Community Development

Community Development

Jars of Oil Mission Africa

Jars of Oil Mission Africa (JOMA) ministers to elderly widows (affectionately referred to as grannies) who lost their children to AIDS and now take care of their grandchildren. With compassion, the ministry breaks through the shame and stigma associated with AIDS to meet physical and spiritual needs. JOMA feeds families by delivering food packages and helping “grannies” start gardens. The gardens provide a source of food, income, and dignity. Many of the grannies suffer from HIV or other illnesses so JOMA arranges medical treatment for them.

Mustard Seed Orphanage

Mustard Seed Orphanage provides food, housing, Christian education, discipleship, job training, and medical care for over 190 widows and orphans. Mustard Seed Orphanage consists of three houses: Ebenezer, Hosanna, and Mustard Seed. Widows help care for the orphans, enabling these women to be self-sufficient and integrated into the church. The orphanage keeps livestock and grows most of the food to feed the children in their care.

Calvary Mission Center

Calvary Mission Center focuses on social work projects as a means of bringing the gospel to slum areas in Nagpur. Around 35% of the population of Nagpur lives in slums. Calvary Mission Center provides a church, vocational training programs, vending and food cart programs, and musical training to bring dignity and self-respect to people and to call them out of darkness and into the light of the gospel.