• A new ministry in Ghana will provide care to persons rescued from sexual slavery, in a culture where families will give their daughters to witchdoctors in false hopes of combating evil spirits and calamities.
• In Italy, the new Woman to Woman project will minister to and empower immigrant women likely to be trafficked into or through the country or working in prostitution.
• In Lebanon, the Maids in Lebanon ministry will provide care, advocacy, and freedom to foreign women brought into the country to be maids, and who are imprisoned as "illegals." 
• In Sioux Falls, South Dakota, BE FREE Transformation Ministries will restore the community by addressing the issue of sexual exploitation in the US and transnationally. 
• NightLight USA, a ministry based in Los Angeles, California will again receive Break the Chains funding to train community members to help human trafficking victims and to organize and mobile volunteers to do street outreach to potential victims.

• Peoria Friendship House of Christian Service in Peoria, Illinois, will again receive Break the Chains funding to empower more Hispanic immigrant women to earn a respectable income through its cottage industry crafting "Matthew 25" scripture-based charm bracelets, and to expand marketing efforts for the bracelets.

Funding received during the first year of the Break the Chains Project (through July 2008) is helping six ministries:

• A new ministry in Thailand through the New Life Center Foundation directed by American Baptist missionary, Karen Smith. The New Life Center in Chiang Mai will educate 50 girls and women who have never had a the chance to receive education. Funding for the New Life Center will help provide rehabilitation services to 15 girls and women who are victims of sexual abuse, labor exploitation, and human trafficking. 
   
• Launch a new ministry in Costa Rica. The Mansion of Light Baptist Church is situated in a poor community where children are subjected to physical and sexual violence in their homes and where young girls gather at bus stops to go into the city to sell their bodies. The church has a dream to open a Family Life Center that will be a safe place for children. Break the Chains project funds will help them begin. 
   
• A ministry in Philippines. The Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches will minister to young girls at risk and girls who prostitute themselves in five different communities in the beach area of Iloilo. Funding will help the Convention construct a building and provide staffing and programming that will offer girls education and healthy alternatives to prostitution.
   
• A Ministry Model and How-to Resources. First Baptist Church in Sioux Falls, South Dakota began a ministry named Elizabeth’s House to offer safe and secure housing to young, single women who are at risk of exploitation because of their situations. Break the Chains will fund practical training resources and a model for outreach ministry that will help all of us learn how to develop outreach ministries for at-risk women. 
   
• NightLight USA, a new ministry based in Los Angeles, California. NightLight USA addresses issues of trafficking and sexual exploitation in the United States, and provides advocacy, trainings, and street outreach to equip business owners and community members with the tools to recognize and act when they encounter trafficking. 
     
• Gaining financial independence through a jewelry making cooperative. Peoria Friendship House of Christian Service in Peoria, Illinois, is teaching Hispanic immigrant women a cottage industry of jewelry making; the cooperative will make and market scripture-based charm bracelets.