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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.

The Aquila Project supplements the training of Seminary and Bible Institute students through intensive courses taught by experienced North American pastors and teachers. Through a strategic partnership between central African churches you could have the opportunity to teach a one-week intensive course designed to impact the next generation of African leaders.

Three weeks in Africa will give you insight and experience in the challenges and opportunities of the African reality. In Bangui, C.A.R. you will have access to a broad variety of ministries. Mentors, Mike and Myra Taylor, will use the first week for training and hands-on experience in cross-cultural ministry, the cultures of Africa, and our ministry strategies in Africa. You will spend the next week in the homes of Africans with specific cultural and ministry assignments. In the final week you will work with Africans on a ministry project to help the people of Bangui by giving tangible evidence to God's love for the Africans.

 

Join a disciplemaking team as you use medical skills to assist the church in C.A.R. by providing compassionate care to those in need. Experienced Doctors, Physician Assistants, Nurses and other Medical Professionals are needed to care for and train Africans in medicine. This individual or couple will be mentored by experience missionaries. Language skills are necessary and would be a part of the development process for long-term staff. Explore this opportunity through an internship, be equipped for long-term ministry, or serve part-time from the US on a special assignment.

Join a disciplemaking team as you partner with the church in C.A.R. to equip faithful Christ followers to lives for Him. Assist and encourage the Africans to reach un-reached people groups including a nomadic Islamic tribe. This individual or couple will be mentored by experience missionaries. Language skills are necessary and would be a part of the development process. Experience in discipleship and teaching are preferred.

Join a disciplemaking team as you partner with the church in the C.A.R. to equip future leaders. Assist the African church in teaching and developing culturally appropriate training material to be used in churches or other leadership ministries. This individual or couple will be mentored by experience missionaries. Language skills are necessary and would be a part of the development process. Experience in discipleship, leadership development, and teaching are required.

Join a disciplemaking team as you assist and encourage the C.A.R. churches by strengthening children’s ministries. Develop and implement teacher training and oral learning lessons. This individual or couple will be mentored by experience missionaries. Language skills are necessary and would be a part of the development process. Experience in children’s ministries and teaching are preferred.

Join a disciplemaking team as you use your agricultural expertise to assist the C.A.R. church to reach out. Develop and implement agriculture projects that will help Africans in need. This individual or couple will be mentored by experience missionaries. Language skills are necessary and would be a part of the development process. Experience in agriculture is required.

The youth of CAR, Chad, and Cameroon desperately need a Christian life perspective. This reasonably priced magazine addresses issues that are important to them like a Biblical view of sexuality and HIV/AIDS concerns. It also gives them the tools that they need to take a bold stand in situations where the answer may not be clear or easy.

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.