Empower recently facilitated a training for the staff of Sonrise Ministries in Jinga, Uganda. Sonrise started as a home for orphan babies in 2009. It has since grown into a Baby Village, a Children’s Village, a Home for street girls, and three community schools. Running all these ministry operations is a work of love for … Read more
For years, Empower Minister Linda Ikeda, RN MFT, has traveled to Malawi, often accompanied by Empower Minister Missionary Sue Kerrigan, RN, bringing two seminars Linda developed: Healing from Trauma, and Created to Belong. The first is to help people suffering from trauma to find healing. The second is for caregivers of those who are traumatized, … Read more
Empower Minister Linda Ikeda recently returned from Africa. She and Sue Kerrigan changed lives in Malawi and Rwanda. Here is her report: By God’s mercy and your prayers, I am safely and healthily home from my recent travels in Africa. This trip, my twelfth and Sue Kerrigan’s fifth, was particularly fruitful. We taught all three … Read more
Our team of faithful Empower ministers are preparing for summer travel to bring hope and healing to families across the globe. Please consider supporting them in prayer, and financially if God leads. Whether the topic is healing from trauma or what the Bible says about men and women, Empower seminars bring biblical truth with immensely … Read more
Our ministry comes alongside leaders to help combat the root causes of abuse, abandonment and injustice. One of the important ways we do that is through our teaching on trauma. Two seminars, Created to Belong & Healing from Trauma, both address this issue, helping both the traumatized and their caregivers. Created by Linda Ikeda, LMFC … Read more
The following is part one of our March trip report. Carrie Miles and Donell Peck visited Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya this month, and had a very productive visit to several churches. by Carrie Miles With some trepidation, Donell and I agreed to fly KLM for our 2017 ministry trip to Africa. We’ve had some unfortunate … Read more
Linda Ikeda recently returned from Malawi. Here is her report. I arrived home recently after a 35-hour return journey from the beautiful country of Malawi, Africa. I want to thank you for all your prayers and support as I prepared, participated and returned from this endeavor. This was my tenth trip to Africa, my third … Read more
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
Linda and Sue arriving in Malawi after 30+ hours of travel Dear Family, Friends, Supporters and Prayer Partners, I am safely home and rested from my 17 day trip to Malawi, and want to thank you for your prayers, support and “atta girls”! There were a total of eight flights and I can’t even tell … Read more
Dear Friends, Family and Prayer Partners, We are joyously and safely home from Africa thanks to your prayers! Considering that we had 8 flights where multiple things could go wrong with each one, we had very few glitches-one suitcase that arrived a day late, and one delayed flight which meant we missed our connecting flight … Read more