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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 Christian Apostolic Church Gets New Pastor, Launches Website & Community
Campaign
Growing the church and expanding its presence in the community takes
time, but is worth the effort, says new pastor.
Saturday, January 18, 2003 -- Christian Apostolic Church,
located on N. 20th Street at Arlington, now has not only a new pastor and first
lady, Reverend and Mrs. Doug & LaDonna Joseph, but also has launched a
campaign to expand its presence in the communities of Clarksburg, Bridgeport,
and surrounding towns. The new pastor comes highly recommended, having
ministered at the church's international headquarters offices for nearly seven
years. He concluded his time there in the role of Media Director for the Home
Missions Division, which serves the needs of both new and established churches
across the US and Canada.
Pastor Doug Joseph has extensive experience in design and considerable skill
in public relations, brand awareness, and marketing, having headed up creative
teams for advertising in major publications including Time magazine,
USAToday, and MacLean's magazine, a Canadian publication similar to
Time. Rev. Joseph also served as team leader for a national public
relations/evangelism project called "Ready To Be Free" during its groundwork
phase, and he still serves as coordinator for the program, now in its second
year of work to bring continuity to various public relations efforts of the Home
Missions Division of the United Pentecostal Church International (the parent
organization of Christian Apostolic Church).
"Ready To Be Free is both an evangelism effort and a P.R. campaign," says
Joseph. "The idea is to inject centralized, web-based evangelism capabilities
into all our P.R. efforts, and also to instill good P.R. value into all our
efforts that were previously evangelism-only. By creating and then attaching a
consistent brand-image across the board to all our evangelism efforts, we
increased the overall effectiveness of everything we were already doing. We
didn't reinvent all our 'wheels,' but we painted a brand-image on a lot of
existing 'wheels.' We also created some new tools—really effective and exciting
tools—like CD-ROM-based Bible studies that show testimonies on-screen using
QuickTime video, and a broad appeal website that serves as a central landing place for souls
in search of truth or who are trying to locate one of our 4,200 churches across
the US and Canada. That address is
www.readytobefree.com."
Christian Apostolic Church has been winning converts and making disciples in
Clarksburg for over 30 years. Rev. Joseph is the church's fourth pastor. The
church's recharged vision for getting the gospel message out to the community
includes a renewed zeal for personal witnessing (using new gear from the Ready
To Be Free program), teaching in-home Bible studies freely available to all, and
reaching out to the church's former members, as well as ongoing efforts to
elevate the community's awareness of the church and its services—through both
old-fashioned door-knocking and new technologies, like CD-ROMs and the church's
new web site, available at:
www.cac.us.com.
A new Bible study group, consisting of local police officers and dispatchers,
has chosen the church as their first location to meet. "That has caused even
more excitement," Rev. Joseph adds, "In just the couple of months since we've been here, the
Lord has helped us to reach new people. Each time a newcomer is touched by God's
Word and filled with the power of God's Spirit, it makes all our efforts worth
while. We're very excited about the future... about the potential here."
For More Information Contact:
Christian Apostolic Church
Rt 3 Box 303C, Clarksburg, WV 26301
Tel: (304) 624-4459
Email: pastor@cac.us.com
Internet: www.cac.us.com
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