There is great reward when we embrace others in need and equip them with skills (not handouts) so that dignity and sustainability can be passed on to others!
Without an investment there can be no return. From prayer to a variety of caring actions, the door to make a difference is open for you, your family, and your friends.
I will crush poverty with HOPE!
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Hope for Families
Your generosity and prayers will empower families with HOPE!
Join with emerging leaders to ignite change in their villages.
Every $25 brings HOPE to another family.
$25/month multiplies HOPE to a community.
(before your gift is processed you can instruct our finance team exactly how you want it used)
I will crush poverty with HOPE!
WHAT & HOW
Cohorts of approximately 12 emerging leaders from each village (there are 50 of them) will be equipped to empower hundreds of families in each community to experience HOPE in Christ and skills to crush poverty!
In Luke 10 Jesus called together, instructed, and sent out 72 people—from all walks of life—to advance God’s kingdom work. With few instructions and even fewer supplies they ventured into the surrounding communities. They returned full of joy to which Jesus celebrated, "I saw Satan fall like lightning!"
$25/month multiplies HOPE to a community.
Step 1: CALLED TOGETHER
A cohort of approximately 10 Emerging leaders in each of 50 villages will be equipped as the initial World Changers in their community.Step 2: INSTRUCTED
These cohorts are trained and coached on how best to transform their community though the "ELI Way."Step 3: SENT OUT
Each cohort will then collectively work with ELI to create dynamic empowerment programs, workshops and trainings to impact 300 other family leaders (heads of households) in their village.Change the Future
Invest Now with a Recurring Gift
Empowering Villages with Hope!
$25/month or $300/year empowers emerging leaders to impact their villages
(for every 25 people who give $25/month, another village can be empowered)
Invest Now with a Special Gift
Empowering Villages with HOPE!
$90 trains a woman to leave illegal brewing
$250 provides a village outreach/evangelism weekend
$1,800 empowers a village cohort to lead a community
$8,000 provides Family HOPE to an entire village
Stories of HOPE in action!
HOLDING TIGHT TO HER FAITH
Irene lost her husband when she was 6 months pregnant with their third child. She was lost and scared. An unemployed, pregnant widow with two kids under the age of 10—what was she going to do? She held tight to her faith and stayed hopeful that something would come along to help get her through this.
Because of Irene’s clear passion to pass her transformation on to others, she has been identified as one of the emerging leaders in her village. She and about 15 others from her village will soon be going through a training, coaching, and mentoring process to be equipped to reach 300 local families. Because of the hope she has received, she is excited to have this new platform that will give others hope as well! It is a blessing to walk alongside incredible people like Irene.
LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
If you want to empower a family, go first to mom.
If you want to empower a village, go next to her husband and children.
The Challenge
The Sub-Saharan region of Africa, where ELI serves, has the largest number of people living in extreme poverty in the world. If something is not done, people will continue to live in and propagate the cycle of hopelessness for generations to come. Due to the lack of skills and hope, both young and old are lured into dangerous lifestyles and vocations (like brewing moonshine) that increases malnourishment, child abuse/neglect, idle youth, the spread of HIV/AIDS, broken families, poverty, and spiritual bankruptcy.
The Short-Term Results
While the action plans developed with each community will differ from one another, key indicators of success and measurable results do exist. There will be ongoing assessment and analysis of six Key Performance Indicators:
- Increases to family/household income
- Increases in church participation/membership, access to Bible/Bible Study content, Spiritual "engagement"
- Decreases in the number of brewers
- Decreases to the number of alcoholics
- Decreases in the number of non-working/idle people
- Increases to the number people being trained, coached, and mentored
The Long-Term Impact
- Churches growing and being planted
- Individuals and families coming to Christ
- Families reconciled and dads at home more often
- Increase in family nutrition and hygiene
- More children in schools
- Economic empowerment through new small businesses being started
- Increase of local food production and trade
- Environmental conservation
- Less idle youth, crime, HIV/AIDS, abuse, addiction to drugs and alcohol
- Decrease in brewing dens and incarceration of parents
- Increased health and life spans resulting in fewer orphans
Hope for Families
Your generosity and prayers will empower families with HOPE!
Join with emerging leaders to ignite change in their villages.
I will crush poverty with HOPE!
$25/month multiplies HOPE to a community.
I will crush poverty with HOPE!
Hope for Families
WHAT & HOW
Cohorts of approximately 12 emerging leaders from each village (there are 50 of them) will be equipped to empower hundreds of families in each community to experience HOPE in Christ and skills to crush poverty!
In Luke 10 Jesus called together, instructed, and sent out 72 people—from all walks of life—to advance God’s kingdom work. With few instructions and even fewer supplies they ventured into the surrounding communities. They returned full of joy to which Jesus celebrated, "I saw Satan fall like lightning!"
Step 1: CALLED TOGETHER
A cohort of approximately 10 Emerging leaders in each of 50 villages will be equipped as the initial World Changers in their community.Step 2: INSTRUCTED
These cohorts are trained and coached on how best to transform their community though the "ELI Way."Step 3: SENT OUT
Each cohort will then collectively work with ELI to create dynamic empowerment programs, workshops and trainings to impact 300 other family leaders (heads of households) in their village.Change the Future
Invest Now with a Recurring Gift
Empowering Villages with Hope!
$25/month or $300/year empowers emerging leaders to impact their villages
(for every 25 people who give $25/month, another village can be empowered)
Invest Now with a Special Gift
Empowering Villages with HOPE!
$90 trains a woman to leave illegal brewing
$250 provides a village outreach/evangelism weekend
$1,800 empowers a village cohort to lead a community
$8,000 provides Family HOPE to an entire village
Stories of HOPE in action!
HOLDING TIGHT TO HER FAITH
Irene lost her husband when she was 6 months pregnant with their third child. She was lost and scared. An unemployed, pregnant widow with two kids under the age of 10—what was she going to do? She held tight to her faith and stayed hopeful that something would come along to help get her through this.
Because of Irene’s clear passion to pass her transformation on to others, she has been identified as one of the emerging leaders in her village. She and about 15 others from her village will soon be going through a training, coaching, and mentoring process to be equipped to reach 300 local families. Because of the hope she has received, she is excited to have this new platform that will give others hope as well! It is a blessing to walk alongside incredible people like Irene.
LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
If you want to empower a family, go first to mom.
If you want to empower a village, go next to her husband and children.
The Challenge
The Sub-Saharan region of Africa, where ELI serves, has the largest number of people living in extreme poverty in the world. If something is not done, people will continue to live in and propagate the cycle of hopelessness for generations to come. Due to the lack of skills and hope, both young and old are lured into dangerous lifestyles and vocations (like brewing moonshine) that increases malnourishment, child abuse/neglect, idle youth, the spread of HIV/AIDS, broken families, poverty, and spiritual bankruptcy.
The Short-Term Results
While the action plans developed with each community will differ from one another, key indicators of success and measurable results do exist. There will be ongoing assessment and analysis of six Key Performance Indicators:
- Increases to family/household income
- Increases in church participation/membership, access to Bible/Bible Study content, Spiritual "engagement"
- Decreases in the number of brewers
- Decreases to the number of alcoholics
- Decreases in the number of non-working/idle people
- Increases to the number people being trained, coached, and mentored
The Long-Term Impact
- Churches growing and being planted
- Individuals and families coming to Christ
- Families reconciled and dads at home more often
- Increase in family nutrition and hygiene
- More children in schools
- Economic empowerment through new small businesses being started
- Increase of local food production and trade
- Environmental conservation
- Less idle youth, crime, HIV/AIDS, abuse, addiction to drugs and alcohol
- Decrease in brewing dens and incarceration of parents
- Increased health and life spans resulting in fewer orphans