HELPING WOMEN
IN CHRIST
2014 Ministry Report
is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers. P SA LM 1 : 1
Dear friend, Earlier this year, a huge storm came through my neighborhood and took down several massive oak trees. Though the trees were tall and looked healthy, it turned out their roots were not nearly deep or strong enough to hold up against the fierce winds. Psalm 1 says that a person who loves God’s Word will be like “a tree planted by streams of water.” This is what we desire for women to experience through the ministry of Revive Our Hearts—to sink their roots down deep into the soil of God’s character, heart, and ways through His Word. Trees with deep, strong roots ultimately produce fruit that brings nourishment and life to others . . . and they stay standing, even when storms arise or conditions are less than ideal. Throughout the Psalms, we often see the psalmist struggling with adverse circumstances, but he always returns to a place that is secure. This is because he draws his life—finds his refuge and strength—from God. This is our prayer for women—that they would thrive in Christ regardless of the drought and storms around them. It has been a joy to partner with the Lord and with you in another year of ministry. I hope this report encourages you as you see how the Lord has been at work through the outreaches of Revive Our Hearts. May He be pleased in the year ahead to send countless women deep into His Word—producing fruit that remains—as we work together to magnify His Name.
Believing Him for a great harvest!
His
is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. PSALM 1:2
PLANTING SEEDS OF NEW LIFE
“I can’t tell you how many times God has confirmed His Word through your teaching.”
“My mom invited me to the True Woman Conference with her church. On the last night I said, ‘That’s it God! I’m done. I can’t do this anymore. I am so tired of running from You. Please, just take me as I am.’ And He did! Right then and there I became a child of God.”
“Wow, this was so powerful! I love the Word of God so much more every day from listening to Revive Our Hearts.”
“Nancy dissects some of the toughest Scripture and brings it to us in a way that every ear will
DEEPLY ROOTED IN GOD’S WORD
understand and see how to live it out. Thank you Nancy for bringing the Word of God to us with so much meaning and so much life.”
“Revive Our Hearts provided the most insightful lesson I have experienced during my eleven-year journey with Christ. I have never feasted so well on God’s Word.”
“This has been the most interesting, deep, challenging, thoughtprovoking study I have ever completed.”
He is like a tree by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. P SA LM 1 : 3
SPIRITUAL GROWTH & HEALTH
“Thank you Revive Our Hearts for being there during the most difficult years of my life when I felt like I had no one to turn to for comfort.”
“I’m sixty-two years old and have walked my entire life with a feeling of being ‘less than.’ Not anymore! I finally believe and know for myself that I am approved, loved, and accepted.”
“My life, my marriage, and my family have been changed because of this ministry.”
“Your teachings have literally saved my marriage.”
“I am only fifteen, and I listen to Revive Our Hearts often. This message really challenged me to see sin as it really is, as Christ sees it. It encouraged me to say ‘no’ to what seems like an overwhelming temptation.”
“I don’t know how many letters you get from men, but I thought you’d be encouraged that while I’m lifting weights at 5 a.m. to get physically strong, I’ve been getting spiritually stronger by listening to your program over the years. It doesn’t get more manly than that!”
In that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. PSALM 1:3-4
EVER-INCREASING FRUITFULNESS
“The Lord spoke through Nancy loud and clear to my heart when she said, ‘You have that two-year-old and that five-year-old. You have full-time ministry; you are shaping and molding those young lives.’”
“I shared your website with a young Arabic gal, and she is being blessed beyond belief from this teaching. She shares it via the Internet all over the world with her Muslim friends, and her prayer is to someday soon go back to the Middle East to share Jesus in person.”
“My husband and I are missionaries in South Africa, and we will be teaching and reaching out to a deeply rural community. As I was preparing, I stumbled onto ReviveOurHearts.com. The transcripts ministered to my own heart and really helped in my preparation.”
ABIDING IN THE TRUE VINE
“I’ve been listening to Nancy for five years now, and she has changed the way I think about my relationship with God. No fluff, no cultural Christianity . . . it is the real deal. Listening to Revive Our Hearts is truly a little piece of heaven!”
“I think I finally get it, after twenty-five years of trying to change myself with self-help books to be a better person, wife, mother, etc. All I really needed to do was focus on Christ!”
“The way Revive Our Hearts paints the picture of Jesus Christ based on the Scriptures is just wonderful. Jesus means so much more to me personally than He ever has.”
“I have been a Christian for many years, but lately I have had a hunger to know Christ more personally. Revive Our Hearts is an answer to my prayers.”
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. PSALM 1:5 -6
Calling Women to Freedom, Fullness, and Fruitfulness in Christ through
BROADCASTING
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My husband, kids, and I are missionaries in Sierra Leone—currently on leave due to the Ebola outbreak. I’ve been listening to Nancy for years, but it wasn’t until I heard ‘Into the Face of Fear’
that I had tears of conviction. I resonated deeply when Nancy said, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’ Now I see my selfishness and unbelief for what they are—rebellion and sin!”
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1,800
Number of times each weekday one of Revive Our Hearts’ programs is heard via radio
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1,080 Unique radio outlets airing Revive Our Hearts’ programs
My husband and I feel strongly that he’s called to become a pastor, so we’re considering selling our home so he can go to seminary. We’ve received a lot of opposition from my in-laws, and
I’ve been very discouraged and fearful. I can’t tell you how much your podcast on ‘Facing the Giants’ encouraged my heart. Thank you for speaking truth into the lives of women who need it like I did.”
ON AIR
780 16
17 20
Number of programs released each year (Revive Our Hearts half-hour, Aviva Nuestros Corazones half-hour, Seeking Him one-minute feature)
Countries in which Aviva Nuestros Corazones is aired on 77 stations
Aviva Nuestros Corazones Ambassadors promoting the Spanish outreach from Canada to Patagonia and beyond
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Yadira is an Aviva Nuestros Corazones Ambassador from Guatemala, living in
Germany. She leads women from Mexico, Venezuela, Bulgaria, Germany, and Africa through Aviva Nuestros Corazones programs and the Lies Women Believe book. Some speak Spanish, others translate for those who do not.”
Stations were added in several cities including Detroit, Phoenix, and Little Rock
Please pray! The Aviva Nuestros Corazones staff still shares a small studio with a local radio station, and their office space consists of one very small room. Pray for a place the team can use regularly for studio and office space—and the funds to secure it.
Calling Women to Freedom, Fullness, and Fruitfulness in Christ
ONLINE
4.7 Million
A number of us here in Moscow are
Number of visits to Revive Our Hearts’ websites in the last year (doubled in four years)
following Revive Our Hearts. We are so grateful you make this available online.”
50+ %
104,000 Followers of Revive Our Hearts and True Woman on Facebook (225% growth in Facebook followers in the past 2 years)
The percentage of Revive Our Hearts’ web users accessing Revive Our Hearts content via a mobile device (compared to just 7% in 2010) Number of emails and blog comments the Revive Our Hearts’ team personally responded to in 2014
Launched smartphone-ready and tablet-friendly websites to serve women in various ways, who need help on-the-go
Re-designed and re-launched LiesYoungWomenBelieve.com
5,225
I was thrilled to discover the 30-Day Husband Encouragement Challenge. I’m a military wife, and my husband just left for his third deployment, this time to Afghanistan. He feels he is missing vital time with his kids, so he tries to micromanage from a distance. Instead of being understanding of his concerns, I’ve been grumpy and defensive with him. I need an attitude change! This challenge is just what I need. Thank you for this awesome tool.”
Today’s program
40k
Total Twitter followers
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was very helpful to me. I enjoyed checking it out on my iPhone. Thanks for your new improvements to make the site mobile friendly.”
New Revive Our Hearts and True Woman ‘14 app
Calling Women to Freedom, Fullness, and Fruitfulness in Christ through
EVENTS & WOMEN’S MINISTRY LEADER TRAINING
8,400 True Woman ’14 attendees
650 Women’s ministry leaders who attended the True Woman ’14 Leadership Pre-Event
Total True Woman ’14 live-stream users (9,248 in English and 2,222 in Spanish)
I attended True Woman '14 with a stone cold heart, not sure if God even existed. I’ve been running from God for a long time and thought I’d please my friend by going, and that’s it. God had other things in mind. He rescued me out of the bondage of homosexuality, drugs, alcohol, and many others. I never believed my heart could be changed so drastically. It’s like I am a totally new, different person!”
600 Senior pastors’ wives who were given a free registration to True Woman ’14
The Lord brought back home this prodigal daughter that was right there in church, going through the motions, but my heart was so far from Him. ‘Thank you Lord for receiving me with open arms.’”
3,980 Total True Woman ’14 Conference App downloads
Thank you for all the prayer and preparation that went into True Woman '14. I left True Woman '14 feeling several spiritual pounds lighter. I’m not the same woman I was before attending this conference!”
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Launched the Revive Our Hearts’ Ambassadors initiative. This multiplying network of regional representatives is a strategic way of reaching women in our nation and around the world with the message of revival and biblical womanhood.
40k
Number of women who have attended a True Woman or Revive leadership conference since 2008
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BOOKS & RESOURCES
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18 Number of books Nancy has released in the past fourteen years with over 2.6 million copies distributed in 18 languages
Major upcoming book release: True Woman 201: Interior Design—Ten Elements of Biblical Womanhood (March 2015)
God allowed me to share Lies Women Believe with a young woman who just graduated with honors from Texas A&M. The sin chapter rocked her world; she had no idea she was a sinner. The marriage chapter has her world turned upside down; the young man she is going to be engaged to has no resemblance to a biblical husband. She is interviewing at some of the top medical schools in the nation. She is wealthy, beautiful, and brilliant, and this book is changing her life.”
4 New Resources Released: The Wonder of His Name gift book, “Come Adore” Christmas piano CD, A 30-Day Journey Through the True Woman Manifesto, and Peace In the Storm 2015 Calendar
I can’t believe the richness in this tiny, harmless-looking booklet. A 30-Day Journey Through the True Woman Manifesto warrants the honor of a hardcover and gold leaf, and I’m merely on day three! I now feel the blood flowing in my veins, the wonder at God’s Word. I’ve longed for this in my dry season.”
I am going through A 30-Day Walk with God in the Psalms while battling terminal cancer. Studying the Psalms has been such an encouragement to me, and then I share what’s touched my heart with my husband and teenage sons. My prayer through this trial is that the Lord will receive the glory. I am encouraged that ‘though our outward man is perishing, the inward man is being renewed day by day.’ Your study in the Psalms is helping me renew that inner woman daily.” 26
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Percentage of royalties from Nancy’s books donated to Revive Our Hearts ($2.1 million invested back into direct ministry since 2000)
MINISTRY STEWARDSHIP
Revive Our Hearts produces programming and
Providing these services requires a considerable
resources focused on heart revival and biblical
investment in people, technology, and systems;
womanhood. Our content is continually expanding;
we’re currently a staff of fifty-four (full-time and
attracting new viewers, readers, and listeners daily.
part-time). We provide our audio and digital content worldwide—without charge—to impact as
The
ministry
also
engages
with
like-minded
many people as possible.
outreaches and mercy ministries. We were able to give $295,000 in print resources and support
We aim at what is honorable not only in
last year to inmates, pregnancy care centers,
the Lord’s sight but also in the sight of
international ministries, women’s ministry leaders,
man.
(2 Cor. 8:21)
and others.
How Revive Our Hearts Was Funded This Past Year 79%
Donations Resource Sales Conferences
17% 4%
Total $5,312,179
How Money Was Spent at Revive Our Hearts This Past Year Ministry Outreach (Websites, Radio, Social Media, Events, Resources, International, Communication, and More)
80% 20%
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Operations/Infrastructure ( Facilities, Administration, Support Services, Fundraising)
MINISTRY ACCELERATION IN 2015
Gain fifty or more Revive Our Hearts Ambassadors in order to deepen relationships with thousands of women’s ministry leaders who have connected with the ministry
Release True Woman 201: Interior Design— Ten Elements of Biblical Womanhood (based on Titus 2)
50
Plan and produce Revive ’15—a conference for over 2,000 women’s ministry leaders, with many more participating via LIVE streaming
Develop and launch a True Woman Training initiative Build a base of core content that is electronically transferable to other languages
See 20% growth in Revive Our Hearts’ websites and social media followers, continuing to optimize all sites for mobile users
Host the first international True Woman Conference February 2015 in the Dominican Republic. Impact thousands of women onsite and thousands more through LIVE streaming
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God feeds and nourishes us so we can feed and nourish others. Thank you for partnering with Revive Our Hearts to nourish women in Christ. We would not be able to continue our current outreaches or pursue new, fruitful opportunities without your prayers and financial support. This year, may you be blessed, and may you be a blessing to many.
Revive Our Hearts P.O. Box 2000 Niles, MI 49120
(800) 569-5959 www.ReviveOurHearts.com | www.TrueWoman.com
Revive Our Hearts is an outreach of Life Action Ministries