Our Calendar for 2017
Nigeria March 19th -23rd
Micro-financing for widows and less privileged: “Food on the table project”
The women will be trained and funded to start a small business. This project will restore the dignity of the women using biblical principles. The purpose is to help the women feed their children and also be able to pay the children’s school fees. BFI have partnered with Fountain Charity of Nigeria to handle the logistics and the follow up of the project. BFI would like to partner with you to fund these women. You can also volunteer to be a trainer or a coordinator at the workshop.
January – December 2017-2018
One Student One Bible
It is very alarming that many of our children and youths don’t own a Bible of their own. BFI is committed to place a Bible in the hands of our children and youths. BFI will provide a Bible designed for today’s youths and young adults.
BFI is asking for your donation of Bibles for high school and college students.
Our goal is to provide each student with the word of God- The Holy Bible. As we give out the Bible, we will teach them how to read it and its importance to their lives and mankind.
They get to know who God is, the importance of developing a personal relationship with Christ and to awaken them to the presence of God in the world.
July 11-14, 2017
Voices for God workshop for Middle and High School students
This is a three-day workshop for Middle and High school students. The purpose of this workshop is to educate and empower youths who likes to sing but lack the confidence to love and praise God with their voices in public. BFI would like to refer to these singers as the “closet” singers. The students will learn why God created them with beautiful voices, why they like to sing and why singing is very important to God.
Resource persons: Talented Musicians will share their life experiences in their early days of singing.
June 23rd 2017
International Widows’ Day (IWD)
We have about 245 million widows worldwide. 7 – 16% of all adult women in the world are widows. Nearly half live in extreme poverty and are subject to cruel judgement. They are also faced with disease and illiteracy.
IWD was officially recognized by the United Nations in 2010 to address poverty and injustice faced by widows and their children in many countries.
Many African widows experience many hardship after their husbands died. They are downgraded and shunned by their family and society. The widows lose their property, respect and social status. They are victims of discrimination and abuse. Their children suffer from malnutrition and drop out of school.
Many of the widows in the process of making money to feed their children have died of AIDS.
BFI restores the dignity of the ladies. Train them on how to start and run a business and provide them the funding to start a small business to support their families.
Symposium: The purpose of the symposium is to create awareness of the suffering of widow in Africa.
The participants will brainstorm and come up with ways on how to alleviate the problems facing the widows.
Help: Sponsor a Widow. Please, partner with BFI.
September 15th, 2017.
BFI has two programs in the Nashville area this 2017. They are:
- Building relationships and bridging the gaps between immigrant Churches/Ministries and American churches/ministries“You are no longer strangers or foreigners, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of the household of God.” —Ephesians 2:19The African community churches want to reach out to their brothers and sisters in Christ. They need American churches/ministries for encouragement and support in their church programs. Empowerment and leadership trainings for pastors and church workers are also needed in the churches to help in the advancement of the kingdom of God. Other areas of concern are 21st century church operation, technology and diversity to mention a few.
- Praise the Lord Concert God loves songs and praises.
Musicians will have an opportunity to praise God in so many languages and with every kind of musical instruments from around the globe.
The purpose of the concert is to praise God, bring the immigrant and American churches together. The concert will have a choir comprising of both Immigrant and American churches. The concert will also feature the Immigrant children choir from all the participating churches. Solo singers, Gospel music groups will also be performing.
Need: Choirs, solo singers, gospel music groups and special artists’ appearances.
