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

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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. On-field consultancy services are provided to qualified

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

God’s 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 God’s

kingdom in any community. More than any other institution, it can reflect God’s

concern in each domain of man’s need. Christian institutions have a particular

focus – evangelism, education, health, economic development. They are limited

by organizational mandate in their ability to represent God’s 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 man’s 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 person’s 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 God’s 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 man’s

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 God’s intentions for you and this particular

need?” In biblical development, “quality of life” is determined by God’s intention

for His people. It is not limited to the tangible and visible arenas of man’s 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 God’s power, love and mercy.