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Africa Orphan Care
Africa Orphan Care was established in 2012 and has sponsored numerous African orphan-related projects and twice yearly volunteer mission trips to Africa (to Mukuyu Outreach in Zambia and Newstart Children’s Home in Zimbabwe). In 2013 AOC remodeled and expanded four primary school classrooms and built a six-building vocational training center and workshop from One Day structures. Project is for developing 10 acres of adjacent farmland to provide fresh food and an income. Project involves creating a dam, a reservoir, and a solar-powered drip irrigation system.
$15000
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ASAP Ministries Inc.
ASAP (Advocates for Southeast Asians and the Persecuted) was founded in with the primary focus of spreading the Gospel by church plants in difficult countries where thousands of unreached people groups exist. ASAP trains and equips national believers to be missionaries to their own people. In addition to spreading the Gospel, ASAP seeks opportunities to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, oppression, and lack of education. Funds will continue to provide missionaries with needed training. Additionally, 40 women will receive special training to reach out to new mothers in the community, the “Welcome Baby Project.”
$20000
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Binding Broken Hearts Inc.
Binding Broken Hearts has been working with prison inmates for since 2009. For each inmate who requests a Bible, Binding Broken Hearts sends a black, bonded leather, large print, New King James Version Andrews Study Bible. Subsequently, inmates receive monthly Bible study lessons and personalized letters responding to their personal questions and concerns. Over the past 6 years, 7,875 Bibles have been given, 27,290 personalized letters written, and 25,705 Bible lessons distributed. 264 prisons in 29 states have received materials. ASI funding will provide 1,000 Bibles, letters, and Bible lessons to inmates.
$25000
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Bridge The Gap Inc
Bridge the Gap Inc. provides basic humanitarian aid as well as spiritual healing and hope to people living in the Punchana flooding area of Iquitos. The greatest need is during the flooding season when it becomes very difficult to travel to get aid. The need is for a community service center complete with kitchen, dining area, clean water source, bathrooms, and a secure storage room. In 2016 Bridge the Gap will sponsor 33 children, a feeding program, and baptismal class. There have been over 50 baptisms so far. Project is for materials to construct a community service center to provide needed humanitarian services for their sponsored families.
$10000
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Ellen G White Estate Inc.
The Ellen G. White Estate is responsible for oversight of the writings of Ellen White as an integral part of Seventh-day Adventist Church operations. The organization’s ongoing goal is to digitize all of her translated books, making them freely available online for reading or download in major formats. Funds will be used to digitize 51 books in Indonesian, Greek, Arabic, and Polish books that need to be made available on the EGW website and apps.
$50000
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ICC Australia
ICC Australia incorporated in 1996 and offers a multifaceted program: a rescue ministry for victims of sex trafficking, a “Blessed Project” providing loans in a Micro-Finance Sustainable Livelihood project, and an orphanage caring for 53 children. With a staff of 130-plus workers, ICCA has invested more than $17 million in impoverished communities. The micro finance project, in operation for 4+ years, has over 1,200 loan clients, with a 99.6 % repayment history; it is fully self-sustainable. The funding is for the expansion of the sex traffic rescue campus. One Day structures will be used house a sewing production complex, a warehouse, administrative offices, preschool room, staff cottages, a multi-purpose hall, education training rooms, security office, and a Microfinance Branch Office.
$40000
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Literature Evangelism/Publishing Project
How many of us can trace back to a colporteur the introduction of the Adventist message into our family? Literature evangelism/publishing ministry is the only industry on the Ouachita Hills Academy and College campus. Offering funds will dramatically impact the expansion of this education/evangelism industry and with their support and encouragement, it is hoped that other academies and schools can develop their own ministry/industry to support students and evangelize their surrounding communities.
$100000
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Loma Linda University
The Department of Earth and Biological Sciences of Loma Linda University began 1962. It has produced about 236 alumni, which include about 101 teachers in Adventist institutions, with others serving the Church in non-teaching rolls or in Christian Colleges of other denominations. The deparment's faculty and graduate students have a long history of presentations and publications on Biblical creation and geological history subjects. Thoughtful scholars observe that in the past the earth experienced catastrophic geological processes that are no longer occurring, which seem consistent with a global flood. Further study is needed to determine if water forces can replicate conditions that point toward the reality of global flood conditions. The project is to fund the first year of a two-year training program to study Sandstone “potholes” through studies of geological processes in an experimental flume by an EBS geology graduate.
$30000
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Middle East/North Africa Union
The Middle East/North Africa Union Literature Ministries Committee is following the counsel from Ellen White to publish the Conflict of the Ages series worldwide. Their goal is to properly translate and print all 5 books of the Conflict series in Arabic, Farsi and Turkish. The project is funded by ASI, MENAU and the General Conference. There are approximately 423 million people who speak Arabic, which is the liturgical language for 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide. ASI funds are designated for printing each of the five books in the three languages (37,500 books) at approximately $3.00 per book.
$100000
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New Beginnings
The revised New Beginnings program continues to be used in the frontiers of world evangelism. Hundreds of thousands have been trained to use the New Beginnings program as an evangelistic tool. As a result, so many have learned of the gospel that we have lost count! But millions more need to hear the good news of salvation. This program is one of the most effective evangelism training efforts in the history of the Adventist church. As a partner with the General Conference, we can reach millions more. Funding will be used to make ASI’s website the central source of the New Beginnings program, and downloading from the Internet the main mode of distribution thus reducing the number of physical DVDs produced.
$10000
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One Day Church Projects
One-Day Structure program is an ASI project that partners with Maranatha Volunteers International, Outpost Centers International, and many other supporting ministries worldwide. It uses specially designed One-Day kits. ousands of churches, schools, clinics, and even mission station housing structures have been built in various countries, primarily in Africa. Thousands more structures are needed, with requests coming in from new regions and countries every day. ASI funding will support this ongoing construction project.
$100000
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Ouachita Hills College
Ouachita Hills College has been operated by Ouachita Ministries Inc. since 2003. The collage shares campus facilities with Ouachita Hills Academy, but lacks its own dormitory facilities for college students. Due to increasing enrollment their administration/classroom building is no longer adequate for all campus needs. College enrollment has increased to 71 students, and every available bed is occupied. Ouachita Hills College expects an increase in enrollment in the near future, as it has signed an articulation agreement with Andrews University. ASI funding will assist in building a 7,200 square foot extension on the administration building.
$60000
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Pearl of Health
Pearl of Health was invited by church leaders in 2012 to work in Kazakhstan as health missionaries. Since then Pearl of Health has done 17 lifestyle sessions in the city of Almaty in a Conference-owned building. These sessions produced 153 patients, 60% of them non-Adventist. There have been a number of baptisms as a result of this work. ASI funding will help build the first lifestyle center in Central Asia.
$20000
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SOULS West
SOULS West has been in operation for 15 years. The goal of SOULS West is to train both Church employees and people of all professions to work and love ministry. SOULS West students learn to see the potential in every door knocked on, every Bible study given, every evangelistic meeting held. They learn to share a risen and soon coming Savior with each and every person. Funding will enable SOULS West to publish, design, and print a new Ministry of Healing magabook.
$15000
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STRIDE
STRIDE began in the fall of 2008 as a grassroots nine-month campus evangelism practicum where students and young professionals enrolled as missionary interns use evangelism skills learned in the classroom and apply them in their everyday lives and on their assigned campuses. Students are challenged to demonstrate that it is possible to be part of a movement that is Bible-based, life-changing, and evangelistic while studying and working in a secular environment. Funds are to train 16 recently graduated 12th graders in a summer program to equip them to be missionaries on their secular campuses.
$10000
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Weimer Institute
Weimar Institute is a center of higher learning located in the foothills of Northern California’s Sierra Nevada range. It grants four-year bachelor degrees in natural sciences (pre-med), theology, pastoral studies, and Christian education, with a focus on health, evangelism, and manual labor, and a commitment to excellent academics. Funds will go toward construction of a duplex with a lower level apartment, which will create housing for 3 families on the Weimar campus.
$40000
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Wildwood Lifestyle Center
Wildwood Lifestyle Center was founded in 1942. Wildwood currently operates a lifestyle center, several lay medical missionary training programs, and a significant health food store, as well as providing lay pastors for 5 area Adventist churches established by Wildwood. It offers multiple outreach programs locally and around the world, with an annual budget of approximately $2.5 million. Near the entrance to its campus, Wildwood owns a commercial property where ASI funding will help build a community center. It will accommodate up to 300 people in varying room configurations that will include space for counseling, hydro/massage treatments, cooking classes, medical seminars, graduations, and other large gatherings.
