2020 Revive Our Hearts Fall Newsletter

NEWSLETTER | FALL 2020 Calling Women to Freedom, Fullness, and Fruitfulness in Christ

Landing the Plane, Preparing for Takeoff Dear Friend, Revive Our Hearts

Although His ways have not always been easy to understand, we can trust that this journey is one the Lord has planned.

Nothing.

rest secure in the knowledge that He knows what He

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Looking Back on the Journey

Seeds of Hope Scattered Throughout Europe

—m a r T i n J o n e s , e x e C u T i V e D i r e C T o r

Revive Our Hearts Here’s a sampling of His goodness as seen through the eyes of a few Revive Our Hearts staffers.

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Looking Ahead to Fruitful Ministry Usually at this time of year, the Revive Our Hearts Ambassadors are calling all True Woman attendees, looking to potentially meet to share more about the Ambassador Program. At the conference, there are times to connect with an ambassador in the onsite

—T a m m y Z e b e l l , W e b C o n T e n T m a n a g e r

Ambassadors’ suite, attend a meeting, and discuss the possibility of becoming an ambassador. Due to the postponement of the conference, women missed out

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on face-to-face time with the Ambassador team as well as an infusion of the energy that propels them to persevere.

While we can add this to the list of opportunities

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missed this year, we are abundantly grateful for what

He is our Rock and Sustainer

God is doing in women’s lives through Revive Our Hearts, and ambassadors are still greatly needed.

—m oniCa VaughT, e VenTs m anager /inTernaTional liaison

Revive Our Hearts

Is God calling you to a new ministry? Do you have a passion to come alongside women teaching women? If God is prompting you to a role like this, we invite you to prayerfully consider joining our Ambassador Program. Find out more or take the next step today at

Grounded

ReviveOurHearts.com/ambassadors.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, “Songs in the Night,” The Spurgeon Library, The Spurgeon Center, https://www.spurgeon.org/resource-library/sermons/songs-in-the-night/#flipbook/.

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Preparing for Takeoff Exciting O pportunities Ahead

Help Us Meet Our Year-End Need As we look forward to 2021, we see opportunities to reach women with this hope—Christ is King.

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Fall 2020

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Finish Strong HOW WILL YOU SPEND THE F I N A L DAY S O F 2 0 2 0 ?

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2020 ANNUAL PRAISE REPORT

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You Can Trust God to Write Your Story

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Reaching Women in 2020 Grounded

My soul has been encouraged Grounded

hope to my heart

You have no idea how the Lord has used you

Thank you so much for your ministry

God’s Timing Revive Our Hearts

His timeline Revive Our Hearts

Use the timeline to see . . .

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GLOBAL HEADLINES

JANUARY 7 World Health Organization is notified of a new virus, then known as 2019-nCov, sickening people in China.

MARCH 9 Italy becomes the first country to implement a nationwide lockdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

FEBRUARY 5 President Trump is acquitted by the U.S. Senate.

JANUARY 20 CDC announces the first coronavirus case in the United States.

JANUARY

FEBRUARY 11 Novel coronavirus named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization.

FEBRUARY

MARCH

FEBRUARY 25 Joven Verdadera book releases.

JANUARY 6 Abigail study and podcast season releases.

REVIVE OUR HEARTS NEWS

MARCH 16 The Dow Jones Industrial Average experiences the biggest point loss ever in response to pandemic fears.

MARCH 13–14 True Woman conference in Monterrey, Mexico.

FEBRUARY 1 Living Out the One Anothers of Scripture devotional releases.

MARCH 5

Reveille Nos Coeurs (French ROH) releases Seeking Him in French.

MARCH 8 Robert Wolgemuth is diagnosed with melanoma.

MARCH 23 Grounded launches.

MAY 25 George Floyd dies while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Floyd’s death sparks protests around the world.

MAY 30 SpaceX launches two NASA astronauts into space, becoming the first ever commercial launch on U.S. soil.

APRIL 2 Global coronavirus cases surpass one million.

APRIL

MAY

MAY 4 APRIL 13 Revive Our Hearts episodes now available in French.

APRIL 21 Revive Our Hearts hosts its first ever partner event via Zoom.

MAY 1 Uncommon Compassion: Revealing the Heart of God booklet releases.

True Girl launches summer subscription plan.

MAY 12–14 Revive Our Hearts Ambassadors meet for annual summit, this year via Zoom.

JUNE

JUNE 9 Recommissioned webinar.

JUNE 23 Online study of Rahab launches for women’s ministry leaders.

JUNE 2–6 Thirty-seven women stranded following MV '20 return safely to their homes.

JULY 31 One-third of Bangladesh affected by floodwaters, displacing up to 50 million people.

SEPTEMBER Most students in the United States begin the school year with new procedures in place including digital classrooms, mask mandates, and daily temperature checks.

AUGUST 10 Derecho storm hits Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana causing massive crop losses.

JULY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

SEPTEMBER 3 AUGUST 17

Portuguese website goes live.

Revive Our Hearts South Africa releases Seeking Him daily podcast in Afrikaans.

SEPTEMBER 3 You Can Trust God to Write Your Story turns one. Robert begins chemo treatments.

AUGUST 3 Rahab study and podcast season releases.

AUGUST 25 Robert diagnosed with B-cell nonHodgkin’s lymphoma.

SEPTEMBER 30

Production completed on the first forty Revive Our Hearts podcasts in Farsi.

NOVEMBER U.S. presidential election.

OCTOBER

OCTOBER 5 Grounded returns and expands for greater reach.

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

NOVEMBER 10–12 Six new Revive Our Hearts Ambassadors in training.

NOVEMBER 12 Heaven Rules 2021 calendar releases.

OCTOBER 1

More than 50,000 women around the globe join in prayer.

OCTOBER 12 Advent devotional Born and Child and Yet a King releases.

DECEMBER Lord, we are amazed by You! We trust You to work in our lives and through this ministry for all of 2020 and beyond.

You are writing our ministry story. We ask You to use us in the days ahead to call many women to freedom, fullness, and fruitfulness in Christ.

A New Journey Awaits G E T P R E P P E D W I T H O U R 2 0 21 WA L L C A L E N DA R Whether the thought of a fresh, empty calendar brings you anxiety or joy, find refuge, peace, strength, and grace in the fact that “Heaven rules.”

The 2021 Revive Our Hearts calendar was designed to remind you of that truth—to steady your heart when fear and uncertainty threaten to overwhelm you.

With visually soothing watercolor artwork by Virginia Graham and quotes from Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth, you’ll turn the page to each new month feeling confident and comforted that indeed, “Heaven rules.”

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