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Athletes in Action

Reaching Individuals through Sports

Athletes in Action exist to develop athletic influences into Christ-centered leaders. AIA works directly with thousands of college and professional athletes and coaches worldwide to train them to talk about the Lord one-on-one, with the media, and in other public forums to help fulfill the great commission.

Christian Foundation Insurance is focusing on the Europe and Eurasia segment of Athlete’s in Action international ministry. Sports are a powerful method in reaching Europe and Eurasia; it is the number one free time activity. Sports personalities continue to dominate as the heroes of society. Sports are an international language that secularized Europeans understand, providing some of the most natural and culturally relevant opportunities imaginable to present the gospel.

AIA is helping to pioneer the vision of sports ministry through Europe. In the mid-1980’s, just four European countries had an evangelistic sports ministry. Today that number of countries has grown to 25. AIA has full-time ministry in 13 of them.

AIA has been able to send student athletes to counties that are currently closed to evangelism. As official guests of governments that are primarily Muslim, students are able to play other teams and hold clinics, while sharing their personal testimony and faith in Jesus Christ. The Christian Foundation will help send students to these spiritually needy countries to share the love of Christ. The opportunities available in the European and Eurasia countries are truly miraculous.

www.athletesinaction.org

Children of Promise

Dedicated to caring for orphans and widows

Children of Promise’s approach is unique in that they are one of the few organizations in the world that provide comprehensive 24-hour care for orphans and widows in multiple countries. In addition to church-based orphan homes that provide 24-hour care for orphans and widows, they also operate feeding and nutrition programs, free schools and higher education opportunities, and family assistance programs for needy children throughout the world.

Church-based orphan homes are a distinctive aspect of Children of Promise’s approach. They develop partnerships with overseas churches and ministries to operate these homes. This strategy helps ensure that all of the needs of orphans and widows in our care are addressed, most of all their spiritual needs-as well as food, clothing, shelter, medical, and educational needs. Having the orphans under their care, in homes that also function as churches, provides a greater capacity to adequately care for them and gives them continuity of relationship that can extend into their adult years once they leave our orphan homes. Our church-based approach also gives the members of the church continual opportunities to actively express their faith through caring for orphans and widows.

www.childrenofpromise.org

Habitat for Humanity International

100,000+ Houses Since 1976

The cause of substandard housing and homelessness are many. Millions of people are displaced due to war, famine, and natural disasters. Millions more languish in the poverty and squalor in much of the developing world.

Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is a Christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing and homelessness worldwide and to making adequate, affordable shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat is founded on the conviction that every man, woman and child should have a simple, decent, affordable place to live in dignity and safety.

The work of Habitat for Humanity is driven by the desire to give tangible expression to the love of God through the work of eliminating poverty housing. Habitat's ministry is based on the conviction that to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ we must reflect Christ's love in our own lives by loving and caring for one another. Our love must not be words only -- it must be true love, which shows itself in action. Habitat provides an opportunity for people to put their faith and love into action, bringing diverse groups of people together to make affordable housing and better communities a reality for everyone.

www.habitat.org

International Cooperating Ministries

Building Churches Around the World

“The Whole Word for the Whole World”

A man from a small village in India said with tears in his eyes, “I am over eighty years of age and have been praying for twenty years that God would provide a place to worship Him.” He was looking at a newly constructed church built by ICM.

ICM’s strategy begins with practical Bible studies that are broadcasted to people in their native language. Study notes are offered upon request, letters are followed up by national workers and listeners are channeled into local churches or formed into Bible studies where no church exist. As a Bible study group matures into a congregation of 100 believers- a church is built. This congregation then reaches out to the surrounding communities to establish congregations.

ICM networks with national leaders committed to church development. It provides a means of Bible training through daily broadcasts of the Mini Bible College. It provides notes of the Mini Bible College on request to listeners for continued study and spiritual growth. It provides funding for training centers, Bible schools, and seminaries for pastoral training. It provides a structured procedure for church building to maximize financial investments and to achieve impact for continued outreach

www.icmmbc.org

The “Jesus” Film

Giving everyone one chance to see Jesus

The purpose of the Jesus Film Project is to show the “JESUS” Film to everyone in the world in his or her own language. The Christian Foundation is focusing the JESUS Film distribution in the Eastern Europe and Asia regions.

How many movies do you know of that have the potential to alter the course of a viewer's life? The "JESUS" Film is such a movie. God has repeatedly used this straightforward presentation of the life of Christ to literally change lives. With the script taken straight from the Gospel of Luke, "JESUS" is recognized as the most accurate depiction of the life of Christ ever put on film.

Every two seconds—sometimes in the midst of global chaos and conflict—someone indicates a decision to receive Christ as personal Savior as a result of seeing the "JESUS" film.

The JESUS Film Project seeks to give everyone in the world one chance to hear the gospel in his or her own language. So whether a person speaks Swahili, French, or a language whose name is extremely difficult for most to pronounce, he or she will encounter the life and message of Jesus in a language "of the heart."

www.jesusfilm.org

Opportunity International

Giving the Poor a Working Chance

For over 30 years, Opportunity International has been a leader among nonprofit organizations in the global fight against poverty. A pioneer in micro enterprise development, Opportunity is committed to solving poverty instead of merely treating its symptoms. By providing loans and basic training in business practices for the poor, we are able to break the cycle of poverty and foster social and spiritual transformation.

These small loans create lasting change in people’s lives. More than just a credit provider, the staff prays with and for borrowers. They provide training and council as need from application to the final loan payment. This ensures that the fledgling businesses succeed. When non-Christians receive loans, they understand that Christians are behind the work. They hear how God loves them so much, that He cares about their immediate needs as well as their eternal destiny.

www.opportunity.org

Partners International

Serving God’s Servants in the Hard Places

Partners International is a global ministry that works to create and grow communities of Christian witness in partnership with God's people in the least Christian regions of the world.

Since 1943 when Partners began working with Christians in China, they pioneered the innovative approach of partnering with indigenous Christian ministries. They continue to identify strategic ministries and then provide the resources to strengthen and grow their work. They share a common goal with all our partners: starting churches where none exist.

Our partners are local Christians who already have a vision. They are passionate about sharing God's love with their own people and with nearby unreached people groups. They speak the language. They understand the culture. They rarely need a visa. They live at the same economic level as the people they serve. They work against all odds, often risking persecution, imprisonment, and even death.

We are their partners.

www.partnersintl.org

Salvation Army

Improving the health, economics, and spiritual conditions
of the poor throughout the world

The Salvation Army’s message is based on the Bible; its motivation is the love of God as revealed through Jesus Christ. Its mission is to proclaim His gospel, to persuade men and women to become His disciples, and to engage in a program of practical concern for the needs of humanity. Its ministry is offered to all, regardless of race, creed, color, or ethic origin.

Internationally, The Salvation Army works in over 100 countries using more 140 languages. There are over 14,000 Corps as well as a wide range of social, medical, educational and other community services.

The military style of The Salvation Army proved to be a most effective stimulant to the progress of the Army's work in the fight against evil.

www.salvationarmy.org

Walk Thru the Bible

Contributing to the Spiritual Growth of Christians Worldwide

Training is greatly needed around the world.

Walk Thru the Bible believes that God is directing them to impact countries through teaching the Bible for lasting lifechange and making disciples through the Walk Thru the Bible: International program. Walk Thru the Bible: International is a 15-year strategy that will only be accomplished through the grace of God as well as dedicated alliances and partnerships. Walk Thru the Bible: International’s strategy is to find pastors and church planters who already have an effective ministry and show them how Walk Thru the Bible can make their ministry more effective.

Walk Thru the Bible: International has been implementing this program since January 1998, and God has blessed amazingly! At the end of the first year, 1998, Walk Thru the Bible: International had 731 teachers in three countries. At the end of 1999, there were 2,522 teachers in 17 countries. As of the end of 2000, Walk Thru the Bible: International had 8,178 teachers in 38 countries who taught 14,287 Bible course to 415,567 people. There were 20,667 salvation decisions and 194,747 other decisions of significant lifechange.

As of right now, Walk Thru the Bible: International has over 12,000 teachers…

And this is just the beginning.

www.walkthru.org

Word of Life Hungary

Holding Forth the Word of Life in Hungary

Since the 1940's Word of Life International Ministries has effectively targeted youth with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Word of Life is strategically located in over 41 countries, which span six continents. The primary focus is the evangelization and discipleship of young men and women through Bible Clubs, Christian camping, evangelistic crusades, radio and Bible Institutes.

Word of Life Hungary was established in 1989 after many years of an unfavorable political climate towards the ministry. Finally, an agreement was made that the government would lease a 78-acre castle property to Word of Life, under the condition that they would provide free summer camp for the children of the Hungarian trade union. The same facility that had once been used during the communist era to teach atheistic values would now be used to proclaim the Word of God… even before the fall of communism in Hungary!

Word of Life focuses on the Bible Institute during the school year, and the camp ministry during the summer. Word of Life Hungary greatly depends on church volunteers from America to staff the camp as short-term English teachers on a weekly basis for the summer camp ministry. These ministries reach thousands of young Hungarians each year with the Gospel.