Funding from the first year of the Break the Chains Project will help 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.
Night Light USA, a new ministry based inLos Angeles, California. Night Light USA is committed to developing outreach and support ministries to women in the sex industry who are trafficked or exploited in the United States.
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.
Become part of the solution!
Make all donations to “Break the Chains” payable to:
“AB Women’s Ministries Break the Chains”
Mail to American Baptist Women’s Ministries, PO Box 851, Valley Forge, PA 19482-0851
