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III - Leadership Development

  • Seminars, workshops, conference etc, that focus on leaders involved in discipleship through community transformation 

  • Networking of pastors, business, and community leaders in every village or city

 

IV - Business Development

  • Full service computer technology centers 

  • Full service automobile technology centers 

  • A construction company 

  • Restaurant Chain 

  • Business partnerships with the emerging entrepreneurs we develop 

 

V - Economic Development

  • Electricity alternatives

  • Gas generation from waste 

  • Road infrastructure

  • Telecommunications infrastructure

  • Transportation: Motorcycle and automobile program 

  • Other infrastructure critical for business productivity 

 

VI - Intellectual Development

  • Eliminate school fees for primary school for all children in the village 

  • Increasing school attendance by girls 

  • School meals with locally produced and nutritionally balanced foods 

  • Secondary school and Higher education work-study programs

  • Community library in every village

  • International exchange programs that spread the benefits of advancements in art, science, technology, and division of labor to the grassroots of Africa.

 

XI - Environmental Development

  • Crop Productivity

  • Animal Agriculture

  • Seed quality and availability

  • Agricultural Education and extension

  • Post-harvest handling and marketing

  • Water quality & Management

  • Agro-forestry & Biodiversity

 

XII - Cultural Development

  • Replace celebrations of death with celebrations of life 

  • Secure the same rights for females as for males

  • Eliminate other cultural barriers to development 

 

XIII - Civic Development

  • The Freedom project - Citizenship Education – human rights, civil rights, elimination of corruption, promotion good governance, etc

  • The Africa project - to place Africa under one constitution

The Thirteen Departments

Each of our Christian discipleship centers (called Christian Community Development Centers) comprise of thirteen departments. Each department addresses a serious development need in western African. The Foundation's goal is to assist Torch-inspired programs/projects within these departments as well as across departments as needed to inspire efficient and effective integrated system of discipleship ministries – in effect helping in the campaign by the whole church to take the whole gospel to the whole community.

I - Gospel Communication

  • In the villages and cities: Torches, Beams, Sparks, Flames, (weekly small group meetings), and Flashes (monthly Saturday celebration get-together of all small groups in a given location). 

  • In the schools and universities: Torches, Beams, Sparks, Flames, and Flashes.

  • In the market place, public place, and in the professions: Torches, Beams, Sparks, Flames, and Flashes (businesspersons, civil-servants, farmers, lawyers, police, taxi-drivers, etc)

  • Torchbearer radio, TV, newspaper, printing/publishing house, etc.

 

 

II - Spiritual Development

  • Programs that focus on life-long Christian character development programs for youths and adults. 

  • Programs that encourage the working out of Christian character in the market place, the public place, and the private place. 

VII - Professional (Vocational) Development

  • Agricultural technology training

  • Food technology

  • Automobile and Diesel technology 

  • Computer technology – software & hardware

  • Carpentry

  • Construction technology

  • Tailoring

  • Business systems technology 

  • Welding technology

  • Drafting and Design technology

 

VIII - Health Development

  • Village health clinics

  • Community health centers

  • Hospitals

  • Train health professionals

 

IX - Social Development

  • Focus on pregnant and lactating mothers 

  • Programs that focus on children less than 5 years old

  • Opportunities for underutilized men

  • More efficient locally produced gas cook stoves

  • Improved kitchen ventilation

  • Initiatives targeted at widows and orphans

  • Rehabilitation of the physically handicapped

  • Creating Gender Responsive Infrastructure

 

X - Disease prevention Development

  • Malaria

  • HIV/AIDS and TB

  • Village Clinics

  • Village health care workers

  • Latrines

  • Gas generation from waste – village energy supplies 

  • Household Water Supply

  • Water Supply for Schools and Medical Facilities

  • Water filtration and purification

  • Gathering and Communication of medical information

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