1.
Advent Interfaith Initiative
Advent Interfaith Initiative empowers Adventists to share our distinct, end-time message with Muslims. Project funds will help produce materials designed for outreach to Muslims. These include DVD documentaries and two sets of literature sharing our prophetic message and Jesus through the Sanctuary. Outreach materials produced will be used to build bridges between Adventists and Muslims worldwide. These materials are supported by a specialized website.
$11000
2.
Adventist Southeast Asia Projects
The primary goal of Adventist Southeast Asia Project is to win souls to Christ through medical missionary care, training, and service, and by adding health evangelism components to evangelistic meetings. Project funds will also make it possible for lay pastors from Laos to receive medical missionary training at New Life Farm in Thailand. A health center near Rangoon will be supplied with necessary equipment, and ASAP will equip 11 national medical missionaries in Burma and Thailand to reach their people through health evangelism ministry.
$20000
3.
ASI-NAD Youth Evangelism (Youth For Jesus)
Sponsored by ASI, Youth For Jesus is run by Lay Institute For Evangelism (LIFE), ASI's evangelism training school. Each year, 45 young people travel from around the globe to the city where that year’s ASI convention will be held. There they learn how to give Bible studies, present health lectures, do door-to-door evangelism, and preach public evangelistic meetings. This four-week evangelism program has been instrumental in changing the lives of hundreds of our precious young people.
$190000
4.
Better Living (Mieux Vivre)
Better Living was established in 2008 in Quebec. Since then, it has produced more than 150 radio programs for broadcast on French-seaking radio stations, and has begun producing television programs in the French language. Project funds will be used to expand French television programming translated from successful English program scripts, including the purchase of a video switcher for direct-to-disc recording, and virtual backgrounds to be used for programs on a variety of topics.
$25000
5.
Children’s Bible Lessons International Inc. / My Bible First
Children's Bible Lessons is the nonprofit counterpart to My Bible First, which, for 11 years, has developed and produced colorful Bible study materials for children used widely across North American for child evangelism, family worship, and Sabbath school programs. CBL has been launched to extend My Bible First’s ministry internationally, translating the materials into other languages. Project funds will be used to translate the materials into Mandarin, French, and Spanish.
$15000
6.
Cross to Crown International
Cross to Crown reaches Miskito tribes in remote regions of Nicaragua, operating a radio station and supporting 5 churches, 3 clinics, and a training center. They also give Bible studies, teach construction and mechanics, and operate a ministry for women. The radio station broadcasts in the Miskito language, reaching a 100-mile radius. Project funds will be used to purchase a standby transmitter as a backup for when transmitter repair issues arise.
$10000
7.
Descendants of Abraham Inc.
Descendants of Abraham is operated by a former Muslim who seeks to present the gospel of Jesus Christ in an appealing way to descendants of the biblical patriarch Abraham. Her main focus is in sharing the message of salvation through Jesus Christ. Project funds will be used to improve the ministry’s website and to produce television and radio programs that speak to the Muslim mindset and help to reach Muslims around the world.
$5000
8.
Education Assistance Plan (EAP)
EAP began with the vision of three ASI members more than 20 years ago. With an initial investment of $100,000, they began providing funds to educate second-generation leaders for OCI member ministries. The purpose of EAP is to financially assist in the training and education of staff, young and old, and children of staff who are dedicated and committed to sharing the gospel in practical and relevant ways. Their educational loans are forgiven when they return to serve an OCI ministry for a specified period of time. Some applicants continue to work full or part-time with OCI while obtaining their education. Visit the Outpost Centers International website.
$20000
9.
Family Development International (Kibidula Farm)
Family Development International operates a lay pastor training school and supports 35 lay missionaries serving in Tanzania. FDI partners with Heartgood Foundation in Norway and REACH in Switzerland to accomplish its evangelism goals. It also works in cooperation with the Tanzanian Union to distribute Adventist books and literature. FDI ministry activities are partly supported by its agriculture program, which currently provides training to 46 students. Project funds will go toward the purchase of a tractor and accessories to support FDI's tree plantation.
$25000
10.
Family First Radio
For ten years, Family First Radio has operated talk radio stations that reach a potential listening audience of 11 million in California, Alabama, Louisiana, and North and South Carolina. The stations broadcast sermons, prophecy seminars, and Bible study and health programs, mostly along freeway corridors with long-distance travelers who listen for long periods of time. Project funds will go toward replacing an outdated automation system used to categorize programs, including more than 23,000 Adventist sermons that date back as far as 40 years.
$20000
11.
Gimbie Adventist Hospital
Gimbie Adventist Hospital provides healthcare to a community of about 100,000 people in Ethiopia, also serving the needs of millions of people in surrounding communities who are unable to pay for medical services. Project funds will be used by the hospital chaplaincy department to translateThoughts From the Mount of Blessing and The Great Controversy into the Oromiffa language. The books will be provided to patients and sold to the West Ethiopian Field for colporteur distribution.
$12500
12.
Herghelia Health & Preventive Medicine Center
Herghelia Health operates a lifestyle center, medical practice, Country Life store, agriculture project, and medical missionary school in Romania. It has sponsored similar projects in Moldova. Herghelia has been given the opportunity to provide practical food service training in a dietetic school for government students. Project funds will be used to remodel the center's Country Life kitchen and equipment and to set up a demonstration kitchen and 12 individual student kitchen units.
$10000
13.
Holbrook Adventist Indian School
Holbrook Indian School has served the Native American population in the Southwest since 1946. The school provides students with a quality education, as well as introducing them to Jesus. Students are involved in community service and evangelism. Many take the message of salvation back to their friends and relatives on the reservation. Project funds will go to provide new roofing for one of the school buildings that houses vocational activities such as computer training, pottery, welding, and English.
$25000
14.
Laurelbrook Sanitarium & School
Laurelbrook provides a Christ-centered Adventist environment for young people and is committed to training them for lives of Christian service through a balanced education program—half of a workday in the classroom and the other half in vocational training. Students are regularly involved in community outreach, church activities and and other pursuits that foster character development. The school operates a nursing home on campus that generates income and provides student work opportunities. Project funds will be used for the installation of a standby generator with all accessories.
$25000
15.
Living Waters International
Living Waters is working closely with the Paradise Seventh-day Adventist Church and other churches in the Las Vegas area to help take underage prostitutes off the streets. Project funds will help the organization provide them with a home, counseling, and the opportunity to find other ways to make a living.
$25000
16.
Loma Linda University – Earth & Biological Sciences
ESLUU has functioned at LLU since 1961, funded by both the university and the General Conference. More than 80 of their alumni are or have been employed by Adventist institutions. Their graduate programs foster positive approaches to understanding science in biblical context. ESLLU faculty and students have undertaken geological research with a biblically based view of earth history in mind, observing things other scientists often overlook. Project funds will support onsite examination of unique rock formations in Utah that exhibit evidence of the biblical flood account.
$50000
17.
Maasai Development Project
Maasai Development Project has been operating in Kenya as an NGO since 1998 as a result of initial church-planting efforts among the Maasai people. MDP has sponsored 38 Maasai lay pastors and adult extension teachers, and has established 25 Sabbath schools. The organization's efforts have resulted in more than 2,000 baptisms. Project funds will be used to complete construction of a kitchen and dining hall on a school campus where 100 at-risk girls have been rescued and are being educated.
$25000
18.
MedicineOne Foundation
MedicineOne Foundation is a nonprofit organization that distributes Bibles, equips a homeless feeding kitchen in the third largest city in Portugal, and supports orphanages. Its largest project is to develop Around the Bible, a computer software tool designed to promote Bible study within a global social network. It will support 11 of the most widely spoken languages. Project funds will be used to translate Around the Bible into many of those languages.
$22000
19.
Mukuyu Outreach
Mukuyu began operations in 2002, providing basic healthcare and healthful food products through its agriculture and corn meal grinding service. The organization conducts bush evangelism and church construction, and operates an orphanage, an old-age feeding center, and an elementary school. Project funds will go toward converting a river transport boat into a medical launch, replacing and modifying a bush vehicle, and building housing for guests and volunteers.
$25000
20.
Myanmar Union Mission
The Dai tribes who live in the southern Chin state of Myanmar, bordering Bangladesh and India, are particularly receptive to Christianity. Project funds will be used by the Myanmar Union Mission to house 20 to 25 Dai children in boarding schools where they will be introduced to Christianity and provided with healthcare and transportation. Target children will come from poor rural families who otherwise would have no opportunity to pursue higher education.
$19700
21.
NAD Education Department
The NAD Education Department develops policy, textbooks, and materials for Adventist educational institutions. There is a need for a series of science textbooks for grades 1 to 8 that are inquiry-driven rather than content-driven, and that bring the evolution/creation debate into sharper focus, as well as adequately setting forth the biblical concept of creation. Project funds will be used to develop such a series of science textbooks for a potential market that reaches beyond Adventist schools.
$10000
22.
New Beginnings DVD Project
ASI's New Beginnings DVD evangelism training programs have had a tremendous impact around the world. ASI distributed approximately 10,000 DVDs the first Sabbath at the recent General Conference Session in Atlanta, with thousands more distributed before the session was over. Project funds will support ongoing distribution of the DVDs, as well as training in multiple languages around the world. This is a joint effort between ASI and the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
$25000
23.
Omega-Sante Mauritius
Omega Sante formerly operated a primary school, lay adult medical missionary school, medical clinic, farm, and print ministry on the island of Madagascar under the name Fanantenana. Political unrest caused the directors to relocate to Mauritius Island, where they established a new branch, supervising operations at the former site from afar. They're using the health message to reach the largely diabetic population on Mauritius island. Project funds will be used to establish a bakery and health food store from which to continue their ministry.
$20000
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One-Day Structure Project
The One-Day Structure Project is a joint effort between ASI and Maranatha Volunteers Internaional. Thousands of structures have been built—primarily in Africa—but an estimated 10,000 more are needed, with requests coming in from new regions and countries every day. Project funds will support this ongoing church and school construction project.
$25000
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Sanctuary Alive Inc.
Sanctuary Alive brings to life the plan of salvation through a full-scale replica of the wilderness tabernacle. They give tours complete with live animals, demonstrations of sacred tabernacle services, and an interactive marketplace. Youth evangelism is the backbone of SAI. Many youth serve as SAI tour guides, demonstrators, and worship team members. Project funds will support the continuing efforts of this unique ministry.
$5000
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Sunnydale Industries Inc.
Sunnydale Industries is a nonprofit manufacturing business, owned and operated by the Iowa-Missouri Conference to generate income to support conference schools and churches. The business employs many students from Sunnydale Academy, helping them to pay school expenses, gain knowledge and experience, and learn responsibility. Project funds will be used to purchase 60 One Day structures to be used as greenhouse frames at the academy and at churches and elementary schools across the conference. This will allow churches and schools to provide fresh produce to their communities.
$20000
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Twing Association for Health & Education Development
Twing Association for Health & Education Development operates Twing Memorial schools, conducts extensive evangelism and health projects, and buildings churches in Tanzania. TAHED conducts seminars for lay pastors and Bible workers. Project funds will go toward purchasing 250 bicycles for lay pastors and Bible workers to use as dependable transportation.
$25000
28.
VitaSalus (Portuguese Association of Preventive Medicine)
VitaSalus has been operating for nine years, with a clinic in Lisbon and construction underway on a lifestyle center in Penela. The clinic is the base of operations for health expos, vegetarian cooking schools, stress seminars, and family life programs and is expected to feed the lifestyle center when it is completed. VitaSalus also conducts and sponsors missions mission schools and projects, including one in Morocco, an unentered area in the 10/40 window. Project funds will help furnish and equip seven bedrooms for lifestyle center patients.
$25000
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Wildwood Lifestyle Center – LIGHT (Haiti)
Wildwood’s LIGHT program has specific development plans that arise out of its medical missionary training school in Haiti. The organiztion plans to constuct two One Day Churches and two One Day Schools in the areas of Haiti where they will be working and ministering. Project funds will go toward the purchase and shipping of the One Day structures.
$21000
30.
Wildwood Lifestyle Center / LIGHT
Wildwood conducts health centers and clinics, health and evangelism training, agricultural and practical training, and extensive outreach mission programs around the world. LIGHT is a Wildwood program that conducts both short- and long-term health evangelism schools throughout the world. Project funds will support the ongoing efforts of LIGHT to train medical missionaries and help them establish new lifestyle centers around the world.
$50000
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WIN! Wellness (a division of Marriage & Family Commitment Inc.)
WIN! Wellness provides education and assistance to families through seminars, counseling, and written materials. Their programs strengthen homes and bolster the faith of individuals. WIN! Wellness is the only public series that follows the Ministry of Healing model. Project funds will go toward introducing WIN! Wellness programs to four regions of China and to certify at least 200 training instructors, as well as to translate materials into Mandarin.
$10000
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Winifred L. Stevens Foundation
Since 1995, the Winifred L. Stevens Foundation has funded projects for Adventist entities and ASI member ministries involving direct evangelism, publishing, education, and medical and Native American outreach. Project funds will be used to establish a Better Living Center in Nevesinie, Bosnia Herzegovena. The center will operate using biblical and natural methods for restoring health. The facility will house four doctors’ officers, 26 patient beds, a kitchen, and treatment and operating facilities. It will serve Serbs whose lives have been affected by war and ethnic cleansing.