1.
Advent Home Learning Center
Advent Home Learning Center operates a category II boarding school for students wtih ADHD, ADD, academic, and behavior challenges. Most Advent Home students have been dismissed or have been on the verge of being dismissed from private and public schools. Advent Home provides counseling support, tutoring, advanced and accelerated classes, social skills training, outdoor education, parent education, character development, community service, youth leadership, placement, and follow-up. Because the founders and directors of the ministry are planning to retire, Advent Home is conducting a succession plan for its key leaders, managers, and staff that will lead to considerable changes in ministry leadership and management, including a less centralized and more delegated structure. To prepare for these changes, Advent Home needs to provide its staff with effective research-based training.
$30,000
2.
Adventist Southeast Asia Projects Ministries
ASAP Ministries works to spread the gospel through evangelistic, education, and humanitarian projects in the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Thailand, along with assisting refugees from those countries. ASAP works to meet the needs of people while the Holy Spirit reaches their hearts. ASI funds will help launch a microloan project to help marginalized women and their children in Cambodia. Funds will go towards initial loans for women who are eligible for this program and toward managing the project.
$30,000
3.
Adventist Youth For Christ
Adventist Youth for Christ (AYC) is a burgeoning local-church based youth movement pioneered in 2006 by Gateway Adventist Centre in Melbourne, Australia. Focusing strongly on training and mobilizing youth for evangelism, AYC aims to model and encourage Australian youth to cultivate a lifestyle of evangelism in their own backyards. To that end, AYC's three-year re:mobilise initiative will culminate in the iMPACT 2014 project that will facilitate simultaneous multi-site evangelistic series in August and September of 2014. Funding will specifically support pre-event training and operational costs for youth preachers and site coordinators across the country.
$20,000
4.
Amazing Facts/AFCOE India
Amazing Facts has been making an eternal impact around the globe since 1966. In India, where 97 percent of 1.2 billion people don’t know Christ, the AFCOE intensive evangelism training program equips pastors and laypersons to effectively share the three angels’ messages. Before graduating, students receive on-the-job training on how to present their own full-scale evangelistic series that will have an exponential impact in their own communities and villages, with increased potential for baptisms each year.
$20,000
5.
Better Living(Mieux Vivre)
Better Living Ministry (Mieux Vivre), based in Quebec, is expanding its studio and adding to its line-up of French-language programming. The ministry has been running out of a two-car garage since it was established, but will soon expand to a larger facility, making it easier to reach around the world with Christ-centered and health-conscious programming. A new series based on Dr. Neil Nedley’s depression recovery program is also in development. Translation of the materials has already been completed, and production will begin shortly after the studios are relocated.
$50,000
6.
Centro Misionero de Salud
Centro Misionero de Salud has been operating for 18 years in a beautiful valley in Mexico's Sierra Madre mountain range, evangelizing locally and abroad through health and education programs that have blessed many. The CMS outreach includes a health zone in the town of Galeana that includes a vegetarian restaurant, health food store, bakery, natural treatments, and publication distribution all under one roof, promoting a healthy lifestyle to members of the community. The ministry needs a new water system to improve services for staff and visitors.
$10,000
7.
Congo Frontline Missions
Congo Frontline Missions is a supporting ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Its mission is to bring a message of hope and salvation to the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through preaching, teaching, and medical missionary work. Congo Frontline Missions’ FM radio station is now the most listened to radio station among the 3.5 million people who can receive the signal. ASI project funds will help CFM to produce high quality programming in three languages, not only for its own station but also for other Adventist stations across Africa.
$20,000
8.
DayStar Adventist Academy
DayStar Adventist Academy is a small boarding academy in Castle Valley, Utah. It is an ASI member and OCI supporting ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The academy’s core values are strong academics, work education, and character development. DayStar is completing a landscaping and irrigation project surrounding the girl's dormitory. This will make the campus more attractive to students and visitors, and will also curtail mud and erosion issues on campus.
$20,000
9.
E. A. Sutherland Education Association
The E. A. Sutherland Education Association (EASEA) will use project funds to continue the improvement of lay operated member schools by providing accreditation services, professional development programs, and teacher certification services. EASEA also fosters service learning opportunities for the students in member schools. ASI project funds will help EASEA continue its mission of providing support to member schools.
$25,000
10.
GYC (Generation. Youth. Christ.)
GYC is a lay organization of young people committed to the Seventh-day Adventist Church and its end-time message of Christ’s soon return. The organization aims to motivate young people to action by providing workshops, training, Bible studies, and inspirational messages at its annual conference. It seeks to foster Christian fellowship, create networking opportunities, and encourage young people to assume leadership responsibility. GYC also works with local Adventist conferences each year to organize outreach activities involving thousands of young people in the city where the annual conference is held. Project funds will help support this year's afternoon outreach day in Orlando.
$50,000
11.
Kibidula (Family Development International)
Kibidula is engaged in lay-Bible worker and health evangelism training, bush evangelism, a book distribution ministry, farm operations, and One-Day Church construction in Tanzania, Africa. It supports 34 lay missionaries working in previously unentered areas where many new churches have been established. In 2004, Kibidula started an agriculture training program to help local villagers. Currently, the program has 46 agriculture students. During its eight years of operation, many of the program’s agriculture students have been baptized. In recent years, Kibidula has established a sheep and cattle herd that now numbers 1,400 head and utilizes all the buildings allocated for it. Manure from the herd is used to fertilize the ministry's avocado orchards. Funds are needed to construct additional buildings so the ministry can achieve optimum use of its 4,776 acres and prevent loss of some of its acreage to the local government.
$30,000
12.
Little Light Ministries
Little Light Ministries has conducted multi-media seminars pertaining to the dangers of the entertainment industry since 2008. The ministry's goal is to produce fresh, innovative media of all types to spread the gospel. It involves Adventist high school students as part-time workers, getting them involved in producing programs and sharing in their local churches and schools. LLM also provides media services to other Adventist ministries. Project funds will be used to replace an outgrown production stage, provide green screen capability, and construct sound and edit stages and office space.
$20,000
13.
Loma Linda University-Earth & Biological Sciences
Loma Linda University offers the only doctoral programs in the world based on a biblical view of creation and geological history. LLU is sponsoring geological research designed to prepare students to teach biblically-based scientific views from a position of strength and credibility within the Adventist school system. The results of this research project witness to the world that work done by creationists is of the highest quality, and that a biblical view leads to insights often missed by other scientists. Quality equipment is essential to the success and accuracy of the research.
$20,000
14.
LSOM
LSOM operates a midwifery training school in India. Every five minutes, a woman in India dies due to complications or improper care during childbirth. LSOM has already trained more than 70 midwives in the past five years and is building a new midwifery clinic. Project funds will be used to help support the midwifery program and complete construction of the clinic.
$10,000
15.
Maranatha o.s.
Maranatha o.s. is a nonprofit civic association in the Czech Republic led by ASI Missions Inc. board member Radim Passer. MOS exists to motivate Adventist church members to involve their youth in evangelistic endeavors. It has been involved in children's ministries, health and science evangelism, publishing, and humanitarian aid. It will use project funds to sponsor a Youth for Jesus program to reach the primarily secular populace of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, motivating passive members and youth to a new vision, relationship with God, and clear identity as Adventists, as well recruiting their involvement in mission work.
$25,000
16.
Miracle Meadows School
For 25 years, Miracle Meadows School has served elementary and secondary students who exhibit at-risk behaviors. Enrollment of children 12 years and younger has significantly increased in recent years. Most have suffered abuse, neglect, and trauma before the age of 3. MMS is one of only a few facilities in the nation meeting the needs of this age group. Currently, elementary-age students at MMS share a dorm with the adolescent students, but a separate living facility is being constructed especially for children ages 6 to 12.
$30,000
17.
Mynmar Frontier Mission
Myanmar Frontier Missions is an evangelism and church-planting ministry in the Asian country of Myanmar. MFM came into existence in 1997 through the efforts of Clyde Morgan, then president of Adventist Frontier Missions. Over the years, MFM has established many lay missionary operations that have been turned over to the Adventist Church in Myanmar. Presently, the ministry operates ten nursery schools that generate income and provide opportunities for contact with local community members. This year, MFM has been planting churches in Meiktila and Pwintphyu, with plans to plant seven more churches in middle Myanmar over the next three years in locations where the ministry is already operating nursery schools. Ministry leaders also distribute religious literature, hold evangelistic meetings, and give Bible studies.
$5,000
18.
New Beginnings DVD Evangelism Project
ASI's New Beginnings DVD Evangelism training program has had a tremendous impact around the world. ASI distributed more than 10,000 DVDs at the 2010 General Conference Session in Atlanta alone. The materials have recently been updated to meet the demands of changing technology. Numerous lay evangelism training events are planned for the coming year.
$25,000
19.
OCI-Education Assistance Plan (EAP)
Education Assistance Plan 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 ministry leaders for OCI member ministries. The purpose of EAP is to financially assist in the training and education of OCI ministry staff and their children 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.
$35,000
20.
OCI-Missionary Assistance Plan (MAP)
The Missionary Assistance Plan (MAP) is a project funded by ASI donations and administered by Outpost Centers International (OCI). It provides financial support to missionaries serving around the world. This special project was started when ASI members discussed the need to assist individuals and families serving overseas. The members acknowledged the challenges missionaries face as they serve at OCI ministries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America. MAP funds currently benefit 30 recipients, including Hanne Lise Vik, who has been serving in Tanzania, Africa, for seven years.
$61,000
21.
Questline Productions
QuestLine Productions is dedicated to the hastening of Christ’s soon return through the production of dynamic Bible study tools, such as In Search of the Truth and the new Thunder in the Holy Land. This all-new, visually stunning, video Bible study series is shot in HD and features on-location reporters in the Middle East. Funds will support these and other media evangelism projects.
$25,000
22.
Springs of Health Prague
Springs of Health publishes a lifestyle magazine that is distributed throughout Czech Republic and Slovakia. Its website attracts 1,000 visitors each day. Several times a year the ministry rents a hotel to host a NEWSTART program—with 250 guests per year. Various training course are offered, and many of the graduates become health missionaries. Recently, the staff worked closely with one of Prague's largest hospitals to complete groundbreaking studies on diabetes. A newly opened community center in downtown Prague is being established to serve the needs of the urban community. Project funds are needed to help support one full-time missionary/manager for the center.
$15,000
23.
The Healing Place
The Healing Place is a self-supporting outreach ministry located in the heart of downtown Denver, Colorado. It provides meals, personal care items, and Bible studies to those in need every Friday evening, with about 20 attending regularly. In addition, the ministry reaches out with health programming initiatives to those who live and work in the downtown area. The Healing Place is in a prime location in a building that also houses a health club attended by thousands of young people each week. Funds will be used to target these individuals' felt health needs and to build relationships that will lead to opportunities for sharing Christ.
$15,000
24.
Three Angels Broadcasting Network, Inc. (3ABN)
3ABN is a lay-developed international media broadcasting network and a supporting ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It operates numerous specialty networks with worldwide broadcast coverage. 3ABN broadcasts the yearly ASI convention, as well as hundreds of programs featuring ASI members and ministries. Project funds will be used to convert 3ABN's production from video tape to digital HD servers.
$100,000
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Weimar Center of Health & Education
Weimar Institute is a center of higher learning located in the foothills of Northern California's Sierra Nevadas. It grants four-year bachelor degrees in natural sciences (pre-med), theology, pastoral studies, and Christian education, with a focus on health, evangelism, manual labor, and a commitment to excellent academics. Weimar Institute is also the home of Weimar Academy, NEWSTART® Global, and the world famous NEWSTART® Lifestyle Program. The institute's NEWSTART cooking school is in great need of updating. This high-use teaching space is an essential feature to many Weimar programs. Upon completion, the area will not only be used for guests of the NEWSTART program, but also to train medical missionaries in the proper preparation of healthy, tasty, plant-based cuisine.
