Implementation of field-based research and training in actual livelihood through the partnership with indigenous missionaries or mission agencies.
The main objective of implementation with local partnership is to effectively transfer the ownership of the development process to local leadership.
- Cook stove improvement in a children’s ministry in Uganda
Improved stove built by a local leader after field-based training: This was an excellent example that communicated the inefficiency associated with the reality of the Fall, its subsequent pain and even death, and the need of redemption in all areas.
With the improved stove, we can communicate the relevance of the redemptive effort in every aspect of our life. This was a unique tool for special discipleship training using real issues in our life. After this training, a national leader confessed that the Bible became much more relevant in his life, and he realized that its scope of application reaches beyond the salvation from sin.
- Improve Self-image
Coffee Huller at Maluku in Indonesia: This village’s main cash crop is coffee and has been experiencing a hard time due to frequent failures of the expensive automatic huller. This is locally manufactured semi-automatic huller proved to be much more effective over all; now the village manufactures and maintains the machine, but also contributes to improve their self-image from gaining more “Independence.”
- Current partnership program in progress: Holistic development for Karimojong people group at Northeast Uganda
Micro-loan projects for holistic development:
An individual loan for livelihood of a household (left); a group loan for a church’s ministry (right) – loan payment is used to pay portion of education cost for church leaders
