Outreach Projects

Learning Center Vocational Training:

School is to start in September 2011 … we need more workers, but are moving forward in faith.

Building:

We are currently working on several building projects including a children's home, medical center, finishing the existing buildings, and staff housing. We pray that God will send helpers to accomplish this huge task.

Eating Center

Clinic:

We don’t actually have a clinic – it is just the people from the villages coming to our porch for help. It serves as an entering wedge to the people’s hearts. The need is so very great. Maria is heading the work on the porch, with help from the older students, who are going through her training program. They are doing extremely well.

Outreach:

We have a vision for the mountains of this border region, both in Burma and in Thailand – for teams of young (not necessarily) medical missionaries stationed in many places, using this place as a recharging, refueling station. Maria is our first medic working in the mountains, read about her experience on her BlogSpot which you can find in Links.

Gardening:

This project is for the feeding of the children, to give them a chance to work with their hands, being industrious. It cuts down on our food bills and helps the children to be able to provide food for their own families in the future.

Orchard:

We are very blessed with a property that already had an established lime orchard with many other fruit trees like – mango, jack fruit, pomelo, lychee and bananas. One of our projects is to plant about 200 papaya trees. Another project is to make the lime orchard produce heavily, once a year, for harvest and support of the children’s home.

Food4Poor:

How to organize and make this ministry what God would have it to be, this is a constant challenge that we daily face. Who do we help? Who is truly needy? How do we help them to help themselves? To not become dependent? The poverty is so widespread that this is becoming more and more of a struggle. The Karen are, by nature, not like many other people groups aggressively asking for handouts or begging – but as the word has gone out that we sometimes offer help for those in need, there are those that come for help, others we find by mingling with the people.

Because of impoverished diets and poor lifestyle habits there are many women who aren’t able to produce milk for their babies, others are not able due to health problems or complications in child birth. We carefully try to discern who is truly in need for baby formula – we find ourselves giving out a fair amount, even though we try to screen them carefully.