Through collaboration with The Gospel
Coalition, Empowering Action is able to provide
18 cases of biblical resources to church leaders in
its network of over 500 pastors.
Through a grant from Biblica, Empowering Action
is able to provide over 1,000 bibles for distribution
through our church partnership network.
As a result of partnership with Gleaning for the
World, Empowering Action is able to provide
41,372 Sketchers sandals for distribution to the
ultra poor through our ministry network.
Through collaboration with Hampton Farms, the leading
roaster of in-shell peanuts in the United States, Empowering
Action is able to provide 14,040 jars of peanut butter for
distribution to the ultra poor through our ministry network.
As a result of collaboration with Children’s
Hunger Fund, Empowering Action has access to
12,000 Food Packs yearly for distribution to the ultra
poor through our church partnership network.
As a result of partnership with
Aqua Lekker, Empowering
Action is able to provide
17,680 gallons of bottled water
yearly to the ultra poor through
our church partnership
network.
Through collaboration with Blessing
International, Empowering Action has been
able to dispense over 1,000 parasite pills to the
ultra poor through our church partnership
network.
Through collaboration with One Laptop Per
Child (OLPC), Empowering Action is pioneering
the first OLPC initiative in the Dominican
Republic, a 150 laptop program in Quisqueya at
Emanuel House.
Abundant Life
Poverty
Reduction
Program
In September Empowering Action initiated an 8-week 32 church
trial of a poverty reduction program, led by Helen Turner, who
oversaw a similar highly successful program in The Philippines as
CEO of International Care Ministries. Empowering Action is
looking towards large-scale implementation of this 16-week
program in 2015 through its network of over 500 churches.
The centerpieces at each
table were handmade by
Lourdes Lorenzo, the
wife of Empowering
Action’s East Regional
Director, Jose Lorenzo.
Bathroom
Construction
Empowering Action has completed
construction of bathrooms for 8
impoverished families, with the most
recent model including shower, toilet,
and sink, in a fully concrete structure with a holding tank which
enables the family to have water even when the electricity is out,
which is frequent throughout the day. (Cost: $875)
Home
Construction
Empowering Action has
collaborated with 7 impoverished
families to complete new homes, with our recently
updated model providing full furnishings throughout the
home, kitchen, bathroom, electricity, plumbing and a
one-year clean water contract. (Cost: $8,000)
Los Brujanes
La Iglesia de Convertidos a Cristo (ICC) is a Baptist church,
founded in 1981 in Santo Domingo that has planted numerous
churches through the country. Los Brujanes is one of those church
plants, roughly 45 minutes southwest of Santo Domingo with an
impoverished population between 6,000-8,000. Empowering
Action has been blessed to assist with construction of a muchneeded children’s ministry building, restroom facilities and the
establishment of a daily preschool program. In addition, water
contracts are now being provided through the church and regular
medical clinics take place in the community.
Quisqueya
Situated about an hour outside of the capital of Santo Domingo,
Quisqueya is impoverished community of 20,000. Once a thriving
hub of the Sugar Cane industry, this community now embodies
both the problems and potential within the Dominican Republic.
Empowering Action has been privileged to partner with the
Emanuel House ministry and the community network of pastors in
providing educational, medical and physical assistance. This
collaboration has included partnerships with University of Virginia
Medical, One Laptop Per Child, Water at Work Ministries and
Paradigm Foundation.
Villa Consuelo
Over 20 years ago, Pastor Felix began pastoring at the church now
known as Con Cristo Se Puede (With Christ You Are Able). Felix felt
particularly called to serve the drug-affected youth and adults of
Villa Consuelo—one of the rougher neighborhoods in Santo
Domingo; a sector known for commercial refurbishment of
materials goods, as well as a deep problem of drug use. A men’s
rehabilitation ministry has been a staple of the church’s community
ministry for many years. Additionally, 100 students participate in a
daily children’s ministry. Empowering Action provides regular
support to this ministry, including facilitating child sponsorship
through His Hands Support Ministries.
Vietnam
Mt. Calvary is a six-year-old church situated in an extremely
dangerous, riverside neighborhood called Vietnam, outside of
Santo Domingo. The area is in great need of The Lord Jesus Christ,
and Empowering Action has contributed by assisting in the
construction of the church building, laboring to tile a concrete
floor, as well as facilitating a shoe distribution, used as an
evangelism tool, resulting in 32 adults and children coming to
Christ. Empowering Action also recently assisted with construction
of the children’s ministry room and restroom facilities.