Children who lose their parents go through unimaginable trauma. The loss of the person they’ve just begun to attach to, especially at a tender age, interrupts their emotional and intellectual development. Those left to care for them are often traumatized as well. In areas devastated by the AIDS pandemic, poverty, hunger, and other challenges, trauma … Read more
After a moving and successful seminar in Mozambique, African Program Director Pastor Frank Tweheyo and his wife Pastor Phobice Tweheyo traveled on to Nairobi, Kenya, where they are teaching the New Man, New Woman, New Life seminar to Anglican clergy at a local church. The NMNW seminar teaches through Scripture, starting with a look at … Read more
The African country of Mozambique is a study in contrasts. Empower recently sent a team there to teach New Man, New Woman, New Life, and as usual, the teaching brought about powerful results. Mozambique is one of the world’s poorest and underdeveloped countries in the world, but its economy is currently one of the fastest … Read more
God is opening more doors in Kenya and Mozambique for the message of Empower—including an important meeting with clergy we hope will bring our message to their congregations, potentially reaching hundreds of Kenyans. Empower teams will be traveling to several locations in the next few weeks, and we would appreciate your prayer and financial support. … Read more
This weekend, families across the United States will honor their mothers and grandmothers. Churches often make a big deal of Mother’s Day as well, honoring moms in the congregation. That’s all well and good, though we really appreciate when churches acknowledge the fact that, even as we honor moms, not every woman has children, and … Read more
The next two months are full of opportunity for Empower, as God has opened doors for us to teach New Man, New Woman, New Life at several locations in Africa. Because of our “train the trainer” model, local pastor partners will be leading the seminars. We’ve found this is a very effective way to teach … Read more
Empower International Ministries works to dismantle the root causes of abuse and inequality. We work for change, particularly in the developing world, where women and girls are often seen as property or slaves. We’ve seen transformation in places like Malawi, but we still have far to go. One example of a wonderful change is easy … Read more
In our work around the world, one of the most gratifying things to see is growth. We see it in the growth of healthy relationships, healed marriages, thriving churches. We see it in the spread of our message, when seminar participants adapt our material and use it in sermons, in training for other groups, and … Read more
by Dr. Carrie Miles During Holy Week, we often spend time reading and reflecting on Christ’s final days and hours. While that is a helpful spiritual practice, I’d like to invite you to also consider the creation story. Because at Easter, Jesus fulfilled the Creator’s promise about the special role that woman would play in … Read more
The arguments have gone on for centuries: what does Paul mean when he writes in the New Testament that Christ is the head of the church? What does he mean when he says a husband is the head of his wife? The typical battle lines on this have to do with translation: the word kephale … Read more
The following post is adapted from Lesson 9 in our Bible study, Face to Face. The gospels record many interactions between Jesus and women. Looking through our own cultural lens, this may seem unremarkable: Jesus just talked to people. But in Jesus’ world, men did not talk to women who were not their family members. … Read more
In our work in the developing world, we often find that even people who claim to follow the Bible cannot escape the syncretism that injects cultural bias into Scripture. We all read the Bible through cultural lenses. When people see for themselves what the Bible actually says, instead of what they’ve been taught, or assumed, … Read more