This is a great story of how a person in Mexico was able to be connected with a mentor in Chile using the tools we have helped to create.

The site she mentions is yoenfrento.com and was developed by our team several years ago in partnership with the Latin American ministry. It is a translated and contextualized version of the issuesiface.com evangelistic strategy. The mentoring tool they use is our tmm.io software that we make available to a wide range of ministries and churches.

I personally find it incredibly encouraging when I have opportunities to see how the work I do is used by God to help people around the world. This is one of those rare opportunities when I can put faces to the names and numbers I hear about all the time.

I want to say thank you again to those of you who donate financially and pray for us in this ministry. We could not do this without your support. Your gifts allow us to be able to continue serving here at Power to Change and God is working through us in the lives of people around the world.

Dear Friends,

I'm excited to tell you about a really cool story that happened just today!

Over the past several months one of my projects has been to build a Live Chat system for our ministry. The goal was to create a tool that we could add to our evangelistic websites which would offer visitors an opportunity to chat right away in real-time with one of our online mentors.

Today we officially launched it on our primary evangelistic website, issuesiface.com!

My boss Sheldon (the director of our ministry) was the first to give it a try as a mentor. In less than an hour Jen (not her real name) popped up asking "i cant get in control of my life".

i cant get in control of my life

Sheldon introduced himself and invited Jen to share more about the issues she wanted to talk about. As they chatted, Jen was able to open up about some of the struggles she is facing. She shared that she is in Botswana and found our site because she went to the Internet searching for help.

Throughout the hour and twenty minutes they talked, Sheldon was able to turn the conversation towards faith. She shared that she was a Christian but hadn't been to church in a while. She allowed Sheldon to pray for her and to offer some suggestions for dealing with the issues she was struggling with.

What an amazing first chat on the new system!

This was such a cool conversation to have as our very first chat interaction. Near the end Jen shared "i really love this website, its the first live chat that was really helpful"

I'm so glad that I get to be part of a ministry that is making a difference in people's lives around the world! I love seeing that the work I do has a direct impact for God's glory.

Thank you too for helping support us in this! Please pray for our team that God would continue to use us to lead people closer to Jesus. That's our goal: to receive people wherever they are at, and lead them closer to Jesus.

As a result of this chat with Sheldon, it sounds like Jen is going to try going back to church. She was encouraged in her faith and given tools to grow deeper in her relationship with the Lord.

Thank you for the part you have played in letting this conversation happen!

I cannot help wondering sometimes if our work is really making a difference. Are we bringing hope to the hopeless? Are we making a difference in people's lives for eternity?

Carolanne and I donate funds towards this ministry in the same way several of you who receive this newsletter do. Are our gifts really being used to change lives and point people towards Jesus?

My own work in this is often behind the scenes building the software that allows ministry to take place. As such I don't often see the direct impact of what I do. Is it really making a difference?

To answer these questions, this morning I started to read through some of the stories and emails that have come in just in the last few hours. I'd like to share a little of what I found with you.

I'm failing at every point and its getting hard for me now, I can't find the motivation to get up and try again. I want to give my best achieve everything and I want to end it all at the same time

8 minutes ago from N**** in Delhi, India

Because of the fact that this message contained the words "I want to end it all", our system flagged it as a more urgent crisis and sent an immediate response with several suicide and counselling hotlines designed specifically for people in India. This was a feature of our mentoring system that I built several years ago, specifically for our growing India ministry. I'm glad to see it is working well!

The system has also assigned it to a mentor who wants to answer messages from India and has specifically taken our "Offering Hope in Crisis" training. And, since N**** has told us she is female, the system also chose a female mentor to respond.

As I continue to read through the messages I see people asking for help, asking for prayer, confessing sin and several considering suicide. It's hard to read and even harder to know how to help. Many of the messages are in languages that I don't speak or understand. Chinese, Portuguese, Hungarian, Russian, Slovak, Polish. That's just the past hour or two. I'm very thankful that we have over 1000 mentors from a variety of cultures and languages who are willing and able to receive these requests and help to guide people towards hope in Christ.

Hi there, as I'm a muslim want to be achristan, can I ask something? I need to what I have to do & who do help me exactly after I except Christianity.

M. A. from Pennsylvania through partnership with Luis Palau Association

Not only do we respond to these messages ourselves, but we partner with several other amazing ministries and churches working toward the same mission. We offer our tools like the mentoring system for free to these organizations so that they too can easily respond to people seeking God.

The message above was responded to by one of the Luis Palau mentors who was able to encourage M. A. to get connected to a local church.

You and I play a critical part in bringing HOPE to people worldwide!

As a result of your prayer and financial gifts and with God's grace and provision we have been able to continue in this ministry. Is our work making a difference in people's lives for eternity? Absolutely Yes! God is using these tools to touch the lives of people LITERALLY around the world every day.

Recently we put together a map with a small selection of ministry stories from around the world. You're welcome to check it out here.

Thank YOU!!!

Thank you for standing with us in this ministry. Thank you for holding us up in prayer. For those who give, thank you for using what God has given you to help advance His kingdom.

Please continue to pray for us and for this ministry. Pray for the people who write in every day looking for help, hope and prayer.

Some specific prayer requests at this time:

• Pray for the several people who have written in recently and are contemplating suicide
• Pray for more opportunities to connect with more people
• Pray for wisdom for the mentors to respond with love, grace and hope
• Pray for funding for our ministry and staff (including us personally)
• Pray for our new Malay partnership who want to work with us to develop their own evangelistic resources in Malay, Chinese and Indonesian

Thank you!

Dear Friends,

Thank you so much for your continued prayer and support of us. We are very blessed to have friends and donors who continue to surround us and this ministry in prayer.

As you may know, much of my practical day-to-day activity is writing the back-end code that runs our various software platforms and outreach sites. Right now I'm exploring how we might build a live-chat system where our visitors would be able to talk directly to the mentors while maintaining security and anonymity on both sides. Please pray for wisdom in this process, both for the building of it as well as the development of the over-all strategy.

Please also pray for our continued funding both as a ministry as well as personally.

Finally, pray that God would continue to bring technically minded people to serve with our team.

Thank you! :)

Thank you for continuing to pray for and support our family in our work with Power to Change. These past few months James has been working quite a lot with several of our overseas partnerships including China and Poland. Please pray for open doors in both of these countries as teams on the ground are seeking to build evangelistic online ministries through a variety of strategies.

At P2C::Digital Strategies we continue to develop the online mentoring platform as well as providing evangelistic tools and strategies for partners around the world. Pray that God would continue to grant us wisdom in ministry direction and effectiveness in reaching people with the gospel message.

On a personal note, we have successfully sold our place in Chilliwack and moved to a home in Quesnel. Thank you for your prayers for us in this.

Dear Friends,

I wanted to share with you some stories that were shared recently by our ministry. These come from the monthly newsletter that is sent out by our team. If you wish, you can read the whole thing here:

https://mailchi.mp/p2cdigital.com/something-good-is-on-the-way

Here are a few key excerpts that I thought you might like. The first pertains to the current crisis in Ukraine and how we can respond as Christians in prayer.

"As I write this to you, hundreds of Ukrainians are displaced and fleeing for their lives. At the same time, millions of Christians around the world are praying for peace, repentance, protection, and deliverance from evil. To help you lament and pray for those in Ukraine, here is a guide that our global office put together."

One area in which I've been spending a fair bit of time is developing the software modifications needed for a newer partner of our ministry called OnlineCare.

OnlineCare provides crisis pregnancy and abortion grief support through their online, peer counselling service to clients across Canada - and now, with our ministry's help, internationally, too! They partner with the 82 pregnancy care centres across the country and seek to support those who are not yet ready to receive in-person support or do not have access to a pregnancy care centre nearby.

OnlineCare started using a customized version of TMM.io last August and, since then, we've been able to help their peer counsellors respond to 333% more clients in just six weeks!

Over the past few months I've had the privilege of working with the OnlineCare team to customize our mentoring software helping make their ministry even more effective. They shared this beautiful story with us recently.

Seven months ago, Jenna found out she was pregnant. She struggled to imagine raising a child with her abusive husband and contemplated terminating her pregnancy. Jenna turned to OnlineCare and found a compassionate, supportive peer counsellor in Nelly. Nelly encouraged her to connect with a local pregnancy care centre in Ontario for support and counsel. Although Jenna moved back to her home country for safety and family support, Nelly continued to walk with her throughout her journey through TMM.io.

Two weeks ago, Jenna gave birth to her baby girl, two months earlier than expected. Nelly has continued to encourage Jenna with scripture and points her to resources as she navigates this new season of motherhood. 

"I know God or whoever is up there is looking out for me and my baby girl. He is giving me strength and wisdom to choose the best path for me and my baby... We are more than grateful to have your support half way around the world... " - Jenna

Learn more about our partner, OnlineCare: https://www.onlinecare.ca

Thank you for continuing to pray and support us in this ministry. We feel honored to have such a faithful team standing with us.

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.

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“I just wanted someone to know and understand how bad it has gotten for me. When I sent the last message to you, I was done and was going to end it. I got my gun out, sat there for quite a while, prayed for forgiveness, and then I stuck it to my head. I attempted to pull the trigger but it wouldn't fire, I couldn't believe it. At that moment, I knew Jesus was present and he had intervened. I called a friend of mine, told her what happened, and she took me to the hospital."

”Thank you for your continued prayers. I am visiting some friends and working very hard to put my life back together again. It has been a hard road, nothing has been easy, each day seems to be another memory to work through, but I’m doing it day by day. Thanks again for your prayers."

"I want to thank you for being there for me, you are the one who ultimately helped me find my way back to God. I trusted no one but there was something about you that led me to take a chance and reach out for help. I can’t tell you how much it meant to me to see a message from you, words of encouragement, and real concern for me. It meant more than you could ever know. Thank you for your kindness, your time and most of all, your prayers on my behalf."

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