1.
Amazing Facts, Inc.
Amazing Facts provides evangelism training, materials and media programming, from its headquarters in Rocklin, Calif. Project funds will go toward the production of an evangelistic series, including Bible study outlines and a DVD, especially designed to reach teens. The initial series will be presented as a satellite net program with approximately 2,000 participating sites.
$25,000
2.
Eden Garden Orphanage
Since 1998, EGO has provided an orphanage, a medical clinic, infant care, access to clean water, a church, and a school on a four-acre, walled compound on the Caribbean coast of Haiti, approximately 60 miles from Port-au-Prince. Project funds will go toward expanding the orphanage facilities, purchasing a solar energy system, and medical equipment.
$20,000
3.
Kilubi Development Corporation
Kilubi Development Corporation is an all-volunteer ministry that focuses on pure water needs and tree planting in sub-Saharan Africa. Trees are beneficial for food, fuel, beauty, shade, water conservation, construction materials and paper. Local people can plant trees to enhance their quality of life. KDC combines these activities with ShareHim evangelistic efforts. Project funds will support water improvement and tree planting at the Kajiado Adventist Rehabilitation and Education Center in Kenya.
$5,000
4.
Living Springs Overseas Mission (Metro Lifestyle Ministries)
Living Springs operates three Bible seminaries and two orphanages in India. The seminaries provide training in evangelism, health and vocational trades. The orphanages care for 200 children who, in addition to academic training, learn a vocational trade and how to be medical missionaries. Project funds will help build a boys' dormitory, dean's apartment and guest rooms.
$25,000
5.
Marenn Parenn Pou Haiti
MPPH funds the care of women and children in a small “shanty town” called Petite Place Cazeau, just outside Port-au-Prince. The town lacks running water, health care education and job opportunities. MPPH’s mission is to provide residents with education, health, spiritual, and economic opportunities that lead to self-sufficiency. Project funds will go toward providing education for women and a clean water supply.
$5,000
6.
One-Day Lay Training Center
In partnership with the One-Day Church Project, Riverside Farm Institute is in the process of establishing an experimental lay training center to equip elders to oversee churches. Training will take place over four months and in six dialects. The campus will be constructed using One-Day Church structure kits. Project funds will be used to construct the new campus.
$120,000
7.
Ouachita Hills Academy
OHA’s mission is to provide quality secondary education following a plan that balances vocational, academic and spiritual training to develop young leaders to serve the Adventist Church. OHA also operates a college-level program with a combined enrollment of 80 students. Students participate in a work-study program and gain practical skills through community service, local and overseas evangelism and colporteuring. They also work at campus industries that include laser cartridge remanufacturing, agriculture and construction. Project funds will help build staff housing.
$25,000
8.
Portuguese Association of Preventive Medicine (VitaSalus)
PAPM operates a thriving medical clinic in downtown Lisbon that serves as a base of operations for conducting health expos, vegetarian cooking schools, stress seminars and family life programs. Trained workers start similar programs in many other countries around the world. They are in the process of establishing a llifestyle center and medical missionary training program to serve France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Project funds will help complete the new campus.
$25,000
9.
Review & Herald Publishing Association—Guide Magazine
Present weekly readership of Guide Magazine, published by the Review & Herald Publishing Association, is 25,000 mostly Adventist young people ages 9-15. Project funds will be used to launchReal, a new magazine targeted to reach approximately 100,000 non-Adventist youth in the same age range at a time when the youth are most likely to respond to the gospel.
$5,000
10.
Saving Las Vegas
ASI, It Is Written and the Nevada-Utah Conference of Seventh-day Adventists will work with a number of self-supporting ministries to present the most dynamic and technologically advanced evangelistic series ever done in North America. This series will target not only Las Vegas and the surrounding areas, but will be broadcast throughout North America and around the world. The goal is to reach 1 million people per night through technology and the coordinated efforts of lay workers. The event will use most of the technology tools available today. Project funds will support this large-scale evangelistic effort.
$25,000
11.
Seminary Schloss Bogenhofen
Seminary Schloss Bogenhofen is Austria's Adventist seminary, located within the Euro-Africa Division. In 2007, the seminary began video production of sermons on a broad variety of topics for Voice of Prophecy and the German hope Channel satellite 24/7 program. Project funds will help expand programming to include Sabbath school lessons and Bible study clips on the Internet, and to build a small studio and purchase semi-professional equipment.
$10,000
12.
Southern Adventist University Institute of Archaeology
SAU’s Institute of Archaeology was founded in 2000 after one of the largest collections of Near Eastern artifacts found its home on campus. SAU is one of only two institutions to offer a bachelor’s degree in Biblical archaeology. Project funds will go to support continued excavation in Khirbet Qeiyafa, Israel, to explore the period of the united monarchies of David and Solomon and the early history of the divided kingdoms of Judah and Israel.
$10,000
13.
Wildwood Lifestyle Center & Hospital
Wildwood, a charter member of ASI, operates a hospital/clinic, health and evangelism training school, lifestyle center, country store, restaurant and bookstore. It also publishes The Journal of Health & Healing. Wildwood has planted and maintained four churches in the Georgia-Cumberland Conference, and continues to train lay leaders from around the world. Project funds will help purchase media equipment and construct a full-time media studio to produce training programs in hydrotherapy, massage, healthful cooking and other health topics.
$30,000
14.
Zimbabwe & Southwestern Unions
Zimbabwe has a population of 14 million and an Adventist membership of 620,000, with an estimated 1.5 to 2 million adherents. Zimbabwe's baptismal goal this year is 70,000. An estimated 1 million school-aged children attend the 3,235 Adventist churches and companies in Zimbabwe. Only 267 of those congregations meet in church buildings. Project funds will go toward construction of a school and chapel on a ten-acre site near Victoria Falls, where Zimbabwe borders Zambia, Namibia and Botswana. The project is a cooperative partnership between the Zimbabwe and Southwestern Union Conferences.