1.
Bethel Institute
Bethel Institute, operating under the direction of Eden Valley Institute, provides lay missionary training and runs a vegetarian restaurant and lifestyle center in a rural area of the Dominican Republic. In conjunction with LIGHT (see Project #21 below), the organization is expanding its school’s capacity to 50 students. ASI offering funds will help provide construction materials for necessary upgrades to the school and lifestyle center.
$10,000
2.
Better Life Broadcasting Network
Better Life has been on the air sharing the good news with Oregon since 1988. The network has expanded to include stations that cover substantial regions in Oregon, Northern California, Southern Washington, and Reno, Nevada. Project funds will allow Better Life to introduce three new channels: Better Health TV, Better Life Latino, and Better Life Evangelism.
$20,000
3.
Broken Chains for Humanity, Inc.
Broken Chains began in 2005, when lay members from Elk Grove, California, went on a short-term mission project to Guatamala. Each year they have returned to Guatamala, providing medical relief and evangelism to those living in abject poverty. Since 2005, they have provided care for 10,000 people and baptized more than 100. Offering funds will help establish a permanent clinic on an 18-acre property, as well as provide a wall for protection, a bridge for access, and a well to provide clean water.
$15,000
4.
Butler Creek
Butler Creek Health Education Center in Iron City, Tennessee, operates a live-in lifestyle center, an eight-month evangelism/industrial training school, and a literature evangelism program in conjunction with the Kentucky-Tennessee Conference. Its evangelistic reach is both local and worldwide, with students holding health and evangelism seminars in various countries around the world. Project funds will go toward the construction of a new health evangelism center and industrial arts classroom.
$15,000
5.
Cross To Crown
Cross to Crown reaches Miskito tribes in remote regions of Nicaragua, operating a radio station and supporting five churches, three clinics, and a training center. They also give Bible studies, teach construction and mechanics, and operate a ministry for women. The radio station broadcasts its programs in the Miskito language, reaching a 100-mile radius. Project funds will be used to provide solar power to offset the prohibitively high costs of electricity required to operate the radio station.
$10,000
6.
Kibidula Farm Institute
Kibidula Farm Institute 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, and many of the students have been baptized. Kibidula has established a sheep and cattle herd that now numbers 1,400 head. Funds are needed to construct a 1,500-square-foot brick building to house printing operations for literature evangelism efforts.
$35,000
7.
Living Springs Overseas Missions
Living Springs Overseas Missions operates two Bible seminaries, two orphanages, and a midwifery training school in India. The organization recently established an Adventist school for grades 1 and 2 for local children. Next year, it will expand to grades 3 and 4. ASI project funds will help to build a school to house more than 250 students.
$30,000
8.
Mamawi Atosketan Native School
Canada’s only mission school is dedicated to bringing the good news to Canada’s largest indigenous group, the Cree. MANS was granted NAD senior academy status in October 2014 and educates 170+ Kindergarten to Grade 12 students in a facility designed for 120. Each year, many children who would like to attend are turned away. The Alberta Conference is working to build an adequate facility to alleviate the crowded conditions and to accommodate the First Nations children who wish to enroll.
$20,000
9.
Peru Projects Inc.
Peru Projects supports Bible workers, an emergency medical aviation program, and a local pastor, all through donations. Five One-Day Structures have been used in the development of its campus. Offering funds will help the organization expand its ministry to include a lifestyle center and a medical missionary training school. Peru Projects will work in conjunction with LIGHT to develop an expanded medical missionary outreach that will enable Peru Projects to become self-supporting rather than donor dependent.
$20,000
10.
Souls Northwest
For the last 15 years, ShareHim has coordinated the efforts of volunteer evangelistic speakers for church-provided sites in every corner of the world. It provides user-friendly sermon outlines prepared by former General Conference president Robert Folkenberg. Offering funds will help with travel expenses for young people from economically-developed countries to preach in less developed countries where the Adventist Church is growing more rapidly.
$10,000
11.
The Creation Project
The Creation Project encompasses initiatives that impact all levels of Adventist Christian education to support Biblical creation. Southern Adventist University and Southwestern Adventist University have developed programs to strengthen this foundation, creating educational materials that promote Creation, and providing geological experiences that validate the Creation story. Funding will assist the continuing development of these initiatives.
