We started the year with a seven day prayer and fasting program under the theme “CHANGE” to prepare ourselves for the task ahead.
The staff of Meaningful Life International met every day to fellowship and seek the face of God. Our anchor scripture text was Romans12: 2.
As a people of faith, we were very optimistic of a successful year despite the glaring challenges of global economic meltdown resulting in dwindling donor support for our organization. As organization that relies heavily on donor support to implement our activities, we continued to experience setbacks in our cash inflows which adversely affected our projections for the year under review.
We could not implement many of the activities as planned. However, the Lord has been faithful to us. We made some giant gains to the glory of God.
We are eternally grateful to God and to our faithful partners who stood firmly with us in the mist of the tough times.
WATER PROJECTS (LEGACY WELLS)
Access to clean water still remains a huge challenge in most of the rural communities in Ghana.
Many of these communities drink from unclean sources and in most cases, competing with animals from the same source. The situation becomes even dire when some of these water sources dry up during the drought season.
We have the calling and passion to respond to these challenges by providing them with clean and reliable source of water but are often constraint by limited financial resources.
During the year under review, we constructed five (5) boreholes in the following communities; Afatsagbleve, Alavanyo , Adetsewui, Noanyikpo and Anuromso. These projects have impacted the lives of about 5,500 people.
MEDICAL OUTREACH
In partnership with the Doron Medical Center and our summer teams, we were able to embark on two (2) major medical outreaches in some deprived communities.
The beneficiary communities are; Adetsewui and Weme. Approximately more than 800 people benefited from the medical outreaches.
JESUS FILM SHOW / EVANGELISM
Meaningful Life International continues to reach out to many Communities with the Gospel of Jesus Christ; preaching salvation and preparing souls for the second Coming of our Lord Jesus. Our Jesus Film Show outreaches have laid the foundation for Church planting in some of these communities.
During the year under review, we organized a film show in Adetsewui through the partnership of Friends of Africa.
In partnership with Shiloh Christ life and Hill Top Church international, we also did film shows at Afienya and Newland respectively. About 35 souls were won out of our film show outreaches during the year under review.
Meaningful Life International in partnership with Harvest Missions Chapel and the Assemblies of God Campus Ministry (AGCM), KNUST campus embarked on evangelism and missions activities across the communities in Tema. About 55 souls were won to the glory of God.
HIGH SCHOOL OUTREACH
By the grace of God, we were able to undertake high school outreaches in Okuapemman S.H.S and Mawuli Senior High School.
In partnership with the Harvest Missions Chapel A/G, we undertook an outreach at the Mawuli School. We organized a gospel rock show and by the grace of God, a number of the students gave their lives to Christ.
The other outreach at Okuapemman S.H.S was a leadership seminar.
More than one thousand {1000} students attended this important leadership seminar.
CHURCH PLANTING
Church planting is very crucial to the vision of MLI.
We appreciate the important role a decent place of worship does in the growth process of new believers.
In partnership with the Friends of Africa organization, we planted a new church at Adetsewui community. We also donated a set of musical instruments to a newly planted church at Weme.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Meaningful Life International in partnership with Rev. Steve Madsen, the founder of Cornerstone Fellowship USA, successfully organized a leadership conference dubbed RESTORE CONFERENCE 2023. The main idea of the conference was to rejuvenate, revive and empower church and cooperate leaders for effective service.
The conference, which had over hundred {100} people drawn from different churches and organizations attended
COMMUNITY EDUCATION
MLI works hard to combine our humanitarian aid-driven projects (the Legacy Wells etc) with an empowerment component that seeks to stifle dependency and promote pure development.
Aside going into the communities to drill boreholes, the organization also makes sure the community members are well trained on how to properly care for and maintain the boreholes which includes the importance of community ownership, basic hygiene and accountability.
We embarked on community education programs in five (5) communities; Afatsagbleve, Alavanyo , Adetsewui, Noanyikpo and Anuromso this year.
SUMMER TEAMS
The impact of summer teams to the Missions field over the years has been life transforming. During the year under review, we received some powerful summer teams who came to do missions with us. We hosted two teams during the year under review; | |
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We were also honored to host Friends of Africa Inc. led by Rev. Curtis Barber from Baltimore, USA to do ministry mainly in the Volta region of Ghana.
The team arrived on August 7th and departed on August 29th 2022. In partnership with the Akatsi local council of churches, the team had an impactful 15 days of ministry. The team made donations and spent time with the orphans and the mentally challenged people, embarked on door to door evangelism, planted a church, organized medical outreaches, visited the prisons, organized pastors/church leaders seminars, youth conferences, courtesy calls among others.
SPECIAL ANNUAL CHRISTMAS OUTREACH
This year’s special Annual Christmas outreach (SACO) was held in Madavunu, a deprived community in the Ada West District of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana.
On 25th of December, a Christmas party was organized for the entire community. We served food, drinks and water to about 700 people. We also distributed used clothing and foot wear to the people.
The widows and pastors were not left out. About 35 widows received gift packs. We also gave out gift packages to 5 pastors on the field.
The peak of the event was a bible quiz which was keenly contested by five {5} churches. At the end of the contest, the church of Pentecost emerged winners.
Each of the ten {10} participants received certificate of participation and the top three {3} churches received trophies in the order of 1st 2nd and 3rd positions respectively.
To the glory of God, Meaningful Life International established the northern sector operations office about 3 years ago to help coordinate evangelism and outreach activities in the 5 regions of the northern part of Ghana.
Through our hard working and dedicated officer of the sector, Evangelist Joshua Ziblim, who himself is a native of the area and a former Muslim, there has been tremendous effort to evangelize especially the Muslim dominated communities in these areas and the results are amazing.
During the year under review, we have successfully organized market place evangelism outreaches, Jesus Film shows and Crusades. A total of 289 people, by the grace of God got converted and gave their lives to Christ Jesus. The following were the communities where the crusades were held;
Northern Region
✓ Bagliga Dakpemyili, Koo Tingli, Woribogu Kukoo, Woribogu, Nyerizee, Bagliga, Gangberi Kukoo and Nyankpala (around the Chief palace)
Savannah Region
✓ Kulipi, Dojirago, Dalogyili, Loloto, Darivayili, Dakpaimyili, Jantong and Wulanyili
Unwillingness by some communities to accept us to preach Christ in their communities
Inadequate resources to support community entry and exits (a token to seek permission from the chiefs).
Inability to do effective follow up on especially new converts due to logistical constraints {motorbike}. Most of these communities are scattered across the region with bad roads.
Difficulty to power appliance as a result of constant failure of generator. { the current generator is old} Inadequate resources and logistics (used clothing, finances to support school dropouts and the sick) to support the congregations within the communities of the evangelism catchment area.
We pray for the Lord to bless us with a new strong motorbike and a generator for effective follow ups in communities where programmes were held.
We would intensify gospel crusades and Market place evangelism in bigger communities.
Distribution of used clothing to the many deprived communities
Organize medical outreaches in these communities
We are targeting to reach out and convert about 1000 souls to Christ by the glory of God.
We are praying for a strong pickup vehicle to enable us embark on effective ministry in the northern sector of Ghana.
It is our great desire and prayer that through the grace of God, many who have heard, saw and felt the love of Christ through our ministry will enjoy perpetual goodness and soundness in their endeavors as Christ shows Himself more and more to them and their generations. We would like to specially appeal to you to support our northern sector operations office to reach out to even more souls.
We are projecting five {5} Senior High School outreaches in 2024 .The Proposed schools are Okuapemman Senior High School, Akasti Senior High School, Ada Senior High School, Mount Sinai Senior High School and Akwamuman Senior High School.
We project to drill about fifteen boreholes (Legacy Wells) by the close of 2024.
We will pursue the vision of opening an office in Kumasi to coordinate the central sector operations.
We shall follow up on the proposal to acquire a drilling rig in partnership with Mr. Randy Fiorini for the organization
In partnership with the Harvest Mission Church (HMC), we would plant two Churches
We shall organize ten (10) Jesus Film Show crusades as a tool of evangelism. Target areas are Community 11, Community 12, Community 8, Community 9, Community 10, Community 7, Ashaiman, Mataheko, Afienya station and Weme.
In 2024, we shall organize six (6) Medical Outreaches in selected deprived communities across Ghana. We hope to achieve this target by partnering with our summer teams and the Doron Medical Center.
We will organize at least three (3) Leadership Training Seminars for pastors/church workers within the year 2024
We shall embark on Impact Assessment trips to some of our project sites to interact with community folks and to check up on our wells.
We will organize Community Education workshops in the villages we have projected to drill boreholes.
We will make conscious effort to reach out to the churches we have planted over the years. We will schedule a time table to fellowship with these churches at least once every quarter.
We would offer opportunity to the management team to enroll in short courses at GIMPA
We will organize Professional Missions Trip (PMT)
Night of worship (NOW)
SACO
We will produce short video Promos / Documentaries for MLI.
We have started updating our website as part of a rebranding exercise.
The 15th year anniversary brochure would be printed.
We would print a big banner for the office
Re-establish and maintain all the relationships with the major media houses we partnered with during our 10th anniversary, and liaise with Eyra Doe and Yvette to schedule the Executive Director or the management team to be interviewed on TV and Radio stations. i.e Viasat 1, TV3, Citi FM, Obonu FM, TV Afrika, GTV, Adom FM, etc.
In the long term, the Media department wants to set up a well-equipped TV and Radio station to broadcast the activities of MLI and the propagation of the gospel. Contacts would be made with some studios to come up with a draft proposal and a budget for this project.
Make MLI Branded Key Rings, Wrist Bands (rubber and woven), Coffee Mugs, Car Stickers and T-Shirts which would be sold to fundraise during the 15th anniversary celebrations and other various functions.
Contact Mr. Koomson to print more copies of each of our Meaningful Life Fundraising materials (i.e MLI Brochure, Flyers, Donation Cards and Pledge Forms) for our local fundraising activities and for Meaningful Life USA.
Make sure that sending of Project updates and Facebook updates, Newsletters, Website information and Blogs are done on time.
Print Staff I.D Cards for all staff members
New updates such as maps, pictures and a summary of community profiles will be added to the MLI website.
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Four (4) UPSs will be purchased for the office to ensure computers are shut down properly during power outages; so as to prevent damages and loss of data every time
We would need a laptop for the project office which will be used during film shows and that can also be used for in-field reporting and other urgent things that would be done outside the office.
Screen for the Jesus Film Show needs to be replaced
A strong vehicle is needed for the field and MLI errands
Buy new camera and a tripod stand for taking pictures and recording videos
Buy a new projector for outreaches
Furnish the Operations Director’s office
Build fence wall
Level the frontage with gravels/sand, plant flowers and grass
Buy water tank for water storage
Furniture for various offices
Complete painting
Put security measures in place