Lives are about to change, both in the USA and in Africa. Our Church Empowerment Program is an effective strategy that is helping to break the cycle of poverty while providing USA partners a tangible way to help.This program focuses on the training and empowering of Christian leaders like Pastor Saina of Kenya.

This community leader use to be one of the poorest in his church and community. The weekly offerings he survived on were very small ($10 per week) and he and his wife were struggling daily for survival. Committed to the Lord’s work—they never left the church or ministry. This same scenario repeats itself thousands of times throughout Kenya and the other countries where we serve. Pastor Saina heard about ELI and our unique training opportunities. He came, learned, and moved into action!

He and his wife have turned their previously vacant one -quarter acre into a productive mini- farm that now hosts dozens of chickens, two dairy goats, two dairy cows, grass to feed the animals, and a kitchen garden for their own vegetables.

He said that his life has changed completely and now he is a living demonstration of God’s power. “I want others to see what I have done — I want to change my whole community.” The pastor took a step of faith and decided to invite his church and neighbors to his home in February to see what he has done. He was so excited when over three hundred people from his church and community came! The people were so encouraged that they asked him to have another demonstration day right away because they wanted to learn more and invite others.

Imagine, this pastor who was trained has now in fact passed those ideas on to three hundred other people and after his second “home demonstration day” the number will be even larger. This is the multiplication effect that we pray for!

We invite you to participate in empowering over three thousand Christian leaders this year with these Skills for Life in our Church Empowerment Program! We can provide life- changing skills to a family leader such as Pastor Saina for an average of $30 per family! Only God knows how many others that person will, in turn, also train. Please consider helping one or more pastors and families today. For the price of dinner out—you can help a family change their future for the better. Join the joy of making a world of difference among the needy in Africa.

“When you give me a gift, people can remove it from me. But if I know how to do it, you cannot remove the knowledge out of me. So when you empower my life, you are telling me I am victorious wherever I go. Even if you leave me, if I am now walking, I will continue walking.” – Community pastor, Kipkaren Pastor Empowerment Program