Global Missions Projects

Of the giving to the general fund in 2007, $5,500 will help support the following projects selected by the Global Missions Committee. Giving beyond what is in the church budget (called second-mile giving) supports other projects such as Heifer International and the South African Soup Kitchen. Second-mile giving to global missions projects is consistently about $25,000/year.

Missionary Dee Dee Heffner - ($2,500/year)

Dee Dee teaches English, drama, and speech at McCurdy High School in Espanola, New Mexico. McCurdy provides a strong Christian family environment, and for some young people, the school is the most cohesive and stable force in their lives. For quite a few of the students, they are the only ones in their families not using heroin (the county in which McCurdy is located has the highest death rate in the U.S. for heroin-related overdoses).

Missionary Gaston Ntambo - ($1,000/year)

Gaston is a pilot and mechanic with Wings of the Morning flight ministry in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This ministry transports pastors, evangelists, church leaders, and critically ill patients in isolated areas often inaccessible by land. The ministry has saved countless lives through the delivery of vaccines and medical supplies, as well as by providing transport for doctors and nurses covering over 60 clinics and two hospitals.

U.M.C. Women’s Training Center in Monrovia, Liberia - ($1000)

The Women’s Training Center was founded for the purpose of educating women and training them in skills that would help them to become self-supporting, wage-earning citizens in post-war Liberia. Courses are taught in Food and Nutrition, Arts and Crafts, Tailoring, Pastry, Cosmetology and Basic Health Education. Currently there is a need to build a student hostel or dormitory for women who live too far away and who cannot afford rent in Monrovia to attend. Church of the Master has budged $1000.00 per year to this project, and will be doing additional fund-raising to help this dream come to realization.

Grace Children's Hospital / International Childcare - ($1,000/year)

Grace Children's Hospital is Haiti's leading curative and preventative treatment center for children and families suffering from tuberculosis (TB). The hospital includes a 72-bed pediatric in-patient facility as well as mobile out-patient clinics that treat 4,000 patients monthly. Preventative services are also offered, ranging from immunizations, vitamin A distribution, nutritional counseling, growth monitoring, pre-natal care, and AIDS prevention and support services. For more information, visit http://www.internationalchildcare.org/node/11.

El Porvenir Water Development Project - ($500/year)

An estimated 2.1 million people across the globe perish every year for want of clean water. With the help of El Porvenir (http://elporvenir.org/), communities in rural Nicaragua can build covered, sanitary wells that will dramatically improve the life and health of an entire village. The wells are fitted with a low technology "rope pump" made in Nicaragua, which local residents can easily and cheaply repair. The wells are enclosed with a fence to keep out animals. El Porvenir provides the expertise and the materials; local villagers provide the labor and the long-term maintenance.