Purposes of Bread Beyond Borders (BBB), Inc.

1. To serve as an organization that seeks the reconstruction of human life through integral mission. 2. To establish Christian communities which will serve as a catalyst in upholding righteousness and justice through demonstration of the gospel in social service and social action. 3. To provide cross-cultural missionaries, church planters and church leaders a Transformational Development Training Program that includes research, social technology, community health education, biblical entrepreneurial values formation, financial literacy, micro-enterprise development, micro finance, cooperative

development, project development & management, strategic planning & management, feasibility studies, project & grant proposal writing and hands-on approach technology that address the issue of sustainable development, sustainable agriculture and food security. 4. To develop, undertake and provide an Integral Mission and Humanitarian Initiatives Training Program that subscribes to the concept of an integrated, wholistic and transformative approach to development that will meet the needs, transform and empower the poor, the poverty groups and individuals. 5. To provide Capacity Building Training Program, Management and Technical Consultancies that seeks to develop the organizational strategic planning, program strategies and project planning, monitoring & evaluation, financial planning, fundraising and biblical stewardship with focus on resource development for Christian non-profit organizations, or faith-based organizations, religious corporations and mission organizations. 6. To serve as an intermediary agency and develop strong viable proponent organizations that can effectively and efficiently deliver services and manage programs or strengthen existing community groups into viable structures, capable of undertaking and sustaining programs and projects. 7. To establish and strengthen linkage with government and other Private Voluntary Organizations (PVOs) or NGOs, Foundations in the country and from other parts of the world, and to become conduit for development programs and projects, for resource mobilization and utilization towards a more effective service delivery.

Bread Beyond Borders Programs and Services . 1. Training. Transformational Development, Integral Mission & Humanitarian Initiatives and Capacity Building Training are the major training programs that BBB undertakes and provided to its partner organizations.

2. Capacity Building. Tailor-made Capacity Building Services including training, mentoring & facilitating services for individual organizations.

3. Consultancy.

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organizations by BBB or a designated organization in the following areas: (1) Strategy Formulation and Program Strategies, (2) Strategic Planning, (3) Strategic Management, (4) Project Planning, (5) Monitoring & Evaluation, (6) Resource Mobilization, (7) Networking/Linkaging and (8) Organizational

Development.

4. Research. As an organization that believes the essential necessity of research in ministry, Bread Beyond Borders train and assist its beneficiary-partners to develop their own research ministry. The training geared to help them understand the role of gathering and analyzing information for developing effective church planting strategies. Research is a tool that helps mobilize churches, helps them focused on the task of fulfilling the Great Commission. It helps agencies and churches know where churches need to be planted, and which methods of evangelism are successful/unsuccessful among various people groups. Research also helps them understand the big picture of what God wants to do in their nation or people group, and helps them to know when the job is complete.

Research as systematic gathering and analyzing of information for a purpose, Bread Beyond Borders helps them and train its partners to gather and convert data into information. As the people of God prepare to do the task in an unknown

place, information is a bridge from the known to the unknown. Information helps them to make the difficult first step of faith.

5. Intermediary. BBB serves as an intermediary between the beneficiaries and partner organizations and the potential and possible ministry partners and organizations, and in some cases serves as proponent to its partner organizations.

6. Linkage Building. As part of the major ministry of Bread Beyond Borders to its ministry partners particularly in the area of resource mobilization, BBB helps, assist and train them to develop and establish their ministry networks and linkages to those organizations and individuals who are potential to serves as their ministry partner/s and process the formal partnership agreement of both parties based on the program and project designed as the basis of the said partnership.

Program Beneficiaries 1. Religious corporation (Biblical Christian Organization) which is composed of Local Churches 2. Christian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) and Christian Development Organization (CDO) or Faith-based organization and 3. Christian Foundation

Bread Beyond Borders is a non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO), a Christian development organization (CDO), and also a mission organization committed to integral mission. Bread Beyond Borders works in partnership with the local churches in wholistic ministries for the poor and needy, to enable them to become all God intends them to be.

The ministry provides: Training, Research, Capacity Building, Consultancy, Linkage Building and to serve as an intermediary organization. Bread Beyond Borders, works hand in hand and in partnership with the local churches on the basis of the following reasons: 1. Integral mission or wholistic transformation is the proclamation and

demonstration of the gospel. It is not simply that evangelism and social involvement are to be done alongside each other. Rather, in integral mission our proclamation has social consequences as we call people to love and repentance in all areas of life. And our social involvement has consequences as we bear witness to the transforming grace of Jesus Christ. 2. God by His grace has given local churches the task of integral mission. The future of integral mission is in planting and enabling local churches to transform the communities of which they are part. Churches as caring and inclusive communities are at the heart of what it means to do integral mission. People are often attracted to the Christian community before they are attracted to the Christian message. 3. The church can best address poverty by working with the poor and other stakeholders like civil society, government and the private sector with mutual respect and recognition of the distinctive role of each partner. 4. Our Churches are uniquely placed in their communities as visible expressions of Gods kingdom here on earth. They are to be light of this world and salts of the earth. These ministry should therefore be wholistic, that it fulfilling the total needs of man whether spiritual, social or physical. 5. If Church Leaders do not have an outward vision to become salt and light in our world, to promote social and spiritual transformation, pursue justice, and proclaim the whole gospel, then the church will fail to realize its potential as an agent of change. 6. The Local Church is the most visible and permanent representation of Gods kingdom in any community. More than any other institution, it can reflect Gods concern in each domain of mans need. Christian institutions have a particular

focus evangelism, education, health, economic development. They are limited by organizational mandate in their ability to represent Gods concern for the whole person. 7. Proclaiming the whole gospel means as much more than evangelism in the hopes that people will hear and respond to the good news of salvation by faith in Christ. It also encompasses tangible compassion for the sick and the poor, as well as biblical justice, efforts to right the wrongs in our world. God is concerned about the spiritual, physical and social dimensions of our being. 8. The whole gospel is truly good news for the poor, and it is the foundation for a social revolution that has the power to change the world. And if this was Jesus mission, it is also the mission of all who claim to follow Him. It is our mission, it is Bread Beyond Borders mission, it is the mission of the Church.

These serves as the Bread Beyond Borders main ministry agenda; To motivate and equip a community of Christians to embrace and practice integral mission. The following principles of Biblical Development serves as the basis of Bread Beyond Borders development practice and embodied its ministry orientation:

1. Development goes beyond merely giving to the poor, beyond adding to who they are and what they have. It is helping the poor change into better, fulfilled, and more productive individuals, a transformation that centered on Jesus Christ. 2. Humanistic development work merely wanted to give the poor more more money, more food, better houses in the hope that their lives would become better. Unfortunately, this did not happen. Humanistic or secular development was failing because it does not address an important variable to happiness and fulfillment the satisfaction of mans spiritual needs and longings that only God through His Son Jesus Christ can offer. 3. Secular development addresses the material, but not the spiritual dimension of individuals. Consequently, the values necessary for wholeness (right priorities, right decisions, and right actions resulting from obedience to the will of God) were not developed. This conspicuous absence of Christian values has resulted

in a situation where, despite being poured into development projects, the poor remained poor, both in body and spirit. 4. Development must be integrated and wholistic, seeing the various human dimensions not in isolation from one another, but rather as integral part of a fully functional whole. When we talk about economic or social development, as Christian workers we need to talk about it in relation to the salvation of the person. Conversely, when we talk about a persons salvation, we talk about his social and economic well-being as well. We see man not as body and spirit, but rather as an embodied spirit. This describes more accurately the wholeness of a person. Development is an integrated transformation of body and soul intertwined, as well as of the environment that shapes this embodied spirit. 5. God is the originator of development. He created all things. He sustains all things. All resources come from Him. As stewards of talents and resources God provides, we prayerfully and courageously invest them to advance Gods goals and kingdom. 6. As creator, God deals in the supernatural. He is not limited to the existing material world. His principles can and do produce blessing and change. We are not limited to visible material resources. In the face of insurmountable difficulties, we can take confidence in the biblical principle God has promised those who walk in His righteousness, that He will heal the people and their land. 7. Biblical development is God centered: from God, seeking honor to God, and relying on Him as the principal participant in the development process of mans healing, while secular development is man centered: for man, by man, limited to what man can do for himself. Secular development asks, What are your needs? Biblical development asks, What are Gods intentions for you and this particular need? In biblical development, quality of life is determined by Gods intention for His people. It is not limited to the tangible and visible arenas of mans needs, but includes the healing of areas of emotion and spirit. It is not limited to what man can do for himself, but is as limitless as Gods power, love and mercy.