Hearts and Hands (HH) is located in Kunming in SW China and works with the deaf community to provide vocational training and jobs designing, making, and selling beautiful handmade crafts. In partnership with Let Them Hear Foundation, HH also supports outreach to the deaf, and training of local Chinese medical practitioners to reduce drug-induced deafness and provide hearing aids and cochlear implants. This includes training of Chinese surgeons to perform the cochlear implant procedures.
China Ministry International (CMI) has 38 missionaries currently serving in China. Their ministry includes:
China Mission Seminary (CMS) reaches out to migrant workers who have left their homes in rural areas to work in factories in urban industrial areas in China. MPPC has provided seed money to be used for micro-loans to start small businesses (grocery stores and telephone shops) that are also used as “shop-churches.” The number of shop-churches has grown each year as the initial seed money has been recycled several times. CMS also has a program for students which integrates religious studies with business/management studies. The goal is to provide higher levels of educational training to prepare Christians to serve in a wide range of management levels in secular businesses.
Through Christian Resource Management (CRM), Rob Gill (the missionary we help support) works with networks of church leaders in leadership development and church multiplication. Rob’s focus has been on the primary leaders associated with Japan’s house church movement and youth church planting movement. The ministry has also expanded beyond Japan to Korea and other Asian nations.
Since its inception in 1978, Evangelical Theological Seminary of Indonesia (ETSI) has grown to 4 seminaries, and 16 branch seminaries throughout Indonesia. ETSI students have planted more than 2,000 churches all over Indonesia. Because Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world, the training of indigenous believers through ETSI is critical. ETSI also played a critical role in helping Indonesia recover from the Dec 2004 tsunami and the May 2006 earthquake. MPPC has supported those efforts with financial support after both disasters and a short term missionary trip to Banda Aceh for medical and business development in March 2005.
The Mien are a minority people group located mainly in the mountainous jungle that straddles the southern provinces of China, North Thailand, Laos and North Vietnam. MPPC’s partnership is with the Mien Christian Fellowship (MCF), established in 1994 by 14 Mien churches on the U.S. West Coast. MCF’s vision is to win Mien to Christ by discipling Mien in America and developing radio, literature, tapes and personal witness ministries to the million+ Mien in Asia.
PESI was founded in 1988, and has been successful in mobilizing Christian professionals and students to work as “tent makers” in China on a long-term or short-term basis. Their work is focused on the largest cities such as Beijing and Shanghai. Recently, PESI in partnership with a Christian company (TNT) has been mobilizing short-term teams to rural Far Western China where MPPC members have participated in seven short term mission teams teaching English.
This ministry was founded in 1984 by Philip Prasad, a member of the lowest outcaste group, Bhangi Dalits. Evangelism through trained pastor couples is the cornerstone of the ministry. Since its beginning over 20 years ago WMC has been blessed to accomplish: