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Micro Enterprise Development

MICRO ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT ….

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

Completing The Call‘s “Micro-Enterprise Develop” initiative is an extremely important element in our support of indigenous pastors, and arguably one of the most important.

Why? Because it is imperative for them personally, and for insuring rapid church planting that they become financially independent as quickly as possible. And, this is a great way to accomplish that.

One of our key core values concerning the pastors we support is “God-dependent, self- sufficiency”. We want to help them become independent of everyone except God in every way – especially in the area of finances.

We believe it is infinitely better to “teach a man to fish” than to “feed him fish”. So we “feed them” only while we’re “teaching them to fish”.

We do this through our Micro-Enterprise Development initiative which is comprised of two components: 

Business assistance & training

This component involves our teaming up with entrepreneurs and business people here at home to help individual pastors by: – going into their villages and towns and helping them identify and evaluate small business opportunities, and  – helping them develop detailed business plans which include:

  • Narrative description of the proposed operation
  • Marketing plan
  • Detailed estimate of start-up costs
  • Start-up time table
  • Income & cash flow projections for first five years
  • Repayment schedule

Typically these business opportunities are ones that require relatively small start-up costs and can support them and their families while still allowing them sufficient time for their ministry. In some case, these enterprises will be able to provide jobs for other believers as well. Ideally, they will be able to generate additional income to help fund the pastor’s church planting efforts.

Micro-lending

This component provides them the start-up funds necessary to get their businesses up and running.

CTC partners with people like you to provide funds from which these non-interest bearing loans are made. These loans are only made after an application and business plan has been submitted, reviewed and approved. The application is reviewed first by KGM’s director and staff then forwarded to CTC for final approval. Once approved, funds are dispersed by CTC through KGM.

The recipient is required to submit monthly reports of income and expenditures with accompanying receipts, a written progress report and pictures. Progress is reported back to us and then to you.

These funds are maintained and tracked in a separate designated CTC account in which we receive donations, lend the funds and receive/track repayments. Repayments are left in the account to be lent to other qualifying applicants.

We currently have one approved micro-enterprise project awaiting funds:    

 Chicken Raising Farm (click for details)

If you are considering participating in our micro enterprise initiative please read:

Our Request  .... Our Commitment  ....

When you donate to this fund we request that you:

  • sign up for our blog so you can stay abreast of ministry activities and prayer needs
  • pray for the micro-enterprise project you are supporting
  • pray for KGM, its pastors, and its needs.
  • pray for CTC, its staff and its directors
  • pray for harvest workers to join us
  • participate in our grass-roots efforts to raise many harvest workers – by spreading the word about this ministry and sending people to our web site

Our commitment to you is to:

  • be good stewards of your funds and maintain strict accountability
  • where applicable, provide pictures of the business operation
  • regularly provide news and pictures about KGM and its pastors through our blog,
  • give you the opportunity to go on mission trips with us so you can meet KGM’s director and its pastors; and see and learn about the mission field in Karnataka and India first hand!

I would like to contribute to one of these projects or to the micro enterprise development fund    Click here to provide us your info and if your gift is for the a specific project.

I would like to get involved offering my time and talents    Click here to tells us about your interests so we can contact you