AIIAS Graduate and Seminary Scholarships
Students from Asia, Africa, Pacific
Islands, South America and just about everywhere in the world turn to AIIAS, a
GC institution, for their graduate degrees as they prepare for leadership in
their Adventist institutions and service to their God and Church. Some students
are sponsored by their universities or Divisions but there are many who are
self-supporting students. At times their resources run out and they are left
with the heartbreaking option of returning home without their degree. The
Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies (AIIAS) is a graduate
school and seminary located in the Philippines. WMI is pleased to provide
worthy student scholarships for students struggling to meet their tuition and
living expenses. Often their experiences
and education at AIIAS makes them invaluable for leaders when they return
home. $12,000 is needed each year to
help these students. If you are able, your donations for AIIAS student
scholarships will be a great blessing for the future of God’s cause.
Carol Appleton Endowment
For Physical Therapy Assistants at LLU
The graduates of this program work with Physical Therapists in multiple treatment facilities ranging from private practice, care homes, retirement centers, to university health. One of the most rewarding areas of education at Loma Linda University is the Physical Therapist Assistant Program located in the School of Allied Health Professions. This program started in the late 1980s and has a class size of about 45 students each year. This is a 15-month program leading to an AS degree following one year of lower division college including prerequisites.
The graduates of this program work with Physical Therapists in multiple treatment facilities ranging from private practice, care homes, retirement centers, to university care settings. Many of these graduates are the first from their family to ever attend a university let alone receive education that qualifies them to assist in the treatment of various degrees of physical impairment. The learning curve is huge and the help to achieve success in this field requires hours of one-on-one teaching.
Carol Appleton has recently retired from 22 years of teaching and assisting these wonderful students coming from very diverse ethnic, religious and social backgrounds. WMI will set up a fund at Loma Linda University to assist with cost of education and other needs of this financially-strapped group of students.
Gathering Place Ministry
The Gathering Place Strummers and Singers have recorded several vespers programs performed at Loma Linda University Church and also have regular broadcast times on Loma Linda Broadcast Network (LLBN). The vespers programs are in CD and DVD format and have been distributed at various programs to members of the audience and to others who love to sing-a-long in the comfort of their home and car. We are in the process of reworking these recordings in order to have a wider range of distribution with easy access over the internet. Hymns never lose their value to all of us as the message is eternal and praising God is a forever privilege. Some of these hymns go back hundreds of years with Biblical messages that are timeless. Music that churched us as children is now seldom heard and we have received many requests to play these familiar hymns.
Donations to this fun project go to support the Gathering Place Ministry.
GHEDS - HE&M
Global
Health Education & Development Services (GHEDS) is a multi-purpose endeavor
to improve the quality of life and standard of living for people in need in
South Asia. It provides assistance for education, healthcare, and empowerment
of the poor and needy by partnering with national and international organizations
to support training, use of mass media, and innovative economic development
projects. The cost of each project
depends on the assessment of every situation. However, the production of health educational programs for media in many local languages is estimated at $3,000
per month. It
has the potential to reach out to millions who speak these languages and who may
live anywhere in the world with access to internet and Wi-Fi. People have been
watching these programs in Africa, Middle East, North America, France,
Malaysia, United Kingdom, and elsewhere.
WMI Disaster Relief
Several years ago, there was a massive earthquake in a
mountainous region in South Asia causing much damage and great distress. It was
winter, the rains and snowfall were threatening to
block the only accessible road to the people living in the remote mountains.
Some kind-hearted people, who were familiar with the region and knew the
process to organize assistance, raised the funds and sent it to the relief
workers through WMI. This urgent, humanitarian response provided much needed
items such as food, medicines, warm clothing, and tents that saved thousands of
lives.
WMI will engage with
local faith communities for the benefit of donors and recipients of
aid, to assist people in need regardless of faith. Your support to this
project means that funds are ready and available to reach affected areas as
quickly as possible. The funds will be
used to provide “relief packages,” seed money to start cottage industries (small
businesses), support agriculture in underserved areas, and repair damaged homes
or places of worship.
LSB Korean TV
LSB stands for “Light and Salt Broadcasting.” It is a religious channel in Korean presented through a secular platform called Kooli TV for the Korean viewers. There are approximately six million Koreans living outside of South Korea.
LSB truly believes that it needs to be “inside” of the darkness to be “light
and salt” in order to proclaim the everlasting Gospel! Please pray and support
this ministry.
Newbold College
Newbold College is now focusing primarily on students of Theological
Studies. This will decrease the number
of courses offered and faculty needed and thus be a cost cutting measure that
is needed at this time. Your contributions through WMI would be greatly
appreciated.
Yerba-Buena
World Medics, Inc., has supported the mission work at Yerba Buena in Southern Mexico for many years. Most recently they helped pay for the new roof on the church that was completed just a couple months ago.
For over sixty years Yerba Buena has been sharing the Gospel and Love of Jesus to their community and beyond. In current times the clinic has a life style program, which is having successful health results. Political events have made many changes. Their board decided that donations will support the lay-workers. The lay-workers are fully dedicated and desire to share Biblical truths in all surrounding villages. Antonio Diaz was leader of the lay-workers in the area. He lived 88 years, a long-life sharing God's gospel and Love. The Bible stories have been shared in the cities but the outlying villages who do not speak Spanish now have Bibles in their own languages. Some more distant villages did not have any written alphabet until Antonio developed one they could learn to read.
There are still many, many villages with whom to share the Bible teaching and the story of Jesus and what He did for us. Soon there will be no more virus, tears nor death. Jesus is coming soon. We will see Antonio again and all his Mexican friends at the Pearly gates and meet Jesus face to face. Maranatha!
