Board of World Mission Annual Report 2011

BOARD OF

WORLD MISSION of the Moravian Church • North America

I am about to

do a

new thing...

2011 Annual Report

I am about to

do a

new thing...

…do you not

perceive it?

Isaiah 43:19

Chair’s Message The Lord is risen! With these words, Moravians around the world proclaim the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and remind all who hear it that the world in which we are living is a new world. It is a world in which life has overcome death and light has cast out darkness. It is a world in which God is constantly doing something new.

Welcome to the Annual Report of the Board of World Mission. On behalf of the Directors and

Staff, it is a privilege to be your partners in mission and ministry as together we seek to share the love of Jesus Christ throughout all the world.

The theme of this year’s report is, “I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43:19a) In 2011, God has done many new things through the work of the Board of World Mission. In this report you will have the chance to read about the new things God is doing among us in Africa, Central America, the Caribbean, Asia, South America and even right here in North America. The Board of World Mission works with you and on your behalf to help the North American Moravian Church be able to perceive and respond to the new things that God allows to spring forth before us.

One of the great “new things” that God is doing in the Board of World Mission is the new direction and leadership provided by Rev. Judy Ganz, our newly hired Executive Director.

Judy has provided renewed energy and enthusiasm for the mission and ministry of the Board of World Mission. It is her leadership that is helping us all to see the wonderful new things that God is about to do and is already doing among us. Welcome, Judy!

As I witnessed the sun rise on Easter morning, it was impossible not to see all of the new things that God is doing in our world.

It is with this great hope and promise that we greet those new things. The Lord is risen indeed!

In Christ’s Love, The Rev. Joseph L. Moore Chair

From the Executive Director My presence in this position is clear evidence to me that God can do something new when you least expect it!

The stories in this annual report confirm God’s action in and through our church through our ongoing work with our global partners, through short-term mission teams, through disaster relief and work crews, through mission partnerships with congregations and individuals, through programs that strengthen communities and through exploration of opportunities for new mission work.

I am grateful to work with this staff and board, with all of you in the North American church, and with our ecumenical and global partners to re-

spond to God’s call to mission in this world.

How we respond to this call is often very different from missions of the past. Old solutions will not always work in today’s world. And the economic and political challenges can be daunting. Yet our God is about making rivers flow in a desert, providing new possibilities when none are visible.

I hope that as you read through this annual report you will catch a glimpse of the new thing that God is doing among us and through us. May it challenge some of our “old” thinking and inspire us in our own response to this God of possibility.

The Rev. Judy Ganz Executive Director

BOARD OF

WORLD MISSION of the Moravian Church • North America Joseph Moore, Chair * Southern Province Jack Geis, Vice -Chair * Southern Province Carol Armstrong, Secretary* Appointed/Northern Province David Guthrie * PEC President Southern Province Conrad Spencer EWI Province/Advisory Member Edward Dehnert Western District Karen Erb Eastern District David Geyer, Secretary* Eastern District Peter Green Alaskan Province Roman Brady Appointed/Youth Representative Loren Jendro Western District Joel Landreth/Richard Harney, Treasurer * Advisory Member David Miller/Kent Laza Unity of the Brethren Marion Perrin Canadian District Donna Hurt* Mission Society/Southern Province Betsy Miller * PEC President/Northern Province * Executive Committee

Antioch Antioch continues to respond to young adults, ages 18-30, who heed Jesus’ call to “come follow Me,” and seek to serve as a tangible witness to Christ in the world. Their passion for service was affirmed

by Northern and Southern Province Synods. The Board of World Mission was given the charge to create a structure, and since Antioch’s inception in 2005, the BWM has worked to enable Moravian young people to participate in short and long term mission settings where they minister and are also discipled by ministry partners.

Through their responses to God, our provinces continue to be enriched by their participation. Their lives demonstrate that mission is part of our Moravian identity—it’s who we are, not just what we do!

The Antioch structure that supports the servants includes seven focus areas: • A Partner Province or other Moravian Church ministry identifies an opportunity and extends an invitation.

• A potential servant submits contact info to www.moravianantioch. org and the preparation process begins.

• The Antioch servant receives documents that explain the agreement between the Servant and the BWM. • Spiritual, cultural, theological and logistical orientation and training are arranged through the Antioch director.

• The servant works with one’s home and other congregations as well as ministry partners while preparing to serve and developing a funding base.

• Communication through a variety of means is maintained during the servant’s service.

• Opportunities to share one’s story with family, friends, home congregations and other Antioch alumni are arranged.

Even though much has been established through which the Antioch servants are received, prepared and sent, God continues to develop “something new.”

New relationships form, new servants step forward, new ways of living one’s faith present themselves.

God continues to work in and transform lives.

Jill Kolodziej Director, Antioch

Antioch Labrador

Labrador was nothing short of beautiful. My summer was filled with adventures and marvelous people. The children that attended the Labrador Christian Youth Camp live differently than most of us in the States.

Some had to be flown in from remote areas.

After spending time with them though, they are very much the same as kids everywhere. It wasn’t always easy to do my duties as camp counselor, but Becky Long and I man-

Nicaragua

In the four-plus years since Hurricane Felix hit Nicaragua, I have been blessed to be able to take part in six trips there to work alongside individuals in the Nicaraguan Moravian Church in the ongoing efforts to rebuild. Teams of youth formed from all areas of the U.S. and Canada are supported by individual congregations, mission societies and community organizations. Hearing about these trips has led volunteers from young adult groups outside the Moravian world to share their gifts and join in the witness of the Moravian Church through missions.

I am amazed at how God brings joy and strengthens relationships

aged to do all sorts of odd jobs needed to keep the Camp running. We were the cooks, worship leaders, janitors, lifeguards, nurses and much more. With the help of Jen Burtner, the fabulous camp director from New York, we never stopped laughing, even through the more difficult times.

Seeing how Jesus changed every camper in some way before each week was finished was the most rewarding part, and

out of a painful event as we have the opportunity to connect through our common faith in Christ as Lord. While there is a need to help build physical structures, it is the

because of that, I would do it again‌ despite all the black flies!

Bailey Williams

construction of spiritual relationships that drives this ministry. Let us always remember and pray for our brothers and sisters as we seek to witness together.

Justin Rabbach

Moravian Volunteer Resources Greetings in the mighty name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I pray His Spirit is dwelling deep in your heart as we read together the work He has done in and through us.

May His name be ever praised, Amen!

In 2011 team training has been provided for several volunteers and teams who served in Mississippi; Haiti; Ahuas, Honduras; and Morongo, California.

MVR staff helped to lead the mid-states Fall youth event in Indiana and continues to encourage adults to lead the many youth of the Church in their life of faith. Do you feel a nudge from the Spirit to be one of these adults to help disciple the youth?

The year 2011 saw the completion of the Solar Power System in Ahuas, Honduras with electricity to the medical complex now running 24 hours a day. We also completed the new airplane hangar for Alas De Socorro in Ahuas. A number of teams, individuals and even a corporation contributed to this effort and with God’s grace it is finished!

A team of electricians led by Brothers Tommy Wagoner and Ron Overby followed the construction of the hangar and rewired almost all the clinic buildings and hangar. These two volunteers have many combined years of service and have contributed from

their own funds to see that the vital ministry in Ahuas continues. And they give all the glory to God for what has been done.

Our work in Mississippi continued in 2011. We thank Sister and Brother Joanie and Weldon Harris who do an outstanding job overseeing our work there.

As we start 2012 I pray that we are all ready to again respond to what our Savior calls us to do— whether by going or giving or especially praying—that with our whole being ALL may receive the Hope of eternal life, in the name of Jesus, Amen!

Mark Ebert Director of Volunteer Ministries

Mississippi

2011 was a busy year at the Mississippi Mission House. Numerous Moravian churches, along with our partnership with Camp Victor, provided many volunteers for the projects that were funded by the BWM. This allowed us to plan and prioritize projects, focusing on 15 that ranged from simple but necessary repairs to complete house rebuilds. Actual costs were $31,000, some of which were offset by contributions from participating teams and individuals.

Without volunteer help, many families would continue to be without needed repairs and homes.

Two different contractors, hired to redo Ann William’s house after Katrina, took her money and left town. This happened frequently in the first few

years following the storm.

Ann has been living with relatives for five years. She approached us asking for help while we were working on a neighbor’s house.

Ann’s house was gutted inside and out, and then rebuilt.

Joe Stringfield lives behind his sister’s house in a shack. His sister passed away and left him this house. He had a steel roof put on after the storm but has no money to update the inside. He is elderly, very quiet and unfortunately, almost blind. His “new” home is 75 percent complete.

In 2011 we hosted 15 teams at the Moravian Mission House, more than double the number in 2010. They contributed over 4800 hours of service!

Many of these teams were

“repeat customers.” In addition, a few teams were from other denominations.

The Mississippi Mission House will be concluding its work in 2012, but this ministry can be used as a model for other needs throughout the country and the world through its Response Partnerships (joining with Disaster Response organizations that already have established infrastructure to mobilize quickly) and its Recovery Partnerships (for meeting long-term needs of an afflicted community). This has been a significant volunteer ministry that has provided for ongoing needs well beyond the initial disaster response.

Weldon Harris Site Coordinator Ocean Springs, Mississippi

Moravian Volunteer Resources

Likewise/HUKWAFA HUKWAFA: Empowering parents and guardians.

As a program of BWM Likewise Ministries, HUKWAFA has been serving vulnerable children with food staples, education and health care registration in Mwanza, Tanzania. But it believes that empowering parents and guardians is among the surest ways to improve children’s prospects.

Believing this, HUKWAFA has started implementing the economic empowerment component of the project through the introduction of parents/ guardians empowerment groups. There are 12 groups formed, six from each of two villages.

The project support group is an initiative to nurture small businesses and other income generating activities which are being done by individuals and the group. These groups have developed simple savings and lending mechanisms to support members’ efforts to invest in business ventures. A revolving fund was initiated through initial members’ contributions and an input from HUKWAFA project

to the group. The group decides on the length of the loan cycle, the interest charged for the period set and the method of determining the order of receiving a loan.

These revolving funds provide opportunities for individual members of the group to access small loans that provide for the necessary start-up material or capital investment to begin a business.

A great observed benefit of this mechanism is the solidarity and the sense of sharing that is born and grows among group members. This helps them in responding to not only their economic needs, but also other essentials of their lives.

HUKWAFA works to ensure that groups take measures to increase the chances that each member in a group invests in longterm benefits, rather than only short term relief and subsistence.

Please pray for this significant work to build community.

Bahati Andrew HUKWAFA Project Manager Mwanza, Tanzania

Moravian Unity Unity Women’s Desk

UMDB

The Unity Mission and Development Board, a new committee of the Worldwide Unity, met for the first time in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in September 2011.

The board consists of the Unity Business Administer, four representatives from Africa, two from the Caribbean and one from each mission agency. Its role is to consider and monitor new mission work, evaluate the progress of established mission work, prioritize mission projects and administer the Unity fund that supports the work of the Unity in mission.

Its formation is an important step in bringing together all voices at the Unity level to discuss and strategize how we can move forward together in the mission to which God calls us.

Judy Ganz

The year 2011 witnessed the development of the Unity Women’s Desk (UWD), with the purpose of uniting women worldwide to confront the issues that they deal with on a daily basis, in particular poverty, clean drinking water, illiteracy, violence and HIV/AIDS. Over this first year we have raised in excess of $30,000, well on our way to our goal of $50,000. A scholarship fund has been established and the UWD has awarded seven scholarships at the primary, secondary and college levels. Funds remain for additional scholarships.

The goal is to have at least $1,000 for scholarship grants per Province, Mission Province and Mission Area.

We currently have more than $5,000 in the Projects and Loan Fund and are considering a request for a micro-loan for a sewing school and business in Kigoma, Tanzania. We also provided partial funding of a training seminar in Tanzania so the Women Secretaries could understand the working of the UWD and the process for applying for funds.

The UWD is grateful for all who have come forward to support this important ministry. Although our work is mainly directed toward women and children, we continue to believe that what benefits women will benefit the world.

The Rev. Patricia Garner Coordinator Unity Women’s Desk

New Work Cuba

In October 2011, the Southern Province PEC agreed to a request from the Unity Board Executive Committee to accept partnership with the work in Cuba, which has previously been supported by the Jamaica Province. Our PEC asked the Board of World Mission to assume responsibility for coordinating this partnership.

The Cuba Unity Mission Area began in 1997. There are four districts: Havana, Matanzas, Camaguey and Holguin. A total of eight ordained pastors and nine lay pastors provide leadership.

The work includes

eight congregations and 12 “fraternities” (fellowships), and approximately 330 total members. The ministry of the churches includes worship, Christian education, service to those in need, outreach to children, women’s ministry and evangelism. The Mission Area is led by an executive board and has recently become an associate member of the Cuba Council of Churches (with some 27 participating church bodies). Hopefully the Moravian Church will be officially recognized by the Cuban government during 2012, which will permit

moving forward with plans for much-needed facilities, and greater opportunities for ministry. It is estimated that 1 million of the 11 million residents of

Peru

God is doing some amazing new things through Moravian men and women! And it’s especially exciting to see that sometimes those women and men are married to each other! My husband, pastor Segundo Regalado, and I give thanks to God for a new opportunity to serve God in our native country, Peru.

In August, 2011, along with Bishop Sam

Cuba are evangelical Christians.

As this new partnership begins there will be many opportunities for cooperation in such things as that God has given each of us for ministry, we were able to formulate a covenant for partnership in ministry and mission. A foundational charter was signed by representatives from seven different ministries agreeing

Gray of the BWM, we visited churches and ministries there and held meetings with many leaders and other interested folks.

Through times of

prayer, Bible Study and worship together, discussions on Moravian history, polity and practice, and an exciting time of mutual sharing of the gifts

New Work Sierra Leone

training of pastors and leaders, furnishing resources translated into Spanish, provision and improvement of worship and gathering spaces, and organizato call themselves the “Unity of Brothers and Sisters in Peru: a Mission of the Worldwide Moravian Church.”

The founding members of the Mission Area include a Youth Ministry Endeavor, an established

God continues to grow the ministry of Sierra Leone. In February 2012 Brother Mohamed Braima was ordained as a missionary pastor to serve the church in Sierra Leone. He and his wife, Safie, are now back in the village. The church has services each Sunday with classes to teach of our Lord Jesus. The school has 200 students which allows middle school children to stay in the village. Two new floors are being planned for construction soon.

Another new project provides protein for the children for their lunch, without which many would go hungry during the day. A program to help fund this meal is being offered as individuals and groups “adopt” children. Recently a container was sent with two tons of beans; baby formula; backpacks and school supplies and windows for new construction.

Many churches helped fill the container with tional development. the much needed items. God also provided funds Your prayers are infor a vehicle fitted to meet the difficult terrain vited for our brothers of Sierra Leone. and sisters in Cuba.

David Guthrie We look for others to also join in supporting this new work of the Moravian Church.

Rev. Steve Wilson, Little Church on the Lane Several North American congregations and ministries have already become part of this new thing that God is doing!

As Segundo says, “this is a newborn baby that needs our love and care; we must congregation, a Chilelected and has now dren’s and Women’s met to set priorities in all gather around her in prayerful support, Ministry, a missionary mission and ministry but not hold her back with a burden for as we go forward toas God gives her the reaching people in regether. The focus will mote areas of Peru, an be on starting new cell strength to grow and walk on her own!” evangelist and a leader groups and outreach Sister Hilda Regalado of a cell group in Lima. ministries in Lima, ChiA governing Board was clayo and Lambayeque.

Partnerships Annie B Mission

From the beginning, God has been working in the Annie B. Mission. He was working through the voices of Diana Green, Matthew Green, Ashley Green and Elizabeth Alexander as they shared their thoughts about their visit to Star Mountain with Young Adult Convo in 2010. God was working in the heart of Steve Green; through the loss of his wife and learning of Star Mountain, God stirred emotions inside Steve’s heart which became Annie B. Mission.

The beginning of anything is always a challenge and Annie B. Mission has had its share. However, God has remained faithful, blessed everyone with patience, and allowed the mission to flourish.

Annie B. Mission signed a covenant agreement with the Board of World Mission in November

2011. This was a blessing because it gave us determination to accomplish what our mission set out to do.

More recently, we learned that a speech therapist, to be supported by the Annie B. Mission, has been hired at Star Mountain. We could not be more thrilled! It was as though everything we have been working for fell into place.

In the beginning, God was with us in our thoughts, our voices and our hearts. More recently, God has been with us affirming our mission and allowing us to accomplish our goals one by one. Hard work and faith in God truly does pay off.

The children of Star Mountain deserve the best education they can receive and this includes speech therapy. After all, we’re all God’s children.

Ashley Green

Nepal

The year 2011 unfolded uniquely for the Moravian ministry in Nepal. We believed that God called us to be involved in a deeper way in planting new churches and ministries.

But little did we know that God was about to do new things. A pre-school was what God showed us, which we initially brushed aside as it did not seem to align with our calling.

But God’s ways are often mysterious and on June 6, 2011, with the help of the Nepal Ministry Outreach and the British Province, we purchased the International Kindergarten in Kathmandu. Student enrollment rose from 50 to 60 by early 2012. The vision is

to provide a school-church model of ministry, a place for church programs and a means for sustainability for the mission.

In February 2012 the Upasana Moravian Church in Nepal celebrated its fifteenth anniversary. We are grateful for God’s continued challenge and blessing for this vital ministry.

Revs. Vani & Shanti Pradhan Nepal Moravian Church

Adopt a Village

The major focus of the MCWT orphan program, supported in part by Adopt a Village, is education. At the end of 2011, 439 orphans, having passed the government’s entrance exam, are attending secondary school on the program’s full scholarships. Two examples of orphans who have benefited from our scholarship awards include: Asha Mikadadi is the eldest of five orphans being raised by their elderly grandparents in the city of Tabora.

Since 2008 she has attended a special government secondary school for exceptional girls. She is now enrolled at an elite two year high school for gifted women before moving on to the university.

Leonard Sindano, from the village of Kikungu, was raised by his older brother; he will graduate in May as a secondary school teacher.

The program orphans are being well prepared to be productive citizens in the Tanzanian nation of tomorrow.

Drs. Bill and Peg Hoffman

Partnerships

Global Partners

As Moravians in North America we like to sing with conviction and passion “for us, for us the Lamb was slain!” And yes, it is good to remember what the Lamb has done for us. It’s also very exciting to look around and see the new things that the Lamb continues to do… through us! So we begin by remembering who we are. We are part of a Worldwide Unity. We are not alone, but walk together with our part-

formerly unreached Garifuna people in neighboring Belize.

In Nicaragua, the church has caught the vision for new opportunities in the interior regions of the country where Moravians have not gone before.

God has given Moravians a vision for prison ministry, rehabilitation centers, addiction counseling centers, ners in many areas of the even a Music School for the world: Western Tanzania, visually impaired!

Labrador, Alaska, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa In Costa Rica, the Provincial Board and others Rica and Eastern West have hopes of sharing the Indies. good news in coastal areas In Honduras, in the south of the Nicaraguan midst of ongoing division border. The multi-purpose in the church, God conbuilding (in Limon) that tinues to be faithful! The Honduras Moravian church will also house the School of Music and Worship is promoting leadership (EMA) is nearing compledevelopment and have renewed steps toward rec- tion and will provide more onciliation with the tradi- opportunities for mission and ministry together. tional group that split off many years ago. Honduran “To us, to us this task is given: to spread God’s Moravians in the Garifuna Word. Amen!” area, led by Rev. Mario Sam Gray Mejia, are reaching out to Spanish Resource Summit God is doing a relatively new thing through us among people who speak Spanish. There is a need to share Moravian resources and materials among our Moravian provinces and mission outreach areas of Peru, Cuba, Miami, Bethlehem and Winston-Salem. In September, representatives from Spanish-speaking areas of the Moravian Church will gather in Costa Rica to begin to pool the resources that God has given them. It will be an exciting time of sharing and discovering the even newer things that God wants to do… through us!

Global Partners

Ahuas

fore, but today He is working on Letricia’s snakebite.

Under a blue sky about His anti-venom stops her a dozen years ago, Mike and I were out walking on bleeding. Our blue towel the savannah. I turned to supplies for surgery and deliveries were low. He him and said, “I’m having moved Joann to send us a hard time seeing God at more now. work in the Clinic. What

I have seen Him heal do you see Him doing?” other fractures, but today On his face, I read both He is working on Dante’s disappointment and paelbow, restoring function. tience. “God does so much Donors have felt His call in around us every day, Gethe past; this time Charles rard,” he replied, “Just put is giving so Eliazer can acon your glasses and look.” cess cancer care.

Carla’s “I am about to do a seizures and Tamika’s HIV new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive are controlled. Sameria’s baby, born prematurely, it?” (Isaiah 43:19a) The sunrise, though it happens lives. People pray for me; Kent’s e-mail says he is each day as I walk on the praying for me today. The savannah, is God at work doing a “new thing”. Dawn list of ways that God cares for us and our patients is is comforting in its familendless. iarity, yet each marks the Mike was right, of start of a new day. course. “Putting on the I have seen God work glasses” has filled me with on snakebite victims be-

a deep sense of gratitude.

As I prepare to leave the Clinic, I thank God for letting me witness daily His capacity to heal and for pulling miracles from impending tragedy. Thanks for your continued prayers and support.

Dr. Gerard Rudy

Dr. Rudy, along with his wife, Dr. Norvelle Goff, and son Peter moved back to the U.S. in June 2012 after almost 20 years of service in Ahuas, Honduras. We acknowledge the important work they have done to meet the health needs of the people of Honduras.

Dr. Ovelio Lopez began as director of the medical work in Honduras this past November. He has a background in Family, Gynecologic and Obstetric medicine and brings a strong vision for expanding the medical program and adding means for sustainability of the mission.

Global Partners Labrador

While the Board is excited to explore new Mission opportunities, Labrador stands out as the oldest mission area for which we have oversight responsibility. God did a new thing in Labrador by calling Beatrice Hope to be the first native woman ordained in Labrador. In September 2011 Beatrice, after completing her theological training, took her ordination vows and accepted a call to serve in Hopedale. This represents a significant step in the re-establishment of native leadership in the Labrador Church.

Labrador is in the

midst of a cultural shift from subsistence to a modern lifestyle while still maintaining their native cultural heritage. The Labrador Church also is walking this delicate balance between maintaining the past customs while being relevant in the current culture.

Recent changes in Labrador Church leadership has helped develop a stronger leadership base within the Provincial Board. The Board of World Mission’s role is to walk with and mentor the Labrador Church as they move toward self-sufficiency.

Loren Jendro

Guyana

Your Theme of “I am about to do something new” also ties in with our theme for this year, “Be Renewed in the Spirit and Mind unto new blessings with the Lord” (Ephesians 4:23) as we prayerfully seek to do new things for him as we too are renewed.

Examples of the spiritled new initiatives are embodied in the Strategic Church Empowering and Development Programme which focuses on spiritual, membership and financial growth,

incorporating evangelism Lord’s favour upon our outreach and social minis- collective ministry. try through the proposed Rev. Brinmore Phaul school feeding programme.

Chairman Thank You, with the

Global Partners Western Tanzania

First and foremost, I would like to thank God for His safekeeping and great love which He continues to show to me personally and in the daily life of the Moravian Church in Western Tanzania (MCWT) Province. Our province has continued to witness His great blessing and grace day after day, moving from a time of restlessness and difficulty to one of peace and more effective ministry. Provincial leaders and others have preached in distant outstations with encouraging results.

In one instance in our southern District 96 non-

Christians were converted and of them 47 adults and 49 children were baptized. We are planning to purchase motorbikes and install solar panels to aid in our pastoral ministry to remote areas. Our province

covers a large area and benefits greatly from mutual cooperation with our partners. We are grateful for your ongoing support and prayers.

Rev. John Italazyo, Chair Western Tanzania Province

Mission Partnerships More and more the BWM is partnering with congregations and individuals in mission. As a board we promote a model of accompaniment which affirms the partner’s strengths and passion, while learning from each other as we develop healthy ministries worldwide. Such ministries strive to be centered on Christ, affirming all voices at the table, providing effective accountability, and promoting self-reliance and long-term viability.

Our board developed guidelines for mission partnerships that include:

• Begin with listening to others’ strengths and needs • Develop together goals and strategies consistent with the local culture & resources • Share decision making and responsibility • Maintain good communication • Be attentive to the handling and accounting of funds • Equip local partners to sustain their own future • Limit long-term dependence on outside funding Especially as we develop new work in Cuba, Si-

erra Leone, and Peru, it will be important to avoid a spirit of dependency as we affirm how God is already moving in those mission areas.

An important question before our North American church today is how we can share our blessing of wealth in ways that empower others and promote dignity rather than dependency. We welcome your insight as we struggle together with this question!

Financial Report The year 2011 brought some difficult challenges for BWM, with expenses significantly higher than income. There were some noteworthy unbudgeted expenses with the search for an executive director, increasing costs for the work in Mississippi and expenses for frequent trips to help with the new power struggle within the church in Honduras.

We also resumed our subsidy support to Honduras, something that had been held for the two previous years in an ineffective attempt to promote reconciliation. And this was a year where there was a significant loss in anticipated investment income.

Fortunately, the support of our provinces and other donors remained strong despite the need to decrease their own commitments. In one instance the commitment increased.

Also, previous years of investment return had developed a strong reserve on which we could fall to continue our obligations in mission.

In 2011, restricted funds were tapped to fund the Adopt-a-Village

program, the HUKWAFA program for community strengthening in Mwanza, Tanzania, the Ray of Hope orphanage in Kenya, the work at the Bilwaskarma Clinic in Nicaragua and the development of a selfsustainability project for a coffee house in Nicaragua.

Disaster relief donations provided welcome aid for a nutrition program and medications in Haiti, tornado relief in the South and flood relief in Honduras, as well as the ongoing rebuilding work in Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina.

The Board is reviewing budget and expenses in 2012 to be good stewards of that which is given us, while also trusting God for the ministry before us. We see tremendous opportunities for sharing God’s love through our ongoing partnerships, but also through the new work that has been delegated to us in Peru, Cuba and Sierra Leone. We are grateful to all who walk with us in this ministry.

Judy Ganz Executive Director

Financial Report 2011 Revenues

Temporarily Restricted Funds Released

Unrestricted Contributions

Southern Mission Society and Belo Estate

$36,000

$269,011

$131,696

Society for Promoting the Gospel

Northern, Southern and Alaskan Provincial Support

$586,982

$181,164

$1,201,993 $1,328,177 ($126,184)

Total 2011 Revenues Total 2011 Expenditures Net excess (deficiency)

2011 Expenditures Assistance Grants

$644,693 Ministry Management

$363,884 General Operations

$237,007

Supplies, materials, occupancy Publications, communications

$12,775

Travel, meetings

$42,194

$27,624

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