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.
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.
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.
This project was established to help the children of African missionaries serving with AIM or through AIM partnerships. Funds will assist with school fees for both primary and secondary education, and provide parents with better schooling options than what are often available locally in the locations where they serve.
AIM AIR is the aviation wing of Africa Inland Mission, providing essential air support for outreach ministry in hard-to-reach places. The AIM AIR Aircraft Upgrade fund ensures that funding is in place for necessary upgrades to keep the AIM AIR fleet up-to-date and safe. Current upgrades will ensure that the AIM AIR turbine fleet is prepared for another decade of service. Upgrades can include avionics, airframe and engines.