What We Do
Train
We bring healing to families by providing training in marriage, family and finances. Our training is biblical, practical, culturally-appropriate, and high impact.
Inspire
We inspire church and government leaders with a vision for healthy families. We show them the generational impact that healthy families have, both locally and nationally.
Our Work
Internet
Though it might seem odd to list the internet as a location, this is where our focus on marriage and family was born. Asking over 20,000 pastors worldwide what training they needed, the response was overwhelming: How To Have A Godly Walk, How To Have A Godly Marriage and How To Raise Godly Children. In the months that followed, over 35 countries requested training.
India
India was where we tested our training. In 2019, I taught for a month in northern and southern India. The comments were overwhelming: “We have never heard this before!” “Others are teaching about marriage and family, but no one teaches directly from Scripture like you do.” “No one has the courage to teach what you are teaching.” Now we partner with organizations like OM Forward and Real India Ministries. OM Forward has thousands of representatives throughout India who are committed to reaching every district in India with this training.
Kenya
After our first seminar, our host, Dr. Alfred Wetaba went on to train and teach. Within a short time, he resigned from his job as a university professor, and he and his wife Elizabeth joined Renewal International as our Eastern African coordinators. Together we have built an African training center in Kenya, launched a training team that teaches in many churches and throughout the prison system to inmates and guards. Alfred and Elizabeth are now teaching throughout Kenya and internationally, training pastors and leaders from many countries, in addition to counseling and leading a thriving church.
Liberia
Pastor Aaron Wright helped us give our first seminar by Zoom. The impact was so great that he has gone on to select and train a team, and launch the effort to reach the rest of Western Africa. He now works with us as our Western African coordinator.
Tanzania
Launching our efforts in the region surrounding Lake Victoria, Pastor Nelson Penford has reached over a hundred churches and thousands of people. His faithful work, in addition to leading a church and school, continue to revolutionize the marriages and families in his country.
Rwanda
Through the efforts of Dr. Alfred Wetaba, our first two seminars were delivered in Rwanda. Government officials, sent personally by the President of Rwanda, officially requested that we bring the material into the school and prison system throughout Rwanda. Pastor Reverien Bireti immediately took the material and began teaching in other churches.
Uganda
Our first seminar in Uganda led to joyful dancing outside the church in eager anticipation for the changes that would occur in their marriages and families. In this rural area, they had never had a seminar of any kind. Invitations to train throughout continue to pour in.
South Africa
"After the conference with you, Dr. Vance, my husband confessed that he had been unfaithful. As my heart broke into a million pieces, I knew I had two choices. The choice to walk away, or the choice to forgive as God has forgiven me, and fight for my marriage. The choice to walk away would have been much easier. Instead I choose to stay and fight. The choice to fight isn’t always easy. Each day brings a different battle or emotion. I am happy to say that my husband and I have never been closer to God, or each other. Each day we wake up, put on our armor and fight for our marriage through your teachings as we go through the materials you have provided us as tools. Praising God that He brought goodness out of what Satan intended for evil."
- Pastor Nene Mbele
Zambia
Lawson Limao has led the effort in Zambia. His commitment to training a team and taking the teaching nationally has been thrilling.
Malawi
Bishop Samuel Kasakatila is eager to be a blessing to his people. Malawi is suffering financially and as marriages are healed, it paves the way for couples to work on their financial situation together. It is with great expectation that they await the Poverty Eradication training.
Ghana
Pastor Aaron Wright is spearheading the effort to reach Western Africa with these truths. His connections with pastors in countries that surround Liberia are opening doors for us that we never expected.
We fight every day to heal broken and fractured families.
The family is at the foundation of the church and of society.
Our strategy is simple: Train, Inspire and Empower.
We “train” pastors with little education and few finances in rural areas of underdeveloped nations.
We “inspire” them with what can happen in their own marriages, families, churches and communities.
We “empower” them to train, inspire and empower others so that this becomes an indigenous movement.
Our Fight
Clean Water
Many 300 to 3000 people communities globally lack access to clean water. In the United States, this may seem inconceivable. However, these individuals daily trek miles to fetch water from muddy streams and ponds, risking contamination. After a rigorous screening, selected communities have wells drilled, often near a church, with free 24/7 access for all villagers. This initiative ensures clean water for generations, coupled with sharing the gospel during dedications, spreading awareness of the living water offered by Christ.
Churches Built or Repaired
Where small groups of believers have banded together, they long to have a place to meet. Many scrape together materials and start a church, only to run short of money and supplies. Renewal International helps these churches finish construction so that they can meet year round and be a resource to their community. Other locations have no church, so we help purchase land and build a place where the community can worship and receive training on Godly Marriages, Godly Children and Poverty Eradication.
Pastors Supported
In many rural areas, those who attend church are desperately poor and can give very little to support their pastor. In addition to providing training for these leaders, we provide bridge funding to assist with their finances until their churches can provide what they need.
Widows and Poor Fed
In most nations, there is no Social Security like in America. Widows, children and the sick are left to fend for themselves. Renewal International supplies food in the name of Christ, sharing the truth and love of Christ with each person.
Churches Planted
The hunger for truth permeates every nation at every level. Most church planters target the larger cities where there is money. Renewal International comes alongside pastors who are working in the poorest areas of each nation and provides support for them until their churches have grown to the size where the people who are attending can support their pastor.
Christmas Boxes
Most children around the world have heard of Christmas, but in many nations, they have no idea what it really means. Renewal International partners with Real India Ministries to go in to predominantly non-Christian areas, where children of extremely poor families are brought together. They hear about the Christmas story, what it means for them and are given the opportunity to follow Christ. No matter their decision, each child receives a carefully packed gift box with 32 essential items, things that we take for granted, but most of them have never had before.
Financial Freedom
Poverty is a persistent, generational issue, often fostering a sense of hopelessness. Many nations address it ineffectively through governmental handout programs. In collaboration with Dr. Alfred and Elizabeth Wetaba, Renewal International offers training to break the poverty cycle. We empower individuals with the mindset, skills, and opportunities to initiate and manage businesses. Additionally, microloans are provided for essential tools and land purchases, with repayments recycled to support others in starting anew.
Financial Freedom
No longer do the poor have to beg and wonder if they are going to have food to eat. No longer do single women with children, the elderly and the uneducated have to live on pennies each day, trying to survive and often going to bed hungry. Skills such as hair styling, fruit and vegetable stands, fruit smoothies, raising chickens, making bricks, raising and selling corn, are just a few of the businesses that can rescue whole families and break the cycle of poverty.
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Renewal International is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, Federal ID # 26-7169710.
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