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Our Project…People with disabilities have the highest divorce and suicide rates in the country. Having a solid spiritual faith base and other believers to connect with can help in reducing these rates. Connecting people with disabilities to faith based support programs, churches, and other believers is critical.

But many people with disabilities find travel difficult. In the winter months some barely leave their homes. Other people are in group homes with no access to faith-based support. Many places of worship offer little access for those who are able to leave their homes desiring to meet with other believers.

Our ongoing project is to maintain and increase our online media to reach and impact a greater number of people with disabilities. Special Touch Ministry will provide strong online services that connect people with disabilities to churches, support programs and other believers, enlarging their network of support options.

Some of SFC’s current tools that need support are:
1.  The “Trail map” – \ a “nearly exhaustive SFC leader’s handbook” that can help guide leaders, through the ins and outs of this unique ministry.
2. Website – SFC produces a website with listing for each chapter to promote current events along with a great number of other online resources.
3. Weekly Winter Word – Each week of the winter a new bible study, geared specifically towards the needs, problems of a snowboarder or skier, is released.
4. Video Library – The SFC international office is always updating a library of video resources that range from feature length films that can be used at outreach events to explanatory films aimed at connecting with the Church.
5. Gospels of John – Every chapter is equipped with a stack of paper copies of the Gospel of John, specially equipped with a challenge to snowboarders and skiers to pursue a life like that of Jesus.
6. Fundraising tools – Tthis season 2 chapters will be receiving a $500 grant to fund special projects to reach their community for Jesus.
7. Book Library – SFC is compiling a literally library of literary resources that address the specific challenges of leading a group of volunteers in reaching this special community for Christ.
8. Conferences –SFC International offices hosts 5 conferences to equip and encourage our leaders to continue fighting the good fight.
9. More…new resources just like these are added each year.

Our Spring Chickens project is designed to supply the needed chicks for our new poultry operation in Togo.  In 2007, we established Kalaveria Primary School just outside a rural farming community near Badoughbe, which is 45 minutes east of the capital city of Lome’.

Unfortunately, the farmers in the area find it difficult to pay school fees to cover the costs of the school. Thus, the school requires subsidies from the our ministry. Our model is to create projects that are self-sustaining, so to make the school sustainable we are building a poultry operation.

We have secured two hectares of land adjacent to the school and are just finishing up the poultry barn.  We have introduced a drip irrigation system to help with the crops and will be digging three water wells complete with new hand pumps. We are also planting corn and other vegetables on the land and have successfully harvested one season of crops.

The poultry operation and growing of crops will be manned by the school faculty and the students. The poultry operation will allow the children to learn animal husbandry, irrigation, and better farming methods, along with getting their products to market. The school will receive 100% of the profits and the children will learn the skills needed to provide for their families when they are adults.

Our 2nd Annual WHOLE Women’s Conference is coming Saturday, September 7. However, this time we are doing something a little different that we hope you will find unique and creative.

Our ministry was originally founded and has thrived through the use of technology (support groups, community, webinars, etc.). So why not make use of technology and bring our conference to women around the world? No flights to book. No hotels. No outrageous registration fees.

How you say? Well, WHOLE 2013 will be held entirely ONLINE via web streaming and entirely FREE to attend.

So whether it’s just you in front of your computer in your pajamas, you and your friends deciding to get together to attend or perhaps your church signs up as a live watch site, we are coming to YOU through the power of the Internet.

And we are excited to officially announce our keynote speakers. That’s right. Speakers. Three dynamic women to be exact. And they are in no particular order:

Annie Lobert, founder of Hookers for Jesus
Dannah Gresh, author & founder of Pure Freedom
Lisa Whittle, author of {w}hole and more

Additional testimonial speakers (TBA) will also present on a variety of topics including Emotional Health, Substance Addiction, Porn/Sex Addiction, Divorce, Abortion, Spiritual Abuse, Adultery, Teen Relationships and more.

This summer, a class of 45 young women will graduate from Tirzah International’s sewing program.  These women were accepted into the program because they have no other source of help in one of the world’s poorest nations.

They’ve seen family members killed during the genocide, they’ve been betrayed by parents and left to fend for themselves.

However, for the last ten months, they’ve learned that their lives are valuable and that they are precious to God.  They’ve been fed a daily nutritious meal.  They’ve been taught the Word of God.  They’ve learned to sew - a practical skill that will help them to sustain themselves and their children.

Prior to their graduation, Tirzah International invites friends to donate funds so that a new sewing machine may be provided for each graduate.  This way she can begin her new business the day she graduates, providing her own income and often hiring other young women to assist her.

Poet’s Glade will launch a new project this summer, focusing on families that have adopted children with special needs.  The financial and emotional stress associated with such adoptions can be overwhelming and exhausting.  Our heart is to gift these families with a week of retreat and renewal here in Buena Vista, CO.  We will host the entire family in a private mountain home here in BV for a week.  We will provide kid sitting for mom and dad so they have some time to break away and spend time together.  We will have activities planned for the entire family as desired throughout the week. Counseling for post adoption issues will also be provided on an as needed basis depending on the family’s individual needs.  Karla Carroll is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years expreience in adoption counseling. We are passionate about seeing families grow together and experience the compassionate grace of God.  We look forward to seeing Adoptive Families thrive in the midst of what can be very challenging seasons of life.

At Centre Children International Lifeline d’Haiti, the needs are many; among them is preparing the older children for life outside the orphanage walls.  These young people need vocational and technical skills to assist them in finding a job once they are too old to live at Lifeline.  A vocational camp is available for these children to learn valuable skills such as plumbing, electrical, driving, CPR, and more.

JSAW has recently opened a new facility called Help Board Shop. We are looking to build a skate park in the facility and are in need of funds to purchase the materials.

In 2013, Youth Missions International wants to increase our ministry's ability to train more of our nation's youth and young adults in evangelistic ministry.

This project is aimed directly at turning the rising tide of suicide in the military.  Of the over 350 suicides or suspected suicides of both active duty and reserve service members in 2012, only a small percentage have been reported to be related to PTSD or other combat related mental issues.  We believe the larger percentage of these suicides stem from isolation. Many of these soldiers, after facing multiple deployments where every minute may be life or death, return home to marital issues, friendlessness, depression, financial hardship and a myriad of other challenges that all men face.  We believe that if we can connect men, which is the principal focus of our ministry regardless of the audience, then we can defray the impact of a return to “Life as Usual” and consequently lower the number of suicides and attempted suicides among male service members and combat veterans.

Touchstone Youth Resource Services, Inc. is specifically seeking funding for expanding CiViL, our award-winning character education initiative for high school students. CiViL is comprised of two components - CiViL Groups and CiViL Service. 

CiViL Groups provides students a safe, small-group environment where they can face, and work through, the often painful issues and pressing concerns that stand in the way of their growth and success.  Students meet weekly with a trained mentor that guides them through heart-level discussions regarding the issues pertinent to their situation. CiViL Groups draws from real-life, personal events as a basis for teaching, rather than the traditional instruction derived simply from definitions of value-based words. 

CiViL Service provides students the opportunity to make a difference in their community through monthly service-learning projects. CiViL Service has given some of the most disadvantaged students the life-changing experience of making a difference as far away as hurricane-ravaged Mississippi, and as close as their own neighborhoods. Students experience that they can make a difference in the lives of others in their community. As one student poignantly put it after a work project, “I finally feel like I’ve done something with my life that matters.”

Mission Indy offers a unique Summer Intern Program, offering great opportunities for 10-12 college-age men & women to spend the summer being discipled in a loving environment, practicing and developing their leadership skills, and spending time doing hands-on ministry with ministries and/or agencies in an area they have interest or passion in. 

Mission Indy provides two weeks of intense and unique training, all their housing, food and even a gas allowance for their travels around town.  Students come to Mission Indy through an application and interview process, from colleges and universities aroundthe country. They spend the summer learning, serving and being challenged to love and serve others, while gaining skills and motivation.

After the two weeks of training, the interns spend four alternating weeks at a particular minsitry or agency, such as Shepherd Community or The John H. Boner Center, getting expereince with hands-on minsitry in an area they have communicated interest in.

The other four alternating weeks are spent leading groups from churches across the country who come to Indy to engage in community development work and discipleship training.