Special Needs for 2009

	Areas of Ministry Needs
	Strategy to Meet Support Goals
	Progress Thermometer ... How We Are Doing
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Special Ministry Needs and Opportunities

Following are the areas of ACTS' ministry that need funding to make ACTS dynamic worldwide gospel outreach possible:

• Dynamic Internet outreach communicating the gospel and Christian message in several languages worldwide 24-7-365. See list of ACTS websites below.
  
  
• Aggressive advertising in the secular media to reach many thousands of non-believers around the world every day.
  
  
• For Daily Encounter Upper Room sponsors are needed. That is, 120 people who will donate $30 a month which will gain 18,000 new worldwide subscribers per month. Most of our salvation and re-comment to Christ responses (approx 400 a month) come from Daily Encounter subscribers. Click HERE for an explanation of the 120 upper room sponsors.
  
  
• Support for publishing Daily and Weekend Encounter e-zines to keep these without cost to worldwide subscribers—many of whom have a meager income. Combined, with Prayer Encounter we now have over 240,000 subscribers worldwide.
  
  
• People Power for Jesus movement. Click HERE to read more about this potentially powerful means to reach unlimited numbers of people worldwide with the gospel.
  
  
• Follow-up ministry.
  
  
• E-mail pastoral counseling without charge.
  
  
• Foreign language web outreach: We currently have web sites in English, Spanish, French and Finnish. All of which need support to operate and maintain.
  
  
• Translating every issue of Daily Encounter into Spanish and setup so that it is sent out automatically.
  
  
• Office and computer equipment and supplies.
  
  
• Staff support: In our U.S. office we currently have only two staff members, Joy (my wife) and myself. Because of the continuing growth of this ministry, an additional staff member is a very pressing need. Translators are also paid at an hourly rate as are helpers for special needs and projects.
  
  
• Ongoing technical support (which is costly) for Internet and E-mail programming to ensure that we are kept up to date with the latest technology and protection from hackers.
  
  
• Overheads expenses.
  
  
• Support for developing and maintaining the following ACTS web sites:
  www.actsweb.org English gospel website
  www.actsweb.org/living/ English follow-up
  www.actsweb.org/sp/ Spanish gospel website
  www.actsweb.org/sp.viviendo/ Spanish follow-up
  http://fr.actsweb.org/ French gospel website
  http://fr.actsweb.org/vivre/ French follow-up
  www.actsweb.org/fi/ Finnish gospel website
  www.actscom.com/ English support website
  www.actsweb.org/people_power special outreach website
  www.goodnewsfor.com/san_clemente/ gospel website (specifically for individual churches in their town).
  www.goodnewsfor.com/usa gospel website www.goodnewsfor.com/canada gospel website www.goodnewsfor.com/sydney gospel website www.goodnewsfor.com/the_world gospel website www.goodnewsfor.com/marines gospel website
  
  
• Click HERE to support the ACTS outreach ministries.
  

Strategy to Meet General Operating Support Goals To reach projected goals for 2009 a monthly budget of $15,000 is needed. It can be achieved with the average of the following number of monthly donors:
No. 1 @	Amount $1000	=	Sub Totals $1000
4 @	$500	=	$2000
4 @	$250	=	$1000
20 @	$100	=	$2000
40 @	$50	=	$2000
100 @	$30	=	$3000
80 @	$25	=	$2000
200 @	$10	=	$2000
Totals 449                                         $15,000.00
Monthly budget needs for 2009 Need $15,000 a month Currently averaging $8,000–$9000 Please help us reach the top! Click HERE to send support   Why 120 upper room sponsors? After Christ's death and resurrection: "Then they [120 of the early disciples and followers of Jesus] returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey. And when they had entered, they went up into the upper room where they were staying ...." (See Acts 1:12ff, NKJV). This prayer meeting was where the Holy Spirit was poured out on all those in attendance. This was the birth of the Church of Jesus Christ. Click HERE to support the ACTS outreach ministries.