Projects: Africa and the Middle East

Adventist Frontier Missions - $13,821
One of the larger Middle Eastern countries has only 100 Adventists. AFM is running an outreach project in one of that country's major cities, where a team of three missionary families has developed a home-based ministry with 30 people attending. A four- to six-story building will be purchased in the city, with space for literature sales, a worship center, missionary housing and one floor to lease out to generate income.

Congo Frontline Missions - $44,349
For 50 years the Congo River Basin was essentially closed to mission work due to war, disease and poverty. CFM is reaching out to this region through colporteurs, church planters and a medical team. They also offer training in evangelism and agriculture. Funds will be used to expand CFM’s operations in the areas of evangelism, agriculture and health.

Eden Valley Foster Care Mission - $38,821
Eden Valley Foster Care Mission provides foster care support for 800 AIDS orphans, other uncared-for children and elderly individuals in seven Tanzanian villages. Recently a nearby village donated 35 acres of land on which to build an industrial training school. A new church and an orphan home have already been built on the site. Six additional buildings will be constructed—two dormitories, an industrial building and three staff/children’s homes. 

Fanantenana Training Center - $14,208
In Madagascar, buying Spirit of Prophecy books is often prohibitively expensive. For example, one copy of The Great Controversy in the local Malagasy language costs one third of a teacher’s monthly salary. FTC will print and distribute Malagasy-language Conflict of the Ages sets and health literature in an inexpensive format. The sale of these books will also help fund future printings.

Israel Field of the Seventh-day Adventist Church - $19,349
Today there are barely 1,000 Adventists in Israel. A bold plan has been put forth to plant an Adventist church in every major Israeli city, as well as to establish a Palestinian field. As part of this plan, a community service center will be launched in East Jerusalem to create a contact point for reaching Palestinians. The new center would offer health ministry, an English language school, and food, clothing and literature distribution to needy individuals. 

Living Waters International - $2,764
Living Waters has provided the village of Kaswanga, Kenya with clean drinking water and efficient drip irrigation systems and established a feeding center for local orphans. Next up is the construction of a storeroom, pantry and administrative offices, installation of two 10,000-liter water tanks, fencing of the two-acre feeding center and the purchase of both a projector for evangelistic and health seminars and 30 benches for the feeding center.

Maranatha Volunteers International - $250,000 & $25,000
The Seventh-day Adventist Church has seen tremendous growth in the region around Livingstone, Zambia. But while there are some 12,000 Adventists in the area, there are no Adventist schools. Using modified One-Day Church kits, two boarding schools will be built that will accommodate 500 students each.

In addition, some 35 One-Day Churches and 30 Sabbath school classrooms will be constructed in the Livingstone area in coordination with ASI Livingstone and Riverside Farm Institute.

REACH International - $25,000
REACH has served more than 100,000 orphans since the organization was founded in 1973. As they expand their ministry, REACH will construct a new orphanage in Tanzania. Monies from this offering will help support the building project. Construction will be done in coordination with Kibidula Farm, also in Tanzania.

Riverside Farm Institute - $13,821
RFI has a number of ministries, including a farm, Bible training school, agriculture training, food distribution, satellite training institutions, over 50 churches, health clinics and a lifestyle center. Funds will help purchase 16-passenger buses for transporting students, Bible workers, etc. In addition the agriculture program will purchase a wheat drill, greatly improving the sowing of the wheat fields.

Riverside Farm Institute - $47,000
To support its many ministries, RFI generates revenue from several sources, chiefly a banana plantation. RFI’s banana plantation will be doubled in size, with funds from this offering providing for the purchase of new plants, irrigation and the preparation of the soil. A new truck will also be purchased to support RFI’s construction work across Zambia.