A Third of Us

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to talk in other languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak. – Acts 2:4

But what if you can’t physically (or even virtually) be present with others in order to share the Gospel with them? Today, June 5th, is International Day of the Unreached. In his book A Third of Us, Newell (2021) writes that approximately 3.2 billion (41% of the world’s population) are considered to be “unreached and unsaved” and who are served by just 3% of the global missionary force!

Audio Bibles

We at Empower Dreams have increasingly felt called to use audio Bible technology to reach some of these unreached and under-reached groups. 

Huge Discipleship leverage with Audio Bibles

Rugged, solar powered, long lasting Audio Bibles have proved highly effective in oral culture discipleship movements and recent partnering with Jeff Buell at 10:24, and Daniel Kinuthia at LuLuThemani, Empower Dreams helped provide more of them to Inkiito in Namanga, Kajiado county.

Over the last 10 years partnering in Kenyan and Tanzanian villages that are culturally driven by oral stories, where everyone gathers to hear one share. Many of them cannot read or write, so orality is the primary means of communicating history and truth. The vast majority of the most unreached and unengaged around the world, cannot read or write either.

These specific audio Bibles are loud enough to fill a small room, so that 30-40 can hear the Good News in each setting. Each unit lasts on average over 7 years, reaching many hundreds of the unreached with the Gospel.

If you are interested to learn how you can help bring the Gospel to oral cultures with proven ministry tools, please reach out to Info@EmpowerDreams.org.

Asian Home Churches

As we’ve partnered with Cultivate Leadership for the last 9 years, God has used the founders, Kevin and Lisa Evans preparedness and faithfulness to build amazing teams like those pictured below to help reach Asia for Jesus. This has been done with long term sustainability through ‘Cultivating high quality Leadership’ . To make it personal, Andrew and Angela, are the second and third from right below, with their team.

Would you be willing to pray for Andrew and Angela, their team, and all the many other similar teams in Asia as they face the time pressures of demanding careers, family, the preparation and needs of ministry and the tremendous government pressure?

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Complete Tragedy Leads to Hope and the Lord Used You

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The Team at Empower Dreams is so thankful to have been able to partner with you to help make this Whitfield dream a reality (pictured above).  As we all know, this blessing could not have come at a better time for the Whitfield’s and their ministry.   

Please see the note below from the Whitfield’s to you.

“Hey Guys! Just to pass our thankfulness for helping making this a reality. Such an amazing display of God’s favor and goodness. Brand new car, did not have to sacrifice anything we need here in the bush, at half the price. So thankful! We aren’t going to publish anything on our side until our Christmas letter, but wanted you all to have the joy of knowing Pappa has provided perfectly. PAYTON must be so happy...so much of this was made possible from a communities response to his life! Love you guys and thanks again for being you!” 

We praise the Lord for being able to partner with you.

Your friends at Empower Dreams.

Great new Empower Dreams Donation Options

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Empower Dreams is excited to announce that it is now an official Facebook Charity. There is a permanent Donation button on our Facebook homepage and we or you can now create Facebook fundraisers for Empower Dreams. Very important to note that Facebook does not take any fees for this service. Recurring monthly giving is supported. Facebook deposits 100% of the funds raised directly into the Empower Dreams bank account.

Empower Dreams has recently been included as a Fidelity Investments Charity. This allows people and organizations to make tax deductible gifts from their Fidelity Accounts directly to Empower Dreams.

Empower Dreams has recently been included as a Fidelity Investments Charity. This allows people and organizations to make tax deductible gifts from their Fidelity Accounts directly to Empower Dreams.

Empower Dreams has switched its website payment service to Donorbox. This service will offer more features with lower expense. PLEASE NOTE: If you have regular monthly giving set up on our website, it will fail in October. Please go to the website a…

Empower Dreams has switched its website payment service to Donorbox. This service will offer more features with lower expense.

PLEASE NOTE: If you have regular monthly giving set up on our website, it will fail in October. Please go to the website and reenter the giving particulars.

Walking with low-income people

In the original “When Helping Hurts” book, Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert highlighted the ways that our giving can have unintended consequences by creating dependency, destroying self-esteem, and several other ways.

One of the unintended consequences of the book is many American churches and ministries went into ‘Neutral’ in their benevolence giving. In their latest books, “Helping without Hurting in Church Benevolence” and “When Helping Hurts, the Small Group Experience”, they make it clear that this broke their heart and they offered one important guiding principle, when in doubt about giving and/or helping error on the side of giving and/or helping.

“Helping without Hurting in Church Benevolence” is a great resource for you, your church, and your small group while walking with low-income people.

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