Our Approach to Ministry

In all our outreach, we work as a community and touch people through relationship. We are surrounded by need, so we seek God's leading for where to focus for lasting change. Thirty percent of our total income is used for compassion and mercy ministry.

Children's education and youth

In Nepal, all schooling must be paid for; there is no public education. Many families in the church cannot afford to send their kids to school. We want to invest in our children's future and give each one the opportunity to learn and grow.

Medical outreach and clinic

Caring for the health needs of the poor is part of the gospel, and has opened doors for relationship in closed villages. So far, we have provided health care for over 16,000 people. We work with volunteer doctors and nurses in remote outreach and through our clinic facility.

Street kids

Most Nepali families are poor, but some homes are especially difficult for kids. Abuse and neglect drive them into the street. We reach out to street kids to provide lunches, showers, medical help, and prayer. As we build relationship, we can transition them into our New Boys program.

New Boys

We have been taking care of street boys in our church facility for 10 years. "New Boys" are those that have decided to leave their street life and live with us for the long term. Some boys are placed in foster homes. Other boys live in our church facility, where they are cared for communally, and learn to serve the church in practical ways. One of our boys, Suresh, we found on the street as a ten-year-old. Now twenty, Suresh has attended a YWAM Discipleship Training School and serves on our worship team, playing guitar, bass and drums.

Food hampers / River bed

Rivers passing through the cities are mostly dirty, stinking and full of garbage. For old widows, lepers, disabled people, and the "untouchables" caste, these are the only places they can build a shelter and not be told to move. Every week, we take food and work to establish relationship with them.

Women's skills training school

For poor mothers in our community who take care of children and cannot go to a job, we provide skills training. We have a three-month program where they can learn knitting, tailoring, painting, beads jewelry, handicrafts, and making spices. After they complete the program, we help them start their own small business.

Small businesses

We empower the poor to start their own businesses through interest-free microloans. A group of people will decide what business they can start and take responsibility for, and we connect them with lenders. They have started businesses such as vegetable stands, roadside tea shops, raising goats, chickens and milk cows, handicrafts and clothing. In this way, people gain dignity and on-going provision for themselves and to bless others.

Friends to disabled people

All of our churches have disabled people with various needs. We especially help those whose families are overwhelmed, or who have no families to take care of them.

Building Projects

In a village church plant, believers start out by gathering in homes to worship and pray. At a certain point, they can no longer meet in the houses which are usually quite small, and filled with smoke in the winter time. Also, because there are no funeral homes, we handle the burial of believers ourselves. In the villages of Gatlang and Nessing, after seven years of church growth, the believers are now finishing their own church buildings, made of wood and stone. Of our twelve Himalayan churches, seven are currently in need of a building.