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In many of the places where CBM works, vulnerable women and out-of-school youth struggle to get by. Within self-help groups, they receive training and access to equipment and supplies (sewing machines/wood-working tools) so they can earn equitable wages with support, encouragement, and accountability. Your gift allows women and youth to join local income-generating self-help groups.
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Engaging in business for God's Kingdom can be a powerful force leading to community transformation and alleviating poverty. In places like Nagaland (India) and Capiz (Philippines) gaining capital to start or grow a business is difficult to access. Your gift will provide capital to help Global South entrepreneurs.
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In Atrica, Latin America, and Asia, CBM is working with our partners to provide training on integrating faith with work, and how understanding work as God intended it, can lead to whole-life discipleship and mission. Your gift will help provide pastors and church/community leaders with this important training, which leads to transformed lives and communities.
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We need your support in order for us to respond immediately in saving lives and participate in long-term reconstruction to help restore communities. Help us respond to crises when they happen.
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We need your support in order for us to respond immediately in saving lives and participate in long-term reconstruction to help restore communities. Help us respond to crises when they happen.
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We need your support in order for us to respond immediately in saving lives and participate in long-term reconstruction to help restore communities. Help us respond to crises when they happen.
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In places like India, CBM works in partnership to build up leaders that help transform their communities. Local pastors and community leaders are equipped theologically to implement sustainable projects that minister to women, children, men, and families with their daily struggles and challenges.
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By coming alongside churches in Rwanda, CBM helps build their capacity to effectively reach their communities. Through leadership development and skills training, resource mobilization, and sustainable programming, pastors are equipped to minister holistically and expand their reach with the Gospel.
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In Guatemala, CBM partners with ENLACEs Church and Community Program. By providing leadership training the local church is able to develop leaders that engage their communities to recognize and implement programs that bring meaningful transformation. Issues such as poverty are addressed with long-term solutions in mind. Leaders are mobilizing communities by offering biblical reflection, workshops, and support with managing community projects.
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Working alongside our partners in the MENA region, CBM supports equipping faithful men and women for effective ministry. In Lebanon, ABTS provides Arabic- language theological education and leadership formation for Arab Church leaders. In Egypt, we're working with the Egyptian Baptist Convention to provide pastoral training and care, integral mission training, and more.
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CBM's Chinese Ministries team serves Chinese students who come to study in Germany. These students face the challenge of being away from home and learning a new language. Many have never heard the Gospel before. By extending hospitality and friendship, Field Staff are able to share Jesus through Bible studies, meals, youth groups, family ministries, and counselling
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Sports play an important role in society and, when incorporated into ministry, they can act as a bridge between churches and communities to share the love of Christ. Your gift will provide opportunity for youth from rural communities in India with high levels of unemployment and school dropouts to participate in soccer training and play in district, state, and national-level tournaments.
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In Lebanon, LSESD's community partners continue to create child-friendly spaces that provide 700 children with a secure environment in which they can play, learn, and socialize. Your support enables children to maintain and restore their well- being during times of crisis.
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Lessons in music, hairstyling, English, and crafts are just some of the ways that IBAREDO, our partners in the Dominican Republic, provide vulnerable children and their families access to resources and skills training. They also provide families with kits of basic school supplies and healthy snacks. Your gift can help increase their access to opportunities for education, employment, and social development.
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In Kenya, a lack of sex education means that many girls fail to understand what is happening to them when they transition from childhood to adulthood. Through this project, schools are being equipped with a team of mentors, including women from the church and female teachers, to provide education and counselling to girls so they can navigate these life changes well.
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KPM also provides financial assistance for the younger generation to take steps towards a brighter future. Your gift will help youth to start and/or finish a college degree, find a good job, and support their spiritual and leadership formation.
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CBM's partner in the Philippines, KPM, serves in five communities in Capiz province where the quality of early childhood education is lacking. With your support, the childcare centres in these communities focus on education, play, and nutrition.
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Women with incarcerated husbands are at an increased risk of living in poverty with their children. Eagles Wings is an initiative in Bolivia that brings them together to learn how to run their own small sewing businesses. Your gift will help women as they meet for spiritual support while gaining practical skills in budgeting and parenting.
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With your help, local churches are a beacon of hope by providing emergency relief, food baskets for low- income families, and school support for children. Your gift trains pastors and leaders in Bolivia to respond to the needs of their communities through integral mission—addressing physical, spiritual, and social issues.
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In the Middle East and North Africa, opportunities for women to be theological educators and church leaders are scarce. Arab Baptist Theological Seminary empowers and equips female staff and students through theological education and leadership formation. Your gift will support women as they follow God's calling to play an active role within the Arab Church.
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In Rwanda, when women are supported, they are better equipped to start a business, gain employment, learn new skills, and meaningfully participate in parenting and family matters. Your gift funds literacy programs, self-help groups, and family ministries, all of which operate in 11 communities.
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Training Droughts and floods in Baliet County in South Sudan have brought devastation to the farms of recent returnees who fled their homes during the civil war. Your gift will help households learn conservation agriculture techniques that will protect their crops from harsh and unpredictable weather.
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Access to clean water for communities in rural Togo improves sanitation, hygiene, and overall quality of life. Instead of spending time trekking to a water source, community members are able to attend work or school, as well as be free from waterborne diseases. Give the gift of renewed health to those who need it most.
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Youth in rural areas of El Salvador often abandon family farms as their profitability decreases. Your gift can support young entrepreneurs as they revive local farms with new ecologically viable techniques that increase income levels, dignity, and their standing within the community.
