World Ministry Partners
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Homes of Hope/Hope Village (Rwanda): All Saints Church provided funding for a daycare unit near the Rwandan Diocese in Kigali and for the building of several houses on the property of Christian Hope Village, outside the capital city of Kigali, Rwanda. Hope Village was formed under the direction of Archbishop Kolini after the genocide in 1994. Thousands of children were left to raise themselves. Child-headed households became a way of survival and homes were built to provide a safe haven for these children. The Homes of Hope ministry was formed after 
several All Saints members visited Rwanda in the summer of 2006. Archbishop Kolini had shared the need of continuing support of the child headed households. A Christmas luncheon for women was selected as an annual fundraising event. The first event provided for the finishing in several houses (cement floors, beds, etc). The last three luncheon events have raised funds for the construction of a multi-purpose building in the village. The building will be a gathering place for worship, counseling, art therapy and other village and community activities. The Rwandan leadership has future plans for renting this space to groups in the community and thus providing a sustainable source of income for the village. The Homes of Hope ministry has been blessed with financial support through the annual luncheon event and memorial donations raising nearly $37,000. It is a privilege to be able to bless our Rwandan brothers and sisters as they continue to heal and rebuild their nation. The pictures show established houses in the village built under the direction of Archbishop Kolini, villagers making cement for the houses and the current construction of the multi-purpose building.
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Kids Alive Home and School (Guatemala): Started in 1999, The Oasis is home to forty girls in Guatemala. The girls of the Oasis have been removed from abusive situations by Guatemalan authorities. The ministry seeks to gain permanent custody in order to provide long‐term healing. Their wounds run deep but at the Oasis the
girls are provided with the spiritual, emotional and physical healing necessary to recover. We have an on site school and receive loving care from a mix of Guatemalan and missionary staff that includes a psychologist and social worker. Our goal is to nurture them into independent and spiritually mature ladies who have a heart to serve their community through Jesus Christ. We are planting seeds for future emotionally and spiritually healthy Guatemalan families who will live as disciples of Jesus. Corbey and Janie Dukes are the Field Directors for kidsalive in Guatemala. They joined the ministry in 2008 after many years of traveling to the area as volunteers from their church in South Carolina. Through the World Outreach Ministry, funds have been sent from All Saints to help support the on site psychologist at the Oasis Home. Currently the funds are not available for a full time psychologist. As the girls are battling deep psychological scars, this is a critical need. Also
needed are individual child sponsors. The facility has room for 60 girls but currently has funding for 40. World Outreach will be seeking new funding possibilities to include individual sponsorship of the girls and more Mission opportunities to serve at the Oasis Home.
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Moscow Theological Seminary (Russia): Due to 70 years of Communist Captivity (1917—1987) "the Church in Russia has suffered the most severe and sustained persecution of any nation in recent history... It is reckoned 200,000 Christian leaders were martyred and a further 500,000 imprisoned...[today] over 90% of Russians have no meaningful link with a church—whether Orthodox or not." (Operation World encyclopedia, the 21st century edition, pp 541-542)
To reach this 90% we must continue to train leaders and ministers for Russia and the former Soviet Union. How do we do this? Through the Moscow Evangelical Christian Seminary. Established in 1993, the Moscow Seminary is an evangelical conservative school with an excellent history of training such ministers. It is registered by the Ministry of Justice and is licensed to train Christian ministers by the Ministry of Education of Russia. The Seminary is accredited to teach Ministry/Theology by the Eurasian Accrediting Association of Evangelical Schools. It trains over a 100 students from Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Armenia, Moldova, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Russia itself.
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In 2007, Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee built the first community coffee washing station in the District of Bukonya, providing the opportunity for the coffee farmers to create a cooperative. The farmers bring their coffee down from the hills to this station and work together. The village of Bukonya is one of many small villages in the mountains of Northwest Rwanda that was devastated by the genocide. This village has one of the best climates to grow coffee in the world but many crops were destroyed during the war. They are slowly rebuilding their homes, their relationships, and their crops. Villagers decided to work towards reconciling their differences. "We will put the genocide behinds us and work together...for the sake of coffee," they said.
Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee Project (Rwanda): Drink Coffee. Do Good. Welcome to Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee where discerning coffee drinkers can transform their morning cup into an opportunity to be more missional on a daily basis, providing a living wage to coffee growers, facilitating micro-finance lending for the poor and engaging redemption in a very tangible way across the world. Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee is on a mission to provide excellent coffee, support sustainable economic development, and to be a catalyst for reconciliation in Rwanda. For every bag of Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee sold, a once exploited farmer is now paid a Living Wage and additional funding is invested in community development projects to rebuild villages devastated by the genocide. By purchasing a 12 ounce bag of Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee, you are investing in lives in of Rwandans determined to rebuild their communities after their country was torn apart by genocide. We make it easy and economical to purchase this coffee locally at our church. To order for friends and family, visit their website. 
"This year, we will have the best coffee." The cooperative members in Bukonya have kept their commitment to work towards reconciliation and now farm side by side, producing some of the best specialty coffee in the world. Land of a Thousand Hills has established a fund that allows Rwandan farmers the opportunity to microfinance a cargo bike. Bicycles play an important role in coffee farming. Everyday, 300,000 coffee growers tend the coffee plants on Rwanda's mountainous, volcanic soil. The quicker the coffee beans (called cherries)
get to the washing station, the higher quality they maintain. Traditionally, Rwandans either walk their cherries miles to collection points or ride rickety handmade wooden bikes. Not only are the wooden bikes unsafe and outlawed, they are not efficient and are often incapable of carrying heavy bags of cherries. With a $250 dollar investment, a farmer in Bukonya can begin to build a better life. As the coffee farmer makes payments on the bike over a period of two years, the investment is recycled, allowing another farmer the opportunity to finance a bike, and the Sustainable Cycle continues. The photo shows Rwandese coffee farmers with their "sustainable coffee bikes". All Saints' support of this ministry directly impact farmers' lives. Because of the nature of micro-finance, our investment helps purchase farmers' bikes providing them the opportunity to sustain their family and their village. In 2009 our contribution purchased five Sustainable Cycles. In the post genocide nation, Rwandan coffee communities are being transformed.