Donation Match that Doubles your Impact

Back in December 2012, Empowering Action was formally launched. As we head into our 10th year of ministry, we are excited to announce that a generous EA supporter has agreed to match all donations through the end of the year up to a total of $50,000.

Below is one of the earliest pictures of the EA team as well as a photo of our current staff that your year-end contributions will help to support.

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While there are “faith-based” and “Christian” organizations, Empowering Action aspired to be a Christ-centered organization from its inception.

Every organization has a driving force at the core that determines its identity and establishes its character.

 In secular organizations, the driving force may be professional expertise, market share, technology, research, service or profit.

 While a Christ-centered organization will not be exempt from the influence of these factors, they cannot be the driving force.

 It is the mind and spirit of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Word of God and enacted through the agency of the Holy Spirit that drives the Christ-centered organization – from the inside out.

Seen in its vision, stated in its mission, and felt in its tone, the mind and spirit of Jesus Christ define its identity and shape its character.*

As we head into 2022, your year-end contributions will enable us to continue, through the power of the Word of God and Spirit of God, to equip Christ’s Church for greater biblical fidelity and ministry effectiveness.

*The quote above comes from David McKenna’s Stewards of a Sacred Trust

Happy Thanks-living?!?

Long before Thanksgiving Day was pronounced an official holiday in the United States in 1941, Charles Spurgeon spoke of thanksgiving hundreds of times in his writings and sermons. For Spurgeon, more than an annual event, thanksgiving was to be a way of life.

In a sermon delivered in 1915 in London’s Metropolitan Tabernacle, the Prince of Preachers encouraged thanks-living with these words:

Then, Brothers and Sisters, we ought to always be thanks-living. I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving.

How is this to be done?

By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant, delighting ourselves in the Lord and submission of our desires to His mind.

Oh, I wish that our whole life might be a Psalm—that every day might be a stanza of a mighty poem!

That so from the day of our spiritual birth until we enter Heaven we might be pouring forth sacred sonnet in every thought, word and action of our lives.

Let us give Him thankfulness and thanks-living.

We at Empowering Action are particularly grateful for “Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2) and your partnership in ministry for His glory (Philippians 1:5).

Happy Thanks-living!

Savings Group Launch in Haiti

Many years ago my pastor at the time, Lon Solomon, encouraged the congregation with the value of reading the biographies of great men and women of God.

One such individual that I have grown to greatly admire is the late Bishop J.C. Ryle, described as “bold as a lion for the truth of God’s Word and his Gospel.”

I thought of Ryle as we recently celebrated launching our Savings Groups program in 11 churches in the central plateau region of Haiti.

Bishop Ryle famously stated,

Empires have risen and fallen in rapid succession. Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Tyre, Carthage, Rome, Greece, Venice–where are all these now? They were all the creations of man’s hand, and have passed away. But the Church of Christ lives on.

Amidst the chaos in our world and notably in the nation of Haiti, Christ continues to build His Church.