The missionaries supported by partners of the Into Africa Project are listed on a separate page. Click here for information about the externally funded missionaries that are a part of this ministry.
Active works are listed below with their project account numbers, and are grouped according to the following categories. The costs listed are indicative.
- Bibles & Literature
- Transportation - Bicycles & Motor Cycles
- Compassion Ministries
- Adopt VCP and Leadership Outreaches
- Sustainable Development
- Program Administration, Support and Research
- VCP Training Center Construction
| Bibles & Literature | ||||
| Project 404550 - Bibles for Into Africa > Cost: US$ 12 per Bible, Delivered |
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The success of the Village Church Planting (VCP) program hinges in God's Word. Putting Bibles into the hands of village pastors and elders is essential for spreading the Good News and bringing transformation to the lives of individuals and rural communities. Through this project, village church leaders and their communities received 7,500 Bibles In 2007. |
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| Project 404560 - Literature Development & Distribution > Cost: Varies by Project, Please Inquire |
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One of the efforts funded under this project is the roll out of picture-based chronological teaching materials, which have proven very effective in low literacy areas of rural Africa. |
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| Transportation - Bicycles & Motor Cycles | ||||
| Project 405440 - Into Africa Bicycles > Cost: US$ 170 per Bicycle, Delivered > Click Here for Case Study |
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Trainers are responsible to visit their 15 student pastors on a regular basis in their villages to mentor and supervise new church plants. Churches are generally spaced three to five miles (five and eight km) apart from each other. Bicycles greatly increase the mobility of trainers, and give them greater time to mentor and counsel trainee pastors. Trainers can gain between eight and 12 hours per week with the use of a bicycle. Bicycles are also given to bi-vocational student pastors, who typically spend 12 to 20 hours walking per week. A bicycle would typically cut this time by at least 50%, saving pastors between six and ten hours per week. This time that could be well used in evangelizing, discipling and counseling activities. As of the end of 2008, the Into Africa Project had 191 trainers and 3,839 village pastors in 18 African countries. |
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| Project 404540 - Into Africa Motor Cycles > Cost: US$ 2,800 per Motor Cycle, Delivered > Click Here for Case Study |
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 Motor cycles are generally given to VCP country coordinators who are responsible for giving oversight to between foiur and seven training centers. These training centers are in distinct geographic regions of a country, and can lie between 40 and 80 miles (70 and 130 km) apart from each other. It is the responsibility of the coordinators to visit and supervise the trainees, and generally this is done by a combination of public transport and walking. A coordinator can spend up to 40% of his day in travel, with a large part waiting on public transport. The provision of motor cycles would reduce coordinator travel by 10 to 15 hours per week, freeing up time that can be used for other ministry-related activities. As of December 2008, the Into Africa Project had 38 coordinators in 18 African countries. |
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| Compassion Ministries | ||||
| Project 406480 - Africa Children's Ministry |
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 The Into Africa Project maintains a number of specific ministries listed below for Africa's children. But the need is tremendous, and this account enables other very worthy programs to be funded as needs and opportunities are identified. The children of Africa are at great risk to social upheaval, malnutrition, disease, and other threats. |
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| Project 404150 - Burundi Children's Ministry |
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 Dating back to 2001, the Into Africa Project has had a long history of ministering to orphans in Burundi. The country has experienced ethnic turmoil over the past decades, and children are the innocent ones who often suffer greatly. This account is intended to help support a number of ministries that reach out to children and orphans. |
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| Project 403920 - Rwanda Women's Self-Help Ministry |
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 The "sewing room" in Kigali helps women widowed by HIV or violence reconstruct their lives. Here, a Christian lady named Marie Benimana trains widows to sew on 15 sewing machines in a small room in a supportive, Christian environment. After graduating from their time with the ministry, the widows often return to their home villages with the Good News in their hearts and the ability to make a living through their new sewing skills. |
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| Project 405540 - DRC, Goma Children's Ministry |
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 Goma and the surrounding area in the DRC have experienced a human tragedies in the past decades. Continual ethnic strife has orphaned many children who are now refugees and separated from their relatives. This work in Goma reaches out physically and spiritually to these children. Click here to view photos from a Goma-area refugee camp. |
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| Project 405560 - DRC, Mbuji-Mayi Children's Ministry > Cost: US$ 50 to Feed the Children in the Orphanage for a Day |
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 The Into Africa Project has assisted in the purchase of a building in Mbuji-Mayi to house 22 orphans and a full-time caretaker. The orphans, two to seven years old, are bearing the effects of HIV, ethnic conflict, and war, and would otherwise live on the streets. |
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| Project 405560 - DRC, Uvira Children's Ministry |
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 This ministry to orphans in the Uvira area responds to the physical, educational, and spiritual needs of children orphaned by HIV and conflict in the eastern DRC. Click here for further information on this very active ministry for kids in grades one through nine. |
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| Adopt VCP and Leadership Outreaches | ||||
| Project 403110-CENT - Adopt a VCP Training Center > Cost: US$ 500/month for 42 months |
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 This project supports the activities of a full-time trainer and 15 bi-vocational village pastor trainees/church planters. From the 15 first generation churches established in the area of the training center, the goal of the VCP program is to establish a total of 60-100 congregations with the later founding of 2nd to 5th generations churches. |
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| Project 403110-CTRY - Adopt a VCP Country/Region > Cost: US$ 2,600 per Month for 42 Months |
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 A VCP country or regional coordinator is generally responsible for four VCP training centers. This normally represents the training of 60 bi-vocational village pastor trainees/church planters and the establishment of 60 first generation congregations. The direct outcome of this investment could lead to 240 to 400 new congregations, and others being initiated later through the work of volunteer training centers inspired by this initial outreach. |
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| Project 403110-OTHR - Other VCP Projects > Cost: Varies by Project, Please Inquire |
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 Additional support needs may arise from time to time to maintain, facilitate, or advance the VCP work in African countries. Please inquire about the special needs that exist at present. |
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| Project 406610-BANQ - Leadership Ministry Kick-Off Banquet > Cost: US$ 10,000 |
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 A banquet in a country's capital city officially launches African Operation's ministry to the political, university, business, and legal leadership. The dinner is followed by the formation of cell groups for a country's leaders to discuss the application of Christian principles to their lives. |
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| Project 406610-CTRY - Adopt a Leadership Ministry Country > Cost: US$ 1,400 per Month for 36 Months |
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 During the three years following the leadership ministry's kick-off banquet, a coordinator organizes cell groups, provides Christian counsel, and works with a team of volunteers to transform the ministry into a self-sustaining outreach to leaders. |
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| Sustainable Development | ||||
| Project 432200 - Sustainable Development Fund >Cost: Varies by Project, Please Inquire |
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 The Sustainable Development Program (SDP) provides life skills to Christians in VCP program areas. This fund covers expenses incurred in setting up and managing the SDP in different parts of Africa, and provides the base of funds for making small loans to the men and women who become part of the program. |
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| Project 404530 - Sustainable Resources for VCP Centers > Cost: Varies by Project, Please Inquire |
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 The bi-vocational pastor trainees/ church planters in the VCP program spend considerable time with ministry-related activities. Providing a small number of goats, pigs and chickens to a training center at its founding can improve the health of the church planters and their families. The animals can reproduce sufficiently so that each pastor trainee's family will have an animal or two. This program can also include fish farms. |
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| Program Administration, Support and Research | ||||
| Project 405690 - VCP Program Administration > Cost: Varies by Project, Please Inquire |
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 Staff members at the central office in South Africa carry out support activities that save time and resources in the field. Projects under this heading help improve the efficiency of the organization and develop responses to address unforeseen situations. |
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| Project 902100 - VCP Field Support > Cost: Varies by Project, See Below |
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 The opportunity for village pastor trainees, trainers, coordinators, and supervisors to meet for training, discussion and strategizing, and prayer is an important component of the VCP program. The following are examples of the types of conferences that can be sponsored and their approximate cost:
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| Project 402500 - VCP New Country Research (Breakthrough) > Cost: Varies by Project, Please Inquire |
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 Before the Into Africa Project enters a country or new region of a current country, research is needed to help discern the best course. The results of this work, given over to prayer and put in the context of other information, helps set the strategy for the project moving forward. |
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| VCP Training Center Construction | ||||
| Project 406960 - Bateke Plateau, DRC > Cost: US$ 128,000, Fully Funded, Click Here for Status |
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 Starting in early 2008, the Into Africa Project embarked on a project to construct eight durable VCP training centers/churches with the CEBN denomination on the Bateke Plateau two to eight hours outside of Kinshasa, DRC. International Cooperating Ministries has been an important partner in this work. Click here to view the latest status of the project. |
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| Project 407400 - Mbuji-Mayi, DRC > Cost: US$ 160,000, Needed: US$ 60,000, Click here for Information |
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 The second training center/church construction project is planned for the Mbuji-Mayi area of the DRC. As currently conceived, the scope of the work includes eight buildings made of durable materials in the region to the northwest of the city. God has blessed the work of our partner denomination in the area, Hope of Glory, but the lack of permanent, centrally-located structures hampers the training of church planters. Click here for information on this project. |
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The availability of printed Bibles is often taken for granted in developed countries. But Bibles are scarce in many parts of Africa, and are extremely expensive compared to basic staples.
The outreach of the Into Africa Project cuts across a large number of languages and cultures. Innovative and low cost (non-copyrighted) materials are continually needed for current and new ministry areas. And existing materials need to be printed and distributed to have their intended effect in the training of leaders and discipleship of believers.
Bicycles are normally given to VCP trainers and then the VCP trainee church pastors.
