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In memory of Dr. David Plaster’s life and marking the 1 year anniversary of his home-going March 6, GBIM is naming the library of the James Gribble Leadership Training Center in Dave’s honor.

Currently, less than 50% of the 2,400 registered churches are led by trained pastors. In order to effectively train new leaders, plans have been made to construct the James Gribble Leadership Training Center on ten acres of land approximately ten miles from the center of Bangui, Central African Republic. Money raised will be used for site development, security, student and faculty housing, and classroom building. Click here to learn about the current building under construction: the Learning Center.

The James Gribble Training Center will provide training and discipleship for the next generation of African leaders. A fully equipped library is a must for this facility and you can help make it possible.

What better way to forever remember who Dave Plaster was than by setting apart a place where future leaders will be mentored and trained.

Provide books and material for evangelism, discipleship, and pastors' continuing education (i.e. pastors library) for those who otherwise would be unable to afford resources. Your gift will also help provide glasses for those who struggle to read the Bible, and money to translate and produce literature locally.

Help the poorest of Chad send their leaders for evangelism training. New leaders are needed as new churches are being planted in Moundou, Chad and rapidly reproducing into other countries.

This scholarship will be used to facilitate the training of national pastors. The project is in partnership with the FGBC in Chad. It includes financial help for Students and Professors where it is most needed (books, teaching material, buildings, computers, etc).

Help send an African missionary to the unreached in Chad, Cameroon, Sudan, and Nigeria. The goal is to partner with churches in Chad, Cameroon, and Nigeria to make disciples through church-planting. With your gift to this project, financial support and follow-up care is given to indigenous missionaries to spread the gospel to those who have not yet heard.

Risking their very lives, passionate Chadian evangelists are riding bikes hundreds of miles to share the Gospel in hostile lands.  Help enable the purchase of more bicycles for these African missionaries, students, and evangelists. They are ready to go; will you help send them?

Help assist in building the hospital at N'gadjibian as well as building dispensaries. Once a dispensary is built and opens, it is self-sustaining to fulfill its purpose for many years. Your support will strengthen the medical ministry partnership that GBIM missionaries have with the FGBC in Chad.

Did you know that over half of the 2400 churches in C.A.R are without a trained pastor?

The Timothy Project is an answer to the church leadership crisis in Africa.  You'll be linked with young African leaders and their families as they are trained to lead these churches.  Sponsor a Bible student for $40 per month or a Seminary student for $120 per month.  The Timothy project provides approximately 1/2 of the cost of tuition, housing, food and medicine to reduce the financial strain on the student's family.

Sponsors are making a commitment to1 full year but are encouraged to continue for the 3 year duration of the student's study.  Once you sponsor a student, a packet will be sent to your home with a picture of the student and his family.

Click here to have your gifts automatically deducted from your checking or savings account (through Automatic Withdrawal/EFT).

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Project Hope and Charite works to restore orphans with opportunities such as education, sufficient food, clothing, medical care, discipleship, vocational future, and most of all, HOPE for a bright future. By sponsoring an orphan, you commit to praying for a child, writing 2-3 letters each year, and giving up $1 per day to make all the difference in the life of an African child.

To renew a sponsorship, specify "renewal" in the special instructions box during checkout.

Care for the needs of the widows who personally sacrifice to care for their group of orphans. Please help to purchase seeds, farming implements, and HIV anti-retro viral drugs for theses widow care providers who give so much.

Help this nation become self-sustaining and plant 50 churches in the forest! Your gift will help equip Bayaka pastors and laymen with solid Biblical training as well as learn occupational skills like wood working, masonry, and farming.

Help Pastors who have had their libraries destroyed during the war to buy books in Sango and French at a reduced rate. Less than 5% of these pastors have seminary training. The literature will fill the gap for these worthy laborers in the Lord's harvest.

Encourage the development of Cameroon's Women Ministries by sending a national leader from the Central African Republic to Cameroon's national conference. Provide support for the printing of yearly lesson books for National Women's Ministries and a computer to help prepare lessons.

There's a church in Africa looking for a partner church just like yours. Churches in the CAR have the heart, the desire and the manpower to help orphans in their church, but they need help to do more. With the financial generosity of church partners in the USA, many more Grace Brethren churches in Africa will be empowered to make a difference through educating and discipling orphan children.

Help malnourished children at the Bible institutes and seminary in the Central African Republic. Caring for these children will continue evangelism in Fulani villages.

Help young adults associated with our Orphan Care Ministry to start small businesses that will enable them to support their families and other orphans. Your support provides a future solution to orphan care in the Central African Republic.

There is an immediate need to get several literature production machines to Bangui, CAR.  Most production equipment was destroyed by hostile rebels in the 2003 coup in the CAR, and the battle to provide quality discipleship literature for Africa continues to rage. Help provide Christian books for pastors and churches with limited resources, but that desperately need Biblical teaching to grow to maturity in Christ.

Rapid growth among the churches of the Central African Republic has created a tremendous leadership training opportunity.

Currently, less than 50% of the 2,400 registered churches are led by trained pastors. In order to effectively train new leaders, plans have been made to construct the James Gribble Leadership Training Center on ten acres of land approximately ten miles from the center of Bangui, Central African Republic. Money raised will be used for site development, security, student and faculty housing, and classroom building. Click here to learn about the current building under construction: the Learning Center.

Every day Bangui's 800,000 residents are within range of solid Christian radio broadcasts featuring: Christian music, Bible teaching, Scripture reading, etc. In Africa, where radios are abundant, all are within access of this radio station's Gospel message. Please help this radio station stay on the air by offering your generous support of radio evangelism and discipleship.

The Benzvi Dental Clinic is one of the only dental clinics in the capital city of Bangui, CAR. Funds are needed to purchase/replace office and dental equipment to further the ministry of the clinic.

Pastor Mboi Andre leads a church planting team to mobilize people to evangelize and start Grace Brethren churches among unreached peoples. Support national evangelists as they boldly spread the Gospel to the unreached in a hostile land.

Committed to reforming the ethics of African society, CIDEL (Center for International Development of Ethical Leadership ) is a group of over 60 influential Christian leaders in Bangui, CAR who teach Biblical principles to all social levels in Africa. With your help, CIDEL can continue to hold seminars that impact CAR, Chad, Nigeria, Liberia and Cameroon. Find out more about the ministry at www.friendsofcidel.org.

The Christian Alliance for the Fight Against AIDS (CAFA) is a Grace Brethren HIV/AIDS prevention ministry in Central Africa. Your gift will help fund AIDS education seminars, the True Love Waits Campaign, and the True Love Stays Campaign. The AIDS virus is severely hurting the people of this country and your gift will save lives in CAR.