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We are looking for groups willing to commit to the long-term sponsorship of poor and under-privileged communities, including small-business advice and mentoring, training in practical skills, children's work, etc.

If your church or organisation is interested in developing a long-term strategic relationship with a Transformational Community Development project in Indonesia please contact us.  Better still, join our team in August 2010 and see for yourselves how  communities can transformed through a practical demonstration of God’s love.

House of Love Foundation

Missionary Ventures' co-workers in Indonesia are focusing on Christian Children’s Homes around the country.  They usually identify around 6 or 7 key Children in each home – all of them with the potential to become future Christian leaders.  Not only do these children have a short-term impact while in the children’s home itself, but they also have a long-term impact within their community after leaving the home.

Every year MV holds a 2 week Discipleship Camp with these targeted children, taking them out of the home and to a safe location where their co-workers and MV team members can really speak into their lives ... one on one.  The children learn about their identity in Christ as well as core Christian values such as honour, honesty and so on.

These unique opportunities are combined with tramping and other special outdoor activities to test the children physically as well as allowing more opportunity to speak into their lives spiritually.

But the Discipleship process doesn’t stop there.  Once back in their home environment, the children in turn speak into the lives of the other kids at the home.  There have been some great results.  Many of the children have received Christ and 3 have progressed to seminary already – but there is always the potential for many more to follow.

Missionary Ventures New Zealand is looking to recruit team members for trips in 2011 and raise support for this vital, ongoing ministry.

Discipleship Camps

Transformational Community Development

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Pondok Kasih (the House of Love Foundation) is a dynamic Christian organisation based in East Java and reaches out to over 50 poor and marginalised communities in one of Indonesia's largest cities.   Many of these communities have up to 300 people each and are situated in such places as under a motorway bridge, on garbage tips or even in a graveyard.  One community comprises displaced victims of a huge mud disaster a few years ago, through which thousands or homes and livelihoods were destroyed.

Missionary Ventures' offices in Australia and New Zealand partner with Pondok Kasih to serve and assist them in this vital, growing ministry.  The Foundation's Director & Founder is a passionate, inspiring visionary leader to whom God has given favour all the way up to the President of Indonesia.  She makes it very clear that love is the key to all that Pondok Kasih does and breaks down walls that otherwise seem immovable.

People from Muslim, Hindu and Christian background alike are offered skills, training and other assistance such as clean water systems as a practical demonstration of God's love.  It is impossible not to be inspired by her, the dedicated staff and the 100 or so community leaders across the city who are being trained to extend God's hand of love and hope to the people of Indonesia.

MV offices in Australia and New Zealand are raising support and taking more teams in 2011 to help Pondok Kasih impact countless lives with God's love in East Java.