SAM Gift Catalog 2011-12

Gift Catalog 2011-12 DRINK GOOD COFFEE. GET MISSION MOVING. SEE INSIDE FOR DETAILS.

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his year’s Gift Catalog, published as a special edition of Window on South America, presents a series of ministry vignettes that together paint a beautiful picture of God’s

work through South America Mission. The ministries you will discover here all exemplify the core strategies we employ to achieve the vision God has given us for South America: Christ calling Redeemed Lives together to form Beautiful Churches whose impact on the world around them is Transformed Communities.

As you explore the ministries of SAM, envision the local expressions of the church in South America growing and giving glory to God through the work to which He has called us. You will also become aware of specific ways that you can direct your financial resources in partnership with SAM—to keep the good work going strong.

We are glad to provide a way for you to honor a friend, family member or organization by making a donation to these ministries upon any special occasion throughout the year; please let us know how we can help you announce your donation as a gift. We can make a phone call on your behalf, or supply you with a card to make your announcement.

We hope this publication will serve as a useful tool for you, guiding you to creative ways for giving gifts. Also, we value your prayers. We encourage you to keep this publication in a convenient drawer or on your bookshelf so you can refer to it regularly to pray for the ministries highlighted.

Thank you for your prayers and generosity. We trust that the news of God’s work through SAM will be a blessing to you.

Yours in Christ,

Kirk Ogden Executive Director

SAM Bolivia, Colombia and Paraguay together for SAM2020.

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2-Bring Healing Through Medical Outreach 1-Achieve the Vision

3-Protect Beautiful Life

4-Give Wings to God’s Word 5-Support Indigenous Church Growth

8-Give Food and Shelter 6-Enrich a Missionary’s Experience 7-Offer the Hope of Redemption

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GIFT CATALOG DIRECTORY AND GIFT GIVING INSTRUCTIONS 1. Detach the Order Form from the enclosed envelope, indicate your giving amounts on the form and return it in the self-addressed envelope. Include your credit card information or check made out to South America Mission.

Make your donation as a gift In Memory of or In Honor of someone.

Request note cards on the order form to announce your gift.

2. Give your gifts online at www.southamericamission.org/givingguide 3. Call us today to give. 803-802-8580, Mon-Fri 8:30-5.

9-Reach Out in The Guajira Desert

11-Help a New Church Plant Grow

13-Give Hope Scholarships

10-Develop Church Leaders

12-Bless the Children

14-Empower Training in the Church

SOUTH AMERICA MISSION—VISION-DRIVEN

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Help Us Achieve A Beautiful Vision.

GIFT SUGGESTIONS for Vision Funding

t $250 nurtures SAM women w/ Women of The Harvest resources. t $500 develops ministries through CrossGlobal Link participation. t $3,000 engages missionary candidates at over 80 colleges in 2011-12.

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e praise God for the century of faithful service He has given to South America Mission. We celebrate God’s past faithfulness and joyfully commit to fulfilling our Vision: Christ calling Redeemed Lives together to form Beautiful Churches whose impact on the world around them is Transformed Communities.

At our core is a group of missionaries and South American ministry partners making significant sacrifices to see the church of Jesus Christ growing and impacting the world.

Our donors, both individuals and congregations who in their giving demonstrate their passion for God’s global purposes, make it possible for us to lead a mission organization towards achieving the beautiful Vision God has given us.

South America Mission will continue to do life-transforming work a continent away.

Achieving our Vision will require us to engage more candidates for missionary service, to develop ministries that effectively engage the culture for Christ, and to nurture the spiritual vitality of our missionary corps. Give a gift that allows us to engage, develop, and nurture down the road towards achieving a Vision.

“For the vision is yet for the appointed time…Though it tarries, wait for it; It will certainly come, it will not delay.” Habakkuk 2:3 www.southamericamission.org/givingguide

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BOLIVIA—INDIGENOUS AND RURAL MEDICAL OUTREACH

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Send Medical and Dental Care. Send Hope and Healing.

GIFT SUGGESTIONS for Indigenous and Rural Medical Outreach

t $100 provides medicine for one village clinic. t $1,000 sustains 10 village clinics serving 500 patients. t $50,000 buys a new boat to reach more people.

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ach year SAM missionaries visit remote villages along the rivers in the Beni department of northern Bolivia. We sail for 10 days down several rivers, able to visit at most only two villages per day, some days none when the villages are longer distances apart. The people seen and cared for say that months go by and no one comes. No one coming means that in most cases there is no gospel proclamation, no announcing of hope and healing.

We spend time with and take medical care to the people of these villages as often as possible, with the resources God gives us. We do it so that no one will say “no one comes” anymore, so that felt needs will be met and God’s redeeming passion for the world will be embodied to transform lives.

We embody this passion by holding medical clinics administered by our missionary doctors and nurses. Basic and regular treatment of medical conditions, which sometimes requires minor surgical procedures, brings physical relief and healing that creates a platform to talk about the complete healing of the soul that God has provided in Jesus. We can provide medical care in the villages for only $1000 per trip, about $2 per patient. Also, a newer, more modern boat with a more efficient engine would afford more time on the river reaching more people; a reasonable budget for purchasing a boat is $50,000.

GIVE THIS INSTEAD! “Dear Mom: This year, in your honor, we sent medical supplies to help people who live in the Amazon basin.” www.southamericamission.org/givingguide

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PERU—HEARTBEATS OF HOPE CRISIS PREGNANCY

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Help Pave the Way for Beautiful Life at the Edge of the Amazon.

GIFT SUGGESTIONS for Heartbeats of Hope

t $25 provides an ultrasound for one client. t $100 buys one month of radio and newspaper promotion. t $150 provides a crib for a new mother to use the first year.

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eartbeats of Hope, or Latidos de Esperanza in Spanish—a crisis pregnancy center— formed out of a partnership of seven churches in Pucallpa, Peru. The vision is for a community so transformed by the Gospel that the biblical teachings on purity, marriage and the sanctity of human life are upheld and honored across all generations.

Estimates state that approximately 1,100 unborn babies die each day in Peru, and 800 mothers die annually due to complications.

Heartbeats of Hope is only the 7th crisis pregnancy center in the entire country of Peru (population 30,000,000) and the first in the jungle region. With proper volunteer training, strategic promotion, instructional resources for clients and some basic necessities for young mothers, we can help to literally save lives and impact young families as we care for them in the love, grace and mercy of Jesus Christ.

A gift as small as $25 provides an ultrasound—a powerful means through which expecting moms can connect to the life forming inside. $100 will pay for one month of radio and newspaper promotion to reach more women with the news of the center’s services. $150 buys a wooden crib for a new mother to use for the first year.

Estimates state that approximately 1,100 unborn babies die each day in Peru, and 800 mothers die annually due to complications. www.southamericamission.org/givingguide

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PERU—SAMAIR MISSION AVIATION

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Give Wings to God’s Word in the Amazon Jungle.

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magine an aerial view of a Cessna 206 float plane, suspended above the backdrop of an Amazon River tributary with a remote village on its flooded banks. That’s what you see in the photo above, where all the pieces of the landscape come together and convey the integral role that aviation plays in the ministry of South America Mission: getting fulfillers of the Great Commission to the hard-to-reach places, to the people in those remote, village homes, with the good news of Jesus, shared in the flesh. We are landing that float plane you see and creating crossroads of humanity, intersections of lives through which God is made known.

SAMAIR is a mission mobilization catalyst. The SAMAIR hangar in Pucallpa, Peru, is not only the key hub for SAM aviation operations, but also a key gathering place for the dispersion of God’s labor force out into the Amazon. 3FDFOUMZ B WJPMFOU TUPSN EFTUSPZFE UIF IBOHBS SPPG UIBU QSPUFDUT UIF BJSQMBOFT ćF TUPSN EBNBHF BMTP FYQPTFE EFDBZ JO UIF SPPG JOGSBTUSVDUVSF UIF SFTVMU PG EFDBEFT PG FOEVSJOH UIF 1FSVWJBO USPQJDT 2VBMJUZ BOE TBGFUZ BSF WJUBM QJMMBST UP BOZ NJTTJPO BWJBUJPO NJOJTUSZ " SFCVJMU QSPUFDUJWF BOE TFDVSF SPPG BMMPXT UIF 4"."*3 UFBN JO 1FSV UP DPOĕEFOUMZ VQIPME UIFTF QJMMBST (JWF B HJę UIBU SFCVJMET UIF SPPG QSPUFDUT BOE TFDVSFT NJOJTUSZ BTTFUT BOE TBGFMZ TFOET XPSLFST PVU JOUP UIF "NB[PO‰UISPVHI UIF BJS‰UP SFBQ B IBSWFTU

Scan the code to learn more about the ministry of SAMAIR. Also, visit southamericamission.org and click on the SAMAIR photo to give. www.southamericamission.org/givingguide

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BRAZIL—CONPLEI 2012

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Join an Important Indigenous Church Movement.

Scan the code below with your smartphone barcode app to watch “CONPLEI 2012”.

GIFT SUGGESTIONS for CONPLEI 2012

t $100 pays for an indigenous couple to attend CONPLEI 2012. t $1,000 helps provide basic provisions for CONPLEI 2012. t $10 + S&H for one bag 12oz First Fruits Brazilian coffee to support CONPLEI 2012. Visit firstfruitscafe.com to place your order.

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ONPLEI stands for the National Council of Indigenous Evangelical Pastors and Church Leaders in Brazil. In July of 2012, CONPLEI will hold its quadrennial meeting at the Ammi Training Center in Chapada dos Guimaraes, Brazil. In 1995, with the help of SAM missionaries and indigenous partners from Brazil, Ammi was founded to train leaders to strengthen and grow the indigenous church.

CONPLEI 2012 will bring together over four days an unprecedented number of evangelical indigenous leaders. More than 3,000 will gather to propel the CONPLEI movement forward as it continues to grow the church among the 340 tribal groups of Brazil. There are still over 100 tribal groups in the jungles with no gospel witness.

As an expression of the strategic alliance between CONPLEI and South America Mission, Ammi, where many of the indigenous pastors have been trained, will host the event. This will be a massive undertaking and only possible as God brings the necessary resources together. Total costs for one day of CONPLEI 2012 are $32,500. Your gift will build an important foundation of support for CONPLEI 2012, and prove critical to the work of reaching every tribe and tongue with the gospel.

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ALL FIELDS—SAM2020

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Make Ministry Effective and Enrich Missionary Spiritual Vitality.

GIFT SUGGESTIONS for SAM2020

t $15 buys a spiritual formation book for a missionary. t $550 provides a training resource for each SAM missionary.

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outh America Mission remains committed to seeing thousands of local communities of the redeemed making disciples in a way that fulfills Jesus’ Great Commission.

SAM2020 is the name we have given to our honest and careful process of renewal—a process that will allow us to honor God by being available for His purposes in us. Key to this renewal is an understanding: we are who we are because of who Jesus is first and foremost.

Our efforts through SAM2020 will be given to enriching our spiritual vitality, assessing our present effectiveness, goals and needs as well as asking God to show us what more He would have us do. We will invest in responding to our assessments and dreams by better equipping the SAM missionary team, by improving how we resource our core strategies and ministries and by making changes that respond to the realities of our context.

We will coordinate the SAM2020 renewal across multiple countries and with over 100 missionaries and South American ministry partners. We need materials and resources that guide us through the renewal process, ground our spiritual vitality, encourage us to dream, and equip us to run the race to see God’s vision become reality.

Follow the SAM2020 process as it unfolds http://samsouthamerica.wordpress.com www.southamericamission.org/givingguide

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BOLIVIA—AYORÉ GIRLS CAMP

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The Hope of Redemption and Transformation is Theirs– Make It Known.

GIFT SUGGESTIONS for Ayoré Indigenous Outreach

t $35 sends one Ayoré girl to the seven-day, 2012 camp. t $150 subsidizes a mid-year “mini” retreat for 10 girls.

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difficult, stark reality of a situation in Bolivia: Ayoré girls, some as young as 12, spend many days bound by the shadows of prostitution and drug use. God called South America Mission over a half century ago to the Ayoré people. As we continue to go and respond, our message continues to be one of redemption and transformation in Jesus Christ. The stark reality of Jesus: He is able to make beauty from ashes, something beautiful and pure out of violated innocence.

In response to these realities, the SAM ministry team in Bolivia held a camp for Ayoré girls in July, 2011. Hopeful for perhaps 30 girls to come, 70 in the end came over seven days to hear the message: “Dupade checae yoque”, i.e., God Transforms Us. In partnership with Gather Network and Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, mid-year “mini” retreats will maintain contact and follow-up with the girls. And, after a hugely effective inaugural major camp, it will become an annual event—planned next for July 2012. We need your partnership to keep reaching these Ayoré girls. Send one girl to camp for $35, or create the space for discipleship to happen through one of the midyear mini retreats—$150 will allow 10 girls to attend a retreat and begin to go deeper understanding all that God intends them to be through Jesus.

Request copies of this catalog for your church, family, neighbors or organization. Indicate on your order form.

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BRAZIL—REDEMPTIVE MINISTRY IN RECIFE

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Provide Food and Shelter, Hope and Comfort in Brazil.

GIFT SUGGESTIONS for Recife Redemptive Ministry

t $25 fills a food basket for a family in need. t $350 builds 10% of a new home in a developing community.

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raig and Mary Delille walked through Frei Damião, a forgotten section of Dois Unidos, on the outskirts of Recife, Brazil, and knew right away their calling to provide adequate housing to replace the patch-work tin and tarp-covered homes in which many families were living. They soon learned that behind the thin veils of homes were other desperate needs like food and literacy training. Most notably, there was the need to know that God’s love extends to every corner of this world, especially to the seemingly forgotten places.

In partnership with local churches, our desire is to respond to the felt needs we encounter in South America, demonstrating God’s heart for the poor in their local communities.

SAM’s Redemptive Outreach in Recife provides food baskets as a way of addressing felt needs while longer term, sustainable change evolves. We are also building modest but safe and secure homes in communities like Dois Unidos for $3500 per home— $2500 for materials and $1000 for labor.

A gift of $25 buys a food basket that gives necessary sustenance—and a big dose of hope.

A gift of $350 is like placing a foundational brick in one of the new homes in developing areas of Recife. You can make an immediate impact with gifts to this ministry in Brazil.

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COLOMBIA—WAYUU MINISTRY IN THE GUAJIRA DESERT

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Help The Wayuu Reach Out in The Guajira Desert.

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ach day before dawn at 4:30am, a Wayuu pastor offers a devotional over the Oasis Radio broadcast to the Wayuu people in the Guajira desert of northern Colombia. A devotional begins the day and all the way until 8pm this ministry keeps its broadcast live with gospel teaching, music, news, and advice on topics ranging from health to agriculture. Also, for an hour each day, Oasis shares a broadcast to its Spanish-speaking audience from the HCJB radio ministry in Ecuador. Disseminating meaningful content with the power to transform lives is at the heart of Oasis’ mission.

Radio is a powerful tool—sometimes the only tool—to reach people regularly with news of God’s love and redemption. South America Mission, in partnership with a Wayuu church association in the Guajira called FUNDIEGUA, is passionate to see Oasis make Jesus’ name famous through its broadcast ministry.

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ALL FIELDS—CHURCH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

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Develop Leaders for the Church in South America.

Scan the code below with your smartphone barcode app to learn more about a SAM training center.

GIFT SUGGESTIONS for Church Leadership Development

t $50 provides books and study materials for a student. t $600 provides fees for one student, for one full year of training.

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n Bolivia, the Center for Integral Theological Education (CIET) trains the workingclass men and women in the urban center of Santa Cruz to be leaders in the church.

In Brazil, the Ammi Training Center serves indigenous people from the over 340 tribal groups of this great country. To the north in Colombia, CENFOW is a church leadership development center for the Wayuu people who can claim only one pastor for every 45,000 Wayuu. In Peru, the Ashaninka Bible Institute (IBA) is instrumental in developing the many small churches that are springing up among this people group of 30,000. Also in Peru but in the jungle center of Pucallpa, an initiative called INTEP, focused on a more semi-literate demographic, is preparing leaders to be agents of transformation in a city that in recent years has experienced a rise in violence and abortion.

Our aim through leadership training: agents of transformation, first grounded in Christ.

Their impact is more glory to God through redeemed lives and transformed communities.

The cost of preparing Godly leaders—agents of transformation—in places like the Amazon Jungle is almost insignificant compared to North American standards.

For just $50 per month, or $600 per year, we can train well a leader whose heart is set on transforming the world for Christ.

Make a donation as a gift In Memory of or In Honor of someone.

Request note cards on the order form to announce your gift. www.southamericamission.org/givingguide

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BOLIVIA—CHURCH PLANTING

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issionaries to Bolivia, Tom and Janine Throssel report of a new, rural church plant in Santa Cruz. The congregation is now close to 80, and, mostly made up of children.

That’s right, children—many from families devastated by alcohol abuse—who catch a ride in the pastor’s truck each Sunday to meet in an open yard. “It’s a scene so basic and bare, but beautiful, these children and a few adults so hungry for God’s word,� remarks Janine.

This fledgling congregation is about to outgrow the space they have been given use of for a year. They’d like to have a shelter on a piece of land that is theirs with a few Bibles and places to sit—a space that is conducive to their regular meeting, where they can be attentive and worship, and where they can invite their neighbors in‌being the Church.

The Church of Jesus Christ is the people of God, redeemed and transforming the world.

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ALL FIELDS—CHILDREN’S MINISTRY

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Help Meet the Spiritual and Physical Needs of Children.

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n each context of ministry in South America, we realize the importance of capturing the hearts and minds of children for Christ. That is why missionaries like Frank and Luz Zaijek in Gaira, Colombia, lead a thriving AWANA ministry in partnership with the local church. Or why the Children’s Ministry Team of Bolivia holds day camps for AyorĂŠ children and weekend “Princessâ€? conferences for girls discovering their identities in Christ. Or why missionary Matthew Morrison in Paraguay puts structuring a meaningful Children’s Ministry in local churches at the top of his priority list.

Children are often the most receptive to God’s love, but they are also the most vulnerable to believing that the brokenness they experience is all they can ever expect out of the life given to them. We need to teach them, to show them the true love and wholeness in Christ and how the experience of Christ’s love changes everything. :PV DBO IFMQ VT UFBDI UIF DIJMESFO XJUI TNBMM BOE HJęT UIBU FOBCMF VT UP CVZ NBUFSJBMT BOE TVQQMJFT UP DBSSZ PVU EBZ DBNQT BOE XFFLFOE DPOGFSFODFT XIFSF UIF DIJMESFO DPNF UP MFBSO BCPVU $ISJTU BOE TFF UIF MPWF PG $ISJTU MJWFE PVU JO UIF MJWFT PG NJTTJPOBSJFT

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COLOMBIA—LA ESPERANZA SCHOLARSHIPS & SUPPLIES

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Enable La Esperanza to Transform Through Hope.

Scan the code below with your smartphone barcode app to watch “Hope in Santa Marta�.

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a Esperanza means “hope�. In the context of El Colegio Cristiano La Esperanza in Santa Marta, Colombia, teachers and staff point students to the one, true hope who is Jesus Christ.

The educational philosophy emphasizes spiritual, intellectual and physical development grounded in strong biblical values. With a top-three ranking in its state in Colombia, the impact La Esperanza is having on hundreds of students and their families and the communities in which they live is truly transformative.

As a ministry of La Esperanza Church in Santa Marta, the school is committed to enhancing its impact by being a viable education option for families across the socio-economic spectrum. La Esperanza can reach more communities with quality, transformative education—with your help.

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PERU—THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION

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Raise Up a Leadership Corps From Within the Local Church.

Scan the code below with your smartphone barcode app to watch a video about a ministry of Mil Palmeras.

GIFT SUGGESTIONS for Church-Based Theological Education

• $10 sends a church leader through one ETBIL training level.

• $65 sends a local pastor through a Leadership Series course.

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ive years ago, SAM missionaries in Peru planted Iglesia Mil Palmeras, also known as Thousand Palms Church. Today, Mil Palmeras is transforming its community by embodying the Kingdom of God. With over 400 congregants, they are now exploring planting a daughter church in another town in the Amazon jungle.

The charge to be used as vessels to transform lives is growing out of a lay movement within Mil Palmeras. An important tool for equipping these lay leaders is a church-based theological education program called BILD (known as ETBIL in Latin America, “Educación Teológica Basada en La Iglesia Local”). Recently, the congregation of Mil Palmeras began training using ETBIL resources as a regular part of weekly worship services. There are also 12 pastors local to the area of Mil Palmeras who, alongside Mil Palmeras leadership, have committed to the ETBIL Leadership Series.

This educational model is accessible, affordable and effective for many in the Latin American church. You can send more leaders at Mil Palmeras through deeper levels of ETBIL training for only $10 per person. Local pastors can pursue each level of the Leadership Series for only $65 per level.

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Gift Categories and Suggested Amounts

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Your Gift

1 – $250 nurtures SAM women w/ WOTH resources.

79071

5 – $100 for a couple’s registration to CONPLEI 2012. 77421

1 – $500 develops ministries w/ CrossGlobal Link.

79071

5 – $1,000 for basic provisions for CONPLEI 2012.

77421

6 – $15 spiritual formation book for a missionary.

77401

6 – $550 training resource for each missionary.

77401

7 – $35 sends one Ayoré girl to the 2012 camp.

70492

7 – $150 supports a retreat day for 10 girls.

70492

8 – $25 fills a food basket for someone in need.

71461

8 – $350 builds 10% of a new home.

71461

9 – $25 buys one day of Oasis radio broadcast.

72449

9 – $650 buys one month of Oasis radio broadcast.

72449

10 – $50 books and study materials for a student.

77410

1 – $3,000 engages candidates at 80 college campuses. 79071 2 – $100 provides medicine for one village clinic.

70493

2 – $1,000 sustains 10 village clinics.

70493

2 – $50,000 buys a new boat to reach more people.

70493

3 – $25 buys an ultrasound for one Latidos client.

74460

3 – $100 buys one month of media promotion.

74460

3 – $150 provides a crib for a new mother.

74460

4 – $50 puts metal back on the SAMAIR roof.

74422

4 – $250 buys wood to rebuild the SAMAIR roof.

74422

4 – $15,000 fully restores the SAMAIR roof.

74422

Gift Categories and Suggested Amounts

ID

10 – $600 one full year of training for a student.

77410

11 – $7 provides a Bible for a child in the church.

70442

11 – $20 builds a wooden bench for the church.

70442

12 – $10 sends a boy to a Men of Valor camp.

77443

12 – $20 sends a girl to a Princess conference.

77443

13 – $15 packet of school supplies for a student.

72446

13 – $300 one annual scholarship to La Esperanza.

72446

14 – $10 materials for one ETBIL training level.

77410

14 – $65 ETBIL Leadership Series for a pastor.

77410

Only suggested gift amounts are listed. ANY amount you give is greatly appreciated and will be applied directly to the projects.

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Gift Categories and Suggested Amounts

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Your Gift

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Items listed in this publication are for the sole purpose of illustrating goods and services used in ministry projects. Occasionally we receive more contributions for a given project than can wisely be applied to that project. When this happens, we apply these funds to the general ministry of SAM. Gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.