2021 Projects

The ASI Missions Inc. Board has selected 28 projects to receive grants from the offering gathered at the 2021 ASI International Convention with an offering goal of $1,243,200. All combined, the projects represent a significant worldwide impact. Online donations are accepted toward this year’s offering and previous year’s pledges. Each project will receive the designated amount, however, in the unlikely event that any of the listed projects do not progress within a reasonable time, as determined by ASI at its discretion, ASI may redirect the funds from the failed project to another ASI approved project. Below are the organizations, along with descriptions and planned use of project funds.

1. ASI Picture Rolls

$75,000

ASI Picture Rolls have proven to be a very effective way to share the gospel in areas that do not have reliable electricity. The 26 illustrated sermons captivate the attention of young and old, drawing them to Jesus and helping them make decisions to be part of God’s last-day remnant church, the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Funds will go toward the printing and distribution of more ASI Picture Rolls and manuals for evangelism.

2. ASI New Beginnings Evangelistic Series/Bible Study Guides for Kids

$50,000

Funds will go toward creating a New Beginnings series for kids. The New Beginnings for Kids evangelistic package will complement the one for adults. This series, with new 4k graphics, will be based on the successful Truth for Youth program from Young Disciples ministry. Funds will be used to revise scripts, update graphics, pay for licensing of images and songs, and create a video training series for the 3AM Call website.

3. ASAP Ministries

$45,000

ASAP appreciates the partnership with ASI in providing picture rolls for ASAP teachers, church planters, and medical missionaries in Southeast Asia. The picture roll manuals have been translated into the Khmer, Thai, Lao, Hmong, Vietnamese, Burmese, and Karen languages. These printed materials have been delivered to Southeast Asia and some of the Cambodian teachers who have received training are successfully using them in their classrooms. Funds will go toward training teachers, church planters, and medical missionaries in picture roll evangelism in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar.

4. ASI Youth for Jesus/LIFE

$150,000

Funds will go toward continuing a trajectory of successful youth evangelism training by ASI Youth for Jesus. Youth for Jesus will take place in Orlando, Florida, the city where the 2022 ASI Convention is scheduled to be held. The four-week, hands-on evangelism field school involves youth, ages 15 and older, in all areas of evangelism.

5. Asian Aid/Child Impact International

$15,000

The Child Impact School for the Blind in Bobbili, India is in need of updated technology! Their computer system is over eight years old and their braille printer is out of date. With many new programs available for the blind, it is critical that students learn the correct technology to prepare them for work. An upgrade is also required to meet government standards. Project funds will help cover the cost of computers, a laser printer, a braille printer, programs for the sight-impaired, plus equipment installation and training for the staff.

6. Belgrade Theological Seminary

$10,000

In cooperation with the South-East European Union Conference and ASI Serbia, Belgrade Theological Seminary plans to launch The Great Controversy project. This project has the goal of gifting as many copies of The Great Controversy in Serbian as possible. Project funds will go toward supplying low-cost Great Controversy books to church members for free distribution in Serbia.

7. Ellen G. White Estate

$30,000

The digital presence of the White Estate has continued to grow steadily throughout 2020, due in part to the availability of translations of Ellen White’s books in many different languages. In 2020, our websites and apps reached 48 million visitors for the year, doubling the previous year’s total number of visitors. Grant funds will go toward continuing the multi-year project of digitizing all official translations of Ellen White’s books in all available languages and making them freely available via websites and apps.

8. Farm Stew International

$50,000

FARM STEW South Sudan (FS-SS) has been operating since 2018 due to the personal invitation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church president in South Sudan, Pastor Clement Arkanelo Mawa. In the fourth quarter of 2020, the FS-SS Training Coordinator conducted four significant Seventh-day Adventist Church outreach efforts across the country, including in Wau, Malakal, and two other South Sudan locations. Grant funds will go toward helping cover the costs of developing two Farm Stew teams for Wau and Malakal to provide training, high-quality seeds and tools, and more to prepare them for the approaching farming season. Additionally, Farmer Field Schools and cooperatives would provide hands-on training and better marketing for products and cooperative buying of seeds and other things needed for the farm season.

9. Impact Hope

$40,000

Impact Hope has run three successful Holiday Vocational Training Programs to enable sponsored Congolese refugee students to stay at school during holidays and to provide livelihood training. The next training session will begin in August, 2021. Impact Hope plans for 500-600 students to attend. Each student will choose one vocational area from those offered: plumbing/electrical/maintenance, permaculture/agriculture, sewing/ tailoring, culinary arts, hairdressing. Supplemental vocational education during holidays keeps students on track and thus contributes to sustaining these Seventh-day Adventist boarding schools. Grant funds will go toward vocational training.

10. ISEI Education Association

$18,000

ISEI’s mission is to assist with the development, improvement, and propagation of schools around the world operated by professional lay-members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Grant funds will go toward expanding ISEI’s ministry influence to include support of self-supporting secondary and elementary educational ministries based outside of the United States

11. Lay Institute for Global Health Training (LIGHT)

$150,000

LIGHT continues to train thousands of church members in a knowledge of our health and gospel message and in community health outreach. This training is needed now more than ever with the current global health crisis. Grant funds will go toward supporting LIGHT’s growing team of over 60 teachers located around the world conducting training courses throughout the year, and online. Funds will be used to provide basic training materials needed to conduct our courses and community outreach and to find interested church members from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan and train them at our new LIGHT training center in Kazakhstan.

12. Logos TV

$10,000

“The Bible Reveals” is a thirty-episode TV series designed to attract and keep the attention of a wide audience, especially youth. “The Bible Reveals” helps viewers see the scientific evidence that gives unquestionable authority to the Bible. This evidence will strongly encourage people to decide to follow the Bible as a rule for their life and accept other biblical truths. Grant funds will be used to financially support this video production and to translate it from Spanish (original language) to English, Russian, and Chinese.

13. Loma Linda Campestre

$22,000

As soon as construction is complete for Loma Linda Campestre’s water plant, our ministry will need a vehicle to deliver the water to the surrounding communities, homes, and local supermarkets. Grant funds will go toward purchasing a delivery truck for the new fresh water bottling facility.

14. Maranatha z.s.

$25,000

Youth for Jesus (YFJ) 2021 Czech Republic is more than a month-long youth-led evangelism program in the city of Plzeň. YFJ is a part of the big evangelism project, “Touch the Heaven.” YFJ Czech Republic will help activate local churches to evangelism while training and equipping local youth for joyful and life-long ministry for the Lord.

15. One Day Church Project

$75,000

The One Day Church Projects Inc. is a non-profit charitable organization. Funds will go toward the construction of One Day Church Greenhouse structures at SDA self-supporting schools in the United States.

16. Outpost Centers International – Educational Assistance Plan

$25,000

The Educational Assistance Plan (EAP) is an ongoing ASI project started more than 20 years ago and managed by Outpost Centers International (OCI). Its purpose is to help mission-minded students and children of OCI staff to further their education. Once these students finish studying, they are encouraged to work with an OCI ministry. Funds will go toward providing EAP stipends for overseas missionaries or their children.

17. Outpost Centers International – Missionary Assistance Program

$100,000

The Missionary Assistance Plan (MAP) was developed in the mid-1990 to provide supplemental support for OCI’s long-term missionaries from developed countries who serve in undeveloped countries. Grant funds will go toward providing financial support for long-term missionaries who typically serve at the same stipend/ wages as national workers. MAP assistance provides cash for return airfare and emergency needs.

18. Peru Projects

$20,000

Grant funds will go toward building a vocational missionary school in the Peruvian jungle for 11-to-18 year- olds. The purpose of the school will be to restore the image of God in the young people of the Peruvian jungle through an academic-missionary program that promotes the harmonious development of the physical, mental, and spiritual faculties.

19. Riverside Farm Institute

$25,000

Grant funds will go toward supplying Riverside Farm Institute’s new secondary school with practical training equipment such as computers, microscopes, woodworking tools, and sewing machines.

20. SALT Outreach Inc.

$15,000

SALT Outreach has a goal to build tiny homes for those needing housing. This effort will be combined with an evangelistic component to win individuals to Christ. To begin, Salt Outreach plans to convert a 50-foot shipping container into a duplex. Funds will go toward purchasing land and a shipping container to be adapted into a tiny house duplex as a model for future homeless housing and evangelism.

21. Southwestern Adventist University

$20,000

For over 20 years, Southwestern Adventist University’s (SWAU) Dinosaur Science Museum and Research Center in Keene, Texas, has been conducting a dinosaur excavation research project in the Lance Formation of eastern Wyoming. This amazing site has produced over 30,000 fossils and has allowed us to pioneer the use of high-precision GPS technology to map bonebeds. Grant funds will go toward developing a Dinosaur Science Museum Internship Program for students interested in pursuing a graduate degree related to creation science.

22. Strong Tower Radio

$10,000

Grant funds will go towards upgrading and enhancing Strong Tower Radio’s existing studio to enable recording of multiple audio tracks concurrently. This will increase productivity and improve on-air recorded products. Additionally, funds will go towards constructing a new portable recording studio to allow for recordings at camp meetings, concerts, rallies, and more.

23. Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN)

$100,000

3ABN seeks to present solid, biblically-based programming that continues to be visually appealing in a competitive market. The challenge with many programs is the time and effort put into the creation of sets, the lighting and placement in the studio, and the set storage when the project is completed. Over the last several years, 3ABN has produced more programming with our LED video wall, where we can completely change programs with the push of a few buttons. This efficiently utilizes 3ABN’s resources, while enabling us to produce more programming to reach the world with the three angels’ messages. Grant funds will go toward acquiring 400 LED panels for instant virtual TV backgrounds.

24. Vida Internacional

$20,000

Having run out of space on which to build more buildings, several years ago the decision was made to convert a one-story building into a two-story building. Currently, Vida Internacional lifestyle guests stay in the guest house and apartments while the second story is being completed. With the construction of the new living quarters, the lifestyle guests will have their own area for lodging, which will free up space for missionary families to live. Project funds will go toward helping finish housing construction for lifestyle guests.

25. Weimar Institute

$60,000

Due to the growing number of programs offered at Weimar College, it is imperative that we increase student housing. Project funds will go toward renovating an existing building into student housing for 28 to 42 students.

26. Wildwood Sanitarium Inc

$50,000

Wildwood Sanitarium’s spa building serves as an extension of their hydrotherapy facilities. It offers two dry saunas, two Jacuzzis, two contrast showers, a full-body whirlpool, leg whirlpool which serves our guests, and a large area for our students to be taught and practice massage. Project funds will go toward updating and enlarging the sanitarium’s hydrotherapy area.

27. New Hope Center for Children and Handicapped

$25,000

New Hope Center for Children and Handicapped, headquartered in Ethiopia, will use grant funds to support three major activities: 1) Evangelistic work for both residential and nonresidential kids and the surrounding community, 2) Children’s basic necessities and services and, 3) Income generating for sustainability of the children’s basic necessities and services provision.

28. Madison Academy

$8,200

Grant funds will go toward an intentional campus-wide initiative designed to help Madison Academy students understand, experience, and share the three angels’ messages. Student leaders have already utilized the curriculum, authored by Sandy Doran, as the basis for the Madison Campus Church VBS program. Madison Academy’s deliberate plans for their campus, local, and global ministries center on revealing God’s love through the three angels’ messages. Their approach focuses on training in the 3AM curriculum, sharing the message, and reflecting on the experience to learn and support others.