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Causes: Christianity, Religion
Mission: Radical exists to serve the church in accomplishing the mission of christ. The purpose of radical is to awaken a passion for the glory of god in all nations by encouraging and equipping christians and churches to accomplish the great commission. We long to see the church making disciples who make disciples who make disciples throughout the world - from our neighbors across the street to the unreached people groups across the globe - all for the glory of god.
Programs: There are over 2,300 hours of free resources available for download on the radical website such as video and audio teachings, transcripts, message notes, discussion guides and family worship guides for the user. Many of our free, online resources are available for download in other languages such as spanish, hindi, indonesian, mandarin, arabic, vietnamese, amharic, thai, french, farsi and russian. During this past year we continued working to translate these sermons into 5 different languages adding 138 hours of translated sermons to the website. These translated resources are available through radical. Net free of charge. During our fiscal year, we had approximately 200,000 free media downloads from the radical website. 2. 6m views to radical. Net from january 1, 2016 to december 31, 2016. Approximately 480,000 unique users on radical. Net january 1, 2016 to december 31, 2016. People from over 150 countries visited radical. Net january 1, 2016 to december 31, 2016.
secret churchdavid platt, president and founder of radical, was the featured teacher again for our secret church simulcast in which over 53,000 individuals in 50 states and over 100 countries participated. This simulcast had a direct impact in over 1,200 churches scattered across the united states. Radical provided, free of charge, the secret church simulcast and study guide to hundreds missionaries serving overseas.
preaching, teaching, writingthis fiscal year saw the continued growth of the radical blog the primary outlet for editorial content from radical. The radical blog (radical. Net/blog) received over 300,000 page views this fiscal year, with a large percentage of that traffic being driven from social media. Our blog includes articles covering a wide array of topics, as well as highlighting our events and ministry partnerships locally and globally. Our founder, david platt, spoke at different conferences throughout the united states. In addition to his speaking engagements stateside, he also preached and taught overseas. These engagements were specifically for pastors, church planters, missionaries and church leaders. He also spoke at several different seminary gatherings and student gatherings. In 2016 radical partnered with rightnow media, an online biblical resourcing agency, to offer an additional platform for individuals to access david platt's teaching. These teaching videos provided have a direct impact on local churches as there are over 5,000 churches, made up of over 1,000,000,000 subscribers who have access to these resources. This relationship with rightnow media continued throughout the current fiscal year.
assisting other organizationsradical provided several grants to other 501(c)(3) organizations in the united states. Radical provided books to several ministries free of charge.