Faith Media Center is a global communication portal dedicated to connecting people of faith worldwide.

One of the most important things a Christian can do in this life is to be continually learning and growing in their walk with God. At Faith Media Center, our mission is to provide Christians and the churches that serve them with the tools and resources they need to learn, grow and thrive together in the 21st century.

We live in a digital world, and one of the greatest challenges facing the religious community today is how to connect with and engage members in a cultural landscape that is defined by digital media and immediate, anywhere, anytime access.

Religious leaders across the country and around the world, including the Pope, have called upon churches to establish their presence in the digital world of communication or risk being pushed to the margins of the cultural conversation. But while a select few “mega-churches” are fortunate enough to be able to build elaborate communication portals of their own, the reality is that the majority of churches in the United States are too small, and lack the time and resources to build the kind of presence they will need to stay relevant in the lives of both their existing congregants and new members seeking a church home.

Faith Media Center is setting out to solve the communication problem by building the most complete, comprehensive communication platform ever created for the faith-based community.

Faith Media Center’s comprehensive platform provides churches and their members with all of the tools and resources they need to stay connected in the 21st century. Through Faith Media Center, churches can:

Foster learning by giving their congregation instant access to books, music, movies, and other valuable resources that can aid their spiritual development.

Establish connections by posting news, events, announcements and other materials that make it easy for congregants to stay up-to-date with their church community.

Encourage community by creating pathways for their members to connect both with each other and with the wider faith-based community.

The result of over 3 years of exhaustive research and development, the Faith Media Center platform offers a comprehensive suite of features aimed at meeting churches’ complete content and community management needs:

Faith Media Center Website
The FMC site keeps users up-to-date with Faith Media Center and the causes we support, and provides information about each church and religious organization registered on the site. The FMC website also includes a simple registration portal where both churches and users can join the network.

Individual Church Pages
Churches that belong to the Faith Media Center network have the opportunity to create a dedicated, customized page for their ministry through the FMC website. Church pages serve as a hub where churches can post news, events, videos, pictures, directions and contact information, encouraging further engagement and connection with current and prospective members.

E-Commerce Portal
Both the Faith Media Center website and the Faith Media Center app, discussed in more detail below, include an e-commerce portal where users can find and purchase books, movies, music, sermons and other encouraging and inspirational materials. Through the Faith Media Center Give Back Program, you can choose to have a portion of any purchase directed to the worship center or charity of your choice.

Kiosks
Designed to be placed in the lobby of a church, Faith Media Center kiosks act as a way station, billboard and connection center for members and visitors as they pass through on their way to and from worship.

Administrative Portal
Faith Media Center’s cloud-based admin portal houses all the digital content uploaded to Faith Media Center. The admin portal also lets church leaders view and manage their church site, media content, and member information and activity.

Church Management Portal
The Church Management Portal provides congregation administrators with a simple, user-friendly tool to track everything that happens within the church and print reports as needed. These reports can be then imported into any fully-fledged accounting software. Our reporting system tracks every member who is registered and also follows the whole family as a group and individually

The digital age is defined not only by connectivity, but by mobility as well. With the Faith Media Center App, available on the Google Store and Apple App Store, users can stay connected to their church community anytime and anywhere, with just the tap of their smartphone or other mobile device. Features of the FMC app include:

Community Portal
The Community Portal acts as the link between churches and their members, providing news, events, groups, announcements and giving and serving information to the user in real time. Users are able to interact and register for events, join groups, give to special causes, receive special announcements and, most importantly of all, serve their church community and the community at large.

E-Commerce Portal
The Faith Media Center Store offers a rich inventory of faith-based media content and resources in both digital and physical form.

Library
Faith Media Center’s Library stores users’ purchased digital content for access on any device that has the Faith Media Center App installed.

Social Media Portal
Faith Media Center’s social media portal provides a space where church members can connect and share ideas, thoughts, pictures and videos that inspire and encourage.

Faith Media Center was founded and incorporated as a Delaware Corporation late in 2012. The company has been driven by founders Robert Bienias and Bryan Ross, who through their extensive corporate and entrepreneurial backgrounds have taken an "idea" to the point of signed content distribution contracts, church deployment agreements and, most importantly, a system platform incorporating digital media and physical product distribution through kiosks, web stores and apps.

Faith Media Center has secured an agreement with WorldPay, one of the top 3 credit card processing companies, to process the payments made through Faith Media Center platforms. Two other partnerships are in development, both of which will allow Faith Media Center to sell and drop ship physical product, such as, books and gifts to consumers.

Bob brings a wealth of senior management experience through his prior association with White Consolidated Industries and Electrolux manufacturers and distributors of major appliances throughout the US. Over a more than 30-year career, his responsibilities included product development, merchandising and financial responsibility for over 250 million dollars in annual sales. Before being one of the driving forces behind the development ofthe Faith Media Center concept, Bob acted in a consulting capacity to a number of entrepreneurial and industrial firms, either launching new products or maximizing the sales of existing product lines. In addition to his leadership responsibilities for all phases of the company’s operations, Bob leads our efforts in negotiating content distribution and key church relationships while overseeing FMC.

From his earliest days as a young man in Dublin, Ireland, Bryan has been the consummate entrepreneur, successfully owning and operating over 10 product and service companies in the US and Ireland. His ventures have included: wholesale distribution of electronic components, retail sales & marketing, manufacturing of animated figures, direct-to-consumer services in the real estate industry, real estate financing and sales and advertising sales and marketing. In his role as owner his responsibilities included: acquisition, sales & marketing, contract negotiations, training and distribution. In 2004 Bryan had the opportunity to start a digital signage company that focused on replacing the pricing/identification monuments associated with a typical gas station. Advertisers and gas station owners were excited and embraced the concept but due to changes in local zoning laws he was unable to implement the business model. That venture eventually led to Faith Media Center. Bryan’s drive and inventiveness has directly influenced both the business model and the software that is the heart of the FMC concept. Bryan’s background and entrepreneurial spirit is directed to the continued development of the FMC system as well as being instrumental in the deployment of the FMC global communication, digital and physical product distribution system

Randall Huft has a 25-year career in marketing and advertising, is a well-known speaker and author on business and marketing topics, and has developed programs and contributed to the growth of many successful companies, including AT&T, Mazda, Avis Car Rental, America Express, Toyota Motors, Winchell’s Donuts, Gateway Computers, Walgreen’s, Disney and more. Randall began his career in the television industry, and has produced and directed over 1000 television commercials, plus countless hours of television programming. After moving further to the marketing side of the business, he held executive positions for some of the nation’s leading advertising agencies, formed and led his own agency, and has amassed dozens of awards in the process.Mr. Huft has been on the board of directors of the Boy’s and Girl’s Clubs, was vice-president of the local chapter of the American Advertising Federation, and has been a member of the Direct Marketing Association,the Financial Institution Marketing Association, and director of the Chamber of Commerce.

Yamanqui was born in Mexico City, Mexico and from an early age showed his superior intellect and ability to solve complex problems. He attended high school at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), campus Gudalajara at the age of 16. After completing high school in 1999 and prior to attending College in 2002, Yamanqui worked on a project in computer animation in the movie industry. In 2002 Yqmanqui attended Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), campus Monterrey and attained a degree in Physics. During his college career, Yamanqui honed his skills in software development and, working for the local government, created and implemented software that managed population demographics as well as developing software that controlled full functioning robots. Yamanqui is fully proficient in C, C++, C#, objective-C, java, python, bashshell, ruby, SQL., Computer frameworks: Cocoa, .NET, django, REST. And Computer systems: Mac OS, iOS, Ubuntu Linux, Android, Windows. Yamanqui brings a vast array of proficiencies to the company and with his superior knowledge will ensure that FMC is always at the cutting edge of the technology curve.

Harish comes to Faith Media Center from Punjab, India, where he attained an MBA from Punjab technical university Jalandhar with a major in Marketing and a minor in Finance. He also received a B.S. (Phy, Chem, and Math) from Panjab University, Chandigarh and a Sr. Sec (Phy, Chem, and Math) From P.S.E.B. Harish is also proficient in Android, Apple, .net, PHP and many other languages all relevant for the development of state of the art apps, websites and services. His skill set in business analytics and finance as well as his software prowess makes him a valuable addition to the Faith MediaCenter team.