PARTNERSHIP
Implementation of field-based research and training through the partnership with indigenous missionaries or mission agencies in order 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 example was used to communicate the inefficiency resulting from the Fall, its subsequent pain and even death, and the need for redemption in all areas of life.
This provided a unique tool for discipleship training using real issues in our lives. After this training, one national leader confessed that the Bible became much more relevant in his life, and he came to realize that the scope of redemption reaches beyond merely the salvation from sin.
- Improved Self-image
Coffee Huller at Maluku in Indonesia:
This village’s main cash crop is coffee, and the people have been experiencing a hard time due to frequent failures of the expensive automatic huller. This locally manufactured, semi-automatic huller proved to be much more effective than the other one. Besides manufacturing and maintaining this machine, the village has also gained an improved self-image since they have achieved increased 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 a portion of the education cost for church leaders