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Our Mission
Empowering Partners is running hard toward urgent physical and spiritual need around the world; producing dignity in community and empowering individual lives through education and the creation of opportunity. All; while realizing man’s greatest need; to repent and understand the redemptive love and eternal satisfaction found only in Christ Jesus.
Discipleship...
In Haiti and around the world, many profess to be followers of Jesus, but are they? In the Gospels, Jesus himself gives us a very clear outline of what His followers would look like. Luke 14:25-35 We believe that if Jesus is who he said he is and performed many miracles, he could certainly speak truth to what his followers should look like. In Haiti, as in many places, being a Christian often looks like a duality of faith; in Haiti it is often Christ and Voodoo. Our passion is to be a part of needed change
Empowering Partners Creates... A Hybrid Cooperative Business in Sewing, Tailor, and Screen Printing!
After founding a successful professional technical school in 2018; Empowering Partners began creating a new concept leading toward a training and work center environment that will reduce the time required for success; success being defined as making a living wage that begins to lift families and communities out of poverty…
About Us
Our Story...
Dan and Madel Beck said "yes" to God’s call to full time ministry in 2018. God had answered a prayer that joined them in marriage. One evening after a long day they sat and pondered; “Why with all we believe and all we know to be true about God, His word, and the eternal satisfaction found only in Christ; would we not be all in? That day in 2017 changed everything about the trajectory and purpose of their marriage…
Our Staff...
After more than a decade of service in Haiti, coupled with Dan and Madel moving there for full time ministry it became clear that to be effective… a larger group with a more diverse skillset would be required to meet the purpose that God has outlined. In 2021; Empowering Partners was formed and is a Tax Exempt NYS 501c3 charitable organization.
About Haiti...
While many think of Haiti in terms of abject poverty, struggle, and political strife. The Haitian people are extraordinarily resilient, resourceful, and take pride in their country, culture, and history. Haiti today is in a great struggle and transition…
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Get Involved
We want to involve as many “partners” as possible. Jesus called all who know him to the mission field in the “Great Commission”. It is our belief that partnership and accountability as we interact as receivers or servers is extraordinarily important. It is “true partnership” that transforms individual lives, communities, nations, and the world. We believe that each partner needs to be heard, understood, encouraged, and held in high esteem. We are all God’s kids, doing the best we can with what we have been given. If we lean into each other we can do this. Lives will change as opportunity is provided, valued, and embraced by all.
Take Action
And action is the magic word. We must go! We cannot facilitate opportunity, change, and transformation in the world around us without getting involved… getting dirty! We need you, your church, organization, or small group to join us in empowering our partners to a more dignified life, where poverty, poor health, and food insecurity is in the past. Building relationships are key…
Education & New Skill Sets
In Haiti the unskilled labor market is truly saturated, but… if you have a skill you are increasingly more sought after in a job market that is short on truly skilled technicians. We know that many schools in Haiti are mere money makers for disreputable operators. These schools turn out students with outdated skills, methods, and techniques. Empowering Partners believes that we need to train and equip students with skill sets that are of an international level. We know that…
Donations
Time, Talent and Treasure… While it is true… we certainly do need your monetary donations to keep ourselves equipped, up to date, and able to provide opportunities for those we serve, but there is more needed. This is God’s purpose and donations are needed in all forms. Consider donating your daily prayers, your knowledge and experience, equipment that we cannot acquire in country, or your time to visit us and share your particular skill with those who are eager to gain ground in a trade. We connect those with a new trade…
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Daniel Beck
Executive Director
Dan contributes many years of construction and business experience to Empowering Partners as one of its Directors. “Action is the magic word”, one of Dan’s favorite mottos, it is hard for him stay out of the dirt and sit still for very long. One day in speaking to Madel, he realized that if we truly believe God is who He says He is… Why would we not be “all in” for Him?
Madel Beck
Executive Director
Madel was born in the Philippines and immigrated to the US in 1995. She taught Physical Education at the High School and University levels and continued in Education as a one on one aide for thirteen years. Her first two mission trips to Haiti were in 2016 and 2017 for two weeks at a time. She fell in love with the Haitian people. Madel says, "I thought I was poor growing up but I have never seen poor until I went to Haiti; God laid it on my heart to help them". She moved to Haiti in 2018 as a missionary and began the construction and administration of a Technical School at La Croix. Madel teaches classes in Sewing and Tailor.
Bonnie & Jim Miller
Treasurer / Assistant Treasurer
Bonnie & Jim Miller serve with Empowering Partners as the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer.
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Laurie Adams
Vice President / Board Member
Laurie's first trip to Haiti was in 2006 where she fell in love with the people there. As a registered nurse, she has provided medical outreach to those Haitians who lived in remote areas. The people she met in Haiti, both mission workers and residents, have always inspired her by their heart and resilience.
Although now retired from nursing, she serves on two boards whose missions are to help Haitians and show them Christ’s love in action. She looks forward to seeing the mission work unfold and plans to return to Haiti soon.
Debra Beck-Servello
President / Board Member
Debbie Beck-Servello has more than 20 years of team building and project management experience at a pharmaceutical contract research organization. Debbie has enjoyed volunteer positions at a nursing facility where she worked to help the elderly use their talents in productive and rewarding ways, as well as working with children as a private tutor and as a leader in group activities. She has served on the board of directors for a 501c3 organization that sponsors education of impoverished children in Africa.