James & Carolanne

Our Passion - June 2016 Newsletter

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...

Feb-Mar 2016 Newsletter

Over the past few years, one-on-one mentoring has become more and more central to our ministry focus. People come from many countries in the world asking questions on our websites, and we try to match each of them to one of our mentors who can walk with them in prayer. It is amazing to see how these relationships can carry on for years as the mentors and mentees walk together along this spiritual journey. We...

Global Daily - Feb. 2015

Dear Friends, I've been asked to share a changed life story from work, so here is a message that came in just recently: "Guys I just wanna suggest you get this app. It's the best thing I've ever done for myself. You can talk to somebody all day everyday and you can get a mentor (which I highly suggest because thats what really helped me, mine is the sweetest person and feels more like a...

Mentoring Map

You may have heard about our new online mentoring tool found at tmm.io. Over the past many months we have been working to rebuild our online mentoring tool to be more useable. One of the features we incorporated recently was the ability to see the general region of the world where our mentors are serving. I find this map fascinating and it is just a small segment of the mentors we have invited to try...

Global Daily - Nov. 2014

Thank you to all of you who have been continuing to uphold us in faithful prayer. Christmas is a harder time for many of the people we connect with online. They come to us searching for meaning and hope, advice and comfort. One of our big sites these days is called Issues I Face. It is a place where people come to find answers to the issues they are facing today. Just looking through the...

A Note of Encouragement

I have written previously about how I have been working hard with our team to build our new mentoring system. We recently started moving more people into it, and other than a few minor hiccups, the response has been quite positive. I found this email especially encouraging: "The new training system is awesome and I enjoyed going through it. I like the fact that it consists of videos to cater for those who don't like...

September 2014 Newsletter

Dear Friends, This fall feels as though it is flying past. Thank you for your prayer and support of us during this past month. This newsletter is an expanded version of the Global Daily entry recently published on our site. There have been some pretty major changes around Power to Change and even our team over this past summer. One of these has been a name change. Our ministry (within the greater body of Power...

Global Daily - September 2014

Dear Friends and Family, Thank you very much for remembering our ministry in prayer over this past summer. In the past few months, we have seen God’s hand of blessing on the efforts of our team and our many volunteers. People are hearing about God’s love and coming to know Jesus in a personal way. Our traffic has doubled over the past year. This last July we saw 1596 people tell us that they had...

March 2014 Update

Thank you so much for your prayer and support of us over these past months. I trust you have had a great start to this year. Our year so far with Power to Change has been filled with quite a number of interesting activities so far. As an experiment to help those who like to skim, I have bolded the interesting parts. I'd love to hear your feedback. I travelled back to Indonesia in mid-January...

Post-Indonesia Update

Thank you very much to all who prayed for and supported us on our recent trip to Indonesia. I feel that over-all the trip went really well. For those who didn't know, Sheldon (my supervisor) and I (James) went to Indonesia for a week in January in order to meet and coordinate with two programmers who have joined our team. Marcel and Shierly will be working with us for at least six months in order...

A Mentor Shares The Gospel

I love hearing about how God is using our online mentors to share Christ.  We received this message from a person on facebook recently: "i need the blessing from you.! can u lead me a proper way please" The mentor shared his response and the results with us as follows: I told him that I would certainly pray for him and then I explained how sin builds a barrier between us and God and that...

Entry-Level Mentoring

Over the past few months, we have been running a simplified version of our mentoring system which allows new mentors a gentle introduction to the whole concept of online mentoring.  The first version was really just a quick proof-of-concept that we built to see if the idea would fly. This simplified interface (we call it Level One) has already shown great promise to be helpful for new mentors by giving them a really easy way...

Latest Updates and a Free App

With the start of the new school year and the end of summer things have begun to pick up around here again.  Though it never really gets "slow", things definitely do ramp up in the fall. A New Devotional Series: Our film team has been spending a lot of time this spring and summer working on a story-based discovery series called Treasure: Jesus is Worth Everything. They have been incredibly busy working on this project...

Suicide Thanks

We got a really encouraging email recently from the mom of a suicidal visitor who was connected with one of our mentors.  Names have been changed for privacy. This is Martha's mom responding. Thank you so much for your support of Martha. You may have been a part of saving her life. I took her to the hospital about a week ago. She was admitted & is still there. She is safe thank God We...

Saved from Suicide

Yesterday, a teenage boy wrote on a blog and said he had tried to commit suicide and didn't know what to do about his problems. After reading our mentor's response to him, he wrote back this morning: "Thanks, sir. After your response, i feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my head. I’ll try to live on, as death will only make me feel guilty afterlife. For being selfish to end my troubles...