Empower Minister Pam Frohreich is preparing for her second trip to Kenya. Pam will join Africa Director Frank Tweheyo next month in teaching the New Man, New Woman, New Life curriculum to residents of Teen Challenge, a drug rehabilitation program (for both teens and adults), and teaching a Master Class at St. Paul’s University.
Pam is no stranger to working with people impacted by drugs—she is an attorney who served as a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles County for many years. “I worked in Compton,” she says. “I walked in that courtroom with Jesus on my shoulder every day.” In her work as a prosecutor in drug cases, her goal was to be fair, compassionate and respectful to everyone she worked with, from the judge to the defendants.
Although she is retired from practicing law, she is active at Trinity Church, where sings in the choir and recently became a Deacon. She has also become more involved with Empower. In 2014, she traveled with Empower to Haiti.
In October 2016, she took her second trip, this time to Kenya. Pam and Pastor Frank Tweheyo, Empower’s director of African Operations, presented the New Man, New Woman, New Life seminar at Teen Challenge of Nairobi.
Her experience last time with Teen Challenge was very positive, she said, and she’s looking forward to returning. “They were so hungry and open,” she said. “I was impressed. There was actually less resistance to the ideas in the seminar than we sometimes find in other places.”
Pam and Frank will co-lead the seminar at Teen Challenge in Nairobi.
“Frank is just awesome,” she said. “He just loved that Teen Challenge group, because they were so open.”
She and Frank will also lead a Master Class at St. Paul University, which has welcomed Empower several times over the last few years. And last November, local leaders conducted the seminar themselves—which is always our goal.
In addition to being an attorney, Pam is also a musician. In fact, she toured with the musical group Up With People when she was younger. She was introduced to Empower by Donell Peck, a fellow choir member at Trinity Church. (Trinity is a long-time supporter of Empower.) Donell quickly introduced Pam to Carrie Miles, Empower Director and Trinity member.
Pam says she was “so impressed by the program” and the NMNW curriculum, but didn’t travel at first because of health issues. But eventually, in 2014, she traveled with Empower to Haiti. She and David Nutter led a New Man New Woman seminar there. That was a challenging assignment in many ways, she recalls. Haiti was, at that time, still digging out from an earthquake. But she learned a lot, she says, and continued to believe that the material was needed everywhere.
That’s why she has said yes to another trip to Kenya.
“It is just such a blessing to see the scales fall from people’s eyes” when they grasp the concepts in the seminar, Pam said. “I just believe so much in the material.”
Pam leaves on March 2, and will be in Kenya through March 14.
Pam has said yes to the challenge of traveling and teaching, and is eager to see lives changed in Kenya. We hope that you will say yes to praying for her, and, if you can, providing financial support for this trip. (Donate by clicking here.)
Specifically, Pam asks for the following prayer requests:
- good health now and throughout the trip
- that the Holy Spirit will open minds and hearts of participants
- that people would experience the joys of relational mutuality, embrace the material, and more clearly understand Scripture
Kenya’s churches and leaders are very open to the message of Empower. Church leaders continue to invite us to bring the message of equality and mutuality. We hope that you will help us to say yes to these opportunities by giving generously to our ministry. We cannot do it without your help! Thank you!
Read more about our work in Kenya here.
At St. Paul’s University, we have wholly embraced Empower International as our partner in training leaders in matters of biblical equality and mutuality. I have passionately lead this process as I have a special touch for women leadership development and equality and mutuality presents one of the best opportunities for this to be advanced further.
The Rev. Dr. Zablon B. Mutongu, Director SPILL & LDC, the hosting Institute for Empower International at St. Paul’s University, Kenya.