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Thank you all for your patience over the last challenging 21 months since the sudden death of my husband. I feel I finally have my life and ministry in a somewhat stable place and wanted to update you and ask for your support to continue the ministry, which I am very excited about.
For many years I dreamed of a life focused solely on creating and sharing Bible resources. This isn’t quite how I imagined it would come about, but I do believe we serve a GOOD God and I trust Him and am excited to move into His will for my life going forward.
Below is a lengthy update, I do pray many of you will take the time to read it. First, I’ll give a review of the purpose and work of Bible805, then my current needs, next and very important the resource creation schedule I am committed to, what that involves and what I do for the ministry that I pray is worthy of your support.
Review of the purpose and work of Bible805
The purpose of Bible805 is to help people know, trust, apply, and teach the Bible. All the materials (with the exception of my books sold on Amazon.com) to help people throughout the world do this are FREE to end users.
The free resources not only include the finished lessons, but through the Bible805 Academy, people have access to the raw materials in editable format of the PowerPoints of each lesson, the Notes, and Discussion Guides, plus the videos and audio versions without ads. These can be used however desired to create lessons or other materials for teaching the Bible and no attribution is required. The only limitation is that they cannot be repurposed and sold, though I encourage sharing.
I have been sharing Bible training and teaching materials for many years through the Bible805 website, podcast, and YouTube channel. About two years ago, I decided to organize all I had for others to use and make it available—which was the birth of the Bible805 Academy. After months of work, planning, and prayer, it was organized and many materials uploaded to it.
Then, with no warning, my husband, my partner in life and ministry for 30 years, had a massive heart attack and went home to Jesus.
We had just totally torn apart the 50-year-old mobile home we lived in for a complete renovation; the business that supported us and our ministry (putting in and redoing mobile homes for an investor) had just started two major projects, and though we were quite happy about the renovation and work, I was recovering from a concussion/head trauma and Covid, but we were hopeful. Things did not go as planned.
Soon after my husband was taken, I continued my Bible classes. For me to teach the Bible is as necessary as breathing and I simply had to do them, both in person and online. Much more difficult than continuing to teach was I was suddenly facing a total renovation of life—shutting down the business I could no longer do on my own, finishing the overwhelming home renovation with limited resources and wherein, me, my sister, a friend, a couple of unlicensed and unhoused guys my husband gave work to in the past, were the ones doing all the work. It wasn’t always pretty, but we got it done and the end result is a very fun and whimsical home.
In addition, there were the many details of life that needed to be sorted out.
My online and teaching ministry continued but it was not consistent and often incomplete.
But God….always, but God—in spite of me, I have been astounded at the response to my online ministry—people kept coming to the website, downloading materials; my YouTube channel continued to grow, but what was particularly exciting was what happened in the Bible805 Academy. As I said earlier, I loaded up many materials on this site that I prayed would go to under sourced churches, small churches, churches who couldn’t afford to pay for good teaching materials and I especially prayed for ones all around the world to use the site–that is who I felt led to create them for. But then the Lord took my husband and I did almost NOTHING to let anyone know what was there—no advertising, no social media, nada.
After life cleared a bit, I decided to look at the site to decide what to do from here, as I wanted to focus on Bible ministry again and still wanted to resource the world.
I was totally astounded when I looked at the dashboard of the site—hundreds of people from all over the world (Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Egypt, India, Portugal, Ethiopia, France, England, South Korea, Finland, Bolivia, South Africa, Antigua, Maylasia, Denmark, Greece, Germany, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Brazil, Malta, Trinidad & Tobago, Nigeria, Philippines, New Zealand, Australia, many places in Canada, and in the U.S.) ALL had downloaded materials—and then often came back to download more.
I cried.
And felt God had confirmed that this is what He wanted me to continue to do. I wanted to share His Word and the resources to teach it to anyone in the world who wanted/needed them and it seemed He got the word out there to them when I was totally unable to do anything other than offer them to Him.
Finally, my little home was finished, bathrooms, and kitchen functional again, the business was closed down, and I moved back in (had been staying with my sister).
I went back to work on Bible805. I doubled down and spent many hours of work learning a new podcast creation and distribution system, learning new software programs and processes, trying various production schedules of lesson release in for both in-person and online. I do apologize for the chaos that resulted as I tried new things, kept some, discarded others, randomly released materials.
I prayed, fasted, and tried to listen to God on what I should commit to long-term.
I am at a place now, where I believe I have a sustainable and predictable schedule I want to share with you—I’ll do that in a bit.
I also need your help to sustain it. There are three important ways you can do that:
#ONE I need your prayers for strength, focus, and always that I share and am consistent to teach well what the Lord wants, nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. Pray it reaches hungry hearts, churches, and teachers who can make use of the resources. Pray that people who need it will find out about it.
#TWO I need your help in sharing the ministry. Please pass on to churches and mission groups the free resources of www.Bible805.com and www.Bible805Academy.com. Listen to the Hobo Soul and Bible805 podcast. Watch the www.YouTube.com/Bible805 videos. Comment, forward, pass on to friends, share on social media—this will help so much primarily to help people get into God’s Word. Finally, check out my new books on Amazon.com—if at all possible and VERY IMPORTANT—please leave a review.
#THREE I need your financial support. I have offered the resources of Bible805 for free for many years, but in the past, we worked very hard in our business to support the ministry and the many costs to do that as well as support for us. I could not do the mobile home business any longer on my own, so I had to shut it down and in so doing I cut off my financial support. I had no choice.
I am committed to the ministry remaining free to all who want Bible-learning and Bible-teaching resources and I feel strongly that I would not have had the response from many of the nations and groups I have if the resources were not free to them.
In addition, I intend to keep the commitment I have always had with Bible805 that I do not take any advertising, or participate in affiliate marketing. If you want to see a long rant and reasons why this is, you can go to this post.
That leaves me dependent on donor support motivated by Jesus. At present, I am not an entity that can give you a tax deduction. That may be possible in the future, but after an initial exploration of that issue, I’ve realized it will take quite a lot of time to determine the Lord’s will in this area and resolve the complex legal considerations involved and I am researching that as time allows. However, I need your help now.
There are many models of the form of support for ministries and creative projects that are outside of the tax-deductible world—including of course with the Apostle Paul’s, whose words in the New Testament that reminds us that those who benefit from a ministry ought to support it and that a worker is worthy of their hire have encouraged me to be brave and ask for support if you feel my work is worthy.
The tool I’m using at present for donations to the ministry (again, after much prayer and research) is a simple online one—Ko-fi. It is similar to Patreon, which many use to support many ministries and creative projects, but Ko-fi is not nearly as complicated and charges far fewer fees.
Through Ko-fi at you can give both a one-time gift, or support me and Bible805 on a monthly basis. Both are currently needed and I can’t thank you enough for your support. Go here to do donate: https://ko-fi.com/Bible805
Later in this publication is the list of the software and services the ministry uses on a monthly basis that need to be funded. In addition, I need to make a salary from the ministry.
To be worthy of your support after the months of life-reorganization, I am doing the following:
Tiny caveat: though there are little details that still need work, updating and misc. organizational issues, please know I’m not claiming perfection and will be working on lots of organizational trivia. Yet I realized a lot of what I’m doing is solid and I do quite need support. Even more than my fussing, many can benefit and desperately need the Bible resources from what is available and what I’m creating on a weekly basis, so here it is—what is currently available from Bible805–
ONE, I am continuing to make available to a world-wide audience, Bible-teaching materials on www.Bible805.com and www.Bible805Academy.com. This involves (in addition to content creation, outlined below) paying for the hosting of Bible805.com, the commitment to site management of both sites and the uploading and updating of materials.
In addition to the weekly uploads on both sites there are hundreds of materials already created (links to videos, podcasts, lesson notes, infographics, Bible-reading schedules, etc., ) and ready to download and use that are available on every book in the Bible and many Biblical topics.
TWO, Current creation and distribution weekly of Bible-teaching materials. After testing a variety of formats and schedules. I am committed to the following schedule.
Pieces of content produced weekly include and how they are distributed:
One Foundational Lesson each week from Bible805 created originally in PowerPoint that is then repurposed into a variety of formats and then distributed through:
Podcast, The Bible805 Podcast, https://feeds.captivate.fm/bible-805/ and available on all podcast distributors.
Video of the PowerPoint lesson, www.YouTube.com/Bible805 each weeks lesson is uploaded to PowerPoint as are approximately a dozen short videos that are excerpted from each lesson.
Website, www.Bible805.com, By Friday of each week, the Bible805 ministry hub gets each week’s lessons uploaded on the website with links to the podcast, video of the lesson, plus downloadable PDFs of the NOTES and DISCUSSION guides. The site also had connections to other ministry offerings, such as the very popular and constantly downloaded infographics such as the Timeline of the Prophets and Kings, and Chronological Bible Reading Schedules.
Training Resource, the Bible805 Academy: www.Bible805Academy.com The lesson is finally uploaded to this site this is the source of free, editable teaching materials including the original files for all the lessons posted through the Bible805 channels including the PowerPoint files, notes, discussion guides that include a lesson summary, icebreaker question, discussion questions, application suggestions, and a prayer that goes with the lesson, plus the video and audio of the lesson with no advertising. All can be used and modified without attribution. The only limitation is that the materials cannot be repackaged and resold.
PLEASE NOTE: a schedule of the weekly lessons for the remainder of 2026 is available at the end of this article.
In addition to the primary Bible805 lesson and its distribution, I also produce
Two Hobo Soul Podcasts—these are repurposed into video shorts and distributed through the Bible805 social media channels. They come out each Tuesday and Wednesday.
One Ministry Miscellany Podcast—an audio version of the newsletter, with additional ones produced to announce resources or for ministry tools, updates, seasonal reminders for Bible teachers.
Weekly newsletter to inform subscribers of what is available to them from Bible805–this is in the process of switching providers–I do apologize, but needed to get this out to you–I’m using the older one, but will be changing very soon.
Live classes—many weeks of the year I also do live classes that go along with the lessons that are then shared online. I feel this is a vital part of the calling of Bible805 and I am incredibly happy and thankful that the Jerusalem I get to share from is Ventura, California.
ALSO—as time permits, I would like to turn more class notes into low-cost books to go along with the lessons, and also I need to create many more support materials for how to use my resources. I do have a firm schedule or commitment on the timing of these projects.
Social Media, Bible805 maintains and posts daily short, video Bible lessons, repurposed from The Hobo Soul Podcast and the Bible805 weekly lesson distributes them through these channels:
In addition as time permits, I’m working on books for these channels:
Printed book distribution, currently on Amazon.com
Digital book distribution, in process of getting set up on D2Digital. I’ll update you in the newsletter when this is functional.
Lessons creation process and resulting components for each lesson
This is the process I use to create the cycle of materials that are shared each week. I do not delegate out any of it. I do it all.
- I do all the work, create, write, edit (not perfect, but basic), of all content. I also create the graphics, layouts, charts, for PowerPoints, graphics for the podcasts and video shorts, and use an A.I agent to help me format the Discussion guides.
- I script the podcasts and do the layouts for the PowerPoint presentations.
- I record the audios and videos in my voice using Camtasia; I edit and produce the final podcasts, and videos.
- I do all the production work to get the podcasts ready for distribution on captivate.fm and for the video distribution on YouTube.
- I take the finished and published audio and video files along with all the raw files and created materials and make them available on the Bible805 website and Bible805 Academy.
- I create “Shorts” of the videos using quso.ai for posting on social media channels. I edit, create graphics, create captions, and schedule. These get the largest outreach of anything I create.
- I am working on creating books of the notes for an additional resource with the lessons. The ones I have available are on amazon.com. I am working to create digital versions to supplement content for the international audience I have as the company I use Draft2Digital has digital formats available worldwide.
- I post everything, pray, and begin again on the next cycle of lessons.
- I take naps, eat too many snacks, and don’t move around enough (I am very happy sitting and creating).
If you’d like to support me in this, CLICK HERE.
Resources, websites, software used
Some resources and distribution channels are free and others incur significant costs that support is needed for. Here is the breakdown—
Free Distribution Channels
Payhip—host of Bible805 Academy
YouTube—video distribution
Social media used: Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn
Though the initial resource to create them (Captivate.fm) costs, once created, all the channels wherein my podcasts are distributed are free—Apple, Spotify, Pocket Casts, I-Heart podcasts, many others
Amazon.com to distribute printed and Kindle version books
D2Digital, digital versions of books in world-wide formats, free after a certain level of distribution is reached
Software, programs, apps, channels to produce and distribute the ministry materials
MS Office—primarily Word and PowerPoint, for initial drafts, for the creation of teaching videos
Camtasia—it’s a screen capture program and video editing program but I use it to record all my podcasts and videos.
Quso.ai—used to create shorts from the podcasts and lessons, which I edit, create images for, and it then distributes them
Captivate.fm—podcast production software, distributor, use of their A.I. tool that creates transcripts and other resources is an additional cost
Canva.com—for image creation for book covers, podcast and video slide intros, shorts images, infographic and chart creation that goes with the lessons
EmailOctopus—for email newsletter –I am transitioning from Behiiv to this one, so there may be a bit of confusion for a time. I apologize.
Smallpdf.com—for file conversions
Adobe Acrobat—for pdf creation
ChatGPT5—for Discussion Guide organizing—I create ALL the content, it is used to format. I just started using it for the opening graphic for my slides.
Claude—For advanced editing, text arrangement
DeepRoots hosting for my website—a rather pricey one, but Christian owned, super secure
Jetpack, including Akisment—online tools from WordPress, which is what I use to create and update my website, required for their site security
Envira Gallery—tool that enables images for the website
Carbonite and Dropbox for file backups
Google one for email
Spectrum for the high-speed internet necessary for video transfers
Grammarly for some editing, spell-checking
Atticus for book layout and formatting
Amazon KDP to create books, they take a significant cut of the books price, but there are no upfront costs involved
Stripe and Ko-fi to handle donations
In addition there are the hardware costs, repair and supply costs to produce the materials on line.
Paper and ink costs for live class handouts.
If you would like to help pay for these ongoing costs for the production and free distribution for Bible805, CLICK HERE.
What’s coming….
Committed schedule for Bible805 Podcast, website, and Academy updates for the remainder of 2026
Note: for the following schedule, I am currently doing a live class on Tuesday and Wednesday evening. After June 2 the following week, I will only be doing the Tuesday class. I am committed to that to the end of the start of the holiday season. I am taking a few breaks from it and they will be labeled NC.
HOWEVER—I am committed to doing the weekly podcast and the uploading of associated materials each week whether the live class meets or not until the end of 2026. I will be posting a schedule for 2027 at that time. (EXPAND, but leave out for now) I am interspersing notes in between the topics briefly explaining why I’m teaching what I’m teaching. Primarily, I am updating, revising, and making consistent the resources for some topics I’ve done in the past.
***PLEASE note, just the brief topic titles are below. As I prepare them, the titles will be expanded, modified, but the topic will remain the same. I will be updating you through the newsletter.
Currently I’m doing a series on Ancient Prophets, Modern Messages. Previous lessons can be found on the www.Bible805.com site.
May 26—Ezekiel and Daniel, Whiner, Worker, Witness or Wonder
June 2– Haggai and Zechariah, God never forgets dreams or promises
June 9—NC—Answers to the BIG Questions of Life from Genesis and Job, part 1
June 16—NC—Answers to the BIG Questions of Life from Genesis and Job, part 2
June 23—NC—Answers to the BIG Questions of Life from Genesis and Job, part 3
June 30 The Trinity, part one
July 7 The Trinity, part two
July 14 Trinity, part three
July 21 Life after Death, confirmed in the Old Testament
July 28 Jesus, author and finisher, who He is, in writings outside the Bible
Aug 4 The Story of Salvation
Aug 11—NC—Follow up/Discipleship, what it is really, 5 assurances
Aug 18 The Bible as ONE story overall
Aug 25 How we got the Bible—the Old Testament
Sept 1 How we got the Bible—The Apocrypha
Sept 8 How we got the Bible—The Time between the Testaments
Sept 15 How we got the Bible—NT #1
Sept 22 How we got the Bible—NT #2
Sept 29 How we got the Bible—Canonicity
Oct 6 How we got the Bible—English Bibles
Oct 13 How we got the Bible—Translations & Tools
Oct 20 Why read your Bible in Chronological Order
Oct 27 Why you probably haven’t read your Bible in Chronological Order
Nov 3 Why the Bible805 plan is different than others
Nov 10—The real advent—and the thousands of years of preparation
Note: I then switch to online only as the holidays fill up people’s schedules.
Nov 17 NC What is Truth
Nov 24 NC How History Helps us Discover Truth
Dec 1 NC Bible in contrast with Hindu and Buddhist Scriptures
Dec 8 NC Bible in contrast with Muslim Scriptures
Dec 15 NC Bible in contrast with Mormon Scriptures
Dec 22 NC Bible in contrast with Jehovah Witness Scriptures
Dec 29 NC Wrap up and Review of why we can trust the Christian Bible