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Christian Missionary Fellowship International
is a 59-year-old mission organization that serves in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Northeast Africa, Tanzania, Asia, Indonesia, Thailand, Great Britain, Spain, Ukraine, and the USA through church-planting ministries and outreach to the urban poor, youth, creative-access countries, and the world’s people who have come to live in the U.S.
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Recruit a key person to formulate and appropriate strategy for your church, which includes recruiting a team of helpers.
Adopt a slum or village in Africa and find suitable partners to address issues in that area.
Search out opportunities for local involvement: shelters, hospitals, hospices, education.
Visit Africa and experience firsthand the epidemic.
Purchase copies of books and pass around the church (see several suggestions below).
Consider a church-based child sponsorship program. Members of your church corporately sponsor all the children from a school, church, or village area.
Study various strategies for ministry to AIDS orphans.
Send your preacher on a fact-finding trip to Africa.
Set aside a percentage of your church budget for AIDS, the largest humanitarian crisis in world history.
Seek to partner with those whom you trust, who have experience, and who have a proven track record.
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Book Selections
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Global AIDS Crisis, Burke, Dale Hanson, Atlanta: Authentic Publishing. 2006
The AIDS Crisis: What Can We Do, Dortzbach, Deborah and W. Meredith Long, Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press. 2006
The Hope Factor: Engaging the Church in the HIV/AIDS Crisis, Yamamori, Tetsunao (editor), Waynesboro: Authentic Media. 2003
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