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A little less than a month ago we shared that prayer is a core value at Women in the Window International. Prayer is at the very core of what we do and who we are. We begin and end our WiW meetings in prayer, and we encourage the women we serve to do the same.

But why do we pray?

Because God invites us to come near to His heart.

Through the blood of His Son, Jesus, He has made a way for us to draw near—not simply when we need something from Him, but because He wants us to abide in Him. He wants relationship with us. He wants us near.

“Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.”

James 4:8

Jesus reminds us, “Apart from me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5) And yet, the beautiful truth is that He doesn’t want to be apart from us.

We are so grateful to Tamarind House of Prayer for welcoming us back for the second year, and to Moody Radio for helping make this event possible.

Come draw near. Come abide. Come pray with us.

Recently, some friends and I were talking about the many nations that came under the rule of the United Kingdom—Great Britain—during the last century. I was surprised to learn that Egypt, too, was once considered part of the British Empire.

Human empires are inherently unequal: one side holds most, if not all, of the power, while those under its control often have little authority, even over their own lives.

The Kingdom of God is different. When we surrender our lives to Him and come under His authority, what seems like loss becomes gain. In Matthew 6:33, He tells us to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to us.

And this, dear, is precisely why our 5th and final core value is that we are Kingdom Builders. Yes, every aspect of our partnership and trainings include this value as one of our key objectives. It is actually included in every training we provide:

Objectives:  

1. To equip women to train other women in their communities with any/all of the 5 capacities of the WiW curriculum that is biblically sound and culturally correct in your ministry sphere.

2. To empower women with the narrative inductive Bible study method to enable them to see their value in God’s Kingdom through God’s word.

3. As a result of this training and our partnership to equip and empower your women to replace poverty and injustice with dignity and purpose in Christ among women and girls in your region.

It is always eye-opening and heartwarming to see women come alive as they realize their significance in God’s Story. The Bible tells the whole truth, featuring more than 100 women’s stories—some difficult, all purposeful. Each one teaches us how to live, what to avoid, what to embrace, and that our lives matter to God and His Kingdom. As we understand and embrace this reality, we become Kingdom builders—something we see hundreds of times each year through Women in the Window International trainings and mission outreach!

Thank you for your support that enables WiW to reflect His purposes and build His Kingdom – to mark history as we fulfill our mission on earth, and to impact eternity as many come to know and love Christ!

Joyfully Serving Him with you,

“Bless the Lord, my soul,

And all that is within me, bless His holy name.”

Psalm 103:1

Moses, Joshua, David, Solomon, Job, Deborah, Hannah . . . Scripture is filled with people who understood the importance of having a soul that rested in the Lord, focused on Him, and wholeheartedly worshipped Him.

At Women in the Window International, we believe the same is true for us today. The women we serve alongside in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East face extraordinary challenges, yet they continue to pursue Christ with courage, faith, and perseverance.

We are so grateful for Patricia and for every Soul Supporter who chooses to stand with Women in the Window. Each prayer, gift, word of encouragement, and act of faith helps create a community where women are reminded that they are seen, valued, and never alone.

Whether you are already a Soul Supporter or are simply learning more about what it means to stand with this ministry, we are grateful to have you with us—and we invite you to continue being part of what God is doing through Women in the Window around the world.

Do you remember the classic musical White Christmas featuring the beloved song “Sisters,” with lyrics both charming and timeless? The sisters’ relationship and devotion to each other is evident and delightful, and their playful, faithful bond is foundational to the storyline of this classic film. Clearly, in this film, relationships matter!

Women in the Window International’s storyline is unfolding largely through strong relationships with our ministry partners, and introducing key ministry leaders to others in their nation, their region, and throughout the 10/40 window.

Yes, relationships matter to WiW. A lot. We develop our strategy with our ministry partners—not simply for them. Together, we come to the table to pray, listen, and follow what we believe God is saying.

Our field-driven, relationally led focus amplifies our partners’ voices and keeps us seated beside them as we listen, learn, and serve together.

Yes! We are a ministry with deep devotion to those whom we serve and those whom we serve with! It’s no secret that our volunteer base is a fundamental part of our mission force. We would never be able to serve our sisters in Africa, Asia and the Middle East without our sisters (and some faithful brothers, too!) right here in the USA.

Jesus said that the Greatest Commandment, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength,” is closely followed by the second, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 10  

Some FAQ follow-up questions and examples:

Welcome to our 3rd Core Value: WiW is a Prayer-Driven ministry.

Yes, we pray for you and highly value your prayers for WiW. We are a prayer driven ministry. Yes, it is one of our core values!

We continue to see the powerful way God works through our prayers, even in times like these. Women in the Window works to repeat the joy of these women hundreds of times across Africa, into Asia and even in the tumultuous Middle East. Through your prayers and your generous faithful giving, you will continue to empower all of us at Women in the Window International to do just that!

Our WiW core values define what we do, and even more, who we are. If you want to know what matters most to WiW, check out our core values. This week, we’ll unpack just why WiW is Christ centered. We believe Christ really is the center of it all. The Bible teaches us that He was with God in the beginning and through Him all things were made (John 1:1-5). He is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact imprint of His nature—He upholds the universe by His powerful Word (Hebrews 1:1-3). And, yes, He is the only One worthy to open the book described in Revelation,

“And they sang a new song, saying, “Worthy are You to take the book and to open its seals, for You were slain, and by Your blood You ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation”

Revelation 5:9

Thank you for your faithful support enabling us to make Christ the center of all we say and do!

And speaking of support, if you’re already a Soul Supporter, thank you for faithfully investing in this mission each month. Your generosity is making an eternal impact.

If you’ve been considering becoming a monthly donor, there’s no better time than this Summer!

Thanks to the generosity of one of our donors, your first month of giving will be matched dollar for dollar, doubling your impact from day one.

I’m looking out the window of our Women in the Window International office (Yes! We do still have an actual office, and YES!! You are most welcome to visit us sometime soon) and I notice the grass is gently moving with the summer breeze. My mind immediately reflects on a precious Bible verse from my very favorite book of the Bible, Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 8:

“The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”

These lovely blades of grass will soon wither, just like the Bible says. But God’s Word, the Bible, endures forever; when we build our lives on its truth and live as though it is truly true, God can bring lasting fruit and enduring beauty from each of us.

And that is precisely why we want all that we do here at Women in the Window to embrace our core value, we are Bible Based.

Jesus said we find life here,

“You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me.”

John 5:39 (emphasis mine)

And He promises stability as we obey the Bible,

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.”

Matthew 7:24

Last but not least, He promises that our impact will be both global and eternal as we do!

“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 28:19-20

But don’t just take my word for it! Consider these statistics about the Bible:

• The Bible is the bestselling book of the year every single year. In the United States alone, 50 Bibles are sold every minute, 72,000 every day, and 26 million every year, with over 5 billion distributed copies.
• It is estimated that there have been more than five hundred English translations of the Bible.
• The Bible is the most-translated book translated into (at least) 2800 languages.

This 3rd bullet point is of vital importance to Women in the Window as we serve women in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, with an impact into at least 46 nations. Whenever possible, we provide a Bible for the women we train so that they can learn to discern and benefit from His promises in their own lives!

If you are still pondering His promises, may I encourage you to take Him at His Word and find the promise of eternal life to be steadfast and Life-giving? WiW would be honored to help you on your way.

Regardless of your current spiritual condition, we thank God for YOU! More than 19,149 women have been impacted through your generous gifts, fervent prayers and faithful service (Women In The Window Statistics.) Their lives, their stories, and their impact is empowered and energized ALL because of YOU!

Stay tuned each WiW Wednesday as we share more on what, how and why our Core Values are both established and lived out daily. And if YOU would like to be part of implementing these values locally and globally, let us know! We would love to share more about how you can get involved and how you can multiply our impact further and deeper as a Soul Supporter during our Soul Supporter Summer!

Have you ever wondered just why it takes so long to reap what we sow?

In other words, we plant the seeds of faith, hope and love . . . and then we wait. Our circumstances do not immediately change. In fact, hard times in our lives persist and it seems God has forgotten His promises.  Like you, I have wondered why, and long to understand God’s heart.

Yes, just when it seems that the heavens are silent, or worse, that they are hard as brass and reverberate our distress and sadness, the light of God’s love comes shining through the clouds as He blesses us in ways that can only be explained by His faithfulness!

“Sow with a view to righteousness [that righteousness, like seed, may germinate]; reap in accordance with mercy and lovingkindness.

Break up your uncultivated ground, for it is time to seek and search diligently for the Lord [and to long for His blessing] until He comes to rain righteousness and His gift of salvation on you.”

Hosea 10:12 The Amplified Bible

Hosea uses agricultural imagery to suggest that we must deliberately invest in God’s Kingdom and cultivate the habits of a faithful life and that we will ultimately reap God’s mercy and His sure blessings. This is exactly what happens when you invest in the work of Women in the Window International. Seeds are sown, and lives are changed, for good, forever! Just this week we received the following account of just how your faithfulness to WiW during what our Asian ministry leader calls, “covid time,” the pandemic of 2020-21, has just now begun to bear much fruit and that fruit is impacting the next generation:

“Do you remember the Lay Counseling and Trauma Counseling trainings we conducted during covid time in 2020-21? I was wondering, how, when and where our women have used this training experience. But even as I wonder, I am also sure God made those trainings very meaningful for us.

Today the Lord gave a surprise. A girl from the Northern part of our nation connected with me as she had misplaced her Lay Counseling certificate. I searched and found it from the old emails and sent it to her. She was so grateful. On asking why the certificate is needed she replied, 

It really did help me. Yes, God has been so gracious to me! I work with young people and their mothers and these courses really groomed me. Thank you so much!”

Our summer season is focused on both sowing and reaping – as we continue our trainings in Africa, Asia and the Middle East – and as we watch for the harvest that only God can bring. You truly are an essential part of this ministry as you water the seeds we sow with your prayers, and as you sustain this ministry team, including our ministry partners, with your faithful offerings!

“Sow with a view to righteousness [that righteousness, like seed, may germinate]; reap in accordance with mercy and lovingkindness…

Or, call our office to speak with Destiny or Kim at +1.561.249.5377 and we welcome your emails too! We would love to have a conversation and know just how to best pray for you!

Yours because I’m His,

Kim Kerr

A small amount of flour, when mixed with oil, sugar and other key ingredients, can keep a family from going hungry. A tiny seed planted in fertile soil, watered, and nurtured, can grow into a mighty tree that shelters from the storms of life. Something as small as an unnoticed tiny seed can provide food and shelter.

So, what do you have in your hand?

“One of my neighbors likes to visit me when it is safe for her to do so. You see, her family is Muslim, and it is dangerous. Yet, she comes often, with a hungry heart, to hear more. “I really enjoy hearing the stories about your Jesus. I would like to come and listen to more of them,” she says this with each short visit.”

“Yes! Whenever she has time, she comes to visit me, and I share Bible stories with her about how much God loves and includes women in His Story. Please pray for her, that one day she may accept Jesus Christ as her Savior.

During our WiW training, we focused on 2 Timothy 2:2: “And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.”

Join our WiW team as a volunteer! A prayer partner! And give whatever amount God has placed in your hands today –

“because when what is in your hand is placed in God’s hands, it becomes more than enough.” Toni Gonzalez, WiW Board of Directors (pictured below with her husband, Mike)

Gardens speak to us in more than one way. As a noun, a garden is a plot of ground where something is grown. As a verb, to garden is to cultivate with care—to plant, hoe, rake, and pull weeds so that growth can flourish. Both meanings capture the diligence and beauty involved in tending something with purpose.

There is something deeply wonderful about the way God created gardens—not only to delight our senses, but also to provide for our physical need for food.

Just as God has instituted a specific order for how we cooperate with Him in gardening: sowing seeds, watering plants and then fertilizing to maximize growth and productivity, in much the same way, He has a plan for sowing the Good News of the Gospel, making disciples who are prepared to multiply and make other disciples and even to develop leaders among the nations where the Gospel ground is hard and cold. His Word will not return void, and His love always bears much fruit.

“I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in Him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me (cut off from vital union with Me) you can do nothing.”

John 15:5

Women in the Window is a ministry deeply rooted in the love of Christ, and as a result we are a ministry that has seen much fruit among our ministry partners. Last week we discussed the way the Holy Spirit calls us to move forward. This week we want to help you understand our strategy.

WiW Strategic Partnership Process Infographic

EXPLORATION: Engage in conversations and activities to determine strategic fit.

FORMATION: Develop a strategy unique to each ministry and launch an initial training.

OPERATION: Fully embrace a partnership that encompasses all 5 WiW capacity trainings.

TRANSFORMATION: Rejoice in the final phase of partnership and launch trained trainers.

MULTIPLICATION: Encourage ministries to continue to multiply the WiW training strategy.

(names of nations undisclosed for security reasons)

Every aspect of our ministry is based on His Word and the deeply personal yet profoundly practical ways that God addresses every aspect of life in His multi-faceted Word. We do this SO THAT together with our partners, we are fruitful, flourishing and fulfill the mission God entrusted to us: Equip and Empower women in the 10/40 window and beyond, replacing poverty and injustice with dignity and purpose in Christ.

One of the FAQ’s, (frequently asked questions) that we here at Women in the Window International are often asked is: “How do you meet your ministry partners?”

Fair question – but the answer is not always simple. God has a way of connecting people through a myriad of situations, circumstances and across networks and relationships. He works to accomplish His highest will and to move us all towards His desired outcomes.

This growth process often begins by planting an earnest desire in our own hearts to actually accomplish what God Himself has in mind for us to do. For example, the Apostle Paul stated his heartfelt desire to take the Gospel much further than Corinth as he expressed in 2 Corinthians 10:16, “so that we may preach the gospel even in the lands beyond you, but not to boast in work already accomplished in another one’s field of activity.”

Because of YOU, and together with our ministry partners in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, we continue to hear stories of the women, girls, families, villages and communities, who are now able to walk in the light of His love as prophesied in Isaiah 9:2 and fulfilled in Matthew 4:16, “The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light. And for those who lived in the land where death casts its shadow, a light has shined.”

Story after story, life after life reflect the powerful and brilliant dawn of His great light radiating to and through the lives of the women we at WiW reach, teach, train and then release to multiply lasting change into their world … YES! even in the lands beyond them!

Odisha, formerly known as Orissa, is the site of our WiW micro-business training this week. Why bring micro-business to Odisha, you may ask?

Our research reveals ample reason to focus WiW’s attention on the Dalit (Untouchable Caste) of Odisha, and here’s why:

Life expectancy: approximately 61 years of age

Literacy rate: 64% of the female population are literate

Extreme poverty ($2.15 per day), especially among Dalit caste: 32%

According to Sage Journals, the Dalit people in Odisha have been socio-economically deprived and antagonized. They have been known as drum beaters and weavers and lack both the training and opportunity to change their situation based on caste discrimination.

With only 2.77% of the population identifying as Christian, we are convinced that our WiW ministry thrust into Odisha opens the way for the lives of women to be changed, for good, and forever. And when women are reached with the Gospel, and equipped to serve others, they often become the first to serve as a bridge of hope across nations, into cultures, and most specifically into the places we, as westerners and Americans, simply cannot reach.

Vicious, uncompromising strife and conflict characterize the nation of Sudan.

Sudan is once again the site of a devastating civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). This most recent conflict has triggered the world’s largest displacement and hunger crisis, leaving over half the population (roughly 25 million people) in need of food and facing active famine conditions.

Since gaining independence from Britain in 1956, Sudan’s ruling class has justified its power with an ideology that favors the Arabic-speaking and Arabic elite in the capital Khartoum over populations from the nation’s more culturally, religiously, and linguistically diverse regions outside the capital. The result? Nearly 70 years of intense civil war.

Yet somewhere and somehow, in the midst of such turmoil and conflict, God is using ministries such as Kumalo Women of Hope, a Women in the Window International ministry partner, to bring hope and healing to those caught in the crosshairs of ongoing brutality.

Listen to the voice of their tears, and rejoicing as women participate in our WiW trainings on the refugee camp of northern Uganda, leaving the war behind, and embracing hope for their future, and the future of those they love:

Thank you, for your prayers and support helping these refugee women move from the vicious cycle of war in Sudan, to a victorious life of loving service to our Lord Jesus Christ.

From the field:

“Giving a Voice to the voiceless’, is the focus of our WiW Zimbabwe Human Rights training. God’s Word is clear, we are to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves – Proverbs 31:8-9.

We thank God for the enthusiasm in the room!

These women leaders are leaning in with intentionality; ready and eager to share. Their hearts are fertile soil for multiplication as each one develops a critical pathway of application addressing issues of violence and abuse of women and children, inheritance rights too.

Multiple women expressed their gratitude for our WiW Inductive Narrative Bible study method, essential to helping them grow deeper in God’s Word and learn how to pass this dynamic knowledge on to those in their sphere of life.

2 Timothy 2:2 in action! We thank God for YOU and your prayers 🙏🏽”

-Kim Kerr

What questions do you have about these WiW Trainings? We would love to hear from you!

Email Kimk@womeninthewindow-intl.org for more information!

Open doors: God has graciously opened the doors for us to launch a significant new partnership with Pakistani women who understand the Lord’s love and watchcare both from the Word of God, and from the miraculous ways that God is at work in their own lives.

Open hearts: And when women here understand that they are not unseen nor are their cries unheard, rather there is a God who is on their side, they are able to find hope and practical help they need to face the future. And that hope and help is so keenly needed in this Muslim-dominant nation. Here’s a snapshot of life for both rural and urban women in Pakistan:

Need for Christian Identity and Empowerment:

• Agent of Christ catalysts: Christian women need role models and mentors who can inspire and empower them to live out their faith boldly.
• Biblical teachings and resources: Access to Christian scriptures, teachings, and resources can help Christian women develop a strong sense of identity and purpose.
• Faith-based support networks: Christian women need supportive communities and networks that can provide emotional, spiritual, and practical support.

By addressing these challenges and needs, we equip and empower women in Pakistan to live out their faith with confidence, courage, and compassion, replacing poverty and injustice with dignity and purpose in Christ. And their faith becomes a lifeline of hope for those who have no hope!