Please welcome new Empower missionary/minister Kristina Sachs. Kristina, Wayne Pelly, Liz Guy, and Carrie Miles will depart on January 30, 2012, to lead two seminars in Haiti in partnership with Haitian Christian Mission.
Kristina is an ordained elder and serves on the Missions Ministries team of Trinity United Presbyterian Church located in Santa Ana, California. Having traveled the world extensively while in the performing arts industry, Kristina has also been part of short-term mission trips to Russia, Israel, Korea, Romania, Ethiopia, and Kenya, and lived in Japan for four months. Closer to home, Kristina assisted a relief national team in helping disaster-ridden Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. As a member of EIM's Orange County advisory team, this will be her first sojourn to Haiti.
As a senior pastor's wife, Kristina and her husband have served five churches in interim pastoral leadership over the past 12 years of their marriage. Kristina was trained as a chaplain for the Billy Graham Rapid Response Disaster Relief program and was a regional leader for World Vision's ministry, Women of Vision, chairing Education and Advocacy for the Orange County, CA chapter.
While currently representing International Justice Mission www.ijm.org as a Justice Advocate/Community Educator, she is a spokesperson on human trafficking, present-day slavery, and other human rights issues. As a member of the Orange Co. Human Trafficking Task Force, www.ochumantrafficking.org Kristina is also a guest speaker for community groups and faith-based organizations.
Kristina earned her B.A. in Speech and Communication Studies at San Francisco State University in 2005, and was awarded her Masters in Christian Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary in 2009. Using this education combined with her broad life experience, she senses the Lord's clarion call to help empower the oppressed and marginalized while working in the area of Leadership Development. What a privilege it is to work alongside EIM as we offer the gift of compassion, as we help to better equip the saints with the Word of God, and thus help to bring freedom to the captives.
We are delighted to have Kristina join us.
Empower International Ministries works alongside existing ministries in developing countries to promote Christian teachings on the equal worth and potential for unity among all human beings in Christ, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, social or family status.
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