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ASAP Ministries, Inc.
ASAP Ministries, Inc. was incorporated in 1995 for the purpose of supporting church planting among Southeast Asians. ASAP supports over 500 national missionaries and projects such as Feed & Read Schools, AIDS Hospice, and the building of water wells. ASAP Ministries works to establish wholistic, church-planting movements that combine the proclamation of the everlasting gospel with physical acts of compassion. Offering funds will be used to produce evangelism DVDs for closed countries in their native languages. One such country, Eretria, has only about 200 Adventist members with limited resources. A young, Eritrean missionary will record sermons at a professional recording studio in the US. Other pastors and gifted speakers will speak in their mother tongues to record appealing sermons on the 28 Adventist fundamental beliefs. These sermons will be shared in closed countries to spread the gospel.
$25000
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ASI New Beginnings and Picture Rolls
Adventist-laymen’s Services and Industries (ASI) has been operating and working with the Seventh-day Adventist Church on evangelism-related projects for more than 30 years. ASI has no source of income for such projects except through the generosity of its members, particularly in relationship to New Beginnings Evangelism (NBE). In the past two years, NBE has presented over 35,000 evangelism series. NBE has trained lay people in many countries and has distributed numerous downloads of New Beginnings (NB) materials through the ASI website. This is a highly-valued resource for the world church. ASI funding will be used to print and distribute NB Picture Rolls, Picture Rolls DVD scripts, supply NB on flash drives, supply DVD players/projectors for NB series, and render any new or revised languages into NB graphics.
$75000
3.
Black Hills Health and Education Center
Black Hills Health and Education Center (BHHEC), in continuous operation since 1979, provides health care and medical missionary worker training. They currently operate a School of Massage and a Lifestyle Health service. Hundreds of students and thousands of patients have received BHHEC services. The buildings where these ministries operate are older, but in good repair except for deteriorated roofs. Due to harsh weather, the buildings are at risk of serious damage if repairs are not made. Offering funds will go toward removing old shingles and installing metal roofs on four large and four small buildings (totaling 30,000 sq. ft.). Maranatha has agreed to install the materials as a donation. Additionally, one smaller building will be re-sided.
$25000
4.
E.A. Sutherland Education Association
E.A. Sutherland Education Association (EASEA) has been in operation since 2002. They provide educational services and programs to supporting ministry academies and elementary schools. EASEA has expanded to a national and international scope of service. It provides member academies with a written curriculum for teaching work ethic and phase one of a computer-based vocational training tracking program. Offering funds will go toward continued expansion of services to its member schools, as well as to non-member and self-supporting schools. Funds will also assist with developing the next phase of the computer-based vocational tracking system for member schools.
$25000
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Family Development International/Kibidula
Family Development International/Kibidula (FDIK) was established as a sister organization of Riverside Farm Institute (Zambia) in 1989, and became a recognized NGO in Tanzania and an ASI member in 1990. Kibidula’s main ministry activities include an evangelism training school, an agriculture training school for young people, an English medium primary school, publishing work, printing operations, health evangelism work, health evangelism training, active evangelism, building One Day Churches, a wellness center for lifestyle training, and an avocado orchard and seedling project. In the near future, FDIK hopes to restart its aviation program and add a Swahili-language FM radio station ministry. Offering funds will go toward purchasing and installing a solar electric power system for Kibidula’s School of Evangelism. Due to the remoteness of their location, the institute is not located anywhere near the national power grid.
$12000
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Fletcher Academy, Inc.
Fletcher Academy, Inc. (FAI) has been transforming lives for Jesus for 107 continuous school years, impacting the lives of over 3,000 young people. FAI provides a high-quality, distinctly Seventh-day Adventist education to the more than 270 students enrolled at Captain Gilmer Christian School and Fletcher Academy. FAI is one of the longest-running supporting ministries in the Adventist denomination and is the largest independent Adventist academy in North America. Offering funds will go toward the expansion and remodeling of Fletcher Academy’s cafeteria and new commercial kitchen. The cafeteria is one of the oldest buildings in regular use by the students. Due to enrollment growth, it can no longer meet their basic food service needs. These improvements will help Fletcher Academy provide students, staff, and guests an attractive, peaceful setting in which to enjoy healthy food and fellowship.
$25000
7.
GLOW
GLOW has existed for ten years. They have printed nearly one hundred million tracts globally in more than 75 languages. Their primary goal is to activate church members to give out literature in their everyday lives. Offering funds will go toward printing ten million tracts for use by the church in South Korea, Japan, and China. After printing, an ongoing program will be established, allowing churches to sell GLOW tracts to their members. This will bring in funds for further printing of tracts, for leadership, and for promotion of literature distribution.
$20000
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Hartland Institute
For well over three decades, Hartland Institute has operated as a self-supporting educational organization. Offering funds will go toward reconstructing their lifestyle center. The renovation will result in a fully-operational Health Evangelism Center, a lifestyle program, classrooms for health majors and the newly-formed midwifery major, community education rooms, and a birthing center. The birthing center will give midwifery majors an extended opportunity to observe and assist Adventist health professionals engaged in midwifery as a ministry.
$20000
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Harvest Fields Organic Farm
Harvest Fields Organic Farm (HFOF) was founded by Fresno Adventist Academy. The original purpose of the farm was to provide an industry for student labor, enabling students to pay their way through school by working. The farm benefits the students academically and spiritually by connecting them with nature and offering hands-on learning opportunities. HFOF has successfully started three gardens on other Seventh-day Adventist school campuses and is currently assisting a public school with the development of their school garden. The positive interaction with the non-Adventist community has opened doors to share Jesus with them. Offering funds will go toward helping HFOF provide the resources necessary to build gardens at other schools. Additionally, it will assist school administrators and teachers to incorporate gardening into their spiritual and academic curricula.
$10000
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Lay Institute for Global Health Training, Inc.
Since official operations began in 2008, LIGHT has trained over 21,000 lay members and pastors in 87 countries in LIGHT’s 125-hour intensive course. LIGHT provides excellent health evangelism training to church members worldwide through short courses, workshops, and online studies. Offering funds will be used to reach 10 unreached territories in northern Nigeria with LIGHT missionaries, open the first-ever missionary training course in Central Asia in Kazakhstan, train missionaries at their school in Bulgaria who will commit to work one year in the Middle East, train and equip 100 churches in China, and begin offering LIGHT courses in Japan. Funds will also be used to support their team of 50 LIGHT teachers located throughout the world, as well as provide basic materials needed to conduct their training and outreach.
$150000
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Life and Health Network
When AMEN (Adventist Medical Evangelism Network) decided to share health education materials with the public through media, Life and Health Network (LHN) was created. LHN began producing free, online health resources for the public based on the Seventh-day Adventist health message. Topics include: 8 laws of health, 7 deadly psychological sins, hydrotherapy, the program “Diabetes Undone,” and plant-based cookbooks. Offering funds will go toward translating the “Diabetes Undone” series to Spanish while utilizing a Spanish-speaking physician and edited contents to better fit the Hispanic community.
$25000
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Light Bearers Ministry
Light Bearers is a publishing, preaching, and media ministry devoted to the proclamation of the everlasting gospel. They publish evangelistic literature by the container load, all free of charge for Seventh-day Adventist Churches in third-world nations. They also produce video projects and conduct revival and evangelistic programs. Offering funds will go toward sending three containers of gospel literature to Tanzania and Zambia. The West Tanzania Conference, the Northern Tanzania Union Conference, and the North Zambia Union Conference are desperately needing truth-filled literature in their native languages; Light Bearers’ literature will help fill this void.
$75000
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Loma Linda University Health
Loma Linda University Health Department of Earth and Biological Sciences, in operation since 1962, has been involved in geological research on fossil whales in Peru, fossil turtles and Yellowstone fossil forests in Wyoming, as well as many other projects in a variety of locations. The results of this research are a continuing source of encouragement to Bible believers, including Seventh-day Adventists and others. Offering funds will go toward the geological study of the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone in Utah and provide the means for Christian geologists to publish various geological formations from a biblical perspective.
$30000
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Metro Lifestyle Ministries Inc. (DBA Living Springs Overseas Missions)
Living Springs Overseas Missions (LSOM), a long-time ASI member, initially functioned as a New York City restaurant and Lifestyle Center since 1993. LSOM now has three institutions in India that operate an orphanage, two elementary day schools, two Bible seminaries, a midwifery training program, as well as two clinics on their campuses. Other clinics are being established in several unreached cities where their Bible seminary and midwifery course graduates are seeking to plant churches. Offering funds will go toward beginning construction of a two-story, multipurpose building that will include three staff apartments, tailoring rooms, business offices, and a water tank.
$35000
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Nasledie School
Nasledie School (NS) was established in 1997. It is the only Adventist school in Central Asia. It serves the surrounding community and provides English and Spanish classes as well as a free soccer school for children of the community.NS has a growing and thriving Centre of Influence. There are currently 100 participants of the soccer school, most of whom are not students of NS. Offering funds will go toward the construction of a Multi-functional Building Complex that will provide an indoor educational facility for a soccer school, as well as a gymnasium for the school. Specifically, the funds will be used for soccer school coach salaries, spiritual books and materials, sports equipment, the special sports floor of the complex, and for summer camps designed for spiritual growth.
$15000
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Our Home Lifestyle Center
For approximately 20 years, Our Home Lifestyle Center at Novi Obi Hodi, Ukraine, has provided cutting-edge lifestyle services and medical evangelism training to the community in Ukraine, Russia, and Eastern Europe. They typically operate at capacity with a client waiting list. Many guests trace their renewed health, knowledge of Jesus, and Seventh-day Adventist Church membership to their stay at Our Home Lifestyle Center. The campus of Our Home Lifestyle Center was originally a resettlement site for evacuees from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The visionary leaders of Our Home Lifestyle Center saw the potential of the site and repurposed several abandoned buildings, transforming them into the first Adventist Lifestyle Center in Ukraine. However, Ukraine law does not provide for nonprofit organizations. Offering funds will go toward creating a recognized organizational operating structure. Our Home Lifestyle Center is a long-term member organization of Outpost Centers International.
$25000
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Pearl Health Center Institute
Pearl Health Center Institute was established in 2015. For three years prior to establishment, they conducted lifestyle programs in Seventh-day Adventist church buildings and held 17 lifestyle programs (10-day programs) in the Almaty church. In 2015, they moved to a property and conducted home-like lifestyle programs, though they could serve only seven patients at a time. In July 2016, they started to build the first wellness center in Central Asia, and hope to dedicate the center in 2018. Offering funds will go toward furnishing and equipping the kitchen and hydro department for the new lifestyle center. This include beds, dressers, and nightstands (for 11 patient rooms), dining tables and chairs, furniture for common areas, such as a living room, library, waiting rooms, and offices, and kitchen equipment.
$40000
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Shelter from the Storm
Shelter from the Storm (SFS) provides a structured living environment for recently released male ex-offenders. The program provides residents with housing for up to six months, assistance with finding employment, and life-skill training. Most importantly, SFS gives its residents an opportunity to develop and strengthen their relationship with God through Bible studies, church attendance, and fellowship with other Christians. SFS receives more applications than they can possibly house, so offering funds will go toward expanding available bed spaces. Additionally, they do not have a facility that can accommodate females. Funds will also go toward facilitating the purchase of two similar homes, one for women and another for men.
$35000
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The One Day Church Projects, Inc.
The One Day Church Projects (ODCP) facilitates the erection of simple, low-cost church and school buildings, primarily in 3rd world settings. The conferences that invite ODCP provide a buildable site, with the land title in the conference’s name and the local congregation agrees to enclose and finish the church, providing doors, windows, and wall material. ODCP manufactures and ships the church kit using steel supplied by ASI member organization, McNeilus Steel, Inc. The One Day church is typically erected through ODCP local affiliate ministries. Offering funds will go toward providing 200 church kits (100 to Riverside Farm and 100 to Kibidula Farm).
$100000
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The Perfect Square, Inc.
The Perfect Square conducts health seminars, health spa services, and a medical missionary training program, along with the production and sale of farm produce. It is directly involved in coordinating LIGHT training courses in Puerto Rico. In 2014, they acquired approximately 16 acres with excellent farmland, a family dwelling and other buildings with guest rooms, and a farm workshop. The new facility was within a month of completion when Hurricane Maria hit the island, destroying the roofs of the house and workshop and displacing the solar panels. (The panels and batteries survived.) Offering funds will go toward reconstructing the damaged buildings.
$15000
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Train Them 2 Fish International
Train Them 2 Fish International has been in existence since 2012. It is dedicated to sharing God’s love by addressing the causes of poverty through a holistic empowerment of the poor and people in need by building up their capabilities regardless of religion, ethnicity, political beliefs, or gender. Their vision is to reach out to the French-speaking countries of Africa using Christ’s method. Offering funds will go toward building a men’s dormitory for their school of evangelism.
$30000
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UnScene Media Group Inc.
UnScene Media Group has been operating training programs and summer camps for media evangelism. They have produced programs for 3ABN, Dare to Dream, ARTV, and many online platforms. Their shareable media resources for web and social media currently have hundreds of thousands of views and they plan to push views into the millions by creating more relevant content. Offering funds will go toward the production of content designed to reach unchurched and backsliding Millennials with the gospel through new media evangelism. Their goal is to increase production of such videos to a minimum of two per month, and simultaneously develop companion materials and products that can be used as personal evangelism tools.
$15000
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Your Best Pathway to Health
Your Best Pathway to Health is designed to provide mega free clinics utilizing several thousand lay and professional health care volunteers. It seeks to emulate what Christ would do for those in need by providing health and dental care for thousands of people over a few days of clinic function. Offering funds will be used to provide support to the clinic operations.
