How can you get involved in this ministry?

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New Opportunities: Get Involved!
Servant workers Needed:
There are tens of thousands of workers coming from extremely low income villages in China to metropolitan cities and big factories to work every year. These workers are mostly young (from 18-25 years of age).  Many of them are behind in education, lack of social experience, and are desperate to make money to support their families.  You can imagine culture shock they’re experiencing every day.

They suddenly encounter a world full of material and physical temptations.  They came from no money to making a certain amount of income which needs to be carefully managed so they can use it for living, for supporting their families, and some social activities.  They have a whole new social life with all of its mixed emotions.  They miss their families they left behind and they seek to comfort the loneliness with these new social opportunities.

Without knowledge and accountability to protect them, they are especially vulnerable to opposite sex relationships, which may lead to consequences they would regret for their entire lives.  These young people are overwhelmed with trying to survive amid their day to day struggles, they are unable and do not know how to make plans for the future.

 

The Need:

ABI is in relationship with a consulting company that has connections with companies wanting to reach out and help their new employees.  There are several specific areas of need:  financial management, conflict management, emotional support and counseling, social and relationship counseling, career planning, environment transition adjustment counseling, sex and relationship education.  Counseling programs will be designed with these needs in mind.

 

The Strategy:

There will be contracts made by ABI with the companies. It is through the contracts that the services of counseling to the ground-level employees will be provided.

ABI will need to recruit qualified people with mature character and spiritual life, provide training/equipping materials and the training program for the voluntary counselors, and then send them into the field in for short or long-term service.

In order to control the quality of the services, an application process and personal interview will be necessary before each counseling position is approved.

There is no set timeline yet as connections and plans are still being developed.  If you have interest in this ministry opportunity, contact Sheng Tung at firefollowed@hotmail.com.

Pray:  You can go to the News page, Acts 29 page, Pictures page, look and pray according to what the Holy Spirit directs in your heart.

You can also pray when Sheng-Tung or Joy Wu's itineraries are posted.  Put the schedule in your prayer calendar, pray when God is on the move with their consulting, ministering, teaching, praying, coaching, connecting, counseling, ...

Make Contact:  You can email, asking questions or sharing confirmation of things in your heart that are aligned with what the Holy Spirit has spoken or led us in sharing and doing.

You can inquire about opportunities for short-term or long-term missions in a foreign country with which ABI has a connection.

You can ask Sheng-Tung to send you the latest messages he has received from the Lord as well as updated activities through the ABI news letter 'Bridges Voice'.

You can subscribe to the Podcast and listen to messages (in Mandarin Chinese) on the Audio Teachings page.

Invest with finances:  As God's work is constantly expanding, there are tremendous increasees for financial needs both in the field and in the base.  The base is the basic needs of the Wu family, operation expenses including travel, publicity (website maintainance, newsletter printing and mailing, postage, phone and internet communications) and other administrative expenses.

Your financial involvement will not only bless the part of the Kingdom God that God has blessed me with, but it will also be multiplied, both in the field and back into your own base.

Checks can be made out to "Antioch Bridges International."

Click here for an itemized list of financial needs and opportunities.

Contact information
Mailing Address:
3010 Wells Terrace
State College  PA 16801

Email Address:  firefollowed@hotmail.com  

 

How can you get involved financially?

 

Following is an itemized expense with a break-down list.

1. Home base in Pennsylvania: Annual budget for 2007: $150,300.00

>> Compensation: $ 50,000. /yr (goal)  $ 25,300. (currently)

>> Operation: Travel expense: $16,000. /yr

                        Office and administration expenses: $ 2,778. /yr

                        Projects and other expenses: $ 81,522.00 (Described in items 2-5)

 

2. Setting up ABI China office: $2,910. /yr  NOTE:  I would like to give thanks to God that the "China-Office set-up expenses" has been fulfilled. I have received full amount for that purpose, and the office in China is going to be effective by the end of 2007. 

 (note: purpose of setting up China office is for ABI to be able to raise, transfer and distribute funds in China for projects/ activities inland)

 

3. Setting up Taiwan office: $34,000. One time setting fee, before May, 2007

(note: Taiwan office will be called Asian for the World, purpose is to be able to network ministries as well as to raise, transfer, and distribute funds in Taiwan for Global works.)

 

4. Farm projects in China. Farm #1: $ 320. /month (operation basically self-sufficient except the workers’ salary and travel/ training expenses)

   

Farm #2 (new from Sep., 2006): $24,350. which includes:

Construction for four rooms, shop and office, pig, goat and cow stall, toilet. $12,500.
Rent 6650 square meters a year.          $  850.
Plants, flowers, and shop materials.    $8,000.
Salary a year for four workers.            $3,000.

 

5. China Village Schools outreach project: $ 200. per-school, per-month (8 schools are ministered to regularly) which include adding new books, sporting equipment, travel, English teachers’ training, scholarship for orphans or special-need students.

 

6. Guatemala Church planting supports:

Mt. Hebron Church of Christ, Limonada, (Zone 5) Guatemala City: $ 6,500. to build an 3 story extension behind the church for neighborhood kid’s outreach center. The church has reaching out to children/ youth from age 3-18. Their dream is to build the facility that can host for neighborhood children who has not afforded to go to school.

 

Iglesia Vida Plena (Full Life Church), Guatemala City: $ 1,300. building renovation, plus $ 250. /mo. rental for the church meeting space. This is a newly started church based on a vision to transform the community that they are in. The church has grown from 3 families to 45 people within 4 month.

(This item is not listed in the Annual Budget; ABI is assisting the two churches while they are enthusiastically growing in the beautiful faith)

 

6. Cambodia Christian School project: $ 62,000. / each school which includes:

Construction of a school campus for an K to Secondary school that can host 2,000 students. $ 60,000.

School teacher salaries: $2,000. a month.

(This item is not listed in the Annual Budget; ABI is assisting South East Asia Prayer Center for the project. The project is in its second year. The first school was completed its building, now operating. The second school is in the process of construction. The whole project was signed with Cambodian Government to establish 25 Christian schools in the nation in less than 10 years.)

 

7. Tibet “Touching Heart” project: $ 3,890. can save a child’s life from Congenital Heart Disease.  Two children a month is receiving treatment.

(This project is not listed in the Annual Budget. ABI is assisting South East Asia Prayer Center for the project. It has been going on for six years now, over 10,000 children under the age of 18 have been surveyed, and 189 children have been treated successfully except 2 passed away. SEAPC had just raised $ 2. million dollars for 22 ICU rooms and equipments to be built in a Hospital in Tibet Autonomy Region )

 

You can pledge and designate your giving to one of the items listed above, or

Give a one-time offering designate to one of the items, or

Just give and let the Board of Director of ABI decide where to use the money.

 

You will receive receipt from ABI for what you give for the purpose of text deduction.

 

Please write check payable to: ABI or Antioch Bridges International with the memo addressing which item would you like to designate to. And send the checks to:

Antioch Bridges International

3010 Wells Terrace,

State College, PA. 16801

 

Or, you can wire the money to:

Bank name: Citizens Bank

Bank address: 1248 S. Atherton St. State College, PA. 16801

Account name: Antioch Bridges International

Routing and Account number: 036076150 6213241616

Foreign-Swift Code #: CTZIUS33

 

Antioch Bridges International is a non-profit religious organization, devoted to:

Raising Leaders Across Generations; bridges that are built for leaders from where they are to where they are to be in God’s purpose; also, to bridge from one generation to the next.

Teaching and Implementing Kingdom Church Paradigms; a bridge between conventional way of doing church to the invisible networks of churches that saturate and impact every corner of society.

Resource for Humanitarian Needs; bridges built for God’s creative resources to be transported for humanitarian needs.

Taking Churches from the Local to the Global; when churches grasp God’s desire, they will break the local bondages, embrace a global perspective and cross over to the harvest that awaits.