Grassroots to Global: Revive Our Hearts International Ministry
Revive Our Hearts international ministry efforts may be relatively young, but the seeds of global ministry were planted decades ago . . . in the heart of a little girl named Nancy.
Having surrendered her life to Jesus at the age of four, just three years later, young Nancy Leigh DeMoss began to sense that the Lord was calling her to serve Him as a missionary. In a child’s penmanship, she wrote her parents a letter which is displayed in her home today. Nancy shared her desire to minister to people across the world with the statement, “I shall do this for Jesus only and for Him only shall I do this.”
As God’s plan for Nancy’s life began to unfold, it was clear that her assignment was not to go to the nations in His name, but to faithfully teach the Bible and to call women to pursue personal revival. Revive Our Hearts was born in 2001. Within a few years, Nancy took a big step to address the burden she had felt all along—to call women to live according to God’s design for womanhood and for His glory. What resulted became the True Woman Movement.
The first True Woman conference in 2008 became a catalyst for revival and a return to biblical womanhood in the lives of 100 women from the Dominican Republic, leading to urgent desire for Revive Our Hearts teaching and resources in Spanish, followed by the launch of Aviva Nuestros Corazones (Revive Our Hearts in Spanish) in 2013. But that was only the beginning of this truly grassroots movement.
A small group of women in South Africa launched Revive Our Hearts’ second official international ministry in 2014, while enthusiastic Latin sisters took Revive Our Hearts and the message of freedom, fullness, and fruitfulness in Christ with them around the globe. Their passion to help the women in their regions to thrive in Christ has resulted in Revive Our Hearts teaching in German, Italian, Portuguese, French, and more. And as the Lord has fanned the flame of the desire to know Him more in the hearts of His people, Revive Our Hearts now has content in more than thirty languages!
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth never became a commissioned missionary, but the Lord has magnificently blessed her heart's desire to impact the nations for the cause of Christ.
