Where We Work: Asia

More than half of the world's six billion people live in Asia. An ethnically diverse continent, it's home to some of the world's hardest working but poorest people. Facing adversity and hostility, our courageous partners plant churches among unreached peoples, and demonstrate love by establishing medical clinics and other community development projects.

• Bangladesh: Serving
an unreached nation

Few countries contain more people totally untouched by the gospel than Bangladesh. Hindered by widespread anti-Christian sentiment, Christians often face severe adversity as a result of their faith. And in a country of overwhelming poverty, malnutrition and illiteracy, our partner not only plants churches but finds many opportunities to love their neighbours in practical ways.

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• Myanmar: Caring for orphans
and abandoned children

Shortly after moving to Myanmar, Pastor Cha and his wife Susan came across four young orphans who roamed from house to house looking for work feeding pigs or caring for cows. They took the orphans into their home, shared what little they had with them and began paying for their schooling.

From these four children, the Grace Haven ministry has grown to include eight orphanages that care for 519 of children. "This is a relatively small number compared to the 70,000 orphans in Myanmar," says Pastor Cha. "But one thing is sure: every child we adopt decreases the number by one."

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• Nepal: Serving the mountain kingdom

The Good Friends of Nepal plant Christian fellowships that serve their communities through practical projects like literacy classes and community health projects.

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• Philippines: Opportunity
in Manila’s slums

Our program in the Philippines works with families living in the barrios (villages and slum areas) around Manila. Our partner, the Philippine Missionary Institute, is reaching out to these children. Their program provides children with tuition, uniforms, books and supplies. They also reach out to help families with other needs and have opportunity to share the gospel.

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• Philippines: Christian leaders
for an entire country

The Philippine Missionary Fellowship prepares church planters who are sent to remote, rural regions of the country where few Christian workers are willing to go. To facilitate church planting among widely diverse cultural groups, the ministry has pioneer training centers in ten different areas on six islands.

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• Thailand: Helping children
in the Golden Triangle

Our local parter serves the subsistence farmers of rural Thailand who struggle to provide food for their families. Living conditions are primitive; houses are built of bamboo and thatch. Without benefits of education, most adults are illiterate. In the “Golden Triangle,” the children are especailly vulnerable both to readily-available drugs and predators who lure children into the sex trade.

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