{"id":3288,"date":"2024-02-23T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:26","slug":"big-news-for-mission-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3288","title":{"rendered":"BIG NEWS FOR MISSION RESOURCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Tonight I am simply reposting an important development at Mission Resource. This has me excited! Here it is:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This is BIG NEWS\u2026<\/h1>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"border: 0px;color: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-style: inherit;font-variant: inherit;font-weight: inherit;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">We are excited to announce <\/span><strong><span style=\"border: 0px;color: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-style: inherit;font-variant: inherit;font-weight: inherit;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">a NEW WORK<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"border: 0px;color: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-style: inherit;font-variant: inherit;font-weight: inherit;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\"> for Mission Resource in <\/span><strong><span style=\"border: 0px;color: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-style: inherit;font-variant: inherit;font-weight: inherit;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">Ghana <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"border: 0px;color: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-style: inherit;font-variant: inherit;font-weight: inherit;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">which we are calling <\/span><strong><span style=\"border: 0px;color: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-style: inherit;font-variant: inherit;font-weight: inherit;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">\u201cThe Empowerment Fund\u201d<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"border: 0px;color: inherit;font-stretch: inherit;font-style: inherit;font-variant: inherit;font-weight: inherit;margin: 0px;padding: 0px;vertical-align: baseline\">. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some time ago we came across a <strong>thriving <\/strong>savings and loan ministry in Ghana which had been started by a good friend of ours. In recent years, although the ministry had continued to be successful, <strong>its sponsoring\u00a0agency decided to pull away<\/strong>. Without the Lord\u2019s intervention, the ministry was set to dry up &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And hundreds of men and women would lose access to <strong>life-changing financial resources<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was <strong>clear to us<\/strong> at Mission Resource that the director, a Ghanaian named <strong>Eric Awortwe<\/strong>, was a talented and dedicated man, <em><strong>\u201cwith a head for business and a heart for\u00a0Jesus\u201d<\/strong><\/em>, as we like to say.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under his leadership, the program was meeting the financial needs of individuals in <strong>remote villages outside of Cape Coast<\/strong>, a couple of hours drive west of where most of Mission Resource\u2019s work has taken place previously.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mission Resource<\/strong> is excited to <strong>preserve <\/strong>this ministry, setting Eric and his team up for <strong>continued growth<\/strong> as together we serve <strong>budding business men and women <\/strong>around Cape Coast in Christ\u2019s name.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although <strong>The Empowerment Fund<\/strong> is <strong>different <\/strong>from our established model in significant ways, its approach has been highly effective in its local context. We will share more about its distinctives in the coming months!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I am simply reposting an important development at Mission Resource. This has me excited! Here it is: This is BIG NEWS\u2026 We are excited to announce a NEW WORK for Mission Resource in Ghana which we are calling \u201cThe Empowerment Fund\u201d. Some time ago we came across a thriving savings and loan ministry in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3289,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions\/3289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}