Welcome to the Empower community!

Empower International Ministries combat the root cause of abuse, abandonment, and injustice, so that families can be healed, communities restored, and culture transformed.

That’s a pretty ambitious goal, but twenty years of working in Africa and India has convinced us that it is possible. After all, this was in many ways Jesus’ mission. We work with leaders in developing countries, who are eager to hear about how Jesus’ teachings can transform their lives.

Our Bible study, New Man, New Woman, New Life, equips leaders to combat deadly misunderstandings of the Bible that interact with cultural understandings to imprison both women and men. Seminar participants emerge from this biblical exploration with great joy, thrilled to experience their lives as Christ’s redeemed people, and eager to step out beyond cultural limitations to find true happiness in their own identities and in their family relationships.

We also train caregivers in meeting the special emotional needs of orphaned and abused children, and also offer training on recovering from trauma. For more details, see our programs page. (link) These seminars present a biblical (yet egalitarian) perspective on these important topics.

We send volunteer teachers to train leaders in India, Africa and the United States. We operate on a train-the-trainer model to equip these leaders to make their own cultural applications, and to share what they’ve learned with their communities. We never get tired of seeing lives changed and people free to enjoy the unity, mutuality, and freedom that God created them to have.