Pete and Alice Brokopp Ministries Director’s Report 2025
I am a poor, helpless man. Lord, please listen to me and answer my prayer!” Psalms 86:1 ERV
I asked God in January 2025 as I do at the start of every year, how I should have my devotions for that year; God asked me to focus on one passage of Scripture, Psalms 86. David admits his helpless state and asks the Lord to answer him. He then argues that he deserves God’s help because he follows God closely (v. 2-7). Eventually, he sees that his salvation is not due to his actions, and he instead worships God for who He is and what He’s done (v. 8-13). He ends by talking about God fulfilling His faithfulness.
This chapter described this year of personal difficulties; I desperately called out to God, trying to convince him to help me, in the end realizing that I just needed to worship and sit with my loving Father who showed me his ever-enduring faithfulness. I learned that’s enough.
I experienced a stroke. Most doctors said it was a miracle that I lived. I learned to sit up, stand, walk and regain the strength that I had lost in the hospital; God was faithful.
My daughter had surgery on her foot and was unable to walk for 6 weeks. But God was faithful.
Three of our four bathrooms leaked, and there seemed to be no way we could fix them financially. But God was faithful.
My younger sister became sick and eventually died. I struggled in my grief to find peace, and then almost audibly heard from God, finding it. God was faithful.
My dad had another stroke that sent him to the hospital for two weeks. God helped him recover and protected him; God was faithful.
We had a rat invasion, killing 33. We wore hazmat suits to remove insulation and disinfect everything in our basement. We put in new garage doors and sealed holes; God was faithful.
Despite our personal difficulties, God has shown his faithfulness.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Even though this was a hard year, with the Lord’s strength we were able to see some things accomplished. Here are the highlights:
RAIN (Refugee and Immigrant Network)
Alice continued to focus on our assignment as Prayer Directors by leading 2 zoom prayer meetings a week for anyone interested in praying for ministry to immigrants and refugees (I/R). She also wrote a weekly national prayer letter for I/R’s and ministries to them, with up-to-date requests. In Jan 2026, a refugee pastor and I co-led prayer times at the RAIN executive annual strategy meeting. The Lord took control of the meeting as we spent more than twice the time planned in prayer for each other (and somehow still got all the business done).
I assisted RAIN, helping churches to apply for the “Dream Incentive Grants” from the Orchard Foundation to help start I/R ministries. Over 150 churches were approved, trained, and are starting their ministries in the last 2 years. I also continued representing RAIN and speaking at conferences as well as consulting for churches with ministry to I/R’s.
I am excited about a new venture, RAIN AFRICA. C&MA churches in many countries, including Burkina Faso, are struggling with war and are ministering to their own internally displaced peoples. RAIN AFRICA wants to come alongside these churches by offering training and resources. I am on the RAIN executive team and especially after my trip to Burkina last year, I dream of being more involved. I have already found a church who is willing to voice-over the training in French with French sub-titles.
Doctorate / Affordable Housing
I continued to work on my doctorate after my stroke to finish one of the two classes I made up from the change to Asbury Seminary. I worked online to complete the “Residency Classes” in August. I have been working on my dissertation since.
My dissertation is “How Churches Can be Involved in Affordable Housing as a Method of Evangelism, Discipleship, and Church Planting Without Using Serious Long-Term Financial Resources.” As it will be difficult for churches to use it in a dissertation format, I am expanding and rewriting it as a book/manual. I am calling it, “What is Your Dream?” This title comes from the fact that many refugees and immigrants are so stuck in their development because most of their income is going to pay rent, that they can only think of surviving, they cannot dream. There are three parts to the manual:
Methods churches can use to help I/R’s figure out how to spend less than 30% of their income on housing. Research has concluded that there is no mobility when more than 30% of income is spent on housing, therefore, no development.
Helping churches build programs (like ESL, help with documents) around the I/R, once they have found housing, to move them to sustainability. The concept is teaching a man to fish, not just giving him a fish. “It is not how many people you help today, but rather where they are in 10 years that is important.” This part has a survey to determine the needs that should be filled by teaching appropriate classes or making the right resources available.
The third part instructs the church in starting house churches with I/R’s they are helping.
I have spent much time in Philadelphia meeting with a group to help start a housing collaborative in Philadelphia called “Sanctuary Development Collaborative.” There are experts from many careers and with experiences and resources that can come around a church to develop housing ministries. The book will refer churches to the collaborative.
Refugee/Immigrant Work
We continue assisting a Christian refugee who has been reaching out to 100 refugees herself. We meet with her to encourage and advise her, and find her resources: coats, blankets, clothes, and small donations. Helping refugees help each other is an important part of development.
Alice continues to be minimally involved in the lives of our Haitian boys, praying for them, helping them with things like taxes, lost licenses, questions that arise. She has walked life with Ami, from Ivory Coast who had a kidney transplant this year, whose son and husband were baptized, and mentors a young lady whose parent are from Congo.
I have been passionate about seeing 2nd and 3rd generation Christian refugees/immigrants continue to follow the Lord after growing up in an ethnic church. One of the ways to do this is to plant true, multi-ethnic churches with multi-ethnic leadership. I have been very involved with planting a multi-ethnic church here called the “The Well.” Over 30 ethnic groups come together, 80 have been baptized and we have grown to 180-200 people. Alice has been very involved in the children's ministry and prayer ministry.
Generation Z
This generation is convinced God will use them to bring revival to the US, and God has already been moving across many campuses. We have had the privilege this last year, largely due to our son’s revival ministry, to house some of them and to mentor them. This past January 2026, we were asked to be “eldership” for a spiritual retreat that gathered 60 young people who are spiritual leaders among their age group. It was incredible to see what God is doing in these kids and to anticipate how they will lead in the future!
GOALS FOR 2026:
Finish and publish (self-publish if necessary) the book and make a corresponding teaching video.
Finish the first 2 ? of 5 chapters in my dissertation.
See Sanctuary Development Collaborative receive a grant and hire some full-time employees.
Be involved in helping “The Well” own a worship center.
Produce a RAIN video prayer series about preparing for spiritual warfare in reaching refugees/immigrants.
Challenges:
Costs of living and doing ministry have skyrocketed. Health insurance tripled this year. We have somehow made it but need to raise more income.
We have great prayer meetings with RAIN but we want more participation.
Conclusion: I cannot report anything without saying “thank you.” We are so overwhelmed with the support you have given us. I honestly cannot believe all the love you have shown us. God bless you and your families.
Thank you for being a part of our ministry!
Pete and Alice
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