International (MNN) — Set Free Global’s ministries are growing. Over the next two weeks, a new initiative will take regenerative farming and use it as a tool for prosperity and gospel service.
The organization currently oversees 11 different schools in an East African country, attended by 5,000 students, many of whom have been orphaned in some way.
Jason Taylor, the new director at Set Free Global, says, “We want to basically train the teachers and the staff on how to build a sustainable ministry.”
Working in the Kabakyala area, the new Kabakyala Farming Initiative will give teachers and students the skills to provide for themselves.
Set Free is sending two experts, Carl and Gene from Michigan and Colorado, to join two National experts, Martin and Julius, in leading a two-week conference for teachers.
Teachers in East Africa will learn about regenerative farming. Photo by M abnodey on Unsplash.
All four have decades of experience in regenerative farming and will teach from a biblical worldview.
The teachers will learn to grow plants and food, creating a year-round supply to keep ministry costs down. The main reason, however, is to empower students to provide for themselves.
“We’re training the teachers so that they can pass it down to the students that they are responsible for,” says Taylor. “That way, as our students go through our schools, say they graduate from our vocational high school, when they leave that school, they will at least have the basic training on how to live an independent life and feed themselves.”
“We’re building less dependency on the United States and organizations, ” says Taylor.
Though ministries will continue to support the work, they want people to be able to care for themselves.
“In this case,” says Taylor, “Teach them how to grow plants and food that will feed them and keep them physically healthy and ultimately spiritually healthy as they learn the biblical principles behind why we’re doing this.
Please pray for the four men leading this training for safe flights and that the Lord would use their words to teach clearly. Pray that this new initiative will be a blessing for school staff in the short term and will bless the children in the long term.
(Photo courtesy of Set Free)
