Yvon Prehn announces a significant milestone in the evolution of Bible 805, now recognized as a legal nonprofit ministry under the Christian Ministries Alliance. This development comes as a culmination of years of dedication and prayerful effort, reflecting the commitment to provide free Bible teaching resources to individuals and ministries worldwide.

Yvon emphasizes the profound impact of these resources, which have reached diverse regions, from Bangladesh to Greece, facilitating access for those with limited means.

As she adapts to a new chapter following the loss of her husband, she outlines the necessity for financial support to sustain and expand the ministry's offerings. She invites listeners to participate in this mission, ensuring that the invaluable resources continue to be available for learning, teaching, and spiritual growth especially for those with limited means.

Takeaways:

• Yvon Prehn announced that Bible 805 has officially become a legal nonprofit ministry, reflecting years of dedication and prayer.
• The transition to a nonprofit status allows Bible 805 to seek donations, which are now tax-deductible, enhancing its ability to serve its community.
• Bible 805 offers numerous free resources, including teaching materials and podcasts, aimed at supporting churches and ministries worldwide.
• Yvon emphasizes the importance of community support in sustaining the ministry, particularly after the unexpected passing of her husband.
• The ministry's website features a wide range of Bible teaching materials, which are designed to be easily accessible and editable by users globally.
• Listeners are encouraged to donate to Bible 805, ensuring the continuation of its mission to provide valuable educational resources for individuals and churches.

Links referenced in this episode:

• bible805.com
• bible805academy.com

Companies mentioned in this episode:

• Bible 805
• Christian Ministries Alliance
• Bible805 Academy

Hi, this is Yvon Prehn and this is a little bit different than our usual Ministry Miscellaney podcast because I want to share with you a most important announcement.

Bible 805 is now a legal nonprofit ministry and part of the Christian Ministries Alliance for Bible 805 to be a legal nonprofit ministry is an answer to many years of hard work and prayer. Please take time to listen to what follows so that I can share with you the back of it all I'm doing now and how you can help.

In addition to live classes for many years I've created Bible teaching materials, lessons, infographics, blogs, podcasts, videos, all sorts of things and then made them available for free on the Bible805 website. And then in an editable and no attribution needed format for any church or ministry who wanted them anywhere in the world.

From Bangladesh to Sri Lanka to China to just yesterday, a number of things were downloaded from Greece, us, Canada, Europe, Africa, all over the place. Many, many people have responded and downloaded the materials and I know I wouldn't have gotten the response that I have if there was a cost to them.

I designed them for churches and ministries that didn't have a lot of resources and it seems like the Lord's leading people to them and they're responding. For many.

The ministry was supported by the business that my bi vocational pastor husband and I did and that took care of us, that took care of the ministry. That's how we made our living.

But when the Lord suddenly took my husband home to heaven by an unexpected heart attack, it's been almost two years ago now, I had to shut down that business and I've lived on and supported the ministry from my saving since then. That's no longer possible for me to do.

I work very hard to make the Bible 805 ministry a full time robust resour for both individuals to learn from and for anyone. Again, any ministry, any church, anywhere in the world to use, edit and repurpose the studies.

To see the results of this, please go to the www.bibleato5.com website and I have a video on there that lets you tour the website. I finally put something together that shows you these are all of the resources that we have here on the website.

And then in addition to that I also create another video at the www.bible805academy.com where you can download and see how churches are able to use, edit, modify all of the resources and you'll just be amazed at how easy it is to do that. But again, go to the Bible805academy.com website to check that out.

By the way, I didn't mention this when I first started, but all of the text and the different links that I'm going mention are on the Bible805.com website so don't worry about taking them down or whatever. They're all available for you. Now then I am committed. I want to tell you what I'm doing in the ministry going forward.

I'm committed in my work to each week adding new resources to the Bible805.com site.

These will include these do include I've been doing it for a while a 30 minute Bible lesson that's often taught live first and then it's always recorded and posted as a weekly podcast. It's available on all podcast channels, iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio, all of them.

It's at the Bible805 podcast and then I also produce a video of my voiceover of the PowerPoint lesson that I post on YouTube. I also provide PDFs of the handouts and discussion guides.

These are available the next day, usually on Wednesday for downloading and and just however people want to use them on the Bible 805 website. Then by Friday I have all of the materials available for editing, repurposing, whatever people want to do on the Bible 805 Academy.

Now some of the recent lesson series that I've done have included I did one it's not hard to understand the Trinity when you understand what the Bible has to say about it. Did another one from Genesis and Job, Answers to the Big Questions of Life. Another one Ancient Prophets, Modern Messages.

Now these titles might sound a little bit heavy duty, but people tell me that one of the things they like about Bible 805 is that I make difficult things easy to understand. That's what I really try to do and that's I think, what keeps people coming back to the materials.

In addition to these three series, I have many other lessons. Some that go through the entire Bible. Some are topical, some are on how to study and trust the Bible again on the Bible805academy.com site.

You can access all of them now. In addition to this course schedule of Bible lessons each Week I do two Hobo Soul podcasts.

This podcast series, it's 10 minutes or less of challenging and inspirational messages. The podcasts are available again on all podcast channels.

Just look for Hobo Soul podcast and give me 10 minutes on Tuesday and Thursday and I hope to really encourage and inspire you in your Christian life. Then additional materials that are related to Bible teaching. I also produce them as time allows during the week.

That includes infographics, this podcast ministry Miscellaneous I want to get a little more regular on it, but I just. I. I'm. I just haven't as you I also update a lot of social media.

I create shorts from the videos, all kinds of things to attempt to let people know what is going on in the Bible 805 Ministry and how they can benefit from it. In summary, I create all the content materials. Of course much prayer and study goes into all of the lessons.

I produce them in various formats of classes, podcasts, videos and blogs. I then distribute and market them.

This is my full time work and I wake up every day so excited and thankful that the Lord has given me this wonderful calling. But now I need your help. Needless to say, I can no longer rely on an outside business to support me and the ministry.

The cost and time, software, hardware, hosting and distribution as well as my personal support need to be covered by donations which are now all tax deductible. I've been doing this work consistently for some time and I didn't want to ask for your help and your support without a track record.

But I've got now hundreds of resources, ones from the past are organized. I'm on a schedule that I've been doing for a number of weeks months on some of it so that I knew I could say this is what I am going to do.

This is what I am committed to do.

Again, many new podcasts, lessons, videos, infographics have been added to the ministry sites and they are all available to any church or ministry anywhere that needs them. In addition, I knew that I needed to be a bonafide nonprofit to credibly ask for your support and for the tax deduction it needs.

I wanted to wait until I got that in place to really more formally ask for it. It's now in place and I'm excited to share the formal that confirms it. And I'm reading you this. This is from the Christian Ministry Alliance.

This is what we're supposed to say on our materials and so I am quoting it now. Bible 805 is a fiscally sponsored project of the Christian Ministry Alliance.

The alliance is a US registered 501C3 tax deductible charity with the International Revenue Service and has a candid platinum seal. Formerly they were gold star, the highest rating for nonprofit, transparency and account and then they give you a tax number.

This means that all the donations given in support of Bible 805 are tax deductible and you will be receipted for them and receive a tax statement at the end of the year. Your financial support is greatly needed and appreciated.

One time gifts are needed as I'm restructuring many parts of the ministry to make it function better. Equipment's kind of dicey right now.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do on all that, but there's just, there's a lot of different costs just to keep things going in software and host and a lot of those different things and pledged ongoing support is something I really need. I'm restructuring my life situation and I do need to make a living from this ministry.

I know many of you have supported me with your love and prayers for years and most of all I pray that that will continue. But I also prayerfully ask now for your financial support.

Know it will be conscientiously used for the advancement of the Kingdom of Go and greatly appreciated by me. On the website I have links to the Christian Ministry alliance sites where you can make a donation in any way that works for you.

They'll take bitcoin, they'll take. They take all kinds of stuff. They're quite capable in what they do.

But do please go to the Bible805 website and you can link to the donation links right there. Thank you so much for your love and support however they're expressed. I'm Yvon Prehn, a writer and teacher for Jesus.