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 27 websites below.
Aggressive advertising in the secular media to reach many thousands of non-believers around the world every day.
For Daily Encounter "120 Upper Room Sponsors" are needed. That is, 120 people who will donate $25 a month which could gain 10,000 new worldwide subscribers per month. Most of our salvation and re-commitment to Christ responses come from Daily Encounter subscribers. Last year we received 3,700+ of these responses from 126 countries.
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 300 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 423,000+ subscribers worldwide.
Foreign language web outreach: We currently have web sites in English, Spanish, French, and Finnish. As funds and help become available, we plan to have web sites in other languages as well.
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 assistant director 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 not cheap) for Internet and E-mail programming to ensure that we are kept up to date with the latest technology and protection from hackers. The company we are using cost is $1100 per month.
Overheads expenses. Printing supplies, postage, electricity, printer servicing and inks, envelopes, correspondence, telephone costs, hosting service for our 27 websites and sending out Daily and Weekend Encounters — delivering two million Encounter e-Mail messages every week!
To reach projected goals for 2012 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 to reach projected ministry goals for 2012
Currently averaging $10,000 from monthly supporters
After Christ's death and resurrection: "Then they [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: Peter, James, John, and Andrew; Philip and Thomas; Bartholomew and Matthew; James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot; and Judas the son of James.These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers. And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (altogether the number of names was about one hundred and twenty)..." (Acts 1:12-15, NKJV). This prayer meeting was in preparation for the founding of the Church of Jesus Christ.
