November 11, 2025
GNPI Celebrates 50 Years of Ministry
Good News Productions, International (GNPI) has reached the half-century mark for using media and technology to share the gospel around the world and empower other Christians to do the same.
Articles for tag: Mike Schrage
August 25, 2023
GNPI’s Mission15 Initiative Aims to Reach 1 Billion People
Mission15—Good News Productions International’s initiative to share 1 billion gospel invitations around the world over the next seven years—grew out of a day of prayer and fasting late in 2022. . . .
September 21, 2022
GNPI Sale of Studio Building to CIY Seen as ‘Win-Win’
Good News Productions, International has completed the sale of a building that houses two studios in Joplin, Mo., to Christ In Youth in a deal should advance the work of both ministries.
GNPI Releases Animated Bible Video Series for Children
Good News Productions International has released a new animated video project for kids in hard-to-reach places—especially Muslim-majority countries. The "Amazing Stories" series—10 years in the making—features videos depicting 10 Old Testament and 10 New Testament stories. Each video is about five minutes in length. . . .
April 14, 2021
GNPI Launches ‘100 Lights’ Campaign (Plus News Briefs)
GNPI has launched a “100 Lights” capital campaign to raise $1.45 million over the next two years with the vision of using “media and online curriculum to train more people around the world on how to use technology as their tools to attract and teach people . . . about Jesus,” president Mike Schrage announced via Facebook.
September 2, 2020
Empson Shares about ICOM’s Challenges During 2020 (Plus News Briefs)
The challenges and struggles Dave Empson and the International Conference on Missions (ICOM) have faced this year were the subject of the Face > Fear podcast hosted by Mike Schrage of Good News Productions International (GNPI) on Monday. And the challenges have been many—physical, financial, logistical, and organizational. GNPI wrote on their website: “The table seemed set for the International Conference on Missions’ biggest year yet. They had a popular location in Indianapolis, a talented president in Jeff Vines, and a remarkable main speaker in Ravi Zacharias. And then, a few weeks ago, they made a change. ‘We decided to switch
October 1, 2016
Helping Churches Help Refugees
By Jennifer Johnson The plight of refugees around the world captured our attention and our sympathy this past year. But even before that, Mike Schrage was working to create real solutions within the Restoration Movement. Schrage, executive director at Good News Productions, International (Joplin, MO), is also president of the 2016 International Conference on Missions, and he began brainstorming several years ago about a unique initiative for this year”s event. With help from friends and ministry leaders, he”s developed The RISE Project, an initiative to raise $250,000 in grant money for churches that want to minister to international students and
November 17, 2015
Mike Schrage, ICOM 2015
Mike Schrage, executive director with Good News Productions International talks about the need for churches to make better use of technology and how that will be the subject of the 2016 International Conference on Missions, scheduled to meet in Lexington, November 17-20. (He”s the president.) Click here to see this interview with Mark A. Taylor.
November 12, 2015
Mobilize and Accelerate
By Mike Schrage Go and make disciples. This 2,000-year-old command from Jesus is just as compelling and encompassing as ever. It”s a command for obedience. It”s a command for commitment. What must we do today to obey the command? Robert Coleman said, “Evangelism is not an optional accessory to our life. It is the heartbeat of all that we were called to be and do.”1 How”s the American church doing with this command to go and make disciples? Let me share a heart that”s full of concern for the bride of Christ found within our nation”s borders. We”re living in
December 11, 2014
50 Ways Your Church Can Fight Poverty
By Jennifer Johnson Most Christians want to do something to address the problems of poverty. But many of us just don”t know where to start. Here are 50 ideas, shared by 15 Christian leaders from around the world, to help you show the love of Jesus to those who are poor. Almost any of us could try at least one of these strategies. Get Practical 1. Create a community garden. Each year ours produces thousands of pounds of healthy food that is distributed to hundreds of families in our community who live below the poverty line. They are invited to
November 21, 2014
ICOM Interview with Mike Schrage
Mike Schrage, president of the 2016 International Conference on Missions to be held in Lexington, Kentucky, talked about the work of Good News Productions, the impact through the decades of the missionary conference, and his plans for 2016. See the video interview with Editor Mark Taylor, from the exhibit floor of the 2014 ICOM, here.
February 20, 2012
Sending, Serving, Reaching: Good News Productions International
By Jennifer Taylor Good News Productions International (Founded 1976) P.O. Box 222, Joplin, MO 64802 www.gnpi.org Mike Schrage, Executive Director Many organizations exist to evangelize the world; the mission of Good News Productions International is accelerating the work with relevant, culturally sensitive media strategies. “We offer the church an opportunity to use first-world technology to reach Third World cultures,” says Executive Director Mike Schrage. “Our team in Joplin is just a small part of our ministry””we have regional production centers around the world and we touch a million people each week with our audio, video, and print projects.” These initiatives
March 13, 2011
Beyond Borders
By Mike Schrage Every once in awhile I read (as I am sure you do) something that stops me in my tracks! An article in the April 11/18, 2010, issue of CHRISTIAN STANDARD was just such a heart-stopper. The article was titled “Mega See, Mega Do,” by Kent Fillinger. Kent, a friend of mine, has for several years undertaken the study of megachurch growth, an American religious phenomenon that has been quite spectacularly manifested inside the Restoration Movement. How, where, and why it is occurring are very important issues, and Kent has gathered and processed tons of statistics surrounding these
February 28, 2010
Honor Where It”s Due: A Report on the 2009 National Missionary Convention
By John Caldwell My first experience with the National Missionary Convention was when it came to Joplin, Missouri, in 1965 while I was a student at Ozark Bible College. A few hundred people met at Memorial Hall with Woodrow Phillips, Ozark”s missions professor, serving as president. The halls were lined with displays, mostly homemade. Quite honestly, there is little else I can remember except that I felt honored to be in the presence of missionaries from all around the world whom I considered to be heroes of the faith. It would be many years before I would attend the convention
April 5, 2009
Which “˜E” has Priority? Economy or Evangelism?
By Mike Schrage Economy or evangelism””which has our attention, and which is our priority as reflected by our calendars and checkbooks? In the past 14 months, I”ve had the opportunity to see God”s people in action in Bosnia, Kenya, Afghanistan, Mali, Uganda, and Sudan. The needs are astounding in every place, in every way. Life is difficult, and the challenge of living a godly life in some of these countries is outright dangerous! Yet Christian people are there working, serving, and evangelizing. The church is making inroads in these hard areas, but more resources are needed. And in Africa, the
February 10, 2008
Compelled to Pray
By Mike Schrage The four-day National Missionary Convention requires more than a year of planning, preparations, and prayer from hundreds of people you will never see on stage. In missions, for every cross-cultural “goer” there are hundreds of “senders.” So too, at the convention, for every person in the public eye or onstage, there are many more servants behind the scenes to guarantee that all goes as planned. None of them are more important, or perhaps more unknown, than the army of those who pray for the convention. Prayers of Preparation The NMC venue is chosen three years in advance,
January 29, 2006
TESTIMONY FROM AFRICA: Dancing for Joy!
A mission trip to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, revealed “bundles of joy”—believers dancing forward to give sacrificially in the midst of hardship. Their generosity and hope offer a lasting lesson in joyful giving.
January 25, 2006
Joyful Givers
Jesus said it is more blessed to give than to receive—and research suggests generous people report greater happiness. A Zimbabwe church’s jubilant offering challenges us to recover cheerful, impact-focused giving.
