Transformational Projects

GIFT #25 – TRANSFORM AN IMPOVERISHED VILLAGE IN MYANMAR

All day women and children line up at one of several hand-dug wells scattered along the outskirts of Aung Chan Thar, awaiting their turn to fetch water. Many wait long into the night, especially during the dry season when some of the wells run dry and others produce only 20 liters of water per day. “The water supply is the biggest problem in the village,” one of the older women told ASAP’s field supervisor during a recent visit. But access to clean water is not the only problem in this settlement, where day laborers have flocked to work on the new plantations nearby. There also aren’t any churches or schools in the village. Moved with compassion, the leaders of the Ayeyarwady Mission have asked ASAP to help open a wholistic ministry serving the poor families living in the settlement. A young church planter and his family have already agreed to move there. Now, they are awaiting funding to renovate a building for a house

church and construct a proper well for the villagers. Your gift can be the catalyst for this transformational project! $150 per month for the church planter’s stipend, travel, and supplies $1,655 to build a well $5,005 to renovate a building for a house church $8,460 to fund the entire project for one year (any amount appreciated)

GIFT #26 – TRANSFORM THAI LAYPEOPLE INTO TENTMAKER MISSIONARIES

As travel restrictions begin to lift in Thailand, preparations are underway for the next cohort of students to arrive at ASAP’s tentmaker missionary training center in Ayutthaya. Thanks to the generosity of ASAP donors, renovations to the property have begun. The addition of prefabricated bungalows will increase student housing capacity, while a new multipurpose building will house the kitchen facilities and space for small engine repair classes. Combined with vocational instruction, a revised and expanded spiritual training curriculum will empower Adventist laypeople to become self-supporting missionaries to the 61 million unreached people in Thailand. $185 per month to provide food and health insurance for one trainee (20 needed) $3,000 to cover the salary of a vocational trainer (2 needed) $8,004 to supply spiritual training materials and equipment for vocational training $58,494 to fund the entire project for one year (any amount appreciated)

GIFT #27 – BE A CHANGE AGENT FOR KATELAY

The village of Katelay in Myanmar is so remote it takes three hours to travel over rugged, mountainous terrain to reach the nearest neighboring village. During the rainy season Katelay is completely cut off from all outside access due to river flooding conditions. Its remote location has isolated the residents from access to education and economic opportunities, leaving them destitute and illiterate. Originally founded by displaced Karen refugees fleeing persecution from Burmese military forces, its current residents are Karen animists, Christians, and Buddhists. Your gift to Katelay will provide a new school, two teachers, a Bible worker, and the opportunity to hear the three angels’ messages. $120 per month/$1,440 per year to send a teacher to Katelay (2 needed) $150 per month/$1,800 per year to send a church planter to Katelay $405 to provide textbooks, classroom equipment and supplies $6,085 to fund the entire project (any amount appreciated)

“During the rainy season Katelay is completely cut off from all outside access... Its remote location has isolated the residents from access to education and economic opportunities...”

GIFT #28 – START AN AGRICULTURAL PROJECT TO SUSTAIN ASAP MISSIONARIES

Elephant foot yams are large circular tubers with a flesh similar to a sweet potato or yam. At full size the vegetable can be up to a foot in diameter and weigh several pounds! These qualities make it an ideal cash crop, especially since they can be grown and propagated in large quantities. Adventist leaders in Thailand plan to develop a large plot of land where they can cultivate the yams as well as other fruits and vegetables. This sustainable source of income will support teachers, church planters, and medical missionaries serving displaced families from Myanmar. $1.50 per unit of seed yams (5,000 units needed) $600 for water supply and storage $2,500 for a tractor $79,970 to fund the entire project, including land (any amount appreciated)

GIFT #29 – EMPOWER SELF-SUPPORTING MISSIONARIES IN A COMMUNIST COUNTRY

In a communist country with barely 2,000 Adventists, nearly 400 people have been baptized into the church in the past year alone! Several of those baptisms took place at the Living Water Vocational Training Center, where Adventist young people are learning organic farming techniques while receiving spiritual training and conducting outreach in a nearby village. A satellite program in the city offers barber training, as well. Imagine the impact as more students graduate from the training center each year and spread out across the country, serving as tentmaker missionaries in unreached villages! $150 to cover a student’s room and board for one month (12 needed) $15,252 to provide training equipment, supplies, and curriculum $48,772 to fund the entire project for one year (any amount appreciated)

GIFT #30 – HELP THE MARGINALIZED BECOME MISSIONARIES

What feeds your soul spiritually? Is it the Bible, 3ABN, AudioVerse, camp meetings, ASI conventions, GYC, inspirational podcasts, videos, or books? Most of you reading this would probably answer ALL OF THE ABOVE! If you asked this question to an ASAP missionary, their first answer, of course, would be the Bible. But right up there would be ASAP training events, their lifeline. At these events they pray together, grow in their abilities to share their faith, and newer Christians with Buddhist backgrounds become solid in their beliefs. One training costs an average of $200 per worker. Will you send a worker to training today? $200 to send one worker to an ASAP training $138,800 to send every ASAP worker to training this year (any amount appreciated)

“The world needs today what it needed nineteen hundred years ago—a revelation of Christ. A great work of reform is demanded, and it is only through the grace of Christ that the work of restoration, physical, mental, and spiritual, can be accomplished” (The Ministry of Healing, p. 143).

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