Unwrap hope this Christmas
For billions of people, the light of the gospel is out of reach. You can help change that. By partnering with East-West this Christmas season, you can bring hope and joy to those who have never heard the name of Jesus. Generous friends of the ministry have created a $1 million matching fund. Any gift you give toward this match by December 31 will be matched dollar for dollar up to $1 million.
Your Gift at Work
Andwele is a quiet, middle-aged man from East Africa. After attending an East-West training to learn how to share his faith, he has not been quiet about Jesus. Andwele boldly shares his faith, even though doing so in his community can lead to persecution.
Andwele developed a friendship with a young shopkeeper named John. John’s family had practiced witchcraft for generations and sold charms and powders meant to ward off evil spirits in the shop. Whenever Andwele would talk about his faith, John was resistant and even avoided conversations about Jesus. One day, John decided to accept Jesus as his Savior, and Andwele began to disciple him. Eventually, John’s entire family believed in Jesus. The witchcraft the family had practiced for generations had come to an end.
John has since moved to a different country for work, but he hopes to follow in Andwele’s footsteps by sharing his faith with the lost around him and discipling new believers.
This story is just one example of how your gift makes a difference among the unreached.
Our Gift Acceptance Policy
Your financial contribution to the general ministry of East-West allows our organization to fully support the various ministry endeavors to which God has called our ministry. Funds for the general ministry of East-West will be directed to the areas of most need with the purpose of supporting our daily operations, strengthening our infrastructure, allowing for the flexibility to respond to new or changing conditions, planning for the long term, and investing in staff and technology.
East-West Ministries International attempts, whenever consistent with its charitable purpose and budget, to honor preferences expressed by our ministry partners regarding the use of their gifts. However, East-West at all times maintains full control over all funds donated to East-West and ultimate discretion as to their use, including redirection to other ministry needs. This ensures that all funds will be used most effectively to carry out East-West’s religious and charitable purposes, as required for contributions to be tax-deductible in the United States.
East-West Ministries International adheres to ECFA Standard 7.2 that states: Occasionally, givers request a refund of a charitable gift they made previously. Since contributions must be irrevocable to qualify for a charitable deduction, there generally is no basis to return a charitable gift to a donor.” However, on rare occasions a donor may be refunded if a gift was made in error, and it was clearly not the intent of the donor to initiate the charitable donation in the first place. This will be reviewed by the Financial Services Department on a case by case basis.