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barnabas gifts
Gifts of Love for the Persecuted Church 2014-2015
Barnabas Fund Gift Catalogue
www.barnabasfund.org
Contents
Welcome .......................................................................... 3
How we help .................................................................... 4
What did your gifts achieve last year? .......................... 5
Where we helped ............................................................. 6
Special feature: Assisting displaced Christians in the Middle East ........8
Basic needs ...........................................................................................9
Water ................................................................................................... 10
Disaster relief ....................................................................................... 11
Medical care ........................................................................................ 12
Gift form ....................................................................... i-iii
Gift cards ........................................................................ iv
Victims of violence ............................................................................... 13
Convert care ........................................................................................ 14
Small businesses ................................................................................. 15
Leadership training .............................................................................. 16
Christian workers ................................................................................. 17
Christian resources .............................................................................. 18
Church buildings .................................................................................. 19
School-place sponsorship .................................................................... 20
About Barnabas Fund ................................................... 21
Commendations ............................................................. 22
Welcome
Dear Friend,
I am delighted to present to you the Barnabas
Fund gift catalogue for 2014-2015.
Here is an opportunity to present a gift of love
to our brothers and sisters in Christ who are
suffering for their faith.
This catalogue offers many options for gifts that
you, your small group or your church can make
to help Christians suffering discrimination and
persecution in various parts of the world. These
range from relief from natural disasters to the
provision of food and other basics for the needy;
from help for converts and victims of violence to
sponsorship of schoolchildren and start-up costs
for small businesses; from training and support
for leaders to funds for resources and buildings.
On page 8 you can also read about how to help
displaced Christians from northern Iraq and Syria
who have fed from the brutality of ISIS.
Please prayerfully consider your response to the
needs set out in this catalogue and give what you
can, and please also encourage others in your
congregation or fellowship to do the same.
Single and regular gifts
Single one-off gifts help to support vital ministries
and also make attractive alternative presents for
friends and family. Why not give a Barnabas gift
as a birthday or Christmas present this year?
Regular gifts (such as a Direct Debit in the
UK) help us to minimise our overheads and so
maximise the amount we can send to support
persecuted Christians. They also allow us to plan
ahead with more confdence and to respond
quickly to new and urgent requests.
Gift cards
If you choose to support one of our projects as an
alternative gift, we will supply you with a delightful
thank-you card, which you can send to the person
on whose behalf you have made the donation.
Please turn to page iv of the pull-out gift form for
further details.
Paul encouraged the Christians in Galatia to
bear one anothers burdens, and so fulfl the law
of Christ (Galatians 6:2). May you know Gods
rich blessing as you consider how to identify
yourself with the plight of our persecuted brothers
and sisters. Please pray for them as you read
their stories.
Yours in the service of Christ,
Dr Patrick Sookhdeo
International Director
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How we help
Medical care
clinics and life-saving
healthcare
Christian resources
resources for growth and
encouragement
Christian education
Christian schooling for
Christian children
Small businesses
strengthening Christians
through self-sufciency
Christian workers
spreading the Word,
strengthening the Body
Basic needs
food and other essentials
supplied through local
churches
Victims of violence
helping Christians
who sufer violence or
injustice for their faith
Church buildings
enabling ministry on
frm foundations
Disaster relief
emergency aid in times
of calamity
Water
digging wells, ensuring
supplies
Leadership training
equipping the
ministers of Christ
Convert care
support for those who
turn to Christ
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What did your gifts
achieve in the last year?
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In contexts of pressure and persecution
Barnabas Fund provided:
Barnabas Fund supported:
20,181 Christians
who were victims of
violence
912 Christians with
small-business and
income-generation
projects
6,165 Christian children
in Christian schools or
educational programmes
6 safe houses and
helped persecuted
Christian converts in
9 countries
264 evangelists and
137 pastors
leadership training
for 27,472 Christians
in 27 countries
5 clinics or care
centres
food and other basic
needs for 116,383
Christians
emergency disaster
relief to 13,406
Christians
122,000 pieces of
Christian literature
resources for the
construction or
repair of 397 homes
for Christian families
and 27 churches
resources for the
construction and
repair of 7 other
Christian ministry
buildings
37 water projects,
including wells and
hand pumps
*From 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014
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Where we helped
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Algeria
Argentina
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burma (Myanmar)
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
China
Democratic Republic of
the Congo
Egypt
Ethiopia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guinea-Conakry
Holy Land
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kyrgyzstan
Lebanon
Mali
Moldova
Nepal
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
Pakistan
Philippines
Russia
Rwanda
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Solomon Islands
South Africa
South Sudan
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Syria
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States of America
Uzbekistan
Zimbabwe
* Some of the countries where Barnabas Fund
supported projects from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014.
Projects in Western countries are usually assisting
Christians from places of persecution.
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Special feature
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ou no longer have to feel powerless when
watching distressing news coming out of the
Middle East about Christians. Besides praying,
you can help our suffering brothers and sisters by
donating to our Middle East Fund.
This will bring clean water, food, medicines,
clothes and other essentials to hundreds of
thousands of Christians from Iraq and Syria who
have been forced to fee their homes to escape
the brutality of ISIS and other militants. Some
of the displaced believers have taken refuge in
public buildings, but many have nowhere to go
and are stranded in streets and open felds.
At the time of writing, ISIS is in control of large
tracts of northern Iraq and Syria. Christians are
feeing from the north-eastern region of Syria as
ISIS continues to seize towns. In Iraq, 200,000
Christians are on the move after ISIS seized the
Nineveh region, traditionally the homeland of
Christians in Iraq.
A Syrian pastor said in thanks to Barnabas Fund,
[Your support] was a clear declaration to all
people that Jesus Christ is there for them during
their toughest and darkest times.
Will you stand with these displaced Christian
believers and help them through the severe trial
they are now facing?
Assisting displaced
Christians in the
Middle East
pays for a hygiene kit
for a displaced Iraqi
Christian family
provides a food
basket for a displaced
Iraqi Christian family,
to last approximately
ten days

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Reference number:
00-1188 (The Middle East Fund)
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ISIS marked Christian homes in Mosul
with the Arabic letter N that stands for
Nisrani (Nazarene i.e. Christian)
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A Christian woman in Pakistan carries food
she received from Barnabas Fund
Food for survival Basic needs
will provide a
Christian child
refugee from Burma
(Myanmar) with food
and hygiene products
for one month
will feed a family in
Bangladesh for one
month

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Reference number:
00-636 (Feeding Fund)
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hy not start supporting one of our
food programmes by donating to the
Feeding Fund?
We are currently providing food on a regular
basis to Christian families in Bangladesh, Egypt
and Pakistan. For many, the food can be a real
life-saver.
One of the families in Pakistan is headed by
Munir and Ruqqiya. The food from Barnabas
Fund is a big support, said Munir. I can feed
my children and am very thankful.
Munir has struggled to fnd suffcient work to
support his family since his wife was falsely
accused of blasphemy in 2008. They live in
hiding and in continual fear of attack by Muslim
extremists. Sadly, Ruqqiyas release and
acquittal by the High Court in 2012 has not
decreased threats.
With all those concerns, the monthly food
packages ensure that the family do not have to
worry about their children going hungry.
Many people would not give me daily labour
work because I am a Christian, said Kuru in
Bangladesh about the problems his family faced
after converting from Islam to Christianity. I
knew Jesus suffered a lot, therefore I am also
ready to suffer. I am praying for those who are
regularly supporting the food programme.
We also frequently send short-term support to
Christians who are temporarily in need.
Barnabas has provided nine needy
congregations in Pakistan with
hand pumps
twenty-fve gifts of
19 paid for a tube
well for 15 Christian
families in Sri Lanka
provides a hand pump
for an impoverished
Christian community
in Punjab, Pakistan
Reference number:
00-635 (Water Projects Fund)
With joy you will
draw water
(Isaiah 12:3)
W
hen Christians are a despised,
impoverished minority, they may lack
access to lifes most essential resource: water.
We help provide wells to make sure needy
communities have a clean, constant supply.
Muslim-majority Bangladesh is one country
in which Christian communities can struggle
without access to water. The entire north of the
country suffers severe water shortages between
March and July, and Christians are often
prevented from drawing water from public wells
by Muslims.
Thanks to the wells that Barnabas is helping to
build in Bangladesh, believers do not have to
rely on public resources. We are very happy
and give thanks to our God, said one Christian
whose church now has its own well. Before the
well was built, the congregation had to carry the
water they needed for long distances.
Supporting our water projects helps to radically
improve the lives of suffering believers, and can
also lead to other, unexpected blessings. When
Barnabas helped to build a well in a Central
Asian village in 2013, the Christians allowed local
Muslims to use it for free. The Muslim neighbours,
surprised at this kindness, developed a more
positive attitude to the church, and persecution in
the area lessened.
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give thanks to God for this gift that has
fallen from heaven. I thank all the donors
from my heart. May God bless them abundantly!
Soumana is one of more than 1,000 disaster-
affected believers from Nigers vulnerable
Christian minority who were going hungry
until Barnabas stepped in to provide food aid.
Because of droughts and occasional fooding,
Niger endures almost constant food insecurity.
As Soumanas joyful words show, receiving
emergency aid from Barnabas makes a huge
difference to Christian lives blighted by natural
disaster. When believers are a hated minority,
they sometimes miss out when aid is distributed.
Barnabas Fund is there to support them, both
in the short term and for longer periods where
necessary, to make sure they do not suffer more
severely than others around them.
A gift to our Disaster Relief Fund not only helps
us provide aid, from food and medicines to
new livelihoods and new homes; it also helps
show devastated believers that, although they
may have lost everything, they are not alone
in their distress. Thank you very much, said
Khurshid, a Pakistani Christian who received
food relief. We were hungry and looking help
from God Then we were given good news
of Barnabas Fund, who are always near to
poor Christians in Pakistan.
Disaster relief
A helping hand
when disaster
strikes
paid for a 50kg bag
of rice for a hungry,
drought-afected
Christian family in
Niger
provided a needy
family in Pakistan with
food and hygiene
supplies following
fooding
Reference number:
00-634 (Disaster Relief Fund)

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Barnabas provided food for Christians
displaced by fooding in Chad
A child in South Sudan receives a
check-up
paid for a Christians
treatment at a clinic
in Baghdad
covered the daily
medicines dispensed
at a mobile clinic in
South Sudan
Reference number:
00-671 (Medical Fund)
Life-saving
medical aid
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our gift to our Medical Fund can mean that
an impoverished Christian facing great
pressure can get that check-up or medicine or
life-saving operation.
Many Christians around the world are so poor,
through marginalisation and persecution, that
they have no resources to fall back on when
they have an accident or fall sick. Our Medical
Fund steps in at such times to help pay for their
doctors or hospital fees.
In Egypt, a mobile clinic brought medical services
to hundreds of Christians in remote areas of
Upper Egypt with help from Barnabas Fund.
These impoverished believers, for whom access
to medical care has become more diffcult since
the Arab Spring, only had to pay a nominal sum
to receive treatment.
The same ministry also provided medical care
to 200 Christians in Egypt suffering from chronic
diseases such as cancer, kidney failure and
heart disease.
A mobile clinic in South Sudan was able to
provide a worried Christian father with health
education and a regular supply of milk and
vitamins for his newborn son last year. The childs
mother had died when the little one was just
one week old. A doctor wrote, The relief on the
fathers face that he was not alone in caring for
his son was a beautiful sight.
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Gift Form
To make a Gift of Love for the Persecuted
Church, please use the following forms.
You can either set up a regular donation,
or make a single donation to the General
Fund or to one or more of the projects
whose reference numbers are listed
throughout the booklet.
Simply fll out your contact details
below and then fll out p. ii for single
donations or p. iii for regular donations.
If you are a UK tax-payer, please
complete the Gift Aid Declaration
below to enable us to reclaim tax on all
your donations at no extra cost to you.
If you would like us to send you a
gift card(s) following your donation,
please also complete p. iv with details of
the wording required.
When complete, please pull the form out of
the catalogue and send it to your nearest
Barnabas Fund ofce (addresses on the
back cover).
I / We would like to help the
persecuted Church:
(Mr / Mrs / Miss / Ms / Rev / Dr/ Other ...................... ) (Please Circle)
Name .................................................................................................
Address ...................................................................................
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Postcode .................................................................................
Telephone ...............................................................................
Email ........................................................................................
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donate to will reclaim on my gifts for
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Here is my single gift of .................................................................................
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where it is most needed (General Fund)
or for ________________ (give reference number of project to be supported)*.
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www.barnabasfund.org
by regular cheque/voucher payable to Barnabas Fund
(please complete your address details on p. i of this form)
My frst payment of ................................... to cover ....................................month(s) is enclosed.
I / We want to bring hope to the persecuted Church by a regular gift, to be used:
where it is most needed (General Fund)
or for ________________ (give reference number of project to be supported)*.
DIRECT DEBIT (for UK supporters only)
I would like to give a regular gift of ......................... (amount in words) .......................................................................
Starting on 1
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quarter / year (delete as applicable) until further notice. This Direct Debit is a new one / in addition to /
replaces an earlier Standing Order / Direct Debit in favour of Barnabas Fund (delete as applicable).
Please return this
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Fund and not to
your bank. See
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catalogue for
address details.
If you are a UK
tax-payer, please
complete the Gift
Aid Declaration
on p. i to enable
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A Gift of
Love
for the
Persecuted
Church
A
A Gift of
Love
for the
Persecuted
Church
B
A Gift of
Love
for the
Persecuted
Church
C
A Gift of
Love
for the
Persecuted
Church
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A Gift of
Love
for the
Persecuted
Church
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Love
for the
Persecuted
Church
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If you would like more cards, please
photocopy this page or attach a separate
piece of paper with the details for the extra
cards and send it with your donation. You
can also call your nearest Barnabas Fund
ofce with the details and pay by credit card
over the phone.
A Lasting Legacy to the Persecuted Church
Gift Cards
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any people have savings and assets that for
good practical reasons they cannot share
during their lifetime. A bequest to help the persecuted
Church in your will enables you to express a desire to
be generous that you may not have been able to put
into practice in any other way.
Please consider remembering Barnabas Fund in your will.
A booklet entitled A Christian Guide to Making and Changing Your
Will is available free of charge.
Simply tick this box to receive a copy
If you choose to support a Barnabas Fund project as an alternative gift
for a friend or relative, we can supply you with an attractive Thank
you card, which you can send to the person on whose behalf you
have made the donation.
Please fll in the details as you would like them to appear on the card and please complete
your name and address on p. i. Please write clearly.
Dear ...................................
A gift of ................. has been received on your behalf from
.........................................................................................................
This gift will assist Christians who are persecuted for their faith.
With many thanks on behalf of the persecuted Church
If you would like to have
the card sent directly to the
recipient, or if you would prefer
to receive blank cards and
fll them out yourself, please
contact your national ofce
(address details on back cover).
Please state your preferred card choice (see right): ____
Tick here if you do not want the amount to be stated on the card
Tick here if you do wish details about the project to be included on the card
Please send this pull-out form to your nearest ofce (addresses on back cover).
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hen believers are violently targeted
because of their faith, the consequences
are devastating. Christian victims of attack suffer
physical injury and psychological trauma. Many
see their homes and churches destroyed, or are
forced to fee. Others are arrested, imprisoned
or even executed.
However they are affected, Barnabas Fund
provides the support that targeted Christians
need. For example, this year we provided
survival kits, containing food, basic household
items and a Bible, to Christian families displaced
by violence in the Central African Republic. All
589 families had lost at least one member in
attacks by the Islamist Seleka rebels.
As well as meeting immediate basic needs,
we help with medical expenses, safe houses,
trauma counselling and rebuilding destroyed
homes. Giving to this work helps us to reach
out to Christians such as the families who
lost breadwinners in the horrifc bombing of
All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan,
in September 2013. By providing monthly
fnancial support, Barnabas has been ensuring
that the families have enough to eat. Our
support also allows the bereaved believers
children to continue attending school as their
families rebuild their lives.
Victims of
violence
Help to survive,
support to heal
paid for a blanket for
a Christian displaced
by violence in South
Sudan
pays one months living
expenses and school
fees for a Christian girl
at a rescue home in
Kenya
Reference number:
00-345 (Victims of Violence Fund)

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Barnabas supports Christian orphanages in
Burma (Myanmar) where Christian orphans
displaced by violence receive protection
and loving care
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Rose is now using her secretarial skills
to assist a pastor in starting a church
in her Muslim-majority home town
paid for two weeks
ministry training
for a Turkish
convert from Islam
in Bulgaria
covered tuition fees
in teacher training
for one month of a
convert from Islam
in Uganda
Reference number:
00-113 (Convert Fund)
Standing with
converts
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our support has made a signifcant
impact in my life, wrote Rose, a
young woman in Uganda. The help she
received from Barnabas Fund through our
Convert Fund enabled her to obtain a diploma
in secretarial studies at Kampala University
after turning to Christ.
I [now] have a hope which had eluded me for
over two years when I could not go to school,
she added. Like many other converts from Islam
experience, Roses family disowned her, leaving
her and abandoned and destitute at a young age.
Here is an opportunity to show love to more
Christian converts from other religions. Many
have lost everything in order to gain Christ. Your
help will not only transform their circumstances,
but will also send them a message of solidarity
and care during diffcult, and often lonely, times.
In Burundi, twelve converts, who are marginalised
by their Muslim neighbours, were each given a
cow. The milk from the cows is now providing
income for them.
Your gift could provide safe accommodation
for converts in danger, small business start-up
funds for those in need of an income, education,
pastoral care or meet many other needs.
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ou could be instrumental in enabling
marginalised Christians to have a
livelihood.
By providing training and tools for their trade, we
enable converts to start a small business and
earn money to provide for their families.
Sudha, a Christian widow in Sri Lanka, received
a sewing machine to re-start her sewing
business. She lost everything during the civil
war. Her husband was killed and she and her
children ended up in a camp for displaced
people. After the war, Christian widows like
Sudha did not receive adequate assistance
from the government.
The gift from Barnabas Fund has changed her
circumstances. She said, I am happy that I can
stay at home and earn money for taking care of
my kids.
In some contexts, a simple, but effective gift like
this can provide the means for survival. When
Christians are refused entry to the workforce,
then starting a business can provide the solution
to bringing in money for their family. It can also
enable Christian workers to support themselves.
From the pair of goats I received last year, I
now have fve, a pastor in Sierra Leone said.
The two goats, farming tools and seeds, and
training in animal rearing and farming that 80
pastors received are enabling them to work and
live in poor, rural, Muslim-majority areas of the
country. You could help another pastor in Sierra
Leone become self-suffcient.
Small
businesses
Road towards
self-sufciency
can pay for a goat to
generate income for a
Christian pastor working
in a Muslim-majority
area of Sierra Leone
provided for a sewing
machine and a years
training in sewing and
literacy for a Christian
woman in Pakistan
Reference number:
00-356 (Small Business Start-up Fund)

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A Christian woman in Niger kneels beside
the goats she received from Barnabas Fund
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Christians in Kyrgyzstan study at a
three-day conference for church leaders
pays for evangelism
training for an
impoverished pastor
in Sierra Leone
enabled a church leader
in a repressive country
in South-East Asia to
attend a three-day
Christian leadership
training course
Reference number:
00-430 (Leadership Training Fund)
Leadership training
for ministry under
pressure
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hurch and ministry leaders in contexts
of persecution need to be well trained to
help their congregations stand frm in the face of
discrimination, hostility and even violence. But
many have had little or no opportunity to have
even basic Bible training and cannot afford the
costs. Barnabas Fund enables faithful servants
of God to be trained in theology, Christian
leadership skills and also in specifc skills
needed for their particular contexts.
For example, in several Central Asian countries,
believers in unregistered churches face
harassment by the state and legal penalties
for taking part in Christian activities. Christian
leaders are particularly vulnerable to being
harassed by the authorities and particularly
need to be strengthened and equipped for the
ministries to which the Lord has called them.
Barnabas-funded leadership training courses
are helping needy Christian leaders in Central
Asia to grow and develop their knowledge and
skills. Zarina, who attended a two-year Biblical
training course in Tajikistan, gained an improved
understanding that she can now share with
others. Zarina said, Now I know how to explain
to people many spiritual things from the Bible.
A contribution to our Leadership Training Fund
is a gift that keeps on giving. As leaders share
what they have gained with their congregations,
they in turn are strengthened and encouraged
by Gods Word.
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powerful way to strengthen the persecuted
Church is by enabling pastors and
evangelists to focus on their work.
One pastor, church-planter, evangelist or church
worker can provide spiritual encouragement
and nourishment to many more persecuted
Christians, and can help the Church fourish,
even under intense pressure and obstruction.
By contributing to their living costs, you are
freeing them up from having to go out and earn
money for their family. Instead, they can focus
their time on much-needed pastoral and other
spiritual work.
Members of a congregation in a Central Asian
country feel they are now receiving good spiritual
leadership since their pastor started receiving
support for 85% of his needs from Barnabas
Fund. Severe persecution by the authorities
means that the church members, who are
converts from Islam, cannot meet all together.
Instead, the pastor visits them secretly as 25
home groups.
Before receiving the support, the pastor only had
time to visit each group once a month at most.
But now he can visit each home group every
fortnight, and sometimes more often, to lead their
services. He now also holds a fortnightly meeting
with all home group leaders.
Currently, Barnabas Fund is supporting 48
church-planters in Indonesia who have started
small churches in impoverished, rural, Muslim-
majority areas. Your contribution would be a great
encouragement to them and can help them stay
and succeed.
Christian
workers
Ministering to
Gods people
can support a
church-planter in
Kenya for one week
contributed towards
an evangelists
monthly upkeep in
rural China
Reference numbers:
00-477 (Pastors Support Fund),
00-478 (Evangelists Support Fund)

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A pastor in Pakistan preaches to his
congregation
Barnabas provides Christian
magazines in Central Asia, for both
children and adults
paid for one song
booklet for a
Sudanese Christian
covers the production
costs of ten Christian
childrens magazines
in Central Asia
Reference numbers:
00-360 (Christian Literature Fund);
00-362 (Bibles and Scriptures Fund);
00-479 (Resources Fund)
Resources to
strengthen and
encourage
I
have prayed all of these 38 years to
receive a Bible in the Lisu language. Now
today my prayers have been answered.
Barnabas Fund has the privilege of providing
Bibles for Christians who would otherwise have
no access to the written Word of God. As these
words from a Christian man in Burma (Myanmar)
show, receiving a Bible from Barnabas is often
the answer to years of prayer and longing.
In Burma, as in many other places, the
publication of Bibles and other Christian
literature is restricted. In other countries,
publishing resources to help Christians grow in
their faith is forbidden altogether. Sometimes,
believers are forced to leave their Bibles behind
when they fee from anti-Christian violence.
Others are simply too impoverished to access
the resources they need.
Persecuted Christians beneft greatly from
resources that help them to walk closely
with the Lord and understand the suffering
they are experiencing. As well as Bibles, our
literature and resources funds help provide
other Christian literature, DVDs, and television
and radio programmes. A viewer of a Christian
television programme in Egypt said, These
shows are like the breath of air that keeps us,
especially women who cant leave their houses
God bless you.
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aving a safe, secure place to meet is
particularly important for congregations
at risk of persecution. But in many countries,
Christians are very poor because of
discrimination, and they cannot afford to
buy, build, or repair their buildings. In others,
repressive laws prevent them from doing so.
Sometimes churches are closed or destroyed,
and Christians may be prevented by law from
meeting to pray and worship in private homes.
Sometimes local people refuse to rent premises
to Christians for worship.
One congregation in India was bereft of a
place to meet for fve years. The dedication
of its new building, constructed with help from
Barnabas, was celebrated with joyful singing and
dancing. The new church symbolises hope and
restoration, as the previous church was destroyed
by Hindu extremists during violence in Orissa
state. Barnabas is continuing to build churches in
India; other recent building projects have taken
place in Bangladesh, Uganda, Pakistan and
Central Asia amongst others.
A gift towards Barnabas Funds work to build
churches for needy Christians represents
much more than bricks and mortar. In providing
churches and other ministry buildings, we give
downtrodden congregations back their dignity,
enable them to meet with peace of mind and
vastly improve their potential for ministry.
Church
buildings
Building a
brighter future
for persecuted
congregations
paid for 100 bricks for
rebuilding a destroyed
cemetery wall in
Bangladesh
paid for one steel
sheet for the
roof of a church
building in Russia
Reference number:
00-637 (Church Buildings Fund)

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great joy to the congregation
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on average per
month funds a school
place at a Christian
school for a needy
Christian child
Supporters who give regularly will receive
a card with the name and photograph of
one child and a twice-yearly newsletter
about the project.
Learning in safety,
growing in faith
I
trust you Lord, that you will be able to
pave the way for me to continue my
schooling. You have said not to worry.
Benaria, a faithful Christian teenager in
Indonesia, prayed this prayer when her
parents told her that they were too poor to
continue paying her school fees. Her prayer
was answered when she was admitted to a
Christian school funded by Barnabas.
The dilemma faced by Benarias parents is
one that often confronts Christian parents
impoverished by discrimination. When
believers live as a hated minority, they
may have to choose between feeding their
families and paying for school places. Even
when Christian children can go to school,
they often face harassment and unfair
treatment in the classroom. Some are even
deliberately failed in their exams.
Barnabas Funds School-Place Sponsorship
programme enables Christian children in
nine countries to learn in a loving, Christ-
centred environment. At the schools we
support, children are encouraged in their
faith while receiving a quality education from
caring teachers.
Giving the gift of a school place, which costs
an average of 18 per child per month, can
give a Christian child the chance to break
the cycle of poverty and illiteracy for good.
Barnabas also helps with school buildings
and other projects to enable Christian
children to get Christian schooling.
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This young boy from a Christian
family in the Holy Land is one of 6,126
children receiving a caring, Christian
education at Barnabas-funded schools
Reference numbers:
00-514 (School-Place Sponsorship Fund)
00-794 (Christian Schooling for Christian
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About Barnabas Fund
As we have opportunity, let us do good to all
people, especially to those who belong to the
family of believers.
Galatians 6:10, NIV emphasis added
As part of the family of God, Barnabas Fund stands with our Christian
brothers and sisters around the world, including the West, where they sufer
discrimination, oppression or persecution as a result of their faith. In this way we
witness to the love of Christ and build His Kingdom.
We believe in the clear Biblical teaching that Christians should treat all people
of all religions and none with love and compassion, even those who seek to
persecute them. We carry out our vision and purpose accordingly, but we will
not compromise what we believe the Word of God teaches.
1. We encourage prayer for the persecuted Church by providing comprehensive
prayer materials.
We believe in the power of prayer to change peoples lives and circumstances,
either through grace to endure or through deliverance from suffering.
2. We channel money from Christians through Christians to Christians. Donations
from individual Christians and churches are forwarded to local ministries and
Christian organisations in contexts of persecution, mainly in Muslim-majority
environments, to bring about practical and spiritual transformation in the lives of
suffering believers.
We fund projects that have been developed by local Christians in their own
communities, countries or regions. Thus we act as equal partners with the
persecuted Church, whose leaders often help to shape our overall direction.
3. We tell the untold story about the plight of persecuted Christians and speak out
on their behalf, making their needs known to Christians around the world and to
governments and international bodies.
We seek to tackle persecution at its root by making known the aspects of religious
and secular ideologies that result in injustice and oppression of Christians and
others. We also equip Christians in the West to meet the challenge that other
religions pose to the Church, its mission and society.
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Commendations
I have followed the work of Barnabas Fund for many years and heartily
recommend their vision of bringing hope and practical aid to Christians
under persecution around the world. Barnabas Fund has played a key role
in bringing home to Christians in Britain the reality of life for brothers and
sisters in many other countries. In so doing, Barnabas Fund encourages
informed prayer and channels aid to where it is desperately needed. I have
always been deeply impressed by the calibre of research which underpins
Barnabas Funds advocacy and ensures the appropriateness of the aid
it provides. Also, from my own experience of working with persecuted
Christians in many places, I know that their priority request is always for
prayer and I greatly value this emphasis in the work of Barnabas Fund.
Baroness Caroline Cox
Iraqi Christians are facing danger and destruction on every hand. But
Barnabas Fund has been our faithful brother for many years, bringing
help when we felt forgotten, bringing hope when we felt ready to despair. I
thank God for Barnabas Fund which is a lifeline for the Church in Iraq.
Archbishop Athanasius Toma Dawod
Syrian Orthodox Church
Not only did Jesus say, Do good to those who persecute you, he
emphasised coming to the aid of our brothers and sisters who are
sufering. Barnabas Fund is taking Christs command seriously and putting
it into practice. It has my wholehearted support.
Professor Graeme Clark AC
I have been associated with Barnabas and its ministry to the persecuted
Church in Africa and around the world for many years. I fully endorse their
ministry as they champion the cause of the persecuted Church. I strongly
urge you to support Barnabas projects with the sufering Church.
The Most Rev. Peter J. Akinola
Formerly Archbishop, Metropolitan and Primate of All Nigeria
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An increasing number of sufering and persecuted Christians around
the world need a voice to speak for them and a hand to reach out
and help them. Barnabas Fund provides both and I am honoured to
be associated with its ministry.
The Rev. Peter Grainger
Pastor at Large, Charlotte Chapel, Edinburgh
I have benefted much from the sane, well-informed, reliable and
brave resources coming from Barnabas. They help the church
respond wisely and faithfully to challenges facing our brothers and
sisters around the world.
Ajith Fernando
Youth for Christ, Sri Lanka
Barnabas Fund has no hidden agenda. Its transparency captured almost
all Syrian church leaders and helped them to work together for His glory
and by His grace. Barnabas Funds work in Syria is very efective and
efcient, very fruitful and productive, specifc and signifcant.
Dr Jany Haddad
Senior Baptist church leader, Syria
Professor of Surgery, Founder and President of the Armenian Christian Medical
Association, Founder and President of Living Hope for Families ministries
Barnabas Funds fnancial and prayer support has a marvellous
impact on the lives of families through the feeding programme.
The fnancial assistance provided to Christian workers has brought
enthusiasm; the churches are growing numerically and in maturity.
Childrens education has also improved, and there is more outreach
to the non-churched communities.
Yunis Lal Din
Brethren leader, Pakistan
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