Ethne Global Services

Schools - People at risk are victims of a lack of education. Lack of education causes people to be at-risk. It is a root cause, and the result of the root cause. It is a chicken and egg issue, but is present in many of the places we serve. Even in low income areas of the USA where we serve refugees this is a problem even in domestic venues of service. Internationally we have several schools. Myanmar, Cambodia and Thailand are the showcase projects. We have students who because of poor government schools or they are not allowed to go to government schools because of their at-risk status, who now receive part or all of the education in our schools. These schools require us to deploy staff there, who are self funded. However, we have to maintain some facilities and curriculum, and get equipment and materials to teach. Computers are a big part of the expenses, but we have raised donations to get those in most cases.

Churches - We help pastors in the processes of starting new churches. We help with strategy and encouragement. We meet with the congregants for training and help organize the leadership teams of the churches. Sometimes we help people with documents and organizing documents. If the church decides to organize officially, we even ordain pastors. If the church decides to build a building or secure a new meeting place, we will help with the details of these activities. Sometimes we bring in construction teams, or may help raise funds for the project. We try to have a philosophy of autonomous churches with a process that is reproducible without foreign funding, while the leaders are indigenous.