Major Milestone Reached

AUGUST 11, 2016: Ten years and ten weeks after Beyond Today began airing in Canada we reached a significant milestone: 50,000 responses. The program, The Mark of the Beast, pushed the total number of responses received to date to 50,062.

Since the modest beginning on May 21, 2006, when we had 20 responses to the program Changing Your Life is Possible, we’ve seen the number of responses continue to grow.

After our first year on the air in Canada we recorded 1,761 responses. Nearly 73 percent of those responses were from people not already in our database. Of the 50,062 responses received to date we have added 22,246 new people to our database. More than 1 in 4 people in our database are a direct result of Beyond Today television.

The program that pushed us over the 50,000 response mark was called The Mark of the Beast. The program featured the study aid called The Book of Revelation Unveiled. Thirty-seven programs have offered this study aid, the highest number of programs featuring the booklet. Those 37 programs have brought in 3,610 responses, the highest number of responses for a featured publication. Put another way, over 7 percent of all the responses received have come from programs offering The Book of Revelation Unveiled.

Prophecy continues to be of interest to our viewers. Programs that have a prophetic theme generally bring in the most responses. We’ve aired 146 programs based on prophecy and have received 15,742 responses for an average of 107.8 responses per program.

Overall we’ve recorded an average of 94.1 responses per program since over the past 10 years and 10 weeks.

As we move forward we look to God to continue to bless our efforts in preaching the gospel of His coming Kingdom to Canada. We pray our next 50,000 responses will take less than ten years.

Ed van Pelt and the Media Team — United Church of God - Canada