Join BFI in the fight against modern-day slavery!  Please prayerfully consider joining with us as we partner with strategic partners such as The A21 Campaign and The International Justice Mission to combat this horriffic injustice.

We are currently working with two ministries in Nepal and India who are working to establish safe-house ministries working to restore women and young girls who have been sold into the sex slave industry.

Please contact us for more information.  Or raise the awareness of this global concern by checking out these fellow freedom fighters.

There are a number of strategies BFI has utilized to help empower, equip, and enable Church Leaders in developing situations to be more effective in leading their people.  Through Pastor Training, we have been blessed to help provide practical tips as well as theological trainings to Church leadership.  We are currently working with Agape International Mission to develop an online training tool that will, ultimately provide pastors and church leaders who have previously had no opportunity for formal training, an open door to fulfill their calling.

We also have several initiatives which allow the church leaders a means of supporting their families while carrying on their responsibilities to shepherd the flock God has entursted to their care.  For example, for approximately $500, a pastor in Kenya can be provided with a mature, producing dairy cow which would allow them to help supplement their income as well as address the needs of malnourishment among their people by providing milk and cheese at a highly reduced rate.  There is an extensive process for selecting the pastors and they must make the significant investment of building a corral and planting/securing native grasses for feed, as well as commit to raise the first-born calf to production stage and according to the principle of ‘first fruits’ provide that cow to the next pastor on the waiting list.

We have several business models to help a pastor start a small business or micro-enterprise as a source of primary or secondary income as very few congregations are able to support their leadership financially.   This program includes mentoring and accountability as well as a portion of all proceeds being set aside for re-investment into Kingdom work.

If you are interested in learning more about these or other projects, or are interested in sponsoring one as an individual, small group, or congregation, please contact us for more details.

South Asia is home to the most concentrated population of spiritual darkness on the planet!  An estimated 1 in every 40 persona living without a saving knowledge of Jesus lives in this relatively small space geographically.  BFI has begun establishing strategic partnerships to advance the Kingdom of God through community development projects, evangelism and discipleship ministries, as well as equipping and empowering local church leaders as they seek to share the Light of the Gospel in the midst of the darkness!  If you have an interest in GO-ing where many others can/will not go, please contact us.

Here are some testimonies from our Kenya teams…

“When we were traveling to Mt. Elgon and got stuck really badly in the mud and half way through trying to get unstuck, Brian grabbed the sound system off the bus and decided we would do a ministry site right there on the side of the road with no name…We saw some ladies coming and so we waited on them, asked them to stay and when they said they would, we did our drama and Deanna gave the net (shared the Gospel). When she was done, she asked if anyone would want to know this Jesus who cared about them so much. It was so cool to watch several women raise their hand but one that stuck out to me was a lady standing in front who raised her hand before the question was even finished. She was so real and genuine! After that, we got to pray for this woman. That was neat too….just letting them know we care. This is one of my snapshots-just seeing how God took something we saw as bad and used it for His glory!”   Sara

Well… I have several favorite moments so far… bouncing baby Shilma on my hip during worship at KarenBaptist Church… watching as 2 teenage boys came forward to begin their lifelong walks with the Lord… watching The Lion King with a room full of Africans… and using  my scarf as a blanket for me and 3 of those Africans… The Lord is just filling my heart with praise that He’s allowed me to see and be a tiny participant in His movement here.  As we see seas full of faces in schools and as we drive down the extremely bumpy roads – I just marvel that the Father is so watchful over each of their lives.  His name WILL be glorified in all nations, a promise not a maybe.  I am learning much from believers here – to see God as the Provider, the Comforter, and the “Father who never ever fails me.”    Melanie “Akinyi”
 

At Sunday’s children’s ministry time, after we had finished the Bible story and had started the craft, I felt a push on my back.  I turned and there stood a little girl about 9 or 10 years of age, and she had the saddest eyes.  I put my arm around her and asked her name.  “Nancy.”  All the other kids were doing crafts, but she had just come.  So I hurried and got her set up with the craft and helped her.  When we had finished with the David and Goliath paper sack puppets – I saw a boy, a little older than she, with her puppets.  He had a tough, sad look in his eyes.  I asked if he was Nancy’s brother and he said, “Yes.”  I talked to him and her several times through the remainder of our time there.  Then, last night when we arrived at church to set up the movie, The Lion King, two of the first children to arrive were Nancy and her brother.  The pastor’s wife told me they had lost their parents and were orphans at Miracle House.  I will see the looks of these children in my heart forever.  When I leave, they will go with me, in my heart and on my mind, forever.   Elizabeth

So church in Kenya is so very different from church “back home”.  Nobody sings on key – as if there is a key.  The clapping is totally spontaneous.  People are worshiping and dancing in the front.  Everybody is moving or jumping or yodel-yelping, or whatever they can do, but not for the eyes of those around them.  Instead, they are the definition of true worship – with all their heart.  They don’t give a flip about what other people think about them.  And even though it’s my fifth time here, it gets to me every time – if worship is truly about God and realizing how stinkin’ powerful what He did for us is and thanking Him, our standing in awe before Him… if that is true worship, why do we always tend to make it about us?  Like, why cant we just get real with God and love Him with that reckless abandon these Kenyans have. I mean, it is the same God ya know… something to think about.     Autumn “Nekesa”

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Here is an excerpt from what one student wrote regarding the Panama trip- What an amazing trip!!! I have truly experienced God and have able to do that. Because of the trip I’ve been doing my FACE:face times everyday and really digging deeper into God’s word. My life was radically changed on the trip…The day that my team, the Chargers, went up to the top of the mountain during the afternoon and looked out I knew God was calling me to the ministry. I was totally excited and could feel God speaking to me. The big thing is just trying to find out what’s next and the steps to continuing this journey into the ministry. Please be in prayer for me about that. Thanks again to BFI and the wonderful ministry that has impacted my life.”

Wherever He Lead’s I’ll GO!
Brad Hamilton

“Going to Panama with Beautiful Feet was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Seeing God work in mighty ways in the lives of the Nobe Bugle, the Kuna, the team, and in me was life changing. I was pushed emotionally, physically and spiritually. If anyone has the chance to go…GO! Be the feet that God can use to make a difference.”
Catherine Gutting-Mesquite, Texas

“This nation is in an extreme state of need for people to experience Christ in a way that is so life-changing and different from what the world has instilled in them. BFI  is doing exactly that! I have never felt so face to face with my Creator like I have when doing missions with a group that is led solely with GOD’s leadership. Every day we wake to stretch ourselves in ways that are unimaginable. BFI equips us to follow with our feet, to meet with Christ and to solely give love without an agenda to God’s beautiful creations in different parts of the world. Impacting lives has never been such a blessing. “Thank you LORD, for putting BFI in my path to aid in my growth with you… and BFI thank you for the encouragement and opportunity to serve my LORD with my native tongue.”

Veronica Hicks