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HOW TO HELP WITNESSES FOR JESUS, INC.
- 1. Become a Financial Support Partner 1. Become a Financial Support Partner. We are grateful that we obtained 501(c)3 non-profit status with the IRS in 2004. All donations to this ministry are tax-deductible. As with most ministries, finances present the greatest asset to ministry outreaches. If you feel led of the Lord to financially partner with our ministry, click the "Make a Donation" button (above) for more details. Your support of our ministry goes to support the following outreaches: SENDING MATERIAL TO PEOPLE INTERESTED IN REACHING JWS AND LDS: You support enables us to continue mailing our free English information packets to Christians who are reaching out to their Mormon and Jehovah's Witness friends and loved-ones. We also partner with Libraries of Hope (a prison ministry) to distribute our material free of charge to prison chaplains throughout the country. ENHANCEMENT OF TRAINING MATERIALS AND WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT Your support enables us to continue to develop training materials in both the English and Spanish languages that we make available free of charge through our websites. Currently, our website receives approximately 1,134 visits per day from a total of 181 countries over the course of a year. 839 of these daily visitors are first time visitors to our websites with a 26% return rate. In 2008, pageviews on our websites totalled 1.4 million. 2. Participate in our Email Prayer Chain. Click here to read Scripture verses to use in praying for your Jehovah's Witness and LDS (Mormon) Friends. Ephesians 6:12 emphasizes that "...our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places." In view of this, we have developed an email prayer support team through our website that enables you to submit prayer requests for your Jehovah's Witness and Mormon friends and relatives and to intercede for others who are likewise dealing with the same issues. Click HERE to learn about and/or participate in our online prayer group. 3. Advertise - Place Ads in Your Local Paper. Placing ads in your local newspaper, penny-saver, secular and Christian publications are an excellent way to spread the word about our ministry to people needing help in dealing with the Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons. The following are suggestions for effective ads: Note: For secular publications, it is best to target the Jehovah's Witness or Latter-day Saint (Mormon) audience individually by themselves rather than to try to appeal to both groups in one ad. For a Secular Publication: For a Christian Publication: - Need Help Answering your Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormon friends? Request our Free information packet: Witnesses for Jesus, PO Box 50911, Colorado Springs, CO 80949, www.4witness.org 4. Translation Work - Materials in Foreign Languages. We have had several requests for material in foreign languages. Some of our Jehovah's Witness material has been translated into the Spanish and Russian Languages, but we have nothing else translated into any other language. If you or someone you know would be interested in helping us translate our materials into other languages (especially the Portuguese, German and French languages), please contact us. We also need people who have the ability and the software to type the translated foreign language material into MicroSoft Word documents that we can format back into the original tracts / brochure style of the English documents we place on our website.
We are in need of experienced Graphic Design Artists who would be willing to donate time and resources to enhance the design quality of our material. Our equipment can handle US Letter size documents in MicroSoft products or image files (.gif, .tif, .jpg, .bmp, etc). If you or someone you know would be interested designing covers for our DVD/CD projects, books and brochures, please contact us . Thank you!
6. Ex-JW / Ex-LDS Testimonies for our Website. If you are a former Jehovah's Witness or a former Mormon who would like to share your testimony of coming out of false religion and finding the real Jesus, we would be interested in posting your story on our website for others to be encouraged. All you would need to provide to us is your name, email address and a photo along with your testimony and we will review it for the website. No personal information besides your first name and photo will be posted on the website. All last names and email addresses are kept confidential, unless you join our email ministry team (see application below). When you write your testimony, please include the following information: Your Testimony Should Include the Following:
Please try to keep your testimony to no longer than 3 or 4 pages. You may upload your testimony to us as a MicroSoft Word document or Text file attachment and remember to include a digital photo as well that we can display on our site. We will review your story and if it is what we're looking for, we will post it on the website along with any edits we deem appropriate. We will run all edits by you for your approval when we link your page onto the main Ex-JW or Ex-LDS Story page. Thank you for your participation!
7. Ex-JW / Ex-LDS Email Ministry Volunteers. We are putting together an email network of former Jehovah's Witnesses and former Mormons who are interested in talking to others who have left or are in the process of leaving the group. The purpose of this ministry is to provide a private/confidential environment in which Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons (who are on their way out of the religion) can correspond over email with someone who can relate to what they are going through and who can help answer their questions about God, the Bible, Salvation, etc without putting pressure on them to accept a particular religious belief or to join a religious church. If you are a former Jehovah's Witness or Latter-day Saint (Mormon) who agrees with all of the tenants of our Statement of Faith and who would be interested in volunteering on our email ministry team to provide encouragement, spiritual and emotional support to those on their way out, please SUBMIT your testimony through our site by providing us with the following information: 1. Your First and Last Name and Phone Number and Mailing Address
3. Your Current Church Affiliation - include the name of your church or fellowship group and what type of church it is - like Baptist, Evangelical Free, Calvary Chapel, non-denominational, etc. **
7. Describe your prayer life and personal, spiritual walk with Jesus. 8. List a few passages of Scripture you would share with a Jehovah's Witness or Mormon who is struggling with the concepts of the Trinity and Hell doctrines in the Bible. 9. Provide a brief summary of your spiritual gifts and what role you would like to play in ministering to a former Jehovah's Witness or Mormon through our ministry. 10. A digital photo that we can display on your testimony page from our website. Click Here to view web pages of our current email ministry team partners. (Note: If you do not have the ability to upload a digital photo, you may mail a printed photo to us at: Witnesses for Jesus, Inc, Attn: Email Ministry Team, PO Box 50911 Colorado Springs, CO 80949) After we have reviewed your email application (answers to the questions above) and spoken with your references, we will contact you and setup a phone interview. If everything checks out, we will place your story on our referral ministry webpage along with your name and email address. **Note: We do not oversee the personal Christian walks of those serving on our ministry teams. We only require that each person serving with our ministry, agree with our Statement of Faith and be active in his or her own bible-believing congregation or home group. This requirement is so that the members of our team have a support system of spiritual accountability through which they can have fellowship with believers both inside and outside our ministry.
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