His Voice Global

Rupali is one of the sweet girls at Hope of Life children's home in Kolkata. This is the first birthday she has celebrated in her life and it was filled with cake, gifts, balloons and a new dress.

Nabin and Matilda say that Rupali makes everyone around her happy. She is beautiful, understanding, and behaves more maturely than her age. 

Lulu Place has a registry on Target.com for the girls who will be living there. From clothes to sheets, there are several items these girls will be needing and you can help make sure they get them! Here is the link. Go crazy! 

On Sunday, there is a team heading out to South Sudan to visit the orphans, be in fellowship with our partners, and work on the vision of His Voice Global for the next couple of years.

We would love your prayers for safe travel, blessed quality time, and a clear direction and discernment envisioning the future of His Voice Global. 

Lulu Place is opening next month! I can hardly believe it, but I'm so excited for it. Here are a few more pictures of the amazing progress. It's really happening, people! Please be in prayer for the rest of this building to go up, for the team that will be flying to Kenya soon for the grand opening, and for every girl whose life will be different because of this place.

The beginning of the year is such a hopeful time. There is so much potential, opportunity, and room for second chances. We have big plans for 2015 and we’re thrilled to have you beside us.

We pray that this year brings many blessings for you. That you would have low stress, extreme happiness, and chase after what the Lord calls you to. 

We are hoping to be able to broaden our reach in this world and expand the  ways we are able to serve. In order to do this, we will need your help!

Please consider partnering with us in our Kingdom Building efforts. There are many ways to get involved and different levels of partnership. We invite you to come alongside us in our efforts to engage, encourage, and equip children, widows, and church leaders.

Isaiah 54:2-3 says "Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate places."

His Voice Global has been called to do just as this scripture says. We want to expand the ground under which we've pitched our tent. We believe we are called to spread abroad. 

In accordance with this passage we hope to:

Stretch our leadership.

 Lengthen, or improve, our internal processes and tools to increase effectiveness.

Strengthen our program design and implementation to better serve our indigenous partners today and those we will serve in the future.

To be able to move in this direction, we will need your help.  This will take partnerships & financial resources.  Based on the work we've recently done to plan our path forward, we have great excitement about this ministry's future.  We don't have all the answers, but we know that in partnership with others we will gain them.  These resources will surely result in those we serve becoming active participants in God's Kingdom and ultimately these communities being real-life examples to others of God's Kingdom come.

We know these capacity building steps will be required for many years to come, but we ask that you partner with us in this journey now.  Please consider one of these partnership levels:

Renew, $25,000 or more

Restore, $12,000 or $1000 per month

Empower, $6000 or $500 per month

Equip, $1,200 or $200 per month

Encourage, $600 or $50 per month

Engage, $300 or $25 per month

It's Christmastime! We love Christmas here at HVG, and we love seeing all of your generosity each year. This year, we invite you to give today in order to fund a future. 

This year's Christmas project will benefit our Orphan College Fund. We are so excited about this project! We're ridiculously proud of all of our orphans, and we want to make sure their needs are met even after they leave the orphanages.

The Orphan College Fund is about more than just covering the basic costs of a college education. We are aiming to raise enough to cover such needs as lunches, snacks, trips back to South Sudan, medical fees, and more. 

You generosity today leads to opportunity tomorrow. Please consider participating in our Christmas Project this year and help us fund a future.

His Voice Family,

Today comes with a monumental announcement for us as an organization!

We have always wanted to be faithful stewards of our resources. As we have been casting vision for the bright future ahead, the Lord has also provided an incredible person to help us build and implement our mission and vision for the years ahead. I am beyond excited to announce that Bruce Lowe is our new Executive Director of His Voice Global!

Bruce is very relationally driven and also has a brilliant mind in organizational development with over 30 years of this background in the oil and gas industry, along with over 8 years in a local church context. We believe this will allow a way for me to concentrate on the areas where I am gifted, along with allowing Bruce to use his unique gifting to benefit the Kingdom through His Voice. We are a fiercely collaborative organization and will work together on a daily basis to carry out the vision of His Voice, since I will be remaining in the Founder/President role. 

As I have stated, this is a great addition to our team that will enable us to carry out and increase the reach the Lord has provided for His Voice Global. Please take time to read some words from Bruce below.

After graduating in 1976 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M, I held several engineering and executive positions in the oil and gas industry. I have had the benefit of working in many areas of the US and other countries, along with being involved on some great teams. A table of good food with family and friends, traveling, fly-fishing and reading are some things I enjoy.

In response to God’s call I joined Stonegate Fellowship, Midland Texas, as Missions Director in 2006. These years were a huge blessing for me as well as a time of deep learning and growth.

My wife, Martha, and I moved to Austin in 2013 to be close to our adult children, Rob and Ann, and family. In Austin, prior to joining His Voice, I have invested time in assisting mission organizations in building capacity and missional effectiveness.

As the His Voice team has been taking a deeper look at the future of the ministry, I have been assisting them during recent months. We reevaluated the mission and vision, dreamed of what the next steps forward for the programs should be and considered what would need to occur within the organization in order for these things to happen. Not only did the His Voice team become energized through this but I did as well. This led to our decision to join forces, with me as Executive Director and Vernon Burger as Founder and President.

His Voice has been tireless in participating in the building of God’s Kingdom and I want to work to support these efforts to define how we can take their successes to the next level. I will focus on our relationships with our partners, on our programs, and on our internal capacity to support these programs. Using the God-given opportunities I have had throughout my career to learn much about teamwork, organization, relationship and impact throughout my career, I will help His Voice sustain and grow in their Kingdom effort. This is a great gift to me.

Love Truth Vernon Burger II

Sacred: “Worthy of religious worship, very holy. Highly valued and important: deserving great respect.”

The delightful Becky Kiser from Sacred Holidays has put together an incredible devotional for the season of advent. Not only will this devotional be great for your spiritual health, but hopefully it will be able to have an even greater effect. For each devotional bought, Sacred Holidays hopes to be able to send one to a women in prison. 

Becky has partnered with two other amazing women, Amber Burger and Amy Kuntz, to create a booklet of fun and creative ideas for the Christmas season. 

For each bundle (devotional + creative booklet), 20% of the proceeds to to His Voice Global. How great is that?

For the rest of this month, we're partnering with Vive Clothing Co. They designed these awesome shirts for us, and $5.55 from each shirt goes directly to His Voice Global!

The shirts range from $24-32, and as you can see, they are really cool. I don't even need to know you to know that you would look good sporting one of these. 

Seriously, Vive is a great company and we're stoked to be able to come alongside them for a common good. Support their work and our mission by ordering your shirt today!

We have two exciting things going on in the month of November!

1. Sacred Christmas This Christmas season, we're partnering with Sacred Holidays. Becky Kiser has put together a phenomenal devotional for the advent season. Some very talented women put together a book in addition to the devotional- it's a book of creative ideas for Christmas including ideas for decorations, traditions, recipes, photo challenges, and more. If you purchase the bundle (the devotional + creative book), 20% goes toward new uniforms for our orphans. 

We're super excited about our partnership with Sacred Holidays this advent season. Becky Kiser has written an incredible advent devotional for you to enjoy this Christmas. Each day of advent has a different lesson.

We're especially excited about the "fun extra bundle." The bundle comes with the devotional and an additional book full of creative ideas on how to make Christmas more meaningful. It includes a tradition section, a recipe section, a decorating section, a section about hosting, and tons of fun things like bucket lists and Instagram photo challenges. 20% of the proceeds from the "fun extra bundle" go toward new uniforms for our orphans!

Head over to sacredchristmas.com to learn more. Like Sacred Holidays on Facebook and follow them on Twitter and Instagram. All week there will be giveaways leading up to November 1st. 

The Lord has blessed His Voice Global with the opportunity to do some amazing things in His name. We've been able to help start orphanages and schools in South Sudan (the Secondary School being distinguished as the top one in all of South Sudan by the Minister of Education) as well as the Hope of Life Children's Home in Kolkata, India; train pastors and leaders in Chandigarh, India through a replicable theological curriculum that we have designed; and partner with Rift Valley Fellowship in Mai Maahiu, Kenya to start a home for girls who are very vulnerable to being abused in the sex trade industry.

We've been helped by so many incredible people along the way for which we are so grateful.

Since the beginning of His Voice, we have had a giving structure that allows 100% of a donation to go directly to the designated project. We are currently trying to build out more organizational capacity to be able to cover administration costs which includes salaries, travel, wiring fees, etc.

At this time, we are humbly asking that you consider partnering with us by giving a monthly or one-time donation directed toward this aspect of organizational capacity. A gift focused in this direction will help His Voice to continue to run and will even increase the impact we are able to have in the areas we are currently serving. We believe strongly that we will see a 6 fold return on a gift made to the general budget. 

If you are interested in giving, please visit HisVoiceGlobal.com - click “Partner With Us” and then “Donate Now” or write a check to:

His Voice Global PO Box 2523 Cypress, TX. 77410

In the final couple of chapters of Bold as Love, Roberts implores us to do two very important things:

1. Stop vilifying other religions.

"Never, never, never vilify another religion. Instead, exalt Jesus, lift him up. You don't have to trash another religion to promote Jesus" (Roberts 100). I mentioned the first week that I've always kind of rejected the idea of competition. Another thing that I've always hated is the way companies bash other companies to promote themselves. Commercials. Political ads. College rivalries. It's everywhere. Why can't we focus on what is good about our religion instead of putting down what we don't agree with about somebody else's? That's what Roberts is trying to say. We should be living like Jesus, and that does not mean hating other religions. It means loving at all times, in spite of differences and regardless of opposing views. It means not oppressing, not judging, not hating, just loving. Let's give it a shot.

2. Forgive.

The second crucial point Roberts makes is that we have got to forgive. Perhaps you have personally been wronged by someone of another religion. We, as a nation, have certainly been wronged by people acting under different beliefs than our own. But no matter how hurt we have been, that does not speak for the entire religion. We can't let the acts of a few people affect the way we view an entire group of people. If everyone who has ever been wronged by someone "in the name of God," Christians would be in big trouble. 

We've got to forgive, just as we've been forgiven by Jesus, and just as we hope to be forgiven by our fellow people as well.

My Bold as Love conclusion is this: let's try to remember that each and every human on this earth was created in the image of Jesus and is loved by the Lord just as much as we are. We are to love each other with that same love. Let's try to start viewing people this way. Let's stop alienating people who are different. Let's stop stopping at tolerance. Let's go out of our way to create relationships with people outside of our own bubbles, our own communities and our own religions. Let's stop believing people in other religions to be bad, and let's forgive the few that are.

Chapters 5 and 6 were about the good ol topic of theology. I don't know about you, but there have definitely been times in my life where I consider myself to not be "very theological." I am surrounded by a lot of people who are attending school specifically to dig deeper into theology. This was never something I was interested in, but over the last few years, I have recognized how truly important it is for us to understand our own theological beliefs.

Roberts is very clear in stating that we need to have a good theological understanding of our beliefs, but also that we need to be honest with people of different faiths about our beliefs. We need to be able to answer the major theological questions that define who we are as Christians. What is the trinity and how does it make sense? Why do we believe in it? Why do we believe in Jesus? Why don't we think there is any other way to reach salvation except through him?

It is not fair to the people asking these questions to be wishy-washy in our answers, or to candy coat them. People want you to be honest, and it will help you stand firm in your faith.

The 3 main questions Roberts encourages us to be able to answer are:

1. Why do you believe in God? -He lists 7 reasons that make the most sense to him as to God's existence: creation, form and order, diversity, complexity of creation, uniqueness of man, mortality of man, and the spirituality of man.

2. Why do you believe in only one God?

3. Why are you a Christian/why do you believe in the Trinity?

I encourage you this week to reflect on your answer to these questions.