You can get involved with giving financially or serving in small projects, people projects, and capital projects.

SMALL FINANCIAL PROJECTS

• Food Packs – We regularly assemble food packs with supplies to feed one person for one month (cost: $25)
• Blankets – The Johannesburg-Pretoria area is a mile high and children struggle through winter nights near freezing (cost: $9 per blanket)
• Clothing – We replace older tattered clothing.  You can either ship clothing here or donate toward clothes.
• Bibles – Most African adults and children who love God have no Bibles.  We use incentives for them to “earn” their Bibles, but we always need more stock ($8 each)
• Teaching Materials – Children respond very well to picture-based teaching like Lukens flannel-graph 

PEOPLE FINANCIAL PROJECTS

We need godly, well-trained pastors to lead these ministries, but most African pastors get caught up in either ancestor-worship or Charismatic excesses.  There are two strong full-time, fully-accredited Bible colleges here, but we need funds to enable these young men to study.  It costs only $300/month for men like Joseph, Thomas, Melusi, Rama, and Emmanuel to study.  Can you help?

CAPITAL FINANCIAL PROJECTS

Small Houses For Orphans – You can contribute the funds to build a small cement-block house with basic furnishings for several orphans (cost: $1,200 each)

• Bible Training Center – We have a property in Pretoria on which we want to upgrade the garage into Bible college classrooms for our aspiring African pastors (cost: $2,500)
• Church Property and Building – Lawley Family Fellowship needs to build a small church building and pastor’s house on its property right away (cost: $35,000)
• Van or 4X4 – To transport orphans and short-term workers (cost: $22,000)
• Short-Term Mission Base Camp – We need a five-acre property north of Pretoria where a missionary family will live and host short-term mission teams (cost: $92,000)

HOW THE FINANCES WORK

Unlike most other ministries working with orphans, every cent you give toward an orphan project, a church, or a pastoral student goes to that project.  All Thandanani personnel receive their income elsewhere.

For Americans, Biblical Ministries Worldwide has set up a bank account with Wells Fargo-Wachovia for the Thandanani Projects.  The mission issues tax-deductible receipts for all contributions, and deposits those funds into the account, which we then draw out in South Africa.

To make a contribution, make your check payable to Biblical Ministries Worldwide and enclose a note saying “Thandanani” and the project you wish the funds to go to.  Mail your payment to BMW at 1595 Herrington Road, Lawrenceville, GA 30043-5616.

If you are a church or non-profit organization, or you don’t need the tax deduction, you may deposit directly into the bank account, but please let us know by email the date, amount, and purpose of the deposit:

Account Name: BMW-THANDANANI
Bank: Wells Fargo-Wachovia Bank
Checking Account: 20000-3666-8841