EMPOWERING SCHOOLS.
Our true worth, identity and peace come from knowing Christ and having salvation through Him.
We work to make disciples and to bring wholistic empowerment and development to students and their communities. The spirit of lies, defeat, fear and depression has creeped into the lives of these young people at a very tender age, and it requires collaborative effort of parents, churches, non-profits and other mission agencies to help nurture these young people in the way of the Lord. We believe in the sacredness of human life in all stages from conception to natural death. Empowering young people in schools has been one of Pastor Odi’s passions as he grew up struggling in school with things he had wish someone was there to help empower him in many areas that he was lacking growth and true purpose in life. So, for this reason, Odi became passionate about reaching out to youth for empowerment and development as he has done for many years starting from Africa and while working with youth who struggle with mental health issues here in the United States. Emissaries Mission works to build relationships with teachers and student’s parents to get to know the areas that empowerment and development is needed for certain students in schools.
CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IN VILLAGES.
Working collaboratively with other agencies to help bring the awareness of the importance of education to families in remote villages in Africa for wholistic development and empowerment.
K-12 education is not free in most parts of Africa. There are free schools that the government provides, but a young child will be in a class of 80 or more students with one teacher and the quality of education is poor. To get even an average quality education will cost a lot of money for every child. This includes uniforms, supplies, transportation, tuition fees, and food. It is one of the major problems in Africa, especially with K-12 schooling. As Odi continued to see this problem happened in some part of Africa, he volunteered to teach in local schools and would visit the children’s homes to empower their parents about the importance of education and also help build relationships with churches and non-profits to empower them to support the education of children in their communities wholistically. Emissaries Mission work to help families to know and understand the importance of education for both male and female children, giving them relief and development as needed and supporting the less privileged.
CROSSOVER MISSION.
Leading Churches and non-profits mission teams to the local ground in remote villages where they want to reach out cross-culturally.
The Crossover Mission movement is the international mission aspect of this ministry where outreach and missionary trainings and work are done internationally. Emissaries Mission believes that cross-cultural boundaries were broken by God (Acts chapter 2). So, the gospel is for all cultures. Crossover Mission was taken from the Bible in Mark 4:35 where Jesus told his disciples that it is time to cross over to the other side of the lake. The other side of the lake, according to the Jews back then, represented everything that was impure, corrupt and sinful. But Jesus has changed this perspective. Reaching out to the people on the other side means that the barriers between different cultures has now been broken and that we are now free to share the love of Christ (gospel) to anybody. We believed that God has called us as His emissaries (ambassadors) to the world to carry out His mission. That is why we go to the people, live among them, teaching them God’s way of living a life, knowing and understanding their culture, living a sacrificial life, learning from them, loving them, and starting with the little they know about Christ and bringing the wholistic, practical gospel to them that they may find salvation.
