The Strategic Initiatives Fund supports one of the core functions of AIM's U.S. Office: Mobilizing. It allows us to be proactive and innovative as we strive to connect with those whom God is calling into mission service, inviting them into AIM's story, and guiding them toward their unique place in God's redeeming work.
As it was two thousand years ago, so it is today. The workers are few and the harvest is plentiful. Mobilizing new workers remains some of the most important work of missions.
Through the Strategic Initiatives Fund, your gifts will greatly impact our ability to strategically respond to timely personnel needs on the field, and look ahead to God's direction for the future.
The North Region will be partnering with Concilium.us to provide an Advanced Security Training course to ensure our overseas workers are well prepared for the various circumstances they could face on a daily basis.
This 3.5 day training will cover topics like understanding the theology of risk, hostile observation awareness, hostage survival and mitigation, and so much more. Funding for this project will further equip the spread of the Gospel by equipping our members with necessary tools and resources on how to live in some of our most challenging ministry contexts with longevity.
This project will not only cover the costs for the training and lodging, but also include the ability for our members to have childcare and professional counselors available, if desired, throughout the training.
This project exists to help Mozambican Christian students studying in Mozambique at the tertiary level with fees and expenses. The project provides assistance to students in the fields of medicine, law, education, engineering and agriculture who are well known to a recommending missionary and who are recommended by their church leaders. Recipents must also be involved in ministry in their local church.
Contributions to this project will assist AEA/AIM reimbursements related to Ted Barnett's AEA job description developed by AEA/AIM to include leadership development, a focus on supporting reaching and discipling unreached people groups, biblical and theological training for African leaders with little to no biblical or theological training.
Funds support travel, training events, conferences, meals, housing, financial assistance for selected individuals to attend AEA events including leadership and discipleship training, stipends for speakers, funding for venues, transport, planning events, equipment necessary for AEA meetings and training, administrative support and logistics.
The project also supports the development of prayer ministry, particularly that of Martha Barnett.
This project seeks to provide support and assistance for African missionaries who work alongside AIM missionaries in South Sudan. Many African missionaries, often coming from Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia, are struggling to find support for immigration documents, traveling in and out of the remote areas they are serving in, and paying the cost for food and supplies to be flown into their location. The goal of this project is to be able to offset the cost of immigration, travel expenses and AIM related expenses for our brother and sisters from Africa serving as missionaries alongside AIM in South Sudan so that they can focus more on ministering in their location. The annual target for this project is $26,000
Much of the missionary work being done in Africa today is being done by African workers. Africa Inland Mission desires to strengthen and further mobilize this harvest force.
The African Missionary Assistance project exists to help AIM come alongside African men and women who are serving in mission and to help meet specific needs they may have. By doing this, we can encourage and help African missionaries and churches, without creating unhealthy dependency.
Priority is given to the following areas of need:
Training, logistics, administration, conferences, member care, transportation to/from ministry location, ministry materials or project funding, Business As Mission or microfinance, vehicles, and health emergencies.
Project funds are not used for ongoing support of African missionaries.
Mobilizing African missionaries must be a significant part of AIM’s ministry, and has the potential to bear much fruit, multiply churches, and powerfully impact the kingdom of God worldwide.
Your support of this project helps to undergird this vital effort.
Partnering with African Missionaries: Together for a Greater Impact
Across Africa, dedicated missionaries are faithfully answering the call to share the Gospel with communities that have never before experienced Christ’s transforming love. Each day, they overcome tremendous challenges—distance, limited resources, and the need to care for their families—all while striving to bring hope and healing through the Word of God.
The AIM IO Mission Partnerships & Development Team understands our calling is to stand alongside these missionaries, ensuring they have the practical support they need to thrive. Through the African Missionary Fund (AMF) launched in 2022, we provide resources that cover essential family needs to help equip missionaries for more effective ministry. By relieving these burdens, we enable them to remain fully focused on serving unreached communities.
Now, we need your help to strengthen this vital work. Your contribution will go directly toward enhancing the operational backbone that keeps AMF running smoothly. This means hiring dedicated administrative and fundraising staff who will ensure every dollar is wisely stewarded, tracking and reporting on funds, communicating clearly with donors, and expanding our capacity to reach more missionaries and communities in need. Although it may sound less exciting, these essential functions ensure that our missionaries receive a consistent and reliable support.
Your involvement is more than a donation—it is a powerful act of collaboration. By investing in the infrastructure that drives these programs, you become a part of something lasting: the growth of a network that uplifts communities, supports missionary families, and advances the Gospel across Africa. Together, we can create a sustainable foundation that enables Christ’s message to continue spreading, changing lives now and for generations to come.
Join us in strengthening this global partnership today. Your support will help shape a legacy of faith and hope—one that bears fruit in countless communities and hearts across the continent.
The Project seeks to help provide financial support to enable, catalyze and mobilize African missionaries (AIM members and partners) to serve the Church in Africa.
AfriGO magazine's purpose is to inspire the African Church to send, support and pray for African missionaries. There are magazines in English, Swahili and Portuguese, along with some print editions in French (and hopes for more in the future). The print magazines are available online for free, and the team promotes African missions daily on English social media and twice a week in Swahili. The team, headed by an SIM missionary from Nigeria and with an American AIMer based in Namibia as Editor-in-chief, also consists of Ghanaians, Nigerians, Tanzanians, Kenyans and Angolans. The magazines and media are used to encourage the African Church to understand their role in missions, often through the stories of African missionaries.
Your donation can provide more funds to print the magazines, which is the preferred method for mobilizers to share them. Reports from the field are telling of pastors who are challenged and stimulated towards missions through the magazines. Funds can also be used to pay African staff and for promotion and daily operating costs.
This project was established to help AIM personnel start new churches among the Dorobo people of Kenya, and to train Dorobo church leaders to lead their own churches and reach out to new areas that are still unchurched. When AIM started working with Dorobo, they were an unreached people group, and now with over 20 churches, there is still much to be done to encourage a maturing church. The project provides Bible school scholarships for Dorobo evangelists and pastors, school fees for Dorobo children, famine relief when necessary, materials for new church roofs, Bibles, seminars, and a discipleship center.
This project exists to help AIM personnel and church partners to evangelize and disciple the Gabbra people living in the border region between Kenya and Ethiopia. Outreach includes Bible studies, showings of the Jesus Film, and Christian films and audio via Wifi to smartphone users. Funds have also been used to complete missionary housing in the area, and for the development of a Christian Radio Station.
The project is currently being used to fund the installation of three wells to serve the Gabbra community.
This project exists to help Kijabe Hospital to minimize suffering, restore and maintain health, and promote professional excellence and Christian commitment in order to provide quality, affordable and accessible health care. 97% of Kijabe Hospital's patients come because the care they can receive there is affordable. Accessing health care in a facility where spiritual ministry and evangelism is an integral part of the healing package has impacted thousands with the love of Christ. In a single year (2015) the hospital provided outpatient care to over 150,000 patients and 15,000 surgeries. The project funds surgeries for needy children and poor adults. It also provides for infrastructural upgrades to the hospital as needs arise.
This project helps to undergird the ministry of the Africa Inland Church (AIC) Missionary College in Eldoret, Kenya, a school dedicated to equiping African believers for outreach among Africa's remaining unreached peoples.