Charles Spurgeon once praised the Apostle Paul’s zeal for ministry to the churches, stating, “We once had a Saxon king called Ethelred the Unready; here we have an apostle who might be called Paul the Ready.”

Epitomizing his eagerness, Paul said to Barnabas in Acts 15:36, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.”

One commentator described Paul as having the heart of both an obstetrician (for bringing people into the body of Christ) and a pediatrician (for growing people up in the body of Christ).

This is our heart for ministry at Empowering Action, equipping the Church to faithfully fulfill her role of salvation, sanctification, and service.

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord (salvation), so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith (sanctification), just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude (service). (Col. 2:6-7).

As Paul thanked the Philippian church for their financial support that amply supplied his ministry needs (Phil. 4:15-18), we thank you for your past and continued support of our “obstetric and pediatric ministry” to Christ’s Church.

Rest assured that each and every gift is valued, enabling us to “proclaim Christ, warning everybody and teaching everybody in all wisdom, that we may present everybody mature in Christ” (Col. 1:28-29).