fox News, Entertainment Tonight, and on a billboard in Times Square!
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LANGUAGE TEAM ADDITIONS Over the years 2004 2004 - English
2006 - Portugese & Arabic 2007 - Spanish 2008 - French
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2014 - Indonesian 2015 - Chinese 2016 - Hindi, Turkish, &
Russian
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2018 - Urdu & Farsi
2022 - Ukrainian
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DISCIPLESHIP INITIATIVES Over the years
2004
2004 - Global Media Outreach (GMO) begins as an Internet ministry for Campus Crusade for Christ International (Cru). 2005-2006 - John Beckett writes a discipleship course for new believers called “30 Day Next Steps,” which is still used today throughout our ministry in multiple languages. 2008 - Online Missionaries expand to 2,200 volunteers in multiple languages. 2010 - GMO begins Christian Growth Index (CGI) surveys to measure spiritual growth in our contacts. 2012 - GMO partners with the American Bible Society to help bring deeper Scripture engagement and spiritual content to new and prodigal believers while partnering with Christian Vision to produce short-form videos in Spanish and Russian.
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2013 - GMO launches the Next Steps App for discipleship.
2015 - The Cultural Intelligence Initiative is launched, training Online Missionaries to be better equipped to serve their disciples.
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2021 - GMO launches a new digital response system for Online Missionaries called PATH, which allows volunteers to respond to contacts from numerous online social channels across multiple languages. 2023 - Our Mission statement is updated to better communicate our discipleship initiatives: We leverage technology to invite all people to know Jesus Christ as Savior and grow in a personal relationship with Him.
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LOOKING AHEAD As we prepare for the future at Global Media Outreach, we seek to partner with you in our next God-sized vision. Within the next decade, we aim to double our impact of the first 20 years by 2033, which would be half the time! Why by 2033? Because 2033 will be 2,000 years after the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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5 billion Gospel ads that help people explore or experience the Gospel
500 million indicated decisions to accept Christ as Savior
50 million new contacts who have access to free discipleship resources
5 million new disciples who have actively engaged with Online Missionaries
All by 2033—2,000 years after the resurrection
THE 5-STAR STRATEGY
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We leverage technology to invite all people to know Jesus Christ as Savior and grow in a personal relationship with Him.
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