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 Yvon Prehn 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. I deleted the additional details of my life difficulties in a previous version of this update and will skip ahead to what is going on now because……
God….always, God—in spite of me, I have been astounded at the response to my online ministry that was available, though I wasn’t able to do much for the last year, how 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. 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.
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 in teaching 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 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
To be worthy of your support, I am doing the following:
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, 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
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.
Following is the Schedule for mid June through the end of 2026, with topic titles of each series, the alteration between lighter and darker print has no significance other than to make the topic separations easier to understand.
Theme of this schedule of classes:
The Biblical Foundation and knowledge needed for a growing disciple of Jesus
June 12 Answers to the BIG Questions of Life from Genesis and Job, part 1
June 19 Answers to the BIG Questions of Life from Genesis and Job, part 2
June 26 Answers to the BIG Questions of Life from Genesis and Job, part 3
July 3 The Trinity, part one
July 10 The Trinity, part two
July 17 Trinity, part three
July 24 Life after Death, confirmed in the Old Testament
July 31 Jesus, author and finisher, who He is, in writings outside the Bible
Aug 7 The Story of Salvation
Aug 14 Follow up to Salvation/Discipleship
Aug 21 The Bible as ONE story overall
Aug 28 How we got the Bible—the Old Testament
Sept 4 How we got the Bible—The Apocrypha
Sept 11 How we got the Bible—The Time between the Testaments
Sept 18 How we got the Bible—The New Testament #1
Sept 25 How we got the Bible—The New Testament #2
Oct 2 How we got the Bible—Canonicity
Oct 9 How we got the Bible—English Bibles
Oct 16 How we got the Bible—Translations & Tools
Oct 23 Why read your Bible in Chronological Order
Oct 30 Why you probably haven’t read your Bible in Chronological Order
Nov 6 Why the Bible805 plan is different than others
Nov 13 The real advent—and the thousands of years of preparation
Nov 20 What is Truth
Nov 27 How History Helps us Discover Truth
Dec 4 Bible in contrast with Hindu and Buddhist Scriptures
Dec 11 Bible in contrast with Muslim Scriptures
Dec 18 Bible in contrast with Mormon Scriptures
Dec 25 Bible in contrast with Jehovah Witness Scriptures
Jan 1 Wrap up and Review of why we can trust the Christian Bible
Theme of this schedule of classes:
The Biblical Foundation and knowledge needed for a growing disciple of Jesus