MINISTRY OF COMPASSION

IRRIGATION PUMPS FOR PEOPLE LIVING ON $2.00/DAY

Sadly, there are 4 billion people living on less than $2.00 a day. Over 1 billion of these people are estimated to live on just $1.00 per day and are at grave risk of death. Plus over 1 billion don't even have clean water.

Interestingly, we in the United States enjoy an average household income of $53, 100, fresh water, and an abundance of food. Scripture is not silent in expecting us to respond:

•Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need...Then there will be equality. 2 Co 8:13-14

While the situation globally seems so hopeless, we at GIFT have identified ways we can impact these communities with high impact/low cost solutions. And we're putting an infrastructure in place to address this situation. All in the name of Christ.

GIFT has forged an innovative partnership between several global organizations to impact lives materially and spiritually. We purchase irrigation pumps from KickStart, a unique global supplier of innovative pump solutions. KickStart has shown that farmers who use their Super MoneyMaker pumps can increase their annual farm income from around $110 to $1100 per year. This statistic is based on 39,000 installations KickStart has delivered.

We also work with Nazarene Compassionate Ministries Helping Hands Africa to install the pumps and to recover the costs of the pump from increased farm incomes so we can replicate the efforts over and over on just one investment. And we've aligned the pump initiative with the JESUS Film Harvest Partners so we can air a JESUS Film on the lands where the pumps are placed. Thus, we leverage a combined track record of meeting physical needs and impacting the world with Christ's love.

Working with our partners, GIFT delivers on a complete irrigation pump and JESUS Film initiative for around $300.00. This amount covers a pump; spare parts; program management; secure air freight; JESUS Film airings; and pump cost recovery/program replication efforts.

So, donors will see their initial investment expand beyond imagination. Wherever appropriate, working through our global partners, we recover the cost of the pumps from the increased farm incomes, and we reinvest these funds into new pump and JESUS Film initiatives. It's a system called micro-enterprise finance. In this way, donations go farther, more people are helped, and this huge population that needs help contributes in helping one another. We're hoping to engage the domestic Church broadly in this effort through our creative funding and Stewardship programs.

At GIFT, we recognize providing any help is great, but providing people with the means to help themselves is even better. As such, providing irrigation pumps is a cornerstone project for GIFT.

If you'd like to provide life-transforming irrigation pumps and spiritual witness, please prayerfully consider making a donation to gift and specifying support for an irrigation pump program. Full program sponsorships are $300. We also have a partial sponsorship for $150.00. Donors can receive 3 framed scripture posters for each partial sponsorship and 6 framed scripture posters for a full sponsorship donation. When you make your donation, we'll send you a catalog of scriptures to select from. Simply call 877-WEGIFT2 (877-934-4382)to make your donation and receive our latest catalog.

ZIMBABWE REFUGEE ORPHANAGE NEEDS FOOD AND SUPPORT - SUPPORTERS GET AN INDESCRIBABLE GIFT.

GIFT's management team has taken on responsibility for an orphanage as a key opportunity to make a difference. We provide food, clothing, school supplies and housing. In exchange, we receive the Indescribable Gift of knowing we're touching lives for Christ

Do you want to live a life full of the "Indescribable Gift?" In 2^nd Corinthians chapter nine, we learn of receiving the "Indescribable Gift."

It happens this way: when we're faithful in giving to others in the name of Jesus, the recipients will praise and thank God for the grace working in us. And that's the Indescribable GIFT. The letters we've received below illustrate how true that verse is.

"I want to thank God so much for you...We no longer worry about provisions for our lives...what we will eat, wear or where to live. You are the parents that we know. Thank you for providing all this." Anna, Sudanese Refugee Orphan in Zimbabwe, Age 8.

"Is God not good." - Mayan, Sudanese Refugee Orphan in Zimbabwe.

"You have given to us sacrificially time after time. You have given us money to buy food, pay our bills for water and electricity, and even clothed us." - Ms. N., Orphanage leader.

GIFT can help you realize this Indescribable Gift as you join in supporting our efforts

With the situation in Zimbabwe becoming increasingly difficult due to economic collapse, government corruption and famine, this orphanage needs our help more than ever.

Recently, the orphanage leader had to preach at a funeral of an 8 year old boy who died from ingesting rat poison while foraging through a dumpster for food.

If you'd like to provide life-transforming irrigation pumps and spiritual witness, please make a donation via our GIFT Stewardship section.

EXCITEDLY RENDERING GOD'S WORD

GIFT seeks to transform hearts to be more like Christ. We're elevating scripture in a fresh way. To that end, GIFT has developed a Spiritual Transformation Chart to help us assess and guide our lives in realizing more of what Christ intends for us spiritually.

You are also invited to visit our gallery of scripture presentations.