About Us

 

 

 

 

 

 

We're a small operation with big dreams. We encourage Christians to give generously to missions (see A Little More Would Change the World), and we donate our skills to help selected ministries raise more financial and prayer support for their work in the developing world. 

Todd (the tall guy) is our accountant and office manager; Bernard is our visionary/public speaker and writer; Duska is our graphic artist, writer, and public speaker; and Jena (in blue) writes general ministry copy.

We are able to donate our development skills and services because we raise our support from like-minded friends. If you'd like to join our support team and help keep us on task, please feel free to visit our donate page.

 

Dear Friends,

In January 2005, after 4 1/2 years of working with Gospel for Asia in Carrollton, Texas, my wife and I felt the Lord's leading to leave and pursue His desire for us. Just a couple months later, we traveled to India, looking for a way to serve. Specifically interested in exploring the problem of bonded labor, we visited areas most heavily afflicted and looked for solutions.

On this trip we met many faithful men and women, giving their lives in difficult places to serve the most needy in Jesus' name.  Everyone needed help. They needed more prayer support. They needed more financial support. They needed more laborers.

That's when the idea of Good Measure was born. We would return to the US and do everything we could to help Americans see the vast opportunity we have to make a difference in the lives of the world's most oppressed. The Lord commands us and has given us the resources. What's stopping us?

In Jesus,

Bernard

From A Little More Would Change the World:

Dr. Bernard Borah is the founder and Executive Director of Good Measure International.  After completing his masters degree in music at the University of Illinois, he and his wife Jena joined the staff of The Navigators.  After several years of campus ministry, he completed his doctorate at the University of Illinois and taught at Millikin and Eastern Illinois Universities.  Before starting Good Measure International, he led the volunteer department at Gospel for Asia in Carrollton, Texas, followed by the position of Director of Discipleship at Salisbury Church in Charleston, Illinois.

Bernard’s passion is to see the church in America rise up and fulfill the Biblical mandate to use our resources to serve the poor in Jesus’ name. One of his life verses is Isaiah 58:10:

       and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry
       and satisfy the needs of the oppressed,
       then your light will rise in the darkness,
       and your night will become like the noonday.

Bernard is praying for a movement of God among His people to “spend themselves on behalf of the hungry.”  His desire is that God in His mercy and grace would use Good Measure International to be part of that process.