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WHY FILTERING?

• Nine out of 10 children aged between 8 and 16 have viewed pornography on the Internet. In most cases, the sex sites were accessed unintentionally when a child, often in the process of doing homework, used a seemingly innocent sounding word to search for information or pictures.  (London School of Economics January 2002)
   
• Even 51% of pastors say cyber porn is a possible temptation. 37% say it is a current struggle.  (Christianity Today, Leadership Survey, December 2001)
   
• 25 million Americans visit cyber-sex sites between 1-10 hours per week. Another 4.7 million in excess of 11 hours per week. (MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesne Study, Washington Times, January 26, 2000)
   
• 63% of men attending "Men, Romance & Integrity Seminars" admit to struggling with porn in the past year. Two-thirds are in church leadership and 10% are pastors. (Pastor's Family Bulletin, Focus on the Family, March 2000)
   
• 1 in 7 calls to Focus' Pastoral Care Line is about Internet pornography. (Pastor's Family Bulletin, Focus on the Family, March 2000)

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A LETTER FROM OUR GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT

To My Fellow Ministers:

May God’s rich blessings be upon you in this New Year of 2005. We are believing with you that this year will be a great year of progress and revival in your field of labor.

While we are reaching out to see new souls saved, we must also work at protecting and keeping our own selves from evil and harmful things. Immediately after the Holy Ghost outpouring, Peter testified and exhorted those in the crowd to “Save yourselves from this untoward generation” (Acts 2:40). There are times we must protect ourselves and our families from the sins of the generation in which we live.

We live in a society where perversion is on every hand. Every sort of media from billboards, magazines, television, internet and even our daily newspapers bring temptation upon our society. The July/August issue of Rev. Magazine published that there are now 260 million pornographic sites on the worldwide web, up 1,800% in just five years. What got my attention is when I read the September/October 2004 issue of the Discipleship Journal, which noted that in the month of March 2004, 40% of home users, and 44% of workers with an internet connection visited X-rated sites during that month.

Ministers, whether we like it or not, the Scripture is clear that we are all simply flesh and blood and are not automatically immune to temptations of the world we live in just because we have received the Holy Ghost. Paul said it well in I Corinthians10:13: “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man …” Thankfully he didn’t stop there. He concluded by saying: “… but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

I am strongly encouraging every minister of our fellowship who has access to internet, whether it’s coming into your office, your home, or both, to protect yourself and your family by having an internet filter. To help protect our ministers, their families, and all the families of our churches, the United Pentecostal Church has partnered with an internet filtering company powered by BSafe. You can sign up for this service by clicking the Sign Up button on this website. One very significant feature is the provision of an accountability option where periodically every blocked web page attempt is sent in a report to someone to whom you are accountable.

I urge you not only to place the filter on your own computer, but to encourage your church families to do the same.

Let’s protect ourselves and our families.

Sincerely,

Kenneth F. Haney
General Superintendent

A LETTER FROM ANTHONY MANGUN, Family Relationship Commission

Parents and educators agree the Internet is an incredible new vehicle for children - providing unlimited resources that enhance education. However it has made accessibility to pornography incredibly easy. A recent study showed that 9 in 10 kids ages 8-16 yrs. have viewed porn online, most of them accidentally while doing homework. We must have - and utilize tools - to protect our families from materials that are inappropriate and even dangerous for them.

Good filtering and monitoring software coupled with good parental supervision is the best weapon to protect our families online. With effective blocking technology, we can safeguard our families from unwanted material including sexually-explicit images, violence, gambling, alcohol advertising, and ideological extremism.

Child safety on the Internet begins with responsible parenting. It is imperative that we take advantage of software that helps to protect our children and ourselves from the dark side of cyberspace.


Sincerely,
Anthony Mangun
Family Relationship Commission

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TESTIMONIALS

Letting your children go onto the internet without protection is like taking your infant on a trip in your car without a safety seat. Not one of us wants to be sorry that we didn’t do something we could have to keep our family safe. I recommend that everyone “do diligence” in providing a safe internet environment for themselves and those they love. I highly recommend the BSafeUPCI.com solution for every family.

Keith Braswell, IT Director
United Pentecostal Church International

Having raised hundreds of children who had been victims of sexual deviation acts, I know how devastating it is to a child’s life forever. Today every family is under attack, not just children in non-Christian homes, but even our Apostolic homes.

Good stewardship is not just money; it is managing God-given resources, including your family, and what comes into your home. As a matter of good stewardship of your home, we have done research on the best internet filter protection for our families. 

NO HOME among us should be without a filter on your computer system to protect your family… it’s a matter of good stewardship of your family and your God-given responsibility for about 15 cents a day. That IS good stewardship.

Stephen M. Drury, Director of Stewardship
United Pentecostal Church International

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