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 24 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 $25 a month which could gain 12,000 new worldwide subscribers per month. Most of our salvation and re-comment to Christ responses (approx 330 a month) come from Daily Encounter subscribers.
As many, if not most, of our salvation and re-commitment to Jesus Christ responses come from our advertising for new Daily Encounter subscribers, it is imperative that we continue this advertising every month—all year long. The following Daily Encounter Upper Room Sponsors will also achieve the following results:
$25 a month will gain 100 new subscribers every month;
$50 a month will gain 200 new subscribers every month; $75 a month will gain 300 new subscribers every month,
$100 a month will gain 400 new subscribers every month. Every subscriber receives a Christian message with a link to a clear gospel message every weekday of the year. As a result we are currently averaging 330 salvation and re-commitment to Jesus Christ responses a month from around the world.
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 389,000 subscribers worldwide.
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 DailyEncounter 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. Printing supplies, postage, electricity, printer servicing and inks, envelopes, correspondence, telephone costs, hosting service for our 24 websites and sending out Daily and Weekend Encounters — delivering 1.8 million Encounter e-Mail messages every week!
To reach projected goals for 2011 a monthly budget of $15,000 is needed. It can be achieved with the average of the following number of monthly donors:
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.
