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Causes: Emergency Assistance, Human Services
Mission: Organizes and recruits individuals from around the country to participate in mission and humanitarian endeavors around the world
Programs: All of the expenses from the new mexico fund were used in some way to support our mission trip to the navajo reservation in new mexico and arizona. This year there were 12 volunteers who participated in the mission trip. We collected shoeboxes and blankets from churches and individuals and carried them to the navajo reservation where we gave them to children in schools and day care centers we would visit during the day, and churches we would hold services in each night. This week-long mission trip is one of the highlights for our mission organization each year. We passed out approximately 1750 shoeboxes and about 1150 blankets. 300. 00 was spent on materials to pack into around 30 of the shoeboxes. 763. 96 was spent on fleece blankets that were given to the children. 694. 00 was spent on fuel for the mission trip to new mexico. 553. 51 was spent on lodging for the mission trip to new mexico.
2,465. 00 was spent as a monthly support. 1,120. 00 of this support went to our pastor, peter fungulani and emily fungulani, the teacher at our school, maranatha open door elementary. 865. 00 of this monthly support was used to buy food to feed the children who attend our school. 480. 00 of this monthly support paid for 3 part-time aides for the school. 650. 00 was sent to malawi to buy corn for the people of m'gona, who suffered from severe drought in 2016 and 2017 and were not able to raise any crops for their village. 1,260. 00 was spent of bible in the chichewa language, which we passed out to pastors and church leaders in malawi and mozambique. 1,095. 05 was spent on school uniforms for the children who attended maranatha open door elementary school in the 2016-2017 school year. 6,321. 00 was spent on airfare for 3 people to travel to malawi on a mission trip in july of 2017. 724. 02 was spent of hotel rooms for 2 nights in blantyre, malawi. 5000. 00 cash was taken to malawi in july 2017 for our mission trip. This cash was used to pay for lodging in d'wangwa for 5 nights, food to feed the pastors and wives who attended the three-day pastor's conference we held in m'gona, malawi, a rental truck, diesel fuel for the truck, and a driver. 450. 00 of the 5000. 00 was spent on 150 queen size blankets that were passed out to the orphans and widows who live in the rural village of m'gona. 606. 72 was spent on 14 audio new testaments. As you can see most the expenditures for the malawi fund during 2017 were used for the mission trip we sponsored in 2017. Three people went to malawi and spent 6 days there. During those six days, we held a three-day conference for the pastors in the tengani, malawi area. Many of the pastors who attended the pastors conference traveled from mozambique. We averaged 105 pastors each day of our conference. We also preached the gospel of jesus christ in at least one other village while in malawi. Several hundred malawians were presented the gospel message with many of them coming to know jesus christ and their personal lord, master, and savior.
1100. 00 was spent on electrical supplies, plumbing supplies, and tools to make improvements on the land we own in kenya. 957. 00 was spent on bibles and other resource materials that were distributed to pastors who attended a pastors' conference. 1500. 00 was given to the kenyan pastor we support as salary and christmas bonus. In june, a team from gracepoint church of portland, tx accompanied blake and michelle northam on a trip into kenya. During this trip 126 kenyans came to know jesus christ as their personal lord, master, and savior.
3700. 00 was sent to ukraine to support our pastor, serge dolya, and emmanuel baptist church, in lugansk, ukraine, as they provide physical relief and spriritual guidance to the ukranians living in the lugansk region of ukraine. 2000. 00 was donated to a pastor in the anahuac, texas area to help he and his family recover after going through some hard times. 10,000. 00 was donated to the texas baptist men's ministry to help with the flood recovery in the houston area which was devasted during hurricane harvey. 10,000. 00 was internally transferred into the ukraine fund in december of 2017 to help in the ongoing support of emmanuel baptist church, which we planted several years ago in lugansk, ukraine. 22,225. 00 was donated to new covenant fellowship church, which is a newly formed hispanic church in anahuac, texas, in december of 2017. This closes out the church planting fund, which was started in 2016, until such a time that god may lay it on the hearts of the board members of open door missions to start another church planting fund.