I have two sisters, Pam and Keri (pictured here
with me in New England in the summer of 1993).
My name is Pornochio. I grew up in Framingham, Massachusetts. I attended UMASS/Amherst, where I double majored in English and Psychology. While taking continuing education courses to get my teacher certification at UMASS, I became a Christian at the age of 23. I joined a campus church at UMASS and took part in many evangelistic outreaches.
I have two sisters, Pam and Keri (pictured here
with me in New England in the summer of 1993).
From 1988 to 1989, I worked for three semesters as a high school English teacher in Beverly, Massachusetts. During that time, I was attending a church that met in Boston. I was recommended by my pastor for a full-time writing and editorial position with The Forerunner, a nationally distributed university campus newspaper published in Gainesville, Florida. I served as the managing editor from 1989 to 1993.
During this time, I travelled to the former USSR several times, where I founded a Russian language version of the Forerunner, Predvestnik. This was an exciting time of great changes in a country where Christianity had previously been illegal. I got to make a lot of friends from Ukraine and Russia. I took part in a genuine spiritual awakening which greatly affected my life. This move of God is still going on today.
In 1993, I moved to Melbourne, Florida, a nice beach community just south of Cape Canaveral. My house is close enough to the Cape to actually feel the rockets taking off. I attend a local church here in Melbourne.
In December 1993, I founded Media House International - a ministry dedicated to the establishment of "Forerunner-type" newspapers in foreign countries. Several pastors and Christian leaders from the community serve on the board of Media House International.
Here I am preparing the film acetates for the
printing of The Mandate, a Christian
newspaper for Chinese International students. As the executive director of MHI,
my duties include writing, publishing newsletters and newspapers with cooperating
ministries, raising finances for international missions projects, traveling for
two to three months out of the year on short term missions trips to the former
USSR and Latin America, and various administrative tasks.
In my spare time, I enjoy fishing, the beach, running, and disk golf (yes, with a frisbee - try it sometime!) I also spend way too much time on the Internet!
For a while I was the newsletter editor for the Christian Coalition of Brevard County and try to stay involved as much as possible in local political and pro-life activism. For more on how I got involved in pro-life, you can read my first article ever published in The Forerunner: Why I Got Arrested In Brookline.
I am single, 36-years-old, I own the house across the street from the infamous Aware Woman Abortion clinic, around which there was a restrictive 36-foot "no-free-speech" buffer zone. We won this battle in court, praise the Lord! I sponsor through my upkeep of the Green House, a pro-life side-walk counseling ministry to women seeking abortion.
I am also the script writer and associate producer of several powerful videos by Reel to Real Ministries. These videos may be ordered through "JC Rogers Poductions."
My main goal for the next few years is to build the base of Media House International so that I may obey the Lord Jesus Christ in the great Great Commission. My vision is to have an impact on the nations by training young people in the use of Christian media. I invite you to learn more about Media House International and sign up to receive our monthly newsletter. If you will email me your name and street address, I will keep you updated on our progress in the former USSR. Learn about Predvestnik - and our outreach to Latin America - El Campeón - and some of the other missions God has called us to in these exciting times!
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