LIGHT offers medical missionary training to SDA lay-members around the world through short courses, workshops and online studies. During the past six years it has trained over 10,000 missionaries in more than 70 countries. Some graduates get their local churches actively involved in ministering to neighbors’ needs by using the health message as “an entering wedge” for the Gospel. Others are go to un-entered districts to pioneer outreach projects. Each new lay-ministry aims to be financially self-supporting through an industry or business within three years. LIGHT has fostered over 20 such new mission schools or health projects. It is affiliated with over 35 lay-training schools worldwide.