In this area of Ethiopia there is a large Christian community but very little land available for farming. The Christian leaders are working with the people to obtain land and to train and send young families there so they are able to farm and also to witness to the local people and establish Christian groups.

Life has never been easy in the Great Lakes area of Africa. The team based here works under the banner of Harvest Partnership but this group has diminishing resources and have a desire to see their key people become bi-vocational and self-sustaining, and not dependent on external resources for their living.

Manara (Lighthouse) International is based in Amman, Jordan. They find themselves in a strategic place, a place of refuge for many displaced people from around the Middle East. They have a particular focus on refugees who make up almost one third of Jordan's population. Refugees have come in the past from Palestine, Kuwait, Egypt and Iraq and most recently people fleeing the turmoil in Syria have sought refuge in Jordan. Manara works to assist them with counselling, friendship, food, clothing and other basic essentials.

Chrissy and Suzen Lukanga are Zambian missionaries involved in reaching out to unreached people groups of the three Northern provinces of Mozambique; Gabo Delgado, Nampula and Niassa, with the love and teaching about Jesus Christ.

In a country like Pakistan, correspondence courses are an effective means of training. It is not easy for people of other faiths to obtain access to the real story. This is also a useful tool for Christian people to be discipled and nurtured in their faith.

Severino has been committed to taking the Gospel to the villages in the Cajamarca province since 1983. God has used him to plant various churches, besides attempting to establish more churches. Severino visits the already established churches as well as the churches that exist that are not a result of his evangelistic work throughout the Cajamarca countryside. He is committed to training, teaching and evangelising.

After being a volunteer for a year and another year as a part-time staff member at ECPM, Ella is currently the coordinator of the Youth in Missions for Christ (YMC). YMC is the youth arm and a mission strategy of ECPM. She is also handling the Campus Ministry of YMC now going into its second year.

ECPM seeks to train people in church planting and then sends them out to areas in the Philippines where there are no churches. This partnership seeks to provide financial support for one church planting team.

For more than 2 years Vicente Enriques was a part-time team member at ECPM and he has now taken over Wilson Tayaban''s role, particularly attending most of the training modules and encouraging various church planting teams throughout the Philippines.

Despite the fact that Rwanda is more developed than most African countries, there is still great poverty and a violent, abusive underbelly. Those that suffer the most in this environment are the young people, especially the young women. Youth Renewed Ministry plans to help these girls by providing scholarships for them to attend a vocational training school and obtain a skill.

For a variety of reasons the hill tribes of Thailand often do not have the same opportunities as other Thai nationals, therefore making it difficult for them to elevate themselves from poverty. It is with these concerns that ITDF is providing assistance. However, these villagers not only need their physical needs met but also their spiritual needs.

There are currently 15 churches in the Faith Harvest Network in the east of Uganda. Many of the people in these churches are poor with few resources or capital to allow them to get out of poverty. In several of the churches they have begun a small loan programme with approximately 120 people. The concept here is to boost this so it becomes available to more people.

In 2014, Efrain was involved in establishing the Camiri Trades Training Institute, an auto-mechanics technical school run as part of the Bible School. He is also very involved at the Bible School, lecturing, and providing technical and administrative support.

Sowers International has been operating in Lubumbashi for a number of years, struggling along with little support or growth. Since 2007 it has been reactivated and is now developing. For the work to grow it requires someone to lead and champion it, Emmanuel Kakudji is that man and this partnership provides financial support for the work including support for him and his wife.

The Ras Beirut Baptist Church has been working in Boucheriyeh, a suburb of Beirut, into which have come many refugees from Syria. By far the majority that come are Moslems, having lost everything. The church has a number of ministries for the refugees.

There are some places on earth that are hard places, hard to get to, hard to enter and hard to work in. The land of the Koti people is one of those places on earth. The Koti are a group of people with a very basic lifestyle on the coast of Mozambique. Their children grow up in poverty, living in the sand and eating fish.

For a number of years BHW has been partnering with Tarikhi ya Haakhi with their church planting work around Angoche. The work is growing and significant numbers of Koti people are becoming Christ followers. Many of the Koti people cannot read their own language or Portuguese so it makes leadership development difficult.

Cristina works alongside Antonia Yalta (PER10) and is involved in delivering training and programmes to the Amazon tribal children and their families.

The Christian Fellowship Churches (CFC) and Child Care Ministries (CCM) in Busia, Uganda, offer holistic ministry leadership training and care to people in their local communities. In the recent past, these communities have experienced wars, hostile nomadic tribe invasions, HIV/AIDS, disease and poverty. Although matters have been improving some of these issues remain everyday realities for them. They offer the Good News of Jesus while showing and practicing His love.

Octavio and Justina are involved in church planting in the city of Villamontes. They also travel to remote villages, accessible only by foot, with the good news of Jesus Christ.

Tino was one of the founders of a Bright Hope World funded dairy farm in Bolivia and for many years was co-manager of the farm project. Currently he and Nelda are fully involved in the Bible Institute, as managers of the Institute, teaching some of the modules and mentoring the students.

Soul Salvation Church in the city of Assiut is one of the largest, most influential churches in Upper Egypt. It is non-denominational and has many ministries including a vocational training centre. The two aspects involved in this partnership are a sewing centre and two education tutoring centres.

The majority of the people who are served by the Bluebird network come with few economic resources. Many are poor, rural peasants and daily workers. When they come to faith they often lose opportunities for education, employment and even marriage. They were economically poor before, now it is even worse. They have no access to the resources required to fund a business, small farm, feed their families or educate their children. This partnership will provide funds to assist them to get on their feet and become able to sustain their families.

Sowers International is an organisation that trains churches to evangelise in their communities by using the method of open air preaching. They have a well developed, five level training programme that sees thousands of team members a year trained, hundreds of open air messages preached, many people counselled and hundreds of new churches a year planted in Africa.

The Great Lakes area of Africa is a place wracked by conflict, violence, abuse and poverty. But it is also a place where the Good News of Jesus is spreading quickly through the towns and villages. Harvest Partnership has a number of key people working in this area to promote the concept of Church Planting Movement (CPM), encouraging and training people to share their lives and the Good News in their homes and bring people together in simple small groups.

Ministries for Asia-Pacific conduct evangelistic missions and training at the request of and in cooperation with local churches and Christian organizations in the Asia-Pacific region. Their Rural Evangelist Adoption Programme is a two-year support and training programme for rural evangelists.

SOWERS International is an organisation that trains churches to be able to reach out to their community. Nepal is one of the newer countries they have become involved in and the work is growing rapidly. This partnership is to financially support the key person, Navin Darlami, for a period so he can grow the ministry.

Godofredo and Teresa are involved in pastoral care, teaching, counselling and evangelism. Godofredo has written the Life Course which is a five part evangelistic Bible study used extensively throughout Peru. Recently he has been involved in a church plant in the south of Peru. Godofredo has been leading church planting in the Cajamarca area.

Saul and Clara are involved in training programmes, teaching, counselling and discipling. He also takes students to the mission field to live with different people-groups as part of their cross cultural experience, working mainly in the jungle areas.

Manuel leads development of a missionary training centre in the jungle town of Atalaya, strategically located to help prepare workers from churches of five nearby tribes.

Oscar carries out his ministry in the city of Lima and in the jungle of Peru where he visits five different native communities periodically. Oscar is part of Segadores, a Peruvian church planting group dedicated to reaching the tribes of the Amazon basin.

Antonia is involved in frequent visits to Amazon tribal children and missionary children in the Peruvian jungle. She has a ministry with children, feeding them a meal a day as well as teaching reading and handicraft work. This is a significant ministry with growing opportunities for witnessing.

ECPM has started a new training programme designed to reach high school and college students in partnership with the local churches that are situated near school campuses. The thrust is to help churches establish campus ministry and at the same time assist them in training their youth leaders. This is a one-year and two-year training programme for teams of youth campus leaders composed of 2 to 3 members. The prospective team members are Christian students studying in the target school.

The Good News Team creatively and effectively shares the gospel and love of Jesus to hundreds of thousands of people in Thailand. Aiming at children, they hope many will accept Jesus as Lord and lead others to Christ, transforming whole communities.

Prasert leads the Top Kids programme and Heart of Mercy ministry with children from the slums of Bangkok. She is a strong and influential leader who is capably training and making a significant difference in the lives of others.

Top Kids is an evangelistic and teaching programme for children held every Saturday. The "Through the Bible" curriculum, written and illustrated by Prasert Taksin and her team, is used to lay a foundation to present the gospel. Around 80 children have been converted and are being discipled through this programme.

Some people are infectious in terms of their passion, enthusiasm and expression. John and Nok are that kind of couple. They are totally convinced about their roles leading a church planting movement in Thailand, and traditionally it has not been an easy place to plant churches. They are a key couple with a great dream and a mighty God who loves Thai people.

Mbale village was formed by internally displaced people from the city of Mbale. They are poor and trying to eke out a living from fishing. There is a great deal of drunkenness, abuse and very few children were going to school. Timothy and Janepher wanted to do something so sent some teachers to this village to start a school.

Thomas Lubari has been involved in church development and planting in Sudan based out of Jinja in Uganda. He leads a church in Jinja and makes frequent visits to the Sudan. He is very passionate and despite a lot of financial constraints, is working very hard. He has a number of other projects in development in Sudan including literacy, training and agriculture.

OM Zambia is a missions training centre that is equipping potential missionaries and the churches that send them. It is particularly aimed at mobilising the African church for the task of missions. It is based at a strategic location and produces good quality graduates.

Eli and Raquel Antelo have undergone training at the Bible School in Camiri and have now moved to the town of San Juan del Pirai with the intention of establishing a church there. This partnership will provide the funds necessary for them to purchase a carpentry shop as an income generating business.

There are a number of key people involved in the development of new churches in Northern Ethiopia. It is important to continue developing and encouraging them so 3 to 4 training sessions per year are organised for the church planters and for existing and emerging church leaders. These give them new skills and develop them so they can be more effective in the difficult circumstances in which they live.

At the heart of the Ethiopia partnership is the desire to grow the church in Northern Ethiopia. This growth is two-fold, to see existing leaders develop more skills and to empower them, and to facilitate the establishment of churches in new areas by sending out and equipping people to plant new churches.

Bob Abdalla pastors a church on the outskirts of Kisumu and invests much of his time helping the vulnerable in his community. With the help of Bright Hope World he was able to purchase a Tuk Tuk and run a transport service with it. This project generates income to financially support Bob and his family enabling him to more effectively serve and minister to the community. This project also provides employment to a member of Bob’s congregation who works as the driver.

The Books Reading Cafe is a fusion of books (both a library and books to buy), an internet facility, and a coffee and food cafe in a peaceful environment. It is a place where ROHS can meet people and share the gospel and where discipleship can happen naturally. There is a real lack of good cafes in Kathmandu where people can study and also enjoy healthy food.

Jose Isabel is involved in visiting villages in and around Cajamarca each week to share the gospel and has weekly meetings with various non-Christian families. He is also involved in helping with translation work for Wycliffe translating the Bible into Quechua. Bright Hope has a carpentry shop project that has enabled him to become self supporting (see PER03b).

This was set up to support Jose Isabel Ayay's missionary work (PER03a) and enable him to do more frequent evangelism visits. They are hoping to purchase more equipment to make the shop more productive.

Jorge is involved in various ministries including a church plant situation that now has 70 members. They are planning a church plant in a village called San Juan when the church membership reaches 150. Jorge and his wife Cecilia have two childen.

The church at Centro Christiana Vida is currently running a trial chicken farm in Cajamarca. The purpose is to generate some profit to fund church planting in the Cajamarca region. The intention is to expand the chicken farm to fully fund Jorge Asto and his family as church planters. The chicken farm should be self supporting in six months.

Many Thai church planters are working in small villages where the new church is not able to fully support them and their families. Mushroom cultivation has proven to be an effective means of providing partial support for pastors and church planters as it does not require full-time commitment to working on the project.

Maunga Farm is a poverty stricken area. People were resettled here by the government in 2002/2002 but no infrastructure was developed. They are peasant farmers and barely make a living in a good year but years of ongoing drought have made life even more difficult. Rodwell Masanga and his family have a vision to see the community transformed and plan to move into the area and become agents of change.

Robert Gitau and his late wife Rose have been instruments of transformation for many years in the Tala / Nguluni community. They chose to go and live there to plant a church. Finding great poverty caused them to start a school as well and over the past years have mentored and assisted many families and individuals.

Bob Abdalla is a church planter/pastor in the west of Kenya near Kisumu. In the post-election violence in 2008 his wife's tailoring business was destroyed therefore taking away their only income source.

Kenya's forests are in terminal decline so the Kijani team are developing a plan to get a long term, sustainable reforestation programme underway. They are establishing a tree planting and agro-reforestation initiative and plan to use Foundations for Farming techniques to achieve this.

While working as a professor in charge of the Missions Department at Myanmar Evangelical Graduate School of Theology (MEGST) Peter grew a desire to help the people of his native Rakhine State, one of the least developed areas of Myanmar.

Azam Gill has been involved in full-time ministry in Pakistan since 2002 and is very passionate about the gospel. He is fearless and travels around a lot encouraging, mentoring and training people. He sees the need to equip people to become self-sustaining educationally and economically.

Macedonio is working with Segadores helping in the search of unreached tribes. He visits the tribes sharing the gospel, material needs and teaching and encouraging those who have become Christians. Macedonio has worked for many years in the jungle areas with the Segadores group helping with projects involving better drinking water, improved health care and food crop cultivation.

Rudy and Flor pastor two churches and are involved in a number of outreach Bible studies that have the potential to become new churches. They have being working in Ranao-Ranao, in Ligao City, for 13 years and there is a group of 70 people meeting in the church.

Elvin Buenviaje is the Executive Director of Empowered Christians in Partnership & Ministries (ECPM). He is on the full time staff of ECPM directly overseeing the operation of church planting activities and at the same time is involved in teaching church planting teams. He also visits church planting teams on the mission site to provide pastoral care and to coach the team in implementing the church planting programme.

This fund was set up as an emergency fund for training/coaching or medical expenses for the ECPM workers.

Mazingara is a village wracked by intergenerational poverty. More than 1,000 people live in the area and there is no safe water. People collect ground water from more than 5 kms away for all uses. The water is contaminated and unsafe and the people just never wash. There is rampant sickness and disease from poor hygiene and little food in the village. The previous rainy season the village houses were all severely damaged by floods and the people are too poor to rebuild them. The primary need here according to the leaders of the village is for water.

Frog farming is a very viable income-generation project that will result in church planters and their families being totally self-supporting.

Personal support of Leonard & Rosemary Daka working with orphans in Chipata, Zambia. They are key leaders and oversee 50 orphans in their own village, another 45 in other villages and the development of a Community School.

Jeremiah and Faides are the key people on the ground in Kamatipa. They tend their own farm, lead the small church of about 100 people, and care for the orphans. Jeremiah is originally from Angola and from time to time goes back there to help his people and teach in the churches.

Sometimes you meet people who make an immediate impression on you. Dick and Anita are like that. They have five children of their own but have a real love, care and concern for the many vulnerable children in Zambia and have spent many years in ministry with children.

Once trained, OM graduates are sent to various parts of Africa with the aim of reaching the unreached using holistic ministries.OM encourages their graduates to be self-sustaining in their ministry by providing one-off financial support to enable them to establish income generating activities in an effort to meet their own financial needs.

Charles is the key person in this partnership at Kaishe. He has an ideal little farm plot to look after himself. He also travels extensively to preach the gospel, frequently into the DRC which is a few kilometres from this village. We have been providing a small level of support to supplement his income.

Samfya Bible School is a key provider of training in the Luapula Province of Zambia. Every year they train about 30 people who become pastors, evangelists, church planters and change agents in their communities. They produce high quality graduates, many of whom are making a huge impact on their communities.