Engineering Ministries International Canada
2017 Annual Report
Who We Are EMI is a network of Christian design professionals who impact communities through developing people, designing structures, and constructing facilities. These facilities, which include hospitals, orphanages, schools, clean water projects and more, serve communities and the church by meeting physical needs and communicating God’s love in a practical way. Our Vision: People restored by God and the world restored through design. Our Mission: To develop people, design structures, and construct facilities which serve communities and the Church.
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Core Values EMI revolves around the person of Jesus and serves the global Church to glorify God through: Design: EMI works within the local context to design and construct culturally-appropriate facilities that are sustainable, affordable, and transformational. Discipleship: EMI develops people spiritually and professionally through intentional discipleship and mentoring. Diversity: EMI builds the Church by connecting people of diverse backgrounds, abilities, and ethnicities to demonstrate our love for God, our love for the nations, and the unity we share in Christ.
Photo: Brett (right), a representative of an EMI client ministry, enjoys the view from the new site with EMI team members (B. Swab)
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EMI Canada Executive Director, Greg Young, works on sketches for a secondary school in Rwanda (B. Swab)
Message from the Executive Director Clarity of vision 2017 was a milestone year for EMI Canada. We marked the 15-year anniversary of our office and became the fourth of now eleven EMI offices around the world. We reflected on who we are as an organization in order to rebrand and clarify our vision for the future. Looking back at the past 15 years, it’s clear that the world has changed dramatically. EMI is an organization with an international mission. Spheres such as missionary endeavours, international development, and geo-politics constantly influence and shift what we do and how we do it. Through our close partnership with the EMI Global Office and EMI offices around the world, EMI Canada has matured in our understanding and response to all these circumstances. With this backdrop, I’m excited to share our 2017 Annual Report and show you the impact God has brought through your partnership with EMI and how He has positioned us going forward.
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Living the Why in 2017 2017 also marked my own 12th year on staff and the 16th year since my first EMI project as a volunteer. Throughout those years, my energy and passion for the EMI core values of Design, Discipleship, and Diversity have undeniably come from the Lord (Matthew 25:34-45). But everyday, I’m inspired by our people; our volunteers, our interns, our staff, the ministry leaders we serve, those impacted by the ministries we serve, and you! So, while this report contains our “how” - a diverse range of design, training, and physical construction - these are just our tools. Impacting people in a positive way, whether it’s those who partner with us or those who receive our services, will always be our “why”. In “Our Activities”, you will see how EMI Canada reached out to impact people in new and diverse ways in 2017. Our projects ranged from elementary and boarding schools in Argentina and Rwanda, to a medical training facility in Haiti, to a centre reaching out to former child soldiers in Uganda. In “Our Continuing Partnerships”, you will meet a few of the people impacted by the EMI Canada-initiated and underwritten Survey Practicum program. Through your partnership, God has blessed this exciting program and exceeded all of the expectations we had when it was started six years ago.
Stepping forward into tomorrow As we start looking towards the future, EMI Canada is working to develop an operational model that is both sustainable and leverages every hour of time and every dollar we are entrusted with. As a part of this, we are excited about the establishment of the EMI Canada Endowment Fund in 2017. You will read more about this in the section titled “Our Endowment Fund”. Over this past year, I have been so thankful for each and every partner in our ministry. Thank you for your faithfulness and generosity, both of which are invaluable to us. Together, we are truly designing a world of hope.
Greg Young Executive Director EMI Canada
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Our Activities Timeline of 2017
February 10 - 20 ARGENTINA (Mercedes) Project Legacy of Love Pre-school
February 2 - 4 MissionFest Manitoba
May 22 - June 4 RWANDA (Kigali) Africa Harvest Mission Secondary School
March 23 - 25 Jesus to the Nations, Halifax
February 23 - 25 Missions Fest Edmonton January 27 - 29 Missions Fest Vancouver May 28 Calgary Marathon April 28 - May 13 UGANDA (Mukono) Uganda Christian University Survey Practicum
Legend Project Conference Fundraiser
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September 9 - 17 HAITI (Léogane) Medical Benevolence Foundation Medical Training Facility
May 31 - June 13 UGANDA (Gulu) World Embrace Champion Centre September 18 - 20 EMI Director’s Conference Managua, Nicaragua
October 19 - 21 EMI Network Conference Colorado Springs, CO
November 4 Dessert Evening & Silent Auction
June 24 - August 19 UGANDA (Kajjansi) EMI Uganda Survey Practicum
45 Volunteers 8 Interns
September 30 Ride For Refuge
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4500 Hours of professional services volunteered
Our Staff
Mobilizing professionals around the world EMI Canada mobilizes full-time, faith-supported staff with various professional design backgrounds to work from our home office in Calgary, Alberta as well as other EMI offices around the world. They recruit and lead design professional volunteers and interns in shortterm mission opportunities to countries where professional-level design is unavailable or inaccessible. The map below indicates where full-time EMI Canada staff, as well as our engineering and architecture interns from Canadian universities, served in 2017.
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Staff
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Full-Time Staff Student Interns
15,000 19
Staff Hours
Projects led and supported
Interns
Canada
1
Intern
USA
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1
Staff
2
Staff
1
Staff
Interns
Nicaragua
Uganda
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Cambodia
Our Intern Program
Training students from around the world The EMI Canada office hosts university-level engineering and architecture interns from around the world. These interns are given an opportunity to travel, learn, and be mentored with project teams that serve international ministries during one of our 3 or 4-month terms each year.
In 2017...
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EMI Canada Interns
representing
Served on...
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EMI Canada gaining over Projects Argentina Rwanda Uganda Haiti
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Countries Canada USA Germany
3,000
and
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Universities
University of Manitoba Virginia Polytechnic Berlin Technical University McGill University University of Alberta University of British Columbia
hours of highquality professional experience EMI Canada intern Jim (left) and volunteer Dan walk with some students at the Bright Future School in Rwanda (B. Swab)
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Your Partnership with EMI Canada Multiplying to achieve great impact We believe that God uses multiplication to achieve great impact. A well-known example of this is found in the Bible (Matthew 14:13-21). In this story, Jesus received a seemingly small contribution of food from a generous young boy, and used it to feed five thousand men, plus women and children. Through EMI, each $1 donated mobilizes over $13 worth of professional design services. These services are provided to client ministries in countries and circumstances where professional design is either not available or not accessible. What’s more, the ministries EMI serves can operate with an increased capacity as a result of engaging EMI. This means that their impact on their communities will multiply further because of your generous gift.
$1
donated to the EMI Fund
delivers
$3.15
and
worth of professional design services through project trip volunteers
totalling
$10.56 worth of
professional design services through project staff
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$13.72 worth of
professional design services.
EMI Canada Endowment Fund
A building block toward long term sustainability In 2017, the EMI Canada Endowment Fund was established through the Vancouver Foundation with a generous gift from the Jack Gin Family Foundation. We are excited by the prospect of these funds growing and contributing annually to EMI Canada in perpetuity, allowing us to continue establishing and backstopping programs like the EMI Survey Practicum. Through our partnership with the Vancouver Foundation, EMI Canada can accept new types of donations such as publicly-traded securities, RRSPs, RRIFs, TFSAs, life insurance, and bequests. Visit www.vancouverfoundation.ca/emicanada for more information and discover why the Endowment Fund model works and will enable EMI Canada to focus on what it does best partnering with you to design a world of hope.
Haiti ARISE Elementary School, designed by EMI Canada in 2011 (Haiti ARISE Ministries)
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Our Finances
Where our funds come from
Project Fund $125,683 (14%)
Staff Fund $575,292 (64%)
Intern Fund $80,226 (9%)
Total Revenue $897,962
General Fund $92,927 (10%) Other $23,834 (3%)
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How our funds are spent Internship Program $33,285 (4%) Project Travel $204,393 (24%) Staff Fund $503,284 (58%)
Total Expenses $867,331 Office & Administration $87,125 (10%)
Rent $39,244 (5%) Nicaragua (10%)
Conferences & Events (13%)
Cambodia (10%)
General Administration (27%)
Office & Administration
Staff Fund
Uganda (31%)
Staff Development (4%)
Canada (49%)
Fundraising & Promotion (34%)
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Professional Fees (22%)
Patrick Cochrane, Survey Practicum Lead, with students conducting field work in Uganda (P. Cochrane))
Our Continuing Partnerships The EMI Survey Practicum
Since its inception in 1982, EMI has established a storyline of coming alongside ministries to provide them with professional-level building and infrastructure design. While this remains our core competency, we have recently added a new storyline - one which merges professional training with personal discipleship in a program that embraces a diversity of nationalities, educational institutions, and genders. This year was the EMI Survey Practicum’s sixth. It began in 2012 as a response to a need for practical, hands-on land survey training for geomatics engineering students in Uganda. With the backing of EMI Canada, Patrick Cochrane - a long-time EMI Canada volunteer and former Board member - founded the program. Patrick’s goal was to improve on the low amount of practical experience that Ugandan students were receiving during their four-year degrees. On average, these students were getting less than 50 hours of hands-on experience with survey eqiupment, compared to North American students, who often receive hundreds of hours. Equally important, Patrick wanted to go beyond job training to encourage the students to become people and professionals of integrity. “Before, I wasn’t conversant with the machines, I wasn’t confident at all. But, when I joined EMI I was able to use the machines, and now I can say I am confident and well conversant with them, thanks to EMI.“ Jumanywal Peace
Survey Practicum Student, 2014
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Beyond training to discipleship According to Jaimee Sekanjeko, an EMI Canada civil engineer serving with EMI Uganda and overseer of the Survey Practicum, the program now partners with four Ugandan universities. It continues to provide practical training on survey equipment, software, field procedures, and healthy team dynamics. Patrick has reported that through mentoring, Bible study, devotionals, and actions focusing on the principles in the EMI Discipleship Design Guide, the program continues to build capacity in Ugandan surveyors, promote professional integrity, and share the good news of Christ with its trainees.
From student to intern, volunteer, and teacher The cycle of partnership includes former students. One example of this is Martin, a graduate of the 2014 Survey Practicum. After completing the program, Martin’s next step was to intern with EMI. Then, in partnership with other former practicum students, he started his own successful surveying business, even giving back by volunteering as a surveyor with an EMI team in Malawi. He remains close to EMI and returns every summer to volunteer his time in teaching and mentoring the next generation of professionals.
Ludaga Martin
Victor becomes a program manager Upon completing the Survey Practicum in 2015, Victor was hired as a surveyor with a local consulting company. In late 2017, when EMI sought to bring a local professional on staff to help manage the Survey Practicum, Victor came to mind as an excellent candidate, as he was remembered for his willingness to learn and to go the extra mile. He joined EMI staff in March of 2018, testifying that “with EMI I have learnt the importance of integrity and how every little thing matters, for every action is an opportunity to glorify God”.
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Muhumuza Victor
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Cover Photo: Aquila comforts her younger brother, Carley, at the ARISE Children’s Village, which was designed by EMI in 2011. (B. Swab)