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HBI Staff Trip to Asia - Highlights of Ministry Support
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 India | Pastoral Training/Orphanage
HBI staff attended a three day worker conference in Chattisgarh with 50 senior leaders present. Each of the leaders has a mentoring relationship with anywhere from 50 to 500 pastors and missionaries, representing about 12,000 village churches. Through the work of these leaders and many others like them, the gospel is reaching thousands of Indian villages where no churches had existed. HBI provided bicycles for 21 of the workers, each of whom had connections to 50 churches or more. This simple gift makes it so much easier for them to travel from village to village spreading the good news of Jesus and encouraging and teaching the believers. More bicycles and motorcycles are needed for this ministry and others that we support. There is also a boys’ hostel on the property of about fifty boys from ages 5 to 16. HBI staff provided each boy with a new shirt and pair of pants as well as new sports equipment.
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 India | Orphanage
HBI staff made two day visit with Sheba Sunayana and Compassion for Orphans in Hyderabad. Sheba and her team care for close to 100 abandoned, abused and orphaned boys and girls on their four acre property on the outskirts of Hyderabad. As Sheba tells it, each of these children has a story of sadness that eventually brought them to her doorstep. Over the past seven years she has welcomed all who needed a loving home. Today CFO provides them with both a home and an education in an environment that lifts up the saving Name of Jesus and introduces all of them to his love. In addition, Sheba has hired a team of teachers and has official permission from the government to have a school on the property. The needs remain palpable. While we were able to provide them with a water buffalo and a female calf from which they will get milk to drink, support is strongly needed to provide them with a permanent wall to protect the property, funds to purchase a vehicle, a generator for power during the frequent power outages, equipment for farming the land and increased regular sponsorship support. We heartily endorse the work that Sheba is doing in Hyderabad.
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India | Orphanage
We first met Christopher Boda in 1997 and decided to support him. Today he has homes and schools for over 2000 children, 95% of whom are Banjara. Christopher oversees a nursing college and has started a 24/7 TV channel called Bible TV that broadcasts in almost every district of Andhra Pradesh. It reaches over 3 million homes in Hyderabad alone.
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Ten day trip to Nepal spent visiting villages where church buildings have been provided to our ministry partners there through our connection with International Cooperating Ministries. Our partners there are responsible for starting a Bible correspondence course that so far has been sent to 450,000 Nepalis. Through these seeds of the gospel, churches have grown up in village after village. We had the privilege of meeting and ministering to many of their top leaders. We had the joy of bringing funds for their widows’ work and for child sponsorships, for new computers and for general use besides being their church building connection. Their work is growing rapidly. They have a vision to have a training center in the southern part of Nepal where the ground is flatter and many of their churches are sprouting daughter fellowships.
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HBI Resources for the Christian Life
Lance Thollander
From the beginning of time God intended to have a deep communication with his beloved creation, a communication so personal that its end result would be the dispensing of God himself, through Christ, into you and me. To that end throughout Scripture, the Lord introduces us to wondrous truths, full of meaning and carrying an invitation to realms of experience found only in God himself...Read More.
Lance Thollander
If you are looking for a book that can restore your "first love" relationship with your Heavenly Father, that challenges the ways guilt has operated to short circuit faith, and that provides frequent invitations for the reader to stop and spend time in the presence of a liberating and loving God, Walking the Galatian Road, Moving from Law to Life is the book for you. Read more.
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Further Giving Opportunities
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| Introducing Manara International
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Nearly every Christian in Jordan has been through Camp Gideon. Eighty percent of the campers are unbelievers! Sponsor a Jordanian child, or a refugee of Iraq, Syria or Egypt for $20. Put a Bible in their hands for just $3 more. Launch a revolution of love!
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Hope for Haiti? Cebien Alexis says Yes!
Haiti | Social Work
Cebien Alexis has created an 18 month program, in which students will learn animal husbandry, high yield farming and how to maximize natural resources. Each student will be provided with a small loan to enable them to start their own business. This program offers hope for Haitian young men and women and their nation. $900 covers the 18 month program cost. We are looking for 20 sponsors who will commit to $50 per month for the 18 month program. Is there hope for Haiti? With such programs in place, the clear answer is YES!
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