God's World Publications, Inc.

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Summary

Since 1981, WORLD News Group has provided Biblically sound journalism that informs, educates, and inspires, to believers around the world. We began with print magazines for both adults and students, and added digital (web) news coverage along the way. Our podcast news programs followed, and then, in 2020, we introduced video news programs for students.


Contact information

Mailing address:
God's World Publications, Inc.
PO Box 2330
Asheville, NC 28802

Website: wng.org

Phone: (828) 435-2982

Email: [email protected]


Organization details

EIN: 560538016

CEO/President: Kevin Martin

Chairman: John Ward Weiss

Board size: 10

Founder: Joel Belz

Ruling year: 1981

Tax deductible: Yes

Fiscal year end: 06/30

Member of ECFA: No

Member of ECFA since:


Purpose

WORLD News Group produces sound journalism, grounded in facts and biblical truth. Through print magazines, robust online news and commentary, video news programs for young people, and podcast programs, our trained journalists report on current events both global and national so that readers and listeners can see how God is at work in the world, no matter the headlines.


Mission statement

Biblically Objective Journalism that informs, educates, and inspires.


Statement of faith

1. God exists eternally in three persons, the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit. He is the sovereign Creator of the heavens and the earth and everything that is in them. He also sovereignly governs all His creatures and all their actions after the counsels of His own will.

2. God communicates with mankind through the revelation of Himself. Without His initiative, human beings would never know Him. In His creation, God reveals His eternal power and dominion. In Jesus Christ, His Son, who was born of a virgin and who was and is fully God and fully man, He revealed Himself and his providence uniquely. Today, God is known in His written Word, the Bible, which is the inerrant and altogether authoritative revelation of Himself for us in all matters. The Holy Spirit applies that word and opens our eyes to its meaning, even as He opens our hearts to its application.

3. Mankind, having been first created in the image of God, fell from that happy condition by sinning against God. All human beings since Adam and Eve have inherited their sinful natures, corrupting our behavior, our understanding, and our emotions.

4. God, through the sacrificial death and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, has lovingly redeemed a people who are commanded to believe in Him and to live holy lives through the enablement of the Holy Spirit. After Christ's bodily return to this earth to claim His people, they will reign with Him in the life to come. Those who do not believe will be judged by God and made subject to his eternal punishment.

We seek to be faithful to all of these truths as we explore the great themes of the Bible, God's creation, man's fall, Christ's redemption, and our eternal hope as the structural framework of a uniquely Christian world and life view.

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Financial efficiency ratings

Sector: Educational Media

CategoryRatingOverall rankSector rank
Overall efficiency rating602 of 109525 of 44
Fund acquisition rating743 of 109629 of 44
Resource allocation rating866 of 109635 of 44
Asset utilization rating116 of 10953 of 44

Financial ratios

Funding ratiosSector median20232022202120202019
Return on fundraising efforts Return on fundraising efforts =
Fundraising expense /
Total contributions
8%14%13%11%15%17%
Fundraising cost ratio Fundraising cost ratio =
Fundraising expense /
Total revenue
7%7%7%6%8%7%
Contributions reliance Contributions reliance =
Total contributions /
Total revenue
91%51%52%55%51%45%
Fundraising expense ratio Fundraising expense ratio =
Fundraising expense /
Total expenses
6%7%7%7%8%8%
Other revenue reliance Other revenue reliance =
Total other revenue /
Total revenue
9%49%48%45%49%55%
 
Operating ratiosSector median20232022202120202019
Program expense ratio Program expense ratio =
Program services /
Total expenses
81%75%73%69%72%74%
Spending ratio Spending ratio =
Total expenses /
Total revenue
94%105%97%86%95%93%
Program output ratio Program output ratio =
Program services /
Total revenue
76%80%71%59%68%69%
Savings ratio Savings ratio =
Surplus (deficit) /
Total revenue
6%-5%3%14%5%7%
Reserve accumulation rate Reserve accumulation rate =
Surplus (deficit) /
Net assets
7%-37%15%78%89%1041%
General and admin ratio General and admin ratio =
Management and general expense /
Total expenses
11%18%20%24%20%18%
 
Investing ratiosSector median20232022202120202019
Total asset turnover Total asset turnover =
Total expenses /
Total assets
0.762.311.841.732.022.38
Degree of long-term investment Degree of long-term investment =
Total assets /
Total current assets
1.441.271.081.141.221.39
Current asset turnover Current asset turnover =
Total expenses /
Total current assets
1.412.941.991.962.483.30
 
Liquidity ratiosSector median20232022202120202019
Current ratio Current ratio =
Total current assets /
Total current liabilities
14.791.441.571.421.120.76
Current liabilities ratio Current liabilities ratio =
Total current liabilities /
Total current assets
0.070.690.640.710.891.32
Liquid reserve level Liquid reserve level =
(Total current assets -
Total current liabilities) /
(Total expenses / 12)
7.081.252.181.800.52-1.16
 
Solvency ratiosSector median20232022202120202019
Liabilities ratio Liabilities ratio =
Total liabilities /
Total assets
10%68%60%62%89%98%
Debt ratio Debt ratio =
Debt /
Total assets
0%0%0%0%16%3%
Reserve coverage ratio Reserve coverage ratio =
Net assets /
Total expenses
103%14%22%22%5%1%

Financials

Balance sheet
 
Assets20232022202120202019
Cash$4,537,502$6,351,448$5,497,574$3,945,638$2,358,463
Receivables, inventories, prepaids$803,005$539,810$487,089$349,436$519,649
Short-term investments$6,285$6,057$0$6,039$7,199
Other current assets$0$0$0$0$0
Total current assets$5,346,792$6,897,315$5,984,663$4,301,113$2,885,311
Long-term investments$0$0$0$0$0
Fixed assets$597,695$503,812$737,306$793,322$805,320
Other long-term assets$862,287$46,631$87,364$170,290$307,331
Total long-term assets$1,459,982$550,443$824,670$963,612$1,112,651
Total assets$6,806,774$7,447,758$6,809,333$5,264,725$3,997,962
 
Liabilities20232022202120202019
Payables and accrued expenses$1,072,441$1,319,660$1,129,105$690,882$504,314
Other current liabilities$2,639,268$3,086,726$3,092,308$3,147,950$3,299,666
Total current liabilities$3,711,709$4,406,386$4,221,413$3,838,832$3,803,980
Debt$0$0$7,853$854,354$128,258
Due to (from) affiliates$0$0$0$0$0
Other long-term liabilities$902,273$32,733$22,534$0$0
Total long-term liabilities$902,273$32,733$30,387$854,354$128,258
Total liabilities$4,613,982$4,439,119$4,251,800$4,693,186$3,932,238
 
Net assets20232022202120202019
Without donor restrictions$2,192,792$3,008,639$2,557,533$571,539$65,724
With donor restrictions$0$0$0$0$0
Net assets$2,192,792$3,008,639$2,557,533$571,539$65,724
 
Revenues and expenses
 
Revenue20232022202120202019
Total contributions$7,606,052$7,332,736$7,594,375$5,692,084$4,579,047
Program service revenue$6,983,841$6,901,540$6,195,409$5,468,166$5,645,995
Membership dues$0$0$0$0$0
Investment income$45,222$0$5,595$17,587$783
Other revenue$267,835($67,474)($51,305)($17,325)($27,245)
Total other revenue$7,296,898$6,834,066$6,149,699$5,468,428$5,619,533
Total revenue$14,902,950$14,166,802$13,744,074$11,160,512$10,198,580
 
Expenses20232022202120202019
Program services$11,858,943$10,014,867$8,123,536$7,634,068$7,038,652
Management and general$2,805,288$2,764,765$2,833,026$2,160,286$1,711,702
Fundraising$1,054,566$936,064$801,518$860,343$763,999
Total expenses$15,718,797$13,715,696$11,758,080$10,654,697$9,514,353
 
Change in net assets20232022202120202019
Surplus (deficit)($815,847)$451,106$1,985,994$505,815$684,227
Other changes in net assets$0$0$0$0$0
Total change in net assets($815,847)$451,106$1,985,994$505,815$684,227

Compensation

NameTitleCompensation
Nick EicherCCO$165,507
Kevin MartinCEO$163,810
John AlmaguerAdvertising Account Execut$163,325
Kyle CrimiAdvertising Account Execut$163,113
Brian BashamProgram Director Ww$152,900
Debra MeissnerDirector of Development$131,877
William GibsonCFO/Treasurer$33,356

Compensation data as of: 6/30/2023


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History

In 1981, The Presbyterian Journal-founded as The Southern Presbyterian Journal by L. Nelson Bell in 1942 and renamed in 1959-took a new direction. The publication had historically covered news related to church doctrine and government, mission work, and other issues directly affecting conservative Presbyterianism.

However, faithful parents across several Christian denominations began voicing a need. These parents felt called to raise up their children to discern truth in world events and issues, to honor God in their lives and even in their opinions, and to learn and live to impact the world as disciples in Christ's kingdom.

Making that calling more difficult was a news media slant that was growing more prominent in America. Mainstream news was following (or at times, even leading) a cultural drift toward a "post-Christian" culture. The days of reporting facts and leaving the reader or listener to form an opinion independently were coming to an end. Too often, the media slant was not in keeping with biblical truth. Was it possible to provide a news resource that sought to understand world events through a scriptural lens?

Under the guidance of a young publisher named Joel Belz, and with the keen editorial and teaching skills of editor Norm Bomer, the Journal launched a weekly newspaper for young people called It's God's World. The prototype issue debuted August 10, 1981. Covering not just church news but national and world news, It's God's World challenged kids to explore the events happening around the globe and to see God at work in His world, using His people for His kingdom purposes, opposing evil and dealing out mercy.

Forty years later, WORLD News Group still operates, now with publications for all ages. God's WORLD News offers three editions for kids (God's Big WORLD, WORLDkids, and WORLDteen), alongside the WORLD Watch video program for older teens, WORLD Magazine for adults, a variety of podcasts, and an internet presence for all publications. The corporation today even has its own journalists training arm, WORLD Journalism Institute.

Over the last four decades, God has blessed this Christian news media organization with purpose, growth, and impact. Hundreds of thousands of children in Christian homes, homeschools, and Christian schools have read about the biggest events-now in our history-from the perspective of devoted Christian journalists who strive to deliver facts faithfully, reporting from a position of trust in Christ and determination to tell His story in the world honestly.


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