Activated Ministries

Activated Ministries supplied me with a scholarship to be able to study Psychology. The scholarship from Activated Ministries has helped me pursue those studies. I am very grateful. The application process was straight forward, I received a reply within the time frame that they had posted and were able to send a check directly to my school. It meant so much to me and I am so extremely grateful for their generosity. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart!

We are very grateful to Activated Ministries for helping us over the years in different ways here in Mexico. Through donating a van to our family in need, as well as with scholarship to be able to finish our studies.
Thank you so much for all your help from the bottom of our hearts, we are forever grateful!!!

Activated Ministries' In Recognition of Service Scholarship is making a big difference in the lives of college students who benefit from the financial support to complete their post-secondary studies. This is a great program and a wonderful nonprofit that I am honored to support.

I have been a supporter of Activated Ministries for many years because I know that they are making a difference in the lives of many people around the world. I especially have been inspired to see how the Family Care Uganda project has impacted the lives of so many orphans and children who would not have otherwise received an education, but now are giving back to their communities in their new professions as nurses, educators, doctors and other professionals. Truly a great work!

A beautiful charity that really does help!!!
I love the scholarship program and have seen firsthand what a HUGE help it's been not only to myself but so many others! I am so grateful and love to see how people are able to reach their educational goals thanks to Activated Ministries!!!
This is a wonderful charity, helping so many people around the world!!!
Thank you so much for all your help and hard work in making such a big difference around the world!

In my opinion Activated Ministries is a terrific organization making the most of their resources to help those in need both at home and abroad. As a donor I've noticed that nearly 100% of donations received by Activated Ministries go directly to support missions in Africa and elsewhere. Very little is used for administrative costs. In addition to their support of foreign missions Activated Ministries also offers scholarships to up and coming young people here in the US to further their education and reach career goals. Activated Ministries' various projects and endeavors come from the heart and are meant to help and heal wherever they can.

I have followed the work of Activated Ministries over the years and in early February of this year one of their projects that helps Syrian refugees was on location when the devastating earthquakes struck. Activated Ministries provided funding to help many people who were struggling to survive after losing their homes and livelihoods. Donations to Activated Ministries go a long way in helping to change the world!

I have been a supporter of Activated Ministries for over a decade. They are very dedicated to their mission of not only sharing the gospel - but also supporting great projects around the world.

Activated Ministries has been an incredible support and boost to our school and education of older graduates in Northern Uganda. They recently gave a substantial grant which paid for 32 of the graduates from our Primary school, who are currently studying in secondary and tertiary schools and institutions. We absolutely couldn't do what we do without them. They have supplied equipment, web-site design and support, and they send donations to us like clockwork on the 15th of each month, year after year! We can't begin to say how grateful we are for their concern, their integrity and their commitment to making this world a better place together.

I have worked for and along side Activated Ministries for several years - it always inspires me to see the projects they support. A life changing organization that is helping people around the world.

I received a scholarship from Activated Ministries so that I can study Marketing. I am extremely grateful to this charity for their support and for helping so many young people be able to pursue their careers and get closer to their goals and dreams!
Beautiful charity!
Thank you so much

I have been a supporter of Activated Ministries and Family Care Uganda for many years - it always inspires me to see the huge impact FCU has in the lives of the Ugandan children they teach and serve. Truly changing the world!

A great charity , am blessed to say activated ministries help me finished my studies with a scholarship they kindly gave to me

Activated Ministries is an incredible charity with so many amazing projects. They've helped so many reach their professional goals with their scholarship program and continue to provide to the most needed.

A wonderful charity that really does help those in need.
Thank you Activated Ministries for your generosity and for all your help! We are so grateful to you!

Amazing charity!!! I was so fortunate to receive an amazing scholarship from Activated Ministries so that I can pursue my goals and finish my career. I am so extremely grateful to this charity for helping me, and so many others!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

My daughter received a scholarship from Activated Ministries so that she can study Psychology. We are extremely grateful to this charity for their support and for helping so many young people be able to pursue their careers and get closer to their goals and dreams!
Beautiful charity!
Thank you so much

Activated Ministries is a ministry that has helped change lives! We are grateful for their dedication and commitment to serve all over the world! Our son was blessed to receive a scholarship to help with college. It was an answer to prayer! We appreciate all the variety of ministries that the organization is involved in. Their generosity has impacted the world!

Great non-profit making a meaningful difference in lives of many. Their missionary scholarship program is having a profound impact in the lives of those who have spent their lives serving others.
Keep up the good work.

In all the years that I have followed the projects and programs of Activated Ministries, what has always stuck out to me is their genuine concern and initiative to make a change. I've seen so many lives changed and bettered through the hard work of truly sacrificial volunteers who really are there to make a difference. The impact that they have made in Uganda with the children who are so in need, is beautiful to me and something we need to see more of. Knowing the amount of hard work, thankless labor and personal sacrifice that goes into that program, is something I admire immensely and am in awe of. Keep up the good work Activated Ministries!

A truly wonderful organization committed to bettering this world with projects ranging from humanitarian and educational to spiritual.
Their Family Care Uganda project is so inspiring, providing the emotional and physical care that those children need.

Activated Ministries is doing an amazing work - and I truly admire them for their dedication and commitment. Especially their project in Gulu, Uganda - changing the lives of so many young students, orphans and children of former child soldiers.

Our project in northern Uganda offers schooling and full living to orphans of the long Kony war, and to extremely disadvantaged children and teens. Activated Ministries has been a key facilitator offering logistical support and providing grants and website support. We really couldn’t have the impact we’re having with these kids without their skilled, caring and professional support and guidance. To us, they are an incredible force for good, and enable us to change lives for the long-term with now some of our oldest in university, set to change their communities. For all the years they have assisted our project, there has never been a request from our end they have not tended to above and beyond the call of duty. We greatly admire them and deeply appreciate their effectiveness.

Robin Yamaguchi , Director Family Care Uganda

I am thrilled to be awarded a scholarship from the Activated Ministries scholarship program. The $1000 scholarship was a great help for my nursing degree. I can't thank them enough for all they've done for me.

Activated Ministries was a great help to the many people in Baja California who need dental work, by donating a large RV which will be used as a traveling dental office. Their generous donation made this project possible!

I have been a subscriber to the Activated Ministries daily devotionals for several years, and recently when I was going through a rough time in my life, those daily emails were like a lifeline for me and helped me to know that Jesus has my life in his hands.

My experience with Activated Ministries is that they are the real deal! We experienced first hand their generosity and true giving spirit when our family of 8 most needed help. Time and time again I have seen them reach out to others and give as much as they are able. What they are accomplishing in Uganda, through their scholarship program, their support in disaster relief, just to name a few initiatives, is really incredible to me. They are truly changing lives for the better!

I've been a supporter of Activated Ministries over the last seven years, and have seen a tremendous amount of progress across many of their projects in East Africa and other developing countries. They are clearly doing good work, and on a dollar basis it's hard to imagine a more efficient target for my charitable giving.

I think this charity is doing a great thing helping others with education. I also really admire this ministries mission to better the world. The work you do helps countless people reach their educational goals and improve their communities around them. Thank you for all you do.

Activated Ministries supplied me with a scholarship for MA studies. Having been on the mission field for the last 20 years, I have wanted to further my education. I wanted to have a chance to reflect on my service, learn about new methods and theories as well as learn new skills. The scholarship from Activated Ministries has helped me pursue those studies. I am very grateful. Their application process was straight forward, they responded within the time frame that they had posted and were able to send a check directly to my school.

Thanks to Activated Ministries our project at a rural school was a great success and 120 teenagers now have the opportunity to learn computer basics! The school serves over 600 children and young people from four different villages. We were so thankful for the donation of 4 brand new computers from Activated Ministries. They will make a huge difference to the IT education of these young people who otherwise might not have an opportunity to be exposed to computers and learn even the basics. We are very grateful to Activated Ministries and those who have donated to make these important projects possible.

We are very grateful to Activated Ministries for helping us over the years in our different projects here in Mexico. Through donating educational and inspirational materials as well as other goods needed by our mission center we have been able to further our outreach programs to the poor and needy.
Thank you so much for all your help!

Our first experience with Activated Ministries was in 2008, when we first started a project in Lima, Peru with a small group of volunteers. We cannot emphasize more the help and support that they gave us. They were crucial in starting the humanitarian project. It was a tremendous blessing to have the backing of such a professional organization to sponsor educational materials the first year of our humanitarian work. For the last five years, because of the help of Activated Ministries, we were able to organize our annual "Sponsor a Book Program", donating books, audio and video materials, and other educational aids to hospitals, schools, kindergartens, and poor families. The individuals and institutions that received these products would not be able to afford these materials otherwise. That makes us even more grateful to Activated Ministries for making all this possible. Just recently, one of the directors of the schools that received these educational products commented to us on how much they enjoyed them and used them on a daily basis. We would like to thank you and commend you for your professionalism and dedication.

I would like to personally thank Activated Ministries for the enormous part you play in making our projects in Thailand possible. Whether it's being able to give needed educational materials for a school in financial crises, or being able to help a remote school which is often overlooked with an educational pack. - Whether it's finding that the products from Activated Ministries are the perfect foundation for motivational classes at a center for abused children, or that the motivational children's books from Activated Ministries are the ideal thing to leave with a bed-ridden child, to give him happiness and a positive attitude. The point is, in our many projects we organize to help children throughout Thailand, having Activated Ministries as our partner gives us the confidence that each project will be a success, because we know we have amazing products to give that have the ability to change lives. Activated Ministries, the smiles we see when we give your products and the stories we hear about the impact they have, never cease to inspire us.

I was Project Manager of Family Volunteer Services of Nepal from 1995 til 2008 and Activated Ministries had helped us on that needy mission field many a time with sponsored educational materials, Activated magazines and Christian literature, music CDs, and A/V DVDs--And even donating to us the expensive digital masters so that we could set up a local language studio! I know they have their share of the rewards of our labor, and I'm happy to give them their fair credit due. Thanks Activated Ministries! --James F Smith http://www.familycare.org/network/family-volunteer-services-of-nepal

My name is Philip Foy and I have been working with Activated Ministries since 2001. I am very thankful for their support and collaboration in sponsoring a variety of projects I have helped with. Activated Ministries contribution has enabled us to print many thousands of educational booklets and Christian tracts for ministries around the world, notably materials in Portuguese for outreach in Mozambique, Christian materials in French for ministry in French speaking Africa, and materials for ministering to the Saharauis, a group of nearly 200,000 war refugees living in extreme conditions in the Western Sahara desert since 1975. It has been rewarding to hear the response to our efforts in lives changed and hope restored.

In my over 40 years as a volunteer Christian missionary, the greatest aid to my outreach to a variety of peoples has been through the beautiful Aurora Products from Activated Ministries, which I am able to distribute & gift on a personal level.
From mothers in need of counsel & help with homeschooling their children of many ages, to those individuals of all ages who I meet, diagnosed with cancer (or some other disease) in need of encouragement in their final days… From teenagers who crave someone to just listen, & give them simple unbiased answers & directional sound bytes… to those entering & experiencing the vast changes in their lives with the onset of the golden years, I have used the versatile products provided at Activated Ministries to reach hearts & help to heal in the lives of hundreds.
Thank you, Activated, for also being so personally available & constantly gracious in our interactions & partnering to reach out to so many! God bless you! Susan Weiler, Austin, Texas

My name is Jose Balcells, and I write from Madrid, Spain, to say that Activated Ministries has helped us enormously with our Jail Ministry. About a year ago, AM donated 600 books of the series Keys to Happier Living (Aurora Production AG) which were placed in the libraries of all prisons and main rehabilitation centers in Spain. Since then we’ve seen the good fruit those books have produced in the lives of so many inmates, from which we’ve received very positive responses, some truly fascinating as they wrote telling us of their lives changed and totally renewed.

Activated Ministries has lent their support to our volunteer efforts in Northern Japan after the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Since then, they have helped to sponsor four relief trips and a summer camp for the children and parents who lost their homes in the disaster.
We could not have accomplished so much without their help.

Having Activated Ministries support our work in Mexico City has enabled us to reach many people. Kids in Hospital through Laughter therapy visits as Clown Doctors, workshops for parent of kids with terminal illness and workshops for Medical Students on Clown-Care and the power of laughter in healing. Thank you for believing in our project and making it a reality. We honestly couldnt have done it without you.

Good day everyone. My name is Michael Fogarty and I am a professional musician in Japan. Christmas 2011 I was asked to put together a band for a Christmas Party at the Kanyo Hotel in Minamisanriku Japan. Minamisanriku is where the tsunami had the most devastating effects, leaving thousands dead and the whole town was destroyed except this one luxury hotel in the mountains. I said yes, and then went searching for other professionals who would be willing to help make the 1000km trip by car. This was already enough to ask to do all this without payment, but we had to pay our own expenses. I then found out that not only were our expenses not to be covered, but we would also have to pay for two nights in the hotel with meals. Adding all these expenses up for a 5 piece band was around $2000! (If you've never lived in Japan, tolls and gas are-Ouch-)
I had heard about Activated and Tom Hack (director) and the work they were doing and thought, well it never hurts to ask. I was going through the expenses list trying to see what I should pay such as preparing my car for the snow, meals there and back etc. I then sent a mail to Activated and Tom mentioned they had a budget for the tsunami relief and that if I sent a detailed list of the expenses they would be happy to pay in full!!! And that they did. We had a great Christmas party with over 350 guests, 80% of which had lost either their houses, loved ones, or livelihood. Thanks to you all at Activated. You rock.
I pray for your success and would so much love to call on you again.
The world is needy. May we together continue to reach out.
Michael Fogarty
owner, director infiniti studios
Japan

Each day as I visit the ships I am very thankful to be able to give the crew Christian magazines to encourage their faith and relieve their stress. Many sailors experience long contracts away from home, rough seas and increased piracy threats. Thank you Activated Ministries for your continued support in providing Christian materials. The crew really appreciate the reading materials.
Irene Glase, Melbourne Port Ministry

Activated Ministries made it possible for 14,157 underprivileged children in India to receive quality educational books through our unique program called Values in Education. It has empowered 37 institutions with 58 libraries of relatable and effective teaching tools along with curriculums focused on character and holistic based education.

The vision of Activated Ministries made us feel encouraged and supported, like they understood our needs and cared about the cause. The interaction we experienced was a blend of flexibility and professionalism, as they were willing to factor in the realities and limitations we faced on the ground level, while guiding us in best practices and expectations of good quality project building. Values in Education could not have made the impact documented to-date without the sponsorship and encouragement of Activated Ministries.

As I complete my 300 hours of field experience in Early Childhood Education and prepare for my final examinations I can’t help but thank God and Activated Ministries for making my educational dream and journey a reality. May my work with children be a testament to their investment. Thank You! -- Carina Hanson, Liberty Hill Texas

Activated Ministries recently donated books, backpacks and school supplies to our preschool that serves low income children in Mexico. They also brought clothing and shoes - many of the kids who come to our day care live in extreme poverty and all of these items are so very appreciated. The Activated Ministries Staff are wonderful, caring individuals - I'm so happy to count them as my friends, and especially grateful for all they have done to change our part of the world.

We at Family Care Ministries are very grateful for the professional and efficient assistants we received from ACTIVATED MINISTRIES. We started youth clubs in all major cities in Malawi and were in great need for educational and motivational material and they filled this need.
What I like about ACTIVATED MINISTRIES. They are prompt and personal in their communication and efficient in the delivery of the material. Our non-profit would not have been able to equip the youth without the assistance of ACTIVATED MINISTRIES. A job well done. Josef Bitschnau, Chairman

Activated Ministries Scholarship Tuition program helped me get started studying, it means so much to have the support of organizations like you who make the road a bit lighter.
Thanks to this program I will have a university degree in 2015, most of my first year´s tuition was sponsored by Activated Ministries, not only that but the very helpful volunteers and or secretary with whom I communicated went to extremes in helping me get the needed paperwork and information translated and forward from abroad.
You have made a huge difference in my life, I am eternally grateful to you. I hope to one day be able to help you pass it on to other students.
Sincerely,
David Grupp Mayo

Without the sponsorship and efficiency of Activated Ministries, our non-profit could not have made the impact and needed changes in the remote villages and schools near Santana, Peru. "World Famiiy Missions" 501-(c)3, from Texas, has been volunteering in Santana the last five years, to build a mission center that provides job and vocational skills training for adults. Mothers were always primarily concerned for the education of their disadvantaged children, so to win the hearts and confidence of these remote and needy people, we distributed character-building materials from Activated for every school in the surrounding area. It was the generous help of these life-changing materials from Activated that won the entire area. The children's books are absolutely the best. We have never found better. Now we are well-known for these beautiful materials and welcomed back every year. Thus a huge Thank You to Activated Ministries for the production, sponsorship and mailing of their publications to Peru the last three years.

When the need is so great and the amount of kids many --that fill the hall at a program in a remote area in Africa, --its great to have a mission that dedicates their time to support you. I have had the privilege of donating thousands of teaching aids and school materials sponsored by Activated Ministries in the last years, and it has made a bigger impact on the volunteer projects I have partaken in... Keep up the good work, the next project is just around the corner!

Another successful project completed thanks to Activated Ministries!

Getting books and teaching materials to our staff in troubled East DRC is one of our biggest challenges and the need is so great. Activated Ministries far exceeded our expectations by not only agreeing to sponsor the needed French publications for our 12 month outreach and teaching program, but agreed to sponsor the costs of getting the books there--a greater cost than the materials themselves! Tx guys, couldn't have done it without your generous support!

Our Healing Hearts Balkans charity has had a long-running positive relationship with Activated Ministries. They have twice given generous grants to sponsor our character-building curriculum book printing so we can donate this excellent material free of charge to needy elementary schools and kindergartens in Serbia and Kosovo.

The staff of Activated Ministries have always been very professional in their dealings with our charity, and we appreciate very much all they do in both the printing of top quality children's material themselves, and sponsoring many wonderful charitable organisations around the world.

I have been working in Africa since 1995, mainly with underprivileged children's projects. It can be difficult to get support but Activated Ministries has come to the rescue twice now by happily supplying materials & finances to help get out job done. Without organisations such as this one who reach out to help others the world would be a much darker place - A BIG thank you to all at Activated for your selfless efforts to reach out to others.

I was awarded a scholarship from Activated Ministries last year.
I live in Bogota, Colombia and I'm studying Business Administration at Universidad Militar.
This is just a short write up to say thanks to Activated Ministries, which paid my last tuition, and also to the donors who made it possible.

A heartfelt thanks to all of you.
Victoria Sharp

This year I have had the distinct pleasure of being awarded a second IROS Scholarship offered by Activated Ministries. This scholarship is offered to current or former missionaries and their children. My parents have been missionaries in Asia for over 30 years and they now have 3 kids in university, so this scholarship has certainly been a benefit.
As a busy 4+1 student (5-year bachelor and masters program) in a foreign country, funding your own studies can be a bit stressful, so I'm very pleased to have learned of this scholarship, and grateful to have been accepted as a recipient. The process was simple and straightforward and the feedback was timely. From my experience they are a really awesome organization.

I recently purchased some items for my 5 year old from your website and thought I'd leave a review here.

The 5 Minutes Bible Devotional for Kids: These are great. My son sits down long enough to get through one or two. They're age appropriate and do a great job at teaching basic Christian values and morals, which is what I was looking for.

Insects Galore Books: This was a miss. My son lost interest. They looked like fun, but they weren't action packed enough and, well, he got bored. Not bad books, but not very captivating.

Big Thoughts for Little Minds: A+ on this series. Again, easy for him to understand and fun art.

I donated my car last month and wanted to commend this charity for their excellent car donation service. I donated my motorcycle to another charity several years ago and had no end of trouble, from a tow agent who cancelled several times to the tax paperwork taking forever to get to me. Not so with Activated Ministries. The person on the other end of the phone was sharp and answered all my deduction questions professionally and (more importantly) accurately. They got someone out there to pickup my car within 2 days and even had all the tax paperwork and receipts to me before the end of the year so I didn't have to worry about whether or not my donation would fall in the 2012 tax year. Great job! Will be recommending you to my friends.

My son and I got some shoes and pants that you gave away to Brother Bennos recently. Thank you. It meant a lot to us to get new shoes and some warm clothing. God bless you!

This Christmas 2012, Activated Ministries is providing toys, backpacks, coloring books, art supplies, and reading books for our Day Care center for children from struggling, low income families. We are extremely grateful for their support of our project! I also personally know many of their staff and volunteers and they are extremely dedicated, hard working, caring individuals dedicated to making the world a better place for those less fortunate.

I've had some good friends who have worked at Activated Ministries over the years and I have participated in some of their volunteer programs from time to time. I have gotten their monthly newsletters and have even stopped in to say hello when in town on business. Based on my observations of their daily operations and conversations I have had with staff and management, I have a fairly good knowledge of what they do, how they are set up and the way they operate, I have been very impressed with their level of professionalism and dedication to their mission. If you want to know more about the organization, sign up for their monthly newsletters or check them out online at www.activatedministries.org, or Guidestar to see their financial information. I am giving them 4 stars because no organization is perfect, but all in all, I recommend this organization as one of the better ones out there.

At Christmas time, our project that helps make Christmas special for kids who otherwise wouldn't be able to get a gift or enjoy a nice Christmas meal. For many years Activated Ministries has helped our project with donated toys, food, clothing, backpacks and school supplies. To these children, Activated Ministries is a true Christmas Angel!

I work with a homeless shelter in Southern California, and Activated Ministries has worked with us to help provide needed shoes and clothing for the clients we serve. Everyone I have met at Activated Ministries is a wonderful person who has devoted their lives to helping others. They are genuine Christians who live their lives by the Golden Rule, and who follow Jesus as what they "do unto the least of these" they have truly "done it unto Him"!

I advise individuals to stay away from this organization. Activated Ministries is part of the infamous religious sect ‘The Children of God’, nowadays under ‘The Family’ or ‘TFI’ . They ‘use’ these legal frames to acquire ‘provisioned goods’ which they use for their own members as part of their gypsy life style. Their contribution to society is flimsy, if relevant, only living for the present and with low or not concern for the issues of society at large. Few members remain in some city centers of most emerging countries, -it is easier to get donations channeled there- but they high style of living certainly does not go with their hypocritical missionary white-wash. Two people are responsible, Karen Zerby and Steven D. Kelly, which have used their dictatorial and theocratic regime for a long time to entice people to pay their tithe, to them, -by the way, they have changed names again, meet Katherine Rianna Smith and Christopher Smith- trying to live again a secret life.
I’d like to caution organizations, communities and legal institutions to put in place roadblocks to this type of deceitfulness and invest instead in local communities and in decent charities with four starts. Charity Navigator should investigate claims. Much information available is with anti-sect groups and internet. You could find the truth about ‘Activated Ministries’ here in this page. http://www.exfamily.org/the-family/3.0.history-of-the-family.shtml

Having worked as an educator and special humanitarian project supervisor overseas, in Africa and Europe, I was looking for a scholarship to help my son be able to continue his College education and obtain his degree in writing and filmmaking. We applied for the Activated Ministries scholarship last semester, during a particularly difficult time and IROS came through, meeting even above our expectations. We are impressed with their friendly and professional manner, organization and courtesy. We can't say enough good about AM.

I heard about Activated Ministries about 3 years ago, when I was looking for a sponsor for a project that I've been involved with in Mexico. Every year for Children's Day, I like to travel to Mexico (from my home in Texas), and make Children's Day special for children who live in poverty. Kids are my passion - and I always think that you never know how far an investment in a child will go! Activated Ministries sponsored some really great children's books that we were able to donate to children in 3 public schools in very poor neighborhoods. For many, it was the first time they had a book of their own that they could take home with them! It was very rewarding to see their eyes light up and know how special this moment was for each one.

My name is Susan Tidewell, and I have donated to Activated Ministries regularly over the years. I receive their monthly Newsletter, and I'm always amazed with the tremendous work that Activated Ministries is accomplishing around the world. I am specifically interested in helping missions in Africa - and this charity is doing accomplishing so much in helping orphans, AIDS victims, former child soldiers, children in need of school books and uniforms. Plus they are very active in preaching the gospel - God's Word that truly changes lives!

The infamous sect of ‘The Children of God’ –aka ‘The Family International’, - needed a front, in fact many fronts. Activated Ministries is just one of them, and although uses the excuse of being a book and DVDs wholesale, they barely assist only their own members in other parts of the world, while maintaining a deceitful cover-up. A clear infringement of charitable ethics. In regards of book donations, compare ‘Activated Ministries’ with institutions fully dedicated to eradicate illiteracy and to help poor children to fashion love for books like ‘Books for Africa’ or ‘Room to Read’. While the last ones uphold four stars here at the Charity Navigator, ‘Activated Ministries’ artificially ‘produces’ just one star.
Mentioning books, someone came to the rescue of AM, introducing herself as director of ‘Sponsor a Book’. Again, The Children of God’s tactic, where the front is used to simply ‘provide’ a good face, while no much gets done. If someone wishes to support a truly charitable institution to enhance education in Mexico, they can turn for ‘Worldfund’, for example, which uses education to fight poverty in Latin America and cooperates with ‘Becalos’ and other local foundations. So again, whereas ‘Activated Ministries’ –‘Sponsor a Book’ and their other different branches- hold a charitable certificate, they request help for their own, thus trying to preserve a life style that at the end contributes poorly to the charitable community.

Hi my name is Daniella Bergner and I was born in Hungary. We have been doing volunteer work my whole life and I have travelled and helped in different countries alongside my parents as I was growing up. I am very, very thankful to Activated Ministries for helping me with my university tuition. Thank you so much for paying the first semester! You make it all possible for me to keep studying languages on a higher level and I know it will be a help to others as well in the long run! Thank You!

I applied for a scholarship towards my degree in International Development with Activated Ministries in March 2012. I found their website extremely user-friendly and easy to navigate. In my interactions with them as they guided me through the application process and subsequent approval of my scholarship, their staff were always extremely professional, courteous and prompt in answering emails. I really appreciated the help towards my tuition fees through the scholarship, and I have since recommended them to several of my friends.

I received a scholarship grant in 2011, which was a tremendous help toward starting college. Great work guys, keep it up!

My name is JIn Kato. I am a Project Director for A.N.T. Relief Network (ainote.jp.fm) and a founding member of the Tohoku Relief Mission. From the beginning of April, 2011, through July 2012 we coordinated more than 30 trips bringing relief supplies and volunteers in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. (see tohokutrip.blogspot.com) While our work was originally supported by a network of personal friends, as time went on, projects grew larger, and more volunteers interested in helping came forward, we needed financial support to continue the relief effort. A friend who was involved in mission work overseas suggested we ask Activated Ministries for help. I have to say, the were a Godsend! Because of their support, we were able continue our relief work, and then move on to supporting the reconstruction towards the latter half of 2012. I was especially impressed with the promptness of their replies. They were very easy to work with and understanding of our situation, and continue to support our ongoing projects. I can honestly say that we could not have continued this far without their help.

I hereby extend my thanks to the "Scholarship Institute” for the opportunity you have given me and the means to continue my studies through a scholarship that I have provided. I also express thanks to this scholarship not only will I continue my studies more easily, but it will also give me the opportunity to obtain books and supplies needed to delve much more effective on the career I'm studying. Once again thank you for this invaluable assistance, keeping it always in mind.

My name is Shelly Guild. I am one among countless others whose future has been changed forever by Activated Ministries. After more than a decade spent as a missionary in Indonesia and then 4 years in Mexico, God showed me to go back to school. I'm a wife and a mother of 3, with a full time job and goals for my kids' future. There was no practical way for me to fund my education. Activated Ministries has an incredible scholarship program for people like me, called In Recognition of Service. AM generously granted me my first scholarship and my life will never be the same. I plan to continue my education towards a degree in nursing and use that to serve others, as Activated Ministries has served me.

I am so grateful to have been a beneficiary of Activated Ministries projects -- their educational grants. With their assistance I was able to work through three semesters worth of university study and earned a place on the Deans List of my college. Thank you for making my dream a reality.

My name is Mark Hanson, I have been living in India for the last 16 years and have been involved in a great deal of humanitarian work. Activated has come forward to partner my wife and I on a very exciting project called Values in Education. We have been able to reach over 10,000 children with educational books due to their patronage. I feel this charity is making a great impact and affecting a lot of positive change.

By Govorukha Nataliya, Ukraine.

I want to thank the Activated Ministries hundreds of times!
They make such a difference in the people’s lives!
I know it, because they helped me (by paying for my studies in 2011 - 2013).
With the scholarship from Activated Ministries I got an opportunity to
continue my studies for two years. I will receive my Bachelor’s Degree
in Russian. I am studying Philology and it is fascinating.
Now I know Russian, English and Bosnian. After I get the Diploma I
could teach Russian on any level: private lessons, in kindergartens,
in schools, in high schools, in even in colleges. Studying at Kharkov
National University is a privilege for me that I wouldn’t have without
Activated Ministry support.
Also being a student of the University I got invited to lead the
English speaking club, where I teach motivational classes, to remind
people of life’s true values, to uplift the moral principals, to
encourage youth to have right goals in life.
Also I have numerous possibilities to meet variety of students who
could volunteer in different projects that I participate in or
organize. There is Art-therapy for orphan teenagers and Drama therapy
for the handicapped children.
I am grateful for all this events that happened and doors that opened
because of my studies at the University. I am also very thankful for
all the new people I met and new friends I made, because of the
finances that was sent by Activated Ministries to cover my 2 years
studies.
I believe that Activated Ministry’s acts of kindness help to change
the World for the better.

I received a scholarship after serving on the mission field for three years. The scholarship was just what I needed and right on time. I am honored that Activated Ministries thought enough of my service that they contributed $1,000.00 to my educational needs. Thank you so much!

Great organisation, that really helps people in so many counties. My family and i have benefited from this charity in getting back on our feet. I am personally so grateful for their help.

My name is Jose Balcells, and I am president of EsFuturo NGO. Just two months ago Activated Ministries sponsored a donation of 576 "Discovering the truth" Bible study help books and 320 "Freedom Within" devotional books that were distributed to the libreries of every prison and many rehabilitation centers in Spain. Those books are a real help to many people in need of counsel and guidance, and AM made it possible by covering the costs. Working with AM has been a pleasure, as they made it very easy for us to do good. In the name of all those who are benefiting from those books I thank AM and acknowledge publicly their efforts to improve the life of many who are in need.

AM is a spinoff of or front for the high demand religious group / cult The Children of God / The Family International. As such, any support offered them directly or indirectly helps the COG. Tom Hack is /was a longtime leader of the COG/ TFI. He has never distanced himself from the group or it's abusive beliefs and practices. Donors should be aware of this connection and proceed accordingly. A quick google of the COG TFI will give anyone interested plenty of background information.

When someone has been hurt or offended somehow, I think the person or the organization should take the initiative and respond accordingly. Instead, they have communicated with some of their beneficiaries in order to get positive feedback. Very insidious, it is a complete whitewash cover up and shows that this organization has a very low social responsibility level.
The truth is that Activated Ministries and their recipients abroad are all members of the ‘Children of God’, a.k.a ‘The Family International, TFI. The group has lost most of its people as well as its initial thrust as a religious movement, today being no more than a couple thousand members. All that was due to several failing restructuring moves, power distance with leaders and members and lack of founders’ communication with its people.
Activated Ministries operates as a private company, they collect and distribute some sporadic help to their colleagues in some countries, mostly in kind, books and DVDs. However, the issue at stake is the fact this individuals go around with brochures and newsletters portraying pictures from this irregular events, approaching donors and fundraising for their own expenses, all the while holding a high standard of living and creating a vague and fake ‘missionary life style’.
Lots of the parents from the generation that join the group had several children, and some of them live abroad begging with their brochures and books, or are found into inconsequential ‘peripheral activities’ like clowning, restaurant singing, event management or even belly dancing. Is this the future you want or your kids? Does it seem like the religion you want to help support? Well, as for me and my family, no sir.

Thanks to Activated Ministries our Youth Center in Taiwan was able to purchase much needed motivational books for our library. It was very easy to communicate with their staff, and their desire to help the missionaries on the field to have the greatest impact is really admirable. Motivational books and personal development programs are a very important first step towards spiritual Christian values. And Activated Ministries have provided that needed help to purchase the books that will continue to be an asset in bringing the youth of Taiwan to the knowledge of the Lord and His Word.

Great group of people, very knowledgeable and just really nice Christians to talk to. I bought a magazine as a recommendation from a friend and really enjoyed it. When I have some money saved I want to support their scholarship program. As far as the question: "did they use my time wisely", I think the question should be "did I use their time wisely" lol! They were kind enough to take their time and answer all my questions. Blessings.

In 1972, when I was 16, I was deceived and manipulated into joining the cult, the Children of God, which later became known as The Family International. In 1991, I escaped the group while living in Japan, returned to Canada and went on to earn a law degree. I am now a lawyer and a member of the Law Society of British Columbia. Activated Ministries is a front group to disguise the immoral, unethical and illegal activities of The Family International. I once lived with Activated Ministries CEO, Thomas Hack, in Japan, not long before I escaped that group. My personal experience with him was that he was a typically abusive and manipulative leader of The Family International. He played a direct role in abusing me personally and causing psychological harm that I still feel the effects of.

The group's mission statement claims that it helps improve the lives of those less fortunate, but that is a deception. Based on my own experiences, I can tell you that the group skims the best of donated goods for their own use, committing charity fraud where ever it operates. The group also forges legal documents such as passports and university degrees, financially and spiritually exploits their own children, indoctrinates and denies them their basic human rights, deceives outsiders as to their true intentions, illegally proselytizes in countries where that is illegal, and engages in many other unethical behaviours. The group's misleading mission statement does not reveal that a great many families have been broken and many lives ruined by involvement with this organization. Do not donate to this group. Your money will not be received by or used to help those who are most needy, but will be used to deceive and harm many more people. For more information or contact info google my name, Perry Bulwer