This week, BIC U.S. World Missions launched a new project in their Partnership Handbook that supports the work of the Nanki Tsakari Comprehensive Training Center in the Amazon region of Ecuador.
Indigenous youth in this area are often sent to live in a nearby city where they have access to better education. However, away from family and friends, these children are vulnerable to exploitation.
Without a strong support system nearby, Indigenous youth are frequently underpaid and forced to work long hours to pay for their studies and living expenses; drug use, sexual violence, and human trafficking are far too common.
To offer these youth a better education in a safe environment, BIC workers launched the Nanki Tsakari Comprehensive Training Center.1 At the center, the next generation of Amazonian church leaders is being trained academically, spiritually, and missionally.
The youth of the Nanki Tsakari program learn to serve in the city, in the surrounding villages, and to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). This type of ministry is especially important in the southern part of Ecuador’s Amazon region, where only 10-15%2 of people in the primary Indigenous groups are professing Christians.
By supporting the Nanki Tsakari Comprehensive Training Center project, donors can be part of a life-changing ministry providing even more than shelter and education. This comprehensive program – grounded in the care, love, mercy, and compassion of Christ – is a training ground for future generations of disciples committed to Jesus’ Great Commission.
About the Partnership Handbook
This project is facilitated through the Partnership Handbook, a tool for missionaries, congregations, and national churches across the international BIC family to communicate and obtain financial support for ministry needs. Projects are requested by local leaders, carefully vetted, and selected with special consideration given to lasting impact, local investment, and sustainability. BIC U.S. covers administrative costs, so 100% of donations advance ministry endeavors around the world.
1 – Nanki Tsakari translates to “spearhead” or “end of the spear.”
2 – joshuaproject.net
