About Focus
This web site and the associated podcasts and training courses are produced
and distributed by Focus as a Bible-based response to the challenges
of contemporary culture. Focus is a mass media
and multi media agency based in the UK, specialising in creative ways
to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with people today.
'Seize the Day' podcasts
'Seize the Day' is a new series of podcasts from Focus,
launched in February 2009, all about finding starting points for the
Good News of Jesus Christ in our world today.
Mike Frost's tour of the UK
In 2008, Focus organised (in partnership with the Evangelical
Alliance) a tour of the UK by Australian writer, speaker and missiologist
Mike Frost. You can listen here to the audio from Mike's talks in Southampton
on 3rd and 4th October.
'Slipstream: leaders in formation'
Slipstream is an innovative bundle of resources from the Evangelical
Alliance for younger and emerging leaders. Focus produces the Slipstream
podcasts, which in 2008 featured leaders such as Terry Virgo, David Jackman,
Shane Claiborne, Bishop Tom Wright, and Mark Driscoll.
'Facing the Challenge' courses
This is a suite of courses for home groups, cell groups, Christian Unions
and individuals, including the original 'Facing the Challenge of our
times' course, and more recently, 'Facing the Challenge of Television,'
'Facing the Challenge of a Hostile World,' 'Meals with Jesus,'
'Facing the Challenge of Other Faiths,' 'What Muslims believe,' and 'What
Hindus believe.' From the start of 2009, these courses are all
available free of charge as digital downloads from this web site.
The Olympics
In September 2000, Focus organised a partnership of radio organisations
to send seventeen broadcasters and journalists to Sydney for the Millennium
Olympic Games. They broadcast reports and interviews in nine major languages
to hundreds of radio stations on all five continents.
The Russian world
Focus produces 'Abundant Life'- a series of training programmes
based on the course of the same name published by SEAN - Study by Extension
for All Nations. We have broadcast 'Abundant Life' in Russian, Latvian,
and several other languages of the former Soviet Union, as well as in
English.
India
Focus also produced 'Leadership Now' - a series to train and
encourage isolated rural pastors and evangelists in India. Initially
in English, we later broadcast these programmes in Hindi and Tamil as
well, with the Tamil programmes attracting one of the largest-ever letter
responses to the station that transmitted them.
World of Science
Founded in 1976 to produce radio programmes for international evangelism,
Focus produced the news programme 'World of Science' for many
years. We broadcast this successfully all over the world. As
well as scientific news, it included interviews with leading research
scientists who were also followers of Christ, and comments on scientific
issues (such as the ethics of Genetic Engineering) from the perspective
of a follower of Christ.
David Couchman - Director
Focus's Director, David Couchman, has a respected Bible
teaching ministry. Many of his sermons can be found on this web
site. David has led seminars at national events such as the Christian
Resources Exhibition, Keswick
Convention, and FIEC Conference.
David is married to Judy,
and they have two adult daughters. David and Judy are part
of Above
Bar Church, Southampton.
Listen to Phil Prior interviewing David about Focus's vision
Trustees
The Trustees of Focus are:
- Stephen Dray
- Richard Ostler
- Phil Prior
- Simon Sheehan
- Brian Williams
- Steve Williams
- David Wiltshire
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Focus's Basis of Faith (What
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Focus is Registered Charity no 298007 in the UK (the equivalent
of a 501(c)(3) organization in the USA), and a member of Global
Connections.
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