2018 Revive Our Hearts Annual Report

FERING WOME F O N IS

True Hope IN CHRIST

2018 MINISTRY REPORT

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Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth Founder of Revive Our Hearts

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Margaret Found True Hope while battling cancer.

“I wanted to express my thanks for allowing the Lord to work through you into the lives of women. I am presently going through A 30-Day Walk with God in the Psalms while battling terminal cancer. My last reports state that I now have metastasized breast cancer in the bone, liver, lungs, and brain. Studying the Psalms has been such a blessing and encouragement to me.

“I share some of the verses that have touched my heart with family (husband, seventeen and fifteen-year-old boys) and with friends. My prayer

through this trial is that the Lord will receive the glory. As I try to understand how to give and show glory to the Lord in this, I am encouraged by a friend who mentioned ‘though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day’ (2 Cor. 4:16).

“Your study in the Psalms is helping me renew that inner woman daily.”

– Margaret

Whitney Found True Hope beyond sexual sin.

“As a non-Christian, I was a slave to many sexual sins. I am now thirty, but I became a Christian at nineteen. During the first two years of my Christian life, I felt very alone because the Christian women around me didn’t quite understand the struggles I was facing. I was then given the book Lies Women Believe and was shown there is hope in God’s Word and that my value does not come from sex but from my Savior who died because He loved me.

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am now a women’s ministry leader in a college ministry, working with young women and teaching them that, whatever the struggle, they are never alone. God is always with them, giving them the strength to overcome sin that is no longer their master.

“Thank you for serving the Lord and setting the example for us younger women to follow so we too can set the pace for those who follow us.”

– Whitney

Malinda Found True Hope in the midst of a marriage crisis.

“Over four years ago, I emailed you for prayer.

My husband had walked away from our marriage and had an affair, with a child on the way as a result. Your program and Nancy’s books were such an encouragement to my heart during the bleakest time in my life. They also encouraged me to continue to pray that God would heal and restore our marriage.

“This summer we will celebrate seventeen years of marriage and three years of recommitment to those vows. To God be the glory! He has given us

so much healing and grace. I can’t even imagine how we would be here without Him. “Our journey back in our marriage has not been without struggles, and because of child payments to the daughter my husband has because of the affair, I had to take on more steady work as a nurse. God opened the door in a clinic forty minutes away, and I am so thankful for your programs every morning as I drive out there.

– Malinda

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When Katie was fighting pain and discouragement as a teenager,

the Lord used Revive Our Hearts to offer True Hope.

At the age of ten, Katie began to experience serious health problems, including debilitating headaches, joint pain, and fatigue. Her parents took her to multiple doctors, but they received little help and no answers. As time went by, Katie’s symptoms worsened.

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When Katie became a teenager, her family turned to a clinic for people who had exhausted all conventional medical options. But while Katie was hopeful the treatment would help, she found the environment to be difficult.

Steel walls. No fragrances or electronics.

Nothing from the outside could be brought in. For eight hours each day, Katie sat on a metal stool. Every ten minutes, she walked to the front of the room for an injection, then went back to her stool and waited another ten minutes for the next injection. Hour after hour, day after day. No books, no music, little human interaction. Just waiting . . . and loneliness—lots of loneliness.

Katie describes this time as “miserable.” And though she was a Christian and believed in the goodness of God, she had a hard time applying it to her own situation. “I knew God was good,” she said. “I saw that in others. But I didn’t think God was good to me.”

For so long, Katie had put her hope in doctors, thinking they would make her well. But every treatment failed. In desperation, Katie cried out to God. “I remember begging Him to show me if He was good and if He was trustworthy.”

Her answer first appeared on a little white slip of paper.

A Unique Prescription After a few weeks of the clinic’s monotonous routine, one doctor gave Katie a special prescription: He wrote a note allowing her to take an iPod into the testing room. That iPod put Katie on the path to finding her true hope in Jesus Christ.

Katie had heard about Revive Our Hearts, so she downloaded all the programs she could find. As she waited for injections, she listened to Nancy teach. Through these messages, God began to show Katie His goodness.

“As I listened, it allowed me to realize this was the place God had me,” she said. “And if He had put me here, then it was with great purpose. At a point when I had no other hope, the messages gave me Christ . . . and He was everything.”

Ultimately, the clinic’s treatment didn’t work.

And after a decade of searching, Katie was finally diagnosed with Lyme disease. Though things are still difficult health-wise, she wants to give Christ’s light to others who sit in darkness, just as Revive Our Hearts did for her. Now in her late twenties, Katie is a teacher to kids in the hospital and desires to use what she learned through her own experience to help them.

“For years, all I was chasing was a cure or even a diagnosis. I thought if I could just be well, then my life would be fulfilled. But through Revive Our Hearts, I realized that if I have Christ, I’m okay.”

Get more True Hope from Katie’s story. Watch the video at YouTube.com/ReviveOurHearts.

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When Piroscka was struggling with guilt from her past, the Lord used Revive Our Hearts to provide True Hope.

As a young woman in the Dominican Republic, Piroscka longed for the perfect life. Though she had been involved in religious activities, she didn’t know Jesus as her Savior. Piroscka put her hope in her boyfriend and their future together.

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When she was twenty-one, Piroscka got pregnant. Ashamed and embarrassed, the only person she thought she could turn to was her boyfriend. But when she told him about the pregnancy, he offered no support.

met Laura González de Chávez, director of Aviva Nuestro Corazones, the Spanish ministry of Revive Our Hearts. Piroscka volunteered to translate the English programs into Spanish, which had a dramatic impact on her new faith in Christ.

Piroscka felt alone . . . and desperate. She wanted the baby, but she wanted her boyfriend more, so Piroscka agreed to an abortion.

“Every message I heard from Nancy was a message just for me,” she said. “God used Nancy to align me correctly in the way He wanted me to be as a woman of Christ.”

Then she got pregnant again. This time, she didn’t hesitate. She knew what she had to do in order to get the life she wanted.

“Nothing was going to take away the plan I had— that I was going to continue this perfect relationship and eventually have a perfect wedding.”

That wedding happened just one year later. Eventually, she and her husband had four children.

And though she strived for an ideal family, it soon became evident she wasn’t the one in control.

Piroscka’s oldest son was born with a brain tumor that caused many health issues. Through the struggle of caring for his needs, her family began to attend church, where they consistently heard the Word of God. One Sunday morning, Piroscka was hit with the reality of the gospel. She finally understood she was a sinner and Christ had paid for her sins at the cross. At the age of thirty-seven, Piroscka surrendered to her life to Christ. Not long after, her husband became a Christian, too.

In 2015, Piroscka attended the Mujer Verdadera Conference. When Dannah Gresh, one of the speakers, talked about revealing secrets that keep you in bondage, Piroscka’s heart beat faster.

She had never told anyone about her abortions. And while she knew she was forgiven, she couldn’t shake the shame. “The enemy made me feel dirty and not worthy,” she remembers.

That day, Piroscka confessed her secret to a trusted friend. That step, plus a Bible study she later completed at a local crisis pregnancy center, allowed her to be set free from the bondage of guilt and grief.

Today, Piroscka has found her purpose in life: to counsel other post-abortive women and share with them the Truth and freedom available through Jesus.

Once upon a time, Piroscka found hope in having a perfect life. Now Revive Our Hearts has helped her to find true hope—through the Word of God and Jesus Christ who has set her free.

Free from Sin, Free from Shame As Piroscka became more involved at church, she

Get more True Hope from Piroscka’s story. Watch the video at ReviveOurHearts.com.

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THE LORD IS USING

Digital & So cial Media FROM REVIVE OUR HEARTS TO PROVIDE TRUE HOPE

505,000

Followers connected with Revive Our Hearts on social media, an audience that has almost tripled in the last three years.

8.3 Million

Visits to our websites in 2018.

The Lord is also using the digital platforms of the Revive Our Hearts Leader Connection to remind ministry leaders of the source of their True Hope.

“I’ve been listening to Revive Our Hearts through the app on my iPhone. I love your program, and it has been such a blessing to me! As a young woman on a small liberal arts campus where biblical womanhood is often scorned, your message brings life to me and my friends in our Christian fellowship.”

4 out of 5 In Latin America, four out of every five connections to our content is via mobile device.

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“As a women’s ministry leader, the resources from Revive Our Hearts are like treasures from women who have been there before me, and who are walking alongside me. The wisdom is genuine and helpful, the topics relevant and timely. I get so many emails each day, but whenever a Leader Connection arrives in my inbox, I read it immediately and then pass it along to my leadership team. I am thankful for the prayers and the sound wisdom the Revive Our Hearts team shares so freely.”

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30 Million

YouTube Subscribers

The number of audio listens to Revive Our Hearts content in the last year.

Facebook Live

Subscribers to the ROH channel on YouTube have more than doubled in the last six months.

“I reviewed the webpage and then downloaded resources that I started to share with the girls I disciple. I then began to teach them to live counter-culturally and to strengthen their identity in Christ.”

All new teaching programs from Nancy now air on Facebook Live as well as on radio and podcast.

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THE LORD IS USING

Co nferences & Events

FROM REVIVE OUR HEARTS TO PROVIDE TRUE HOPE

500,000 + Women who participated in True Woman ‘18 via live stream—from 157 countries!

64,000

Women who have attended a True Woman or Revive conference in the last ten years, with millions more participating online via livestream.

YouTube Subscribers

Subscribers to the ROH channel on YouTube have more than doubled in the last six months.

“This conference did exactly what I had prayed for. It filled my ministry cup to full and overflowing. I came away refreshed in my spirit and ready to serve all those in my care better than I have before.”

6,900 Women who attended True Woman ’18 in September.

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840

840 monthly partners received a complimentary registration to True Woman ’18.

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Countries Women from every U.S. state and at least 33 countries attended True Woman ‘18!

500+

“I came away convicted as well as encouraged. I was convicted about slander, areas of enslavement or idolatry in my life, and that I needed God’s grace to speak and act with more kindness. I was also incredibly encouraged by many of the messages, soaking in the truth like a dry sponge. I was refreshed by the teaching of the weekend.”

Women who attended an ANC conference in Cordoba, Argetina.

“Because I didn’t get a ticket in time, this allowed me to include my young daughters in the livestream. My eight-yearold asked me tonight if she could pray over me, like she had seen the women at the conferences do. She saw the Titus 2 model and has run with it!”

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THE LORD IS USING

Audio & Video

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1,940

Times each weekday that one of our Revive Our Hearts programs is broadcast via a radio outlet.

New Studio Facility Donors in the Dominican Republic provided a new studio facility for the production of ROH Spanish programs.

“I listened to several podcasts last night, and the Lord revealed the many ways I have grieved Him and my husband over the years with my lack of true submission. I’m wiping away tears of both conviction and joy with one of my ‘Yes, Lord’ hankies from eight years of True Woman conferences.”

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780

The number of unique audio programs that are produced by our team each year (Revive Our Hearts, Seeking Him, Aviva Nuestros Corazones).

Seeking Him

Video messages complimenting the Seeking Him workbook were recorded in Farsi to assist believers and train pastors in Iran and other Farsi-speaking countries.

New Programming We’re in the early stages of developing new programming for release as weekend content on radio and as an audio series for podcast listeners.

Teaching on YouTube

Video of Nancy’s teaching sessions is recorded simultaneously with audio and is released on YouTube to a growing audience.

“I stumbled onto the Revive Our Hearts podcast right in the middle of your ‘True Woman’ series, and everything has changed since then. It is liberating to be free from this culture’s ideas of femininity and womanhood.

It is liberating to understand how I’m supposed to display God’s image to the glory of His name. It is liberating to be a true woman of God. I thank you for using God’s Word to teach me that, Nancy.”

Adorned

Our team produced teaching and drama videos to support the Titus 2 mentoring message of Nancy’s book Adorned.

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THE LORD IS USING

Ambassadors & Internatio nal Minstry FROM REVIVE OUR HEARTS TO PROVIDE TRUE HOPE

Zulu

12,000

ROH South Africa staff are translating resources into Afrikaans and Zulu, forming study groups around the country, and presenting ROH materials at Christian book distributor events.

ROH Ambassadors from 21 states and 7 countries connect with women’s ministry leaders and pastors wives. They made over 12,000 personal connections and invested 7,200 volunteer hours over the past year.

“Aviva Nuestros Corazones is an answer from God, since for a long time I needed a resource that would help me get the young women of the church to attend the biblical teachings of the older women, as it is written in Titus 2. Thanks to all who collaborate in this blessed ministry, and above all thank God for using it to share freedom, fullness, and abundance in Christ for every woman around the world.” —A listener in Mexico

Turkish

In April, ROH Turkish began airing weekly programming and translating four core booklets into Turkish.

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1,000

Two ministries working with Farsi-speaking pastors in Iran and Europe requested 1,000 copies of Seeking Him, our core revival resource recently translated into Farsi.

3,900

We are experiencing dramatic digital growth in Latin America. For example, one woman in Mexico uses WhatsApp to reach leaders with Aviva Nuestros Corazones (ROH Spanish) by sending the daily program to 75 women who in turn send it to almost 3,900 other women.

Revive Our Hearts program transcripts and the Seeking Him workbook and one-minute audio features are being translated into French.

“I would like to thank Yadira, ambassador of ANC in Europe, and our sister Anne for taking the time and traveling from the north of Germany to the south, to our city, and sharing the message of biblical femininity. Through them we found this ministry. I want to thank all those people who make it possible for ANC’s ministry to work, especially the translators. Thanks to you, the women of my congregation and I have been built up.” —A Cuban listener living in Germany

Portugese

True Woman 201 is now available in Portuguese, adding to the group of books translated into that language.

Arabic

Connections continue to emerge within the Arabic-speaking world.

“I bless God for raising up this counter-cultural ministry, and I bless you for giving your heart to His plan. A big hug in Christ from Costa Rica.”

German

The True Woman Manifesto has been translated into German, and other resources are in process.

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THE LORD IS USING

P ub l i s h i n g FROM REVIVE OUR HEARTS TO PROVIDE TRUE HOPE

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3,200,000 Copies of Nancy’s books that have been sold.

Lies Men Believe

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Languages that Nancy’s books have been translated into.

Advent

Nancy has written an Advent devotional titled The First Songs of Christmas, available November 2018.

Lies Men Believe, written by Robert Wolgemuth, released in September.

“I am blown away from the material in the study. God has shown me deeper issues about myself that still need so much work—work only He can bring about.” —Response to Abigail: Living With the Difficult People in Your Life

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Christian Book of the Year

Adorned: Living out the Beauty of the Gospel Together received the ECPA Christian Book of the Year Award in the Bible Study category.

3,800

Abigail: Living with the Difficult People in Your Life released as a six-week Bible study this summer and was accompanied by an online Facebook study group attended by more than 3,800 women.

30%

New Content

Lies Girls Believe

Lies Girls Believe and A Mom’s Guide were written this year and are slated for a February 2019 release.

“As a pastor’s wife, I have tried different times to encourage our ladies to live out the Titus 2 woman model. I used Bible studies on the topic, but I never seemed able to really get the point across. I could never explain it all well and why we should live this kind of life. Partly, I had older women I respected questioning the principle, and I didn’t know how to answer them. But mainly I didn’t have the right mentoring resource to help me. I believe Adorned is the answer. I haven’t devoured a book like this in a long time.”

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The number of books Nancy has written and published in the past 18 years.

Lies Women Believe was updated and expanded to include over 30 percent new content. The refreshed book was released last February. It was also honored last spring with the ECPA Platinum Award for one million copies sold.

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OF SOME

THE WAYS REVIVE OUR HEARTS WILL PROV

IDE

TO WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD IN 2019 As 2018 comes to a close and we move into a new year, here are some of the goals we’re working toward as a team, trusting God to work. Thank you for praying that many women would be helped and that the Lord would be glorified through these efforts.

Take the next steps for Russian and Mandarin radio/Internet content translation and launch.

Trust God for 50 million digital audio listens and 600,000 social media subscribers in 2019.

Host Revive South Africa: Come to the Well, March 1–2. 7,000 women are expected to attend this conference.

Add core ROH teaching content in several additional languages to the ROH global web application that launches late in 2018.

Prepare a series of 40–50 podcasts for women who speak Farsi, the primary language of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan.

Hold several local conferences in Mexico, preparing for a large Mujer Verdadera conference (True Woman) in early 2020.

Plan the Revive ’19 women’s leader conference to be held in September.

Create a combination audio podcast season and weekend radio program.

Release Biblia Mujer Verdadera (True Woman Devotional Bible in Spanish) in the spring.

Launch an ROH Alexa skill (“Alexa, play Revive Our Hearts”) early in 2019 if not before.

Conduct two conferences in California the last week of March on Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together.

Produce two new “Women of the Bible” studies with print and online components.

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WOMEN ARE DISCOVERING

BECAUSE OF YOUR SUPPORT God is using faithful partners like you to change women’s hearts, and every day we hear stories of how their lives have been impacted. Because so many new opportunities for the Revive Our Hearts message are opening up around the world, we believe the most fruitful years of ministry lie ahead.

Because you are a “shareholder” in this work through your investments, we wanted you to see an overview of the income and expenses for ROH for the past year. You make it possible for us to provide content worldwide—through various media forms—to touch as many lives as possible. Thank you!

How Revive Our Hearts was Funded this past year:

How money was spent at Revive Our Hearts this past year: DIRECT OUTREACH—79.9%

83 %

Donations

63.5 %

Media Outreach (Websites, Radio, International, Social Media, Ministry Updates, and More)

8.8 % 10 %

Resource Sales

Conference Outreach (Revive ’17 and True Woman ’18 prep)

7.6%

Resources

7%

Conference Revenue

(Developing/ Distributing Ministry Products)

SUPPORT SERVICES 20.1% 13.3%

Operations (Administration, Support Services, Insurance, Facilities)

6.8% Fundraising / Partner Development

41% of Donations came from our 3,185 monthly ministry partners.

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Would you ask the Lord how He would have you get involved in providing True Hope to women around the world?

H e r e ' s s o m e w a y s y o u c a n p ra y f o r u s : Thank Him for bringing us several key staff over the last year. Ask Him to bring the additional team members we need to pursue the opportunities He is putting before us.

Ask Him to prepare women’s hearts for Revive South Africa, our March 2019 conference, and for Revive ’19, our women’s ministry leaders event in September.

Ask God to open up key digital and social media gathering spaces where our message will reach women who do not currently receive it.

Ask Him to provide more monthly ministry partners to support Revive

Our Hearts financially.

T h a n k yo u !

Thank you for your support as Revive Our Hearts continues calling women to freedom, fullness, and fruitfulness in Christ!

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