Evangelism – James & Carolanne

A Ministry Opportunity

Tue, 24 Mar 20 16:13:31 +0000

Dear Friends,

I trust you are well. We are currently living in a very unusual time. COVID-19 has driven people indoors and online to find new ways of connecting with others.

As an Internet ministry, this presents us with a tremendous opportunity to share and help people who are turning to the Internet to look for answers and support. We want to respond to people online with God's love and compassion, leading them closer to Jesus.

For this we need many more Christians to be willing to sign up and be trained as mentors in https://tmm.io. Please pray that God would continue to bring people to the ministry. Please also consider if this is an area you could volunteer.

People who sign up as mentors don't need any special training or qualifications. They simply need a willingness to listen, pray with and encourage people who write in needing support.

Thank you for your prayer and your consideration,

James W.

Branching Into New Countries

Tue, 09 Apr 19 21:46:09 +0000

Dear Friends and Supporters, The past several months have been a whirlwind of activity. We are in the process of building several new partnerships with teams on the ground in places like Indonesia, Liberia, New Caledonia, Jordan and Singapore. Teams in many of these places are joining with us to build evangelism and mentoring strategies to reach their own people, often in their own language, to lead them closer to Jesus. And that is what our team is all about!

The world is online, we help them know Jesus.

Just recently I had the opportunity to connect with a man leading a team in Jordan. They work to help facilitate connections between new believers and churches or individuals in the middle east who can help them take the next steps in their faith. This team is partnering with us to use our mentoring software to make some of these connections and has even volunteered to translate the platform into Arabic. This means we can have Arabic speaking mentors using the software in their own language and connecting with new Arabic speaking believers. In another initiative, one of our staff members with a heart for reaching Liberia has created a special Liberia edition of one of our evangelistic sites. He is in contact with a minister in Liberia who has planted 21 churches, leads a seminary, does some urban ministry on the streets of Monrovia, and is interested in trying our online strategy in his context. We used Facebook advertising to specifically reach people in that country with ads for that site and within 48 hours a $20 investment brought in 17 new people in need of mentoring. In the country of Indonesia a team has been working diligently to create their own translated and adapted version of our evangelistic IssuesIFace strategy called CeritakuCeritamu. They are focused on reaching people in-country using Bahasa Indonesia and connecting them with their own Indonesian speaking mentor. They are also translating the mentoring platform into Bahasa Indonesia in order that Indonesian mentors can use the platform in their own language and respond to people from their own country. You may have heard in previous letters that we were reaching people in the country of India as well. This strategy is continuing and has seen some really great responses and success. We are now working to translate the MyStruggles site into both Punjabi and Hindi in order to reach an even wider segment of the population. We are working with people in-country to provide the best possible resources. These are just a few of the many different strategies and partnerships we are currently working on or have developed. I didn't even mention Iowa, Singapore, Brazil or North Africa. One of our ministry's biggest needs right now is for more mentors. In the words of our Lord, the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. We really do need more mentors (and also staff) who have a heart for ministry and would like to help contribute to the fulfillment of Jesus' great commission. Please pray for more people to join us. If ministering to one of these countries I've mentioned touches your heart, please don't hesitate to connect with me for more details, or sign up to be a mentor at tmm.io. Thank you for listening! Thank you for praying! And thank you to those of you who give financially to help us continue in this ministry. Check out our blog for other updates and more personal family stories.

Global Daily - Feb. 2017

Tue, 24 Jan 17 16:40:03 +0000

Dear CHC Friends and Supporters, Thank you very much for your ongoing prayer and support of us in our ministry with Power to Change. We are very grateful to have the missions team and congregation standing with us so faithfully in this work. Every month hundreds of people around the world are led to know Jesus personally. This happens through our sites and through conversations with our online mentors and staff. It is amazing to be part of a ministry that God has been using in such a powerful way to reach the lost. The world is online, we help them know Jesus. Thank you for your part in allowing this to happen. James Warkentin

Our Passion - June 2016 Newsletter

Tue, 28 Jun 16 16:41:34 +0000

I would like to share a little bit with you about why it is that I continue in this ministry. Carolanne and I believe that God loves every person in this world passionately and longs to see each one return to a right relationship with Himself. In the sacrifice of Christ He made a way for each of us to be reconciled to Himself. As followers of Christ, we have been given the task of sharing the message of His love and plan for salvation with those who are still lost. People around the world today are hungry for answers and are searching for them on the Internet. (online) We have the chance to provide them with those answers. This is such an amazing opportunity! The people are coming to us! We simply need the ability to provide the answers they seek and respond to them in love.

I'm glad to have stumbled upon that site and have met you and be able to talk to you about all my problems and the things I'm facing. A little girl died today, she took her life because she was depressed and I'm so grateful God has placed you in my life to keep me on the right path and help me grow closer to him - From a visitor

Working with The Life Project, we answer this problem in the following ways:

We provide websites with the information that the people are looking for.
We encourage the people on those websites to enter into a more personal discussion with our team.
We train mentors, volunteers and churches to respond to these people and encourage them to take the next steps in their journey towards knowing God.

The impact of this strategy has been incredible. Literally every day we hear about how someone across the world prayed to accept Jesus, or was built up in their faith, or was encouraged to go out and share their testimony as a result of the mentor speaking into their life. We have conversations with people in India, China, Afghanistan, Iran… not to mention those in the western, more accessible countries.

I want to adopt Jesus but I don’t know what to pray. All the people around me are Muslims and if they know I will be killed. - Recently from Afghanistan

This is what gets me up in the morning. This is what really makes everything worth it. God is doing mighty things in and through this ministry. He has placed us on the leading edge of this mission field and has been using us in amazing ways. There are so many more stories like these, of people who's lives have been changed for eternity because of God working through us on the Internet. If you are among those who give financially to us, I want to say a special thanks. I was reminded recently of how we are all really just stewards of God's property and how to an extent He leaves it to us to choose how and where to invest for the best return in His kingdom. Thank you for investing His funds, entrusted to you, in this ministry. They really do reap great rewards. Thank you for praying for us. Thank you for supporting us. Thank you for serving with us. We feel so incredibly blessed to have faithful people on our team who really "get it". To learn more about how you could get further involved visit /making-a-difference/

Some Statistics

Fri, 10 Oct 14 09:52:56 +0000

Normally, raw statistics are not all that inspiring. I thought these were worth sharing though. This is a glimpse into why I do what I do. These are from our website www.powertochange.com So far today on just this site, there are 24 people who have indicated that they've decided to accept Jesus as their forever-friend. And the day isn't over yet.

Share Our Facebook Posts

Mon, 17 Mar 14 15:18:01 +0000

Hey all! I know I have mentioned this in past newsletters, but I thought I would mention it again. If you would like to help us raise more support, one way that you can do that is by linking and/or re-sharing our facebook posts. There is one in particular that I just posted that would be a great place to start. This is a picture of what it will look like. Click here or on the picture to see the real thing. When you share, you will have an opportunity to write something about us. Feel free to copy the text from this post, or even just write your own. Thank you so much for helping us build our team. James W.

Recent Activities: The 35 Day Challenge

Fri, 20 Apr 12 16:27:48 +0000

The past few weeks/months have seen our team incredibly busy with a new initiative called the 35 Day Challenge. Designed as an evangelism training solution for Christians, the 35 day challenge can help you walk through the steps needed to learn how to share your faith effectively with other people. My part of this work has been in building the website and programming the technology that allows the website to function properly. (yes, if you find bugs, you can mention them to me. :) ) It has been quite a major process but it's been really rewarding to see all the people who have already joined from many different parts of the world including some very "closed" countries. The general idea of the site is to encourage believers to take new steps in their faith and to teach them very practical ways that they can begin to share their faith effectively with others. Now that most of the technology has been created, we have started to challenge churches to consider taking their members through it. One such church that has started this process is Centre Street Church in Calgary, AB. The 35 Day Challenge was also featured this week on CanadianChristianity.com! Read the article here: http://www.canadianchristianity.com/faith/ministry/thirtyfive-days-life/. Would you join us in praying that we would reach our goal of having 2000 Christians take the 35 Day Challenge? If you are interested in learning more or if you would like to take the challenge yourself, please visit http://35daychallenge.ca.