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Mission: International ministry joining christian believers with global indigenous pastors, assisting them in their god-given gospel missions 'sharing the love of jesus around the world. ' we do this through equipping and supporting indigenous workers, and sending missionaries in poor countries where the needs are greatest and we can find opportunities for the gospel great commission work of our lord jesus. We support the needs of these ministers to serve the poor and needy among them demonstrating the love of god for all people, and to build up goodness among all and bring the truth and hope of jesus christ found in his salvation.
Programs: #1 in terms of our ministry investments this past year has been to the people of kenya. With over $141k in total expenditures on program services, about-face missions has been lead by the lord to reach more people in need with spiritual and physical help in that country primarily due to our ministry focus to build a more complete and long lasting orphanage and discipleship base for the gospel of christ with the boots on the ground leadership of our bys family missionaries. They now head up and live there helping us find the appropriate needs, reduce corruption and fulfill our mission objectives to reach more people with the compassion and love of christ through taking in the most needy and helping others who have no one to look out for them, and training the locals how to better follow god biblically in loving others. In terms of dollars spent, kenya ministries subdivided as follows: mercy children's home $92,536 ; jfm church ministries including mercy school operations $33, 916; tino maasai ministries $11,325; samson orphan ministries $3,769
#1 in terms of investments. Jim ball discipleship ministry. Afm supports and facilitates jim's funding of his mission to reach the unreached people groups with the gospel of jesus through his activities of missionary work in asia as well as teach and promote reproducible discipleship training here in the usa to help others grow the church biblically in north america also. These expenses represent his income and costs of carrying out his missionary work over the past year of 2017 including mission trip costs.
#3 in ministry focus based on investments is in the country of nepal. Pastor ram bahudur ministry in nepal is one of our regular ministers who we support monthly for his christian mission outreaches and for his work among the poor and needy and is our largest nepal outreach. Through ram we elected to begin construction on an orphanage home to help him raise and support more orphans from the 8 he now has to take in a couple dozen needy children. This ministry cost has been one of our largest projects this past 3 years as we work to complete the home and get it fully operational. The home generates no income, but it a total charity mission of about-face missions to the poor and needy of nepal and the local body of christians that meet there. We invested $14,346 into ram's ministry. Second in nepal is our support of mftn ministry led by pastor ruben for the personal support of 4 of his local indigenous missionary pastors at the 2017 investment of $2789