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Apostolic Bridge Builders, Inc. is a relational bridge builder among churches, denominations, cultures, peoples, and expressions for both local and national transformation and spiritual awakening; bridges between those inside the church and those outside; children, youths, adults at the fringes of society and the mainstream; the hopeless and HOPE; those that have resources and those that don’t; those that are connected and those outside; missionary-sending communities/nations and the receiving communities/nations.
We utilize passionate Communication, Connection, and Collaboration tools to achieve our mission: leadership, unity, knowledge cafés, marriage café, success cafés, media, pray-care-share, resource centers, networking, training, seminars/conferences/roundtables, coaching/mentoring, evangelistic outreaches, prayers events, youth and children’s homes, missionary schools, and rural hospitals; strengthening and supporting ministers/ministries, resource centers, disaster relief organizations, and innovative kingdom entrepreneurship and idea maternity in Texas and abroad.
Foundation for Transforming Revival
ABB believes transforming revival comes “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).
Every transforming revival or spiritual awakening must
- Emphasis on Jesus (Acts 2:36).
- Repentance (2:37-38).
- A passion for prayer (2:42).
- Hunger for the Word (2:42).
- A burden for the lost (Acts 2:40).
- Increase in salvations (Acts 2:41, 47).
- A surge in callings to ministry and missions (Acts 4:20).
Here are some of the programs facilitated and supported by ABB
Pastors of African Descent (PAD)
ABB facilitates, mentors, and supports about 40 pastors of African Descent in the Austin area, pastoring dozens of churches in Austin. This a missionary mentoring missionaries project. PAD is ABB’s platform to regularly connect missionary pastors and ministers through praying, caring, and sharing for transforming revival in Austin, Texas. ABB is a one-stop shop for missionary pastors from different African countries laboring in Austin to connect with each other and the city. If you want to contact any missionary pastor in the Austin area, ABB is a strategic relational bridge!
ABB also supports and serves in facilitating the African Christian Fellowship in Austin.
The Hope Bridge homes for children and youth (www.HomeBridgeHome.org) is a compassionate home that builds bridges between abandoned, troubled, and forgotten children and hope of a better future. We provide total care (physical, emotional, and spiritual) for the child and youth, providing safety, welfare, training, awareness, knowledge, adoption, advocacy, application, transformation, and healing to obtain solutions amid dark realities.
Facts:
- 48 seconds: In 2019, 651,505 children were victims of abuse or neglect: on average, a child is abused or neglected every 48 seconds in America, 1,785 each day.2
- 250k: More than half of all child maltreatment cases in 2019 involved children who were six years old or younger, with 14.9 percent of
- cases involving infants under one.3 Of these children, 251,359 entered foster care.4
- 63%: Neglect, often a proxy for the consequences of poverty, was the most common reason for children entering the child welfare system—associated
- with a child’s removal in 63 percent of cases.
- 10%: Issues related to unsafe or substandard housing were associated with 10 percent of child removals.5
- 34%: Parental drug abuse is partly responsible for 34 percent of child removals, while alcohol abuse played a role in 5 percent of child removals.6
- A common misconception is that physical and sexual abuse are the primary drivers of child welfare involvement, though these serious forms of abuse
- factor into a smaller portion of cases. Physical abuse was associated with 13 percent of removals and sexual abuse four percent.7
- Most vulnerable: Children in foster care are among the most vulnerable children in America.
- 41%: There were 423,997 children in care in 2019, 41 percent of whom were under the age of six.8
- 19.6 months: These children spend an average of 19.6 months in foster care, with 14 percent spending more than three years in the system.9
- Race: Children of color, particularly Black and American Indian/Alaska Native children, are dramatically overrepresented in the child welfare system.
- Of every 1,000 white children in the United States, 5.2 are in foster care, compared with 9.9 of every 1,000 Black children and 16.9
- of every 1,000 American Indian/Alaska Native children.10
- 80%: The rate of anxiety and depression among teens in foster care is notably high, with up to 80% of children in foster care experiencing anxiety disorder, depression, and other mental health issues before they turn 18.
- 90%: Up to 90% of foster youth have experienced trauma and abuse in their lifetime. This can lead to mental health problems, which in turn can lead to substance abuse.
- 49% of foster youth reported that they had tried drugs.
- It is estimated that 35% of foster care children are addicted to drugs or alcohol.
- Up to 65% of foster youth in some states age out of the system without a permanent home to return to when they turn 18.
- And more than 20% of teens in some states are homeless after they age out of the system.
These statistics make our hearts at HopeBridgeHome bleed. We were part of that statistic and did experience similar backgrounds and mayhem in our upbringing. Victorious today, we want to give hope. Be the bridge between the troubled and triumphant, overtaken and overcomer.
We Love Our City
ABB provides resources to CRC’s “We Love Our City,” taking the city block-by-block outreaches. Items include domestic merchandise such as bed linens, bath accessories, kitchen textiles, cookware, dinnerware, kitchen utensils, small electric appliances, and basic home furnishings.
New Year Café is a yearly new year outreach to Austin businesses, professionals, and entrepreneurs since 2017. About 120 leaders are served each year. Also, there is a monthly virtual Knowledge Café mentoring outreach to professionals. Knowledge café is a coaching and mentoring outreach event to project, knowledge managers, and professionals.
City Transformation and City Impact Round Table (CIR)
ABB is part of Mission America mobilizing the whole church to work together to show and tell the whole gospel to the city and beyond.ABB mobilized Austin leaders and churches through multiple City Impact Round Table conferences from 2003 to 2009. Hundreds of leaders from the seven mountains of influence gathered from cities across Texas to connect and build synergy for the city and regional awakening. CIR is a peer-to-peer meeting of Christian leaders who are prayerfully seeking the church’s unity for holistic evangelism, the revival, and the renewal of the church, leading to a radical cultural awakening and transformation of lands and peoples. In short, connecting different city-reaching, kingdom-minded flavors to reach the whole city. More than 450 businesses, churches, and para-church organizations have participated since 2003.
Austin Disaster Relief Network (ADRN)
The last CIR conference on August 2, 2008, resolved to commit to a vision of a regional disaster relief network. Benjamin Anyacho, executive director of ABB, is a founding Advisory board member of ADRN and has served on the advisory board capacity since 2009. ADRN is the largest disaster relief network in central Texas.
Citywide Prayer Gathering
ABB has mobilized the churches in Austin for joint, united, strategic, and prophetic intercession since February 2, 2002. These included Awakening Prayer Gatherings, Apostolic Prophetic Gatherings, City-Watch, New Year Prayer gatherings, and monthly prayer vigils.
ABB also facilitated monthly Citywide Prayer Gathering & Breakfasts, a prayer gathering for several pastors and intercessors for unity, reconciliation, and intercession toward the city and regional transformation from 2002 to 2005.
Bring Down Thy Glory Music Crusade in Owerri, Nigeria
ABB partners with and financially supports Bring Down Thy Glory Music crusade, attracting 30K+ people yearly since 2013. There are thousands of documented salvations and healing each year. ABB is one of the top five sponsors of this crusade every year.
Clean Water Project in Atta-Ikeduru, Nigeria.
We have completed the first clean water project and working on the second project in Atta-Ikeduru, LGA, Imo State, Nigeria.
New Wine Church
ABB planted/oversaw local assemblies, including New Wine Church Austin.
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