For over past several years, I have been working with several Christian organizations and non-profits in order to network and to develop relationships. I currently have been working with the Finial Frontiers Foundation at link http://www.finalfrontiers.org/ . Final Frontiers Foundation, whose effective purpose is to take the Gospel to the more than 3 billion souls who have never before heard the message of the Good News. Currently they are ministering in more than seventy-three countries on five continents. These are countries and peoples primarily closed to traditional missionary outreach, but open to us because of our unique method of missions. They believe that the training and subsidizing of national preachers is the most efficient and effective method of global evangelism. Thus, they seek to raise prayer and financial support from believers in America, for Gods servants abroad, who are actively involved in church planning and discipleship. All those subsidized thru this foundation are involved in church planting. Their various outreach ministries include Bible translation, radio broadcasting, camps, Bible schools, outdoor and film evangelism, educational and health programs, blind and leper ministries, orphan centers and refugee ministries. You can download their online brochure provides a brief overview of Final Frontiers Foundation. I traveled with the founder of Finial Frontiers Foundation Jon Nelms and his son Daniel to the Dominican Republic. We planed to visit Haiti, but because of instability were not able to make that trip to visit churches in that region. We did however visit several churches in the Dominican Republic and did a very successful outreach event. We had over six hundred first time visitors to this local church by giving hotdogs to first time visitors. We cooked and served them in about two hours and preached the Gospel message to them. They live in bateyes, which describes as a community which population works mainly in duties, at the sugar cane field as well as in factories, linked to the sugar cane sown and sugar manufacturing. Batey is born with the sugar mill. The mill owners, in the mill ground, to lodge their workers build their housing and infrastructure. Traditionally, these workers and their families had depended on the plantation almost totally. The mill provided precarious health services, education, drinking water, electricity, supplies sales, etc. This dependence still exists in a big measure, even though in many bateyes the sugar mill workers do not integrate the majority of the population anymore. One of the characteristics of the agricultural bateyes majority is the ethnic composition of its inhabitants, because high proportions of those is origin or have Haitian ascendancy. It is important to point out that a high percentage of the families in indigent conditions in the country are located in zones where the sugar cane is produce. Typically, the human settlements known by the name of bateyes are places where the poverty reaches extreme levels. Category: Nonprofits & Activism
