All Projects
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Where Needed Most
Your donation will go to where the need is greatest at the time, as well as enabling Jesus for Asia to continue to provide support for all its projects. By giving to "Where Needed Most," you make sure no project gets left behind.
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24/7 United Prayer
24/7 United Prayer is a ministry that has started a global prayer initiative seeking to promote revival. Brothers and sisters from around the world are daily uniting in prayer via Zoom.
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Audio Bibles
We all know what a blessing the Bible is for those who can read God’s Word. But what about all those who never learned to read or are blind? How can they be built up in the faith? The answer lies in today’s technology. Cheap MP3 players with audio Bible recordings in local languages do more to build up the church in poor places than almost anything!
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Aviation for Indonesia
Airplanes are the best way to make the small Gospel workforce effective in covering and managing the work in large areas covered in mountains and forests.
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Bangladesh Schools
In rural farming communities in Bangladesh, children as young as ten often help their parents work in the fields to help support their families. Many of these kids have few education opportunities, and few have enough to eat every day. Jesus for Asia opened a day school in Bangladesh to help kids in one of these communities and share Jesus with them.
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Bangladesh Student Scholarships
Help students in Bangladesh continue their Adventist Education. Our school in Bangladesh is only able to offer classes through fifth grade. Some fifth-grade students at the school have expressed a desire to continue going to a school
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Bible Workers: Bangladesh
Bible Workers in Bangladesh face many difficulties in sharing the Gospel; they have to use creative ways like education and medical missionary work to build relationships and share Jesus…
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Bible Workers: Cambodia
More than 95% of Cambodia’s almost 17 million people have not had the opportunity to hear the Gospel. The majority of Cambodians are Buddhists with ties to animism.
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Bible Workers: India
Bible Workers are invaluable in reaching the many thousands of towns and villages across India. Because they already speak the language and understand the culture, these dedicated workers meet the people on their level. They travel to villages, pray with the people, provide Bible studies, and develop faith-filled groups of believers that stay committed long-term.
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Bible Workers: Indonesia
Indonesia has over 17,000 islands and 1,340 ethnic groups. While the church is flourishing in 2 of those ethnic groups, the remaining are largely untouched by the Three Angels’ Message. There is an immense need for workers who can bring the message of light to these dark places, and the people who are best suited for this task are the believers who are already there, who speak the language and live among the people.
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Bible Workers: Malaysia
Malaysia is a largely unreached country that is very difficult to work in Due to anti-conversion laws. Still, the brave graduates of the SALT training program work faithfully to share Jesus with others. This program is conducted near Kuala Lumpur, where they learn how to study the Bible, pray, and share their faith.
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Bible Workers: Philippines
Bible Workers are invaluable in reaching the many towns and villages in the Philippines. Being able to speak the language and already understanding the culture, these dedicated workers meet the people on their level. They travel to villages and pray with the people, provide Bible studies, and develop committed groups of believers that stay committed long term.
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Bible Workers: Thailand
Thailand is a majority Buddhist country. Most Thai people actually associate being Thai with being Buddhist. Our Bible Workers in Thailand work with our other missionaries to minister to the towns, villages, and cities where they serve. Because they deeply understand local languages and customs, these Bible Workers enhance the effectiveness of the missionaries’ efforts. Their witness helps to show that following Jesus is not just for Westerners.
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Bible Workers: Sensitive Countries
Bible Workers in closed countries often face threats to their lives and safety, yet through the power of the Holy Spirit, they are faithfully spreading the love of Jesus…
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Bible Worker Training
Many of our Bible Workers have a strong heart for Jesus and a desire to serve Him but need Bible training. With so few pastors in the work force compared to the number of people that need nurturing these simple but wonderful workers are often…
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Bibles and Literature for Asia
Asia is where the least reached peoples of the world are living. Many do not have access to the Gospel. There is no Christian bookstore on the corner, and there are no Bibles in the local stores. This fund allows Bible workers in various countries to give Bibles to baptismal candidates so they can read the Word in their own language.
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Bicycles for Bible Workers
Many of our Bible Workers, especially in the North, find transportation extremely difficult due to the high cost and irregular public transportation in the rural districts. Each bicycle costs approximately $100.
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Border Light
With many internally displaced persons, there are many needs on the border between Thailand and Burma. The “Border Light” project, with Harvey and Brenda Steck, is working to alleviate these needs through humanitarian and Gospel projects.
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Butterfly Paradise
Wat Preah Yesu (Tim and Wendy Maddocks) is located in one of the most touristed spots in Asia. God gave Tim a vision to build the Butterfly Aviary to stand as a compelling witness to the tourists that come from many countries all around the world. Instead of selling the property for millions, they are building it into a witnessing tool for Christ.
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Cambodia Boarding Academy
Imagine having to choose between finishing High School and following Jesus. This is a problem many young Cambodian Adventists face. We are partnering with the Cambodia Adventist mission to build a school…
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Cambodia Teacher Training
We are building a boarding academy in Cambodia to give young people the opportunity to get a quality education in a Christ-centered environment. Cambodia does not have enough Adventist teachers, so we are training our own!
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Church Buildings
Churches are a powerful evangelistic tool. If new believers in Asia have no church in their area, they sometimes give up and scatter. Building churches can help establish the work our Bible Workers have
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Church Plant in Kuala Lumpur
This is to renovate an existing space for a congregation to meet as a church in downtown Kuala Lumpur.
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Community Art & Health for Sensitive Countries
Community mural paintings and health expos utilizing young people in countries that restrict Christian outreach.
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Community Outreach for Indonesia
The Tengkanos’ property in the country is near a poor village. They have been reaching out to the villagers in various ways to provide assistance and build meaningful relationships with them. Some avenues they have used to do this are offering free health and dental care and opening a barbershop. They are also planning to start a music school to teach young people a type of traditional Indonesian instrument.
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Eden Blossoms
Johnny* and Jochebed* live in a country in southern Asia training children and youth to work as missionaries and spiritual leaders to their own people. They work alongside local church leadership to develop systems of child evangelism and spiritual training, which has previously been almost non-existent in this region.
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Emerald Hill School
The Emerald Hill School offers elementary, middle, and high school classes. They provide traditional courses such as reading, writing, and math with a strong spiritual emphasis. They teach the value of the Scriptures in their morning and evening worships, where they read the Bible together. They also teach the health message and other lessons from the Spirit of Prophecy.
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ESL Projects - Bob Clayton
Bob is starting a project in Central Asia, by serving in a new ESL Project and at a Seminary as an English teacher.
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Evening Schools
Evening Schools provide education and nourishing meals for children in poverty-stricken situations. These schools operate in the evenings and are a much needed resource to help these children gain a better education…
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FaithCamp
FaithCamp is where the Great Commission is embraced, and encouraged. It is where you can hear the experiences of missionaries and mission advocates, and get inspired to be involved in God’s work; a launching pad. There have been more than 25…
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Gayle's Jungle Mission
Gayle Haberkam is a missionary nurse in the jungles of Thailand. Although she originally planned to stay in Thailand for three months, she fell in love with the Karen people and has served them there ever since. As Gayle cares for the people’s physical needs, she teaches them about the One who can fulfill their spiritual needs.
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GoBeDo Missions
GoBeDo is training Bible Workers to share the truth about Jesus in the mountainous villages of the Philippine island of Mindanao. They have also developed a mission outpost and built a radio station that broadcasts…
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Health & Life
This project is working to bring a knowledge of health and healthy living to a people group who have very little access to this kind of life giving information.
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Health Retreat for Indonesia
Many of the people began asking the Tengkanos why they chose their new way of living and how they were doing so well. These questions inspired the Tengkanos to create a health retreat center on their property in the country. At the center, people from the city could come to rest or exercise in nature, learn more about health, and learn how to find the purpose and meaning in life that the Tengkanos have found.
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Howell Family Project
Lloyd and Natalie Howell, with their younger daughter Alysa, have been working with the Cambodia Adventist Mission to build a primary school and boarding academy, which are desperate needs for the fledgling Cambodian Adventist Church. They are also helping to train teachers who will work at the academy when it is finished.
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Humanitarian
Jesus exemplified reaching out to those in need. Through this fund, Jesus for Asia seeks to follow His example. Gifts will be used for disaster relief, blanket distribution, food distribution, and other humanitarian projects.
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iEAT
The Institute of East Asia Training, with Eugene and Heidi Prewitt, serves budding missionaries from the countries of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Singapore, and Malaysia. These young people are trained in the arts of winning hearts, selling books, teaching doctrines, planting congregations, and reaching unreached groups. Extensions of the iEAT program that serve in Indonesia are listed as a separate project.
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iEAT.ex
The Institute of East Asia Training Extension equips and develops self-supporting missionaries for South East Asian countries. Here, they are trained to reach people through teaching, preaching, and holistic healing.
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India Day Schools
India Day Schools have a great capacity to witness for Christ every day all day long. Help start new SDA schools in places with a great need for the Gospel.
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India TV Ministry
If our JFA Bible Workers are our ground force, television is our Air Force. It has proved to be a powerful tool to reach into people’s homes and introduce Jesus to them. We are currently airing a half hour program every day on a popular channel and…
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Invest in Jesus for Asia
When you “Invest in Jesus for Asia,” you support the many projects listed here, and also allow us to move into new strategic projects as the opportunities present themselves. Giving here lets us continue to honor our promise that 100% of funds donated to our missionaries, Bible Workers, or other projects goes directly there. Thank you for your investment!
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Japan Project
Japan is one of the least reached countries in the world, with about 1% Christian of any denomination. Currently there are only 60 SDA pastors (20 of them are foreigners) in the whole country of about 120 million people. Japan is suffering from loneliness and depression, ills that Christ can heal through prayers and personal contact.
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JFA Foreign Correspondents
Since Asia seems distant to most people in Christian countries, Jonathan and Hannah Hill have been sharing the needs and experiences of missions there through videos so more people can be informed about what is happening and learn how they can help meet the needs.
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JFA Headquarters Office Building
Jesus for Asia has outgrown its current office space and has built a brand new center for training, recording television programs, and expanding the workforce to fulfill the vision of Matthew 24:14.
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Jungle Village Outreaech
Jason and Shoshana are a young couple who met and currently live in the mountain jungles of northwestern Thailand. Together, they have built housing in the jungle and provided Bible studies and medical training to locals through JEMMS, short for Jason’s Education Medical Missionary School.
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Kantharalak Project
Ric and Jane, with their 4 children, recently launched to Thailand with the vision of entering a city and province where there is currently no Adventist presence. No believer, no missionary, no church.
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King Joash Project
This is a fund to serve the work of the King Joash Project.
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Life-changing Stories
One of the greatest needs in sharing the gospel is training our workers to have a deeper understanding of present truth and to develop an Adventist healthy lifestyle. Armani* and Ariana* are gifted trainers with a well-developed, systematic curriculum for a 4-month program. They hope to utilize this project in many different places throughout Asia.
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Light Asia Publishing
The Rogers Family is working, with God’s help, to establish a publishing House for South East Asia. The purpose is to provide Christ-centered literature, Bible study guides, and books in native languages to share through the printed page a knowledge of the love, joy, and peace that God gives.
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Light for Asia Project
Jason Raney has been doing evangelistic outreach, seminars and training programs for pastors and Bible workers in various countries as well as other projects as the Lord leads.
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Love for Asia Foundation
The Love for Asia Foundation is Jesus for Asia’s organizational presence in Thailand, providing the legal means for our missionaries to stay and work there. The Love for Asia team is also involved in community outreach. God raised up this foundation at just the time that it was needed. Otherwise, many missionaries and their families would have had to return home.
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Manipur Medical Relief
A civil war is happening in the Indian state of Manipur. This project is to help fund medical supplies and an ambulance for our Bible Worker who is in the middle of it all.
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Manipur School
Jesus for Asia is partnering to help build new classrooms for the Manipur School and help young people receive a Christ-centered education. The school has 280+ students, and many more would attend if the school had space.
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Mindoro Outreach
Deep in the mountains of Mindoro, an island in the Philippines, is a people group that lives in deep fear and superstition that has for years kept them from education and proper nutrition.
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Mission Project - Charlene Opperman
Charlene is teaching at the Adventist International School Siem Reap in Cambodia with Tim and Wendy Maddocks of SALT Ministries and volunteering at Butterfly Paradise.
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Mission Project - LaFlair Family
The LaFlairs will be moving to Cambodia this January to join Tim and Wendy Maddocks. They will help with construction, agriculture, teaching music, and other classes. Their desire is to be used by God to finish the work of spreading the everlasting Gospel and pointing people to Christ.Description goes here
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Mission Trip - Adams, Howell, & Mesa
Sarah and Luke Adams, Eden Mesa, and Alysa Howell are heading to Sukhothai Thailand to help with a children's home. They have 20-30 children who need to be fed, dressed, and taken to school every day. They are helping with these tasks and are excited about the opportunity to minister to these children! They are staying till mid-December.
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Mission Trip - Wear & Snyder
Barbara Wear and Harriet Snyder, seasoned educators from Tennessee, plan to spend five months at SALT ministries school in Siem Reap, helping new teachers with classroom strategies.
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MissionTV
MissionTV is a 24/7 streaming channel dedicated to inspire you to get involved in mission service. With shows from Jesus For Asia, ASAP, and many more, you can hear exciting stories from the front lines, as well as testimonies from the missionaries, and much more!
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Mumbai Churches
Mumbai, India, is one of the world’s most-populated cities, with over 27 million residents and only 20 churches in the metro area. Over the years, several of these churches have become condemned due to lack of funds for repairs. We want these churches repaired and more churches built in this massive city!
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Nakhon Sawan
Until recently, the city of Nakhon Sawan, Thailand, had no Adventist presence: no church, no missionaries, and no believers. Jonathan and Hannah Hill now live in this city as a foothold for the Lord...
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Pangandaran Outreach
Pangandaran is a city and province in the island of Java, Indonesia, with few representatives of the 3 Angels' messages. A missionary couple recently moved there to share Jesus with the locals.
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Philippines Media Outreach
HCBN is a faith-based media project in the Philippines. Run by volunteers on a small stipend, it is dedicated to sharing God’s love and the knowledge of Christ’s imminent return. Through television, radio, and internet programs, the network sends the Message throughout the Philippines’ 7,500 islands. They produce weekly programs in the TV studio and air them on cable channels as well as over the internet.
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Phrao Thawikhun Home
This is a home where poor kids from the mountains can stay and go to school. There are currently 25 children in total, 17 male and 8 female, and 4 adult caretakers. Some children are of the Lahu tribe, and some are of the Akha tribe. These children come from poor, divided, and drug-filled homes, homes that could not meet their basic needs and
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Projectors for Evangelism
Projectors are a huge advantage in sharing the Gospel. Especially in places with no television (yes, there are still places like that). We get many requests for this tool for holding evangelistic series and winning people to Christ.
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SALT Cambodia
Working in conjunction with the Cambodia Adventist Mission and other Seventh-day Adventist supporting ministries, SALT Ministries in Cambodia operates with the purpose of advancing God’s work on Cambodian soil…
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Sangkem Health
Rob and Julie Peterson, with their son Josiah, are preparing to move to Siem Reap, Cambodia to start a lifestyle center in the beautiful countryside outside of town.
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Satellite Television Over Indonesia
Satellite is the best way to covers all of Indonesia’s 17,000 islands in the national language of Bahasa Indonesia, which people in Malaysia can also understand. It only costs $10/hour to operate the satellite and produce programs that reach the people’s hearts.
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Sathe Nagar Slum Church
The slums of Mumbai are among the largest in Asia, and we have had several Bible Workers working in the slums for a number of years. Sathe Nagar has over 100 believers, but they do not have a church. The congregation has been renting different churches for a while, and they have been trying to raise money to build a new church for more than six years. Building them a church would cost about $20,000-$25,000, and it would be a great blessing to this vibrant community of believers.
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Sharon Family Projects
Leroy and Lisa Sharon are missionaries to Thailand. Lisa is currently raising two young girls for the Lord. This focus has turned out to be the best witness to the local village, which had never seen a Christian before. Leroy travels to various towns and schools and connects people with the Savior through language teaching using Bible stories.
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Something Better for the Central Thai
Matthew and Rachel Leffler and their three children moved to Thailand in 2023. The live in Nakhon Sawan to work alongside Jonathan and Hannah Hill to expand the foothold they have gained for the Lord in this city.
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South India Ministry Center
We have been given property in South India to build an office for our work throughout the country. Along with the office, we hope to build a home for our director, a guest house, and a place to do outreach projects such as an evening school, a widow’s sewing school, and an EGW library.
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Sowing in Thailand
Jim and Irene Hill moved to Bangkok in Feb 2019. Now, they are serving at a school in western Thailand, where Jim has started an agriculture program and a work program for the students.
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SUD Mission Projects
We have a dream to have several small “Lifestyle Community Centers” in every large city in India. These centers will be places where people can come to mingle, learn, and be inspired and discipled for Jesus. Another mission project is to train “Lifestyle Coaches” to lead the ministry in these Community Lifestyle Centers.
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Sukhothai Children's Home Property
The Norton family is running a children’s home for at-risk kids in Sukhothai, Thailand; they need to build several new buildings on their Children’s home’s property to continue to meet the needs of the children they serve.
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Sukhothai Medical Needs
A few of the children in the Nortons' care have developed urgent medical needs that require hospitalization and special procedures. This fund is to help cover these extra unexpected medical costs for these precious children.
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Sukhothai Project
Hundreds of cities and towns in Asia have no Adventist congregation, not even a believing member. For many years, Sukhothai, Thailand, was one of these cities. The Norton Family landed on Thai soil in August 2019 and moved to Sukhothai shortly after. Within the first 12 months, God had sent them six children in need of a safe and loving home.
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Tengkano's Projects
Ramon and Shandy Tengkano sold everything they had to build a TV studio and satellite uplink station to broadcast the Three Angels’ Messages to all of Indonesia and Malaysia! They are passionate about the Spirit of Prophecy and advocate the benefits of a simple, healthy lifestyle. And they should know the benefits!
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Thai Media Outreach
Thailand is a least-reached country, with very few spiritual resources available to the believer. There are very few Adventist TV ministries in Thailand. Our two JFA Media Teams in Thailand recording sermons, testimonies, and other programs in four languages: Thai, Hmong, Karen, and Burmese.
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Thai Media Outreach: Translation and Literature
Thailand is a least-reached country, with very few spiritual resources available to believers. There are very few Ellen White books in Thai. In fact, in 2011, no Thai EGW books were available in the country. Our translation department has been translating Spirit of Prophecy books into Thai, Hmong, and Karen for the upbuilding of the Church and the proclamation of the Gospel.
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Thailand TV Studio
God provided a studio and office for our Love for Asia team in Thailand in 2021. God has expanded their work so much that they are already outgrowing their new space. Funds for this project will go toward building a second building next to the current office to hold an audio recording room, more offices, and additional storage.
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Timor Leste Mission
Timor Leste is one of the world’s newest countries – gaining independence from Indonesia in 2002. In the wake of independence, about 1/4 of the people were killed. The president of the Adventist church there, Pastor Chris Anderson, has a vision to uplift this…
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Tripura School
This will be the first full Adventist High School in the entire state of Tripura! We finally bought land to build a school in Tripura, India! We have been praying for this since 2021. After several delays, local church leaders and landowners were able to finalize the paperwork and transfer the deed of the property.
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Unreached People Seed Fund
So many groups of people in Asia have not even heard the name of Jesus. Gifts to this fund will allow Jesus for Asia to start new projects in areas where there are no believers.
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Volunteer Ministry International
Mike and Marilee Kier have been church-planting amongst the Thai for over a decade. They have seen God, in His amazing grace, transform the lives of people who were steeped in Buddhism and devil worship. They are earnestly praying for more lives to be changed for God.
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VMI - Assisted Wellness for Thailand
Specializing in total health lifestyle education, this is for projects in Thailand that Mike and Marilee Kier are assisting in.
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Water Well Drilling
Give the Water of Life by providing physical water to needy villages in Asia! AS WATER TO THE THIRSTY…
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Widows' Sewing School
There are over 40 million widows in India. These women are often forced to beg or sell themselves to make a living because they are uneducated and can’t get a job. Our Widows’ Sewing School is changing that, one woman at a time! This school teaches the women how to sew, giving them a better way of providing for their families!
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Worthy Student Fund
One of the most effective long-term mission strategies is to invest in the Adventist education of our young people, many of whom are the first generation in the church and have no Adventist background. An Adventist education will give them that daily experience with other Christians.
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Zamboanga City School
The Zamboanga City Adventist School, located in the southern Philippines, is filled to overflowing. They need to expand the school to accommodate more students. This photo shows the site for its expansion. This school is fertile ground for soul-winning because it is a popular place for Muslim families to send their children.
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