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PEER Servants partners with organizations in Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Eurasia, and Latin America. The primary purpose of each partnership is to strengthen the global church through economic empowerment. Each partner’s program is autonomous and designed to operate best within that region - thus, the resulting MED programs vary significantly from each other. Highlights of each partner and their MED program are provided by region below. |
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| PEER Servants has two partners in Africa - Rescue Fellowship of Nigeria (RFN) and Aloga Financial Services in South Africa. Additional partnerships are being considered for elsewhere on the continent. |
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| Africa is an exciting place to partner! Over recent decades, the church in sub-Saharan Africa has grown and Africa has become one of the most Christian continents! But there is a real need for the church to grow stronger, especially in its resources, so that it can become even more of a sending church to unreached parts of Africa and beyond. African brothers and sisters have much to offer those in the more developed world because so many of them know far more about the simple joy of following Christ than those who have so much more materially than they do. South Africans, in particular, have much to teach others about racial reconciliation in a manner that brings honor and glory to Christ. Many Nigerian believers have a spiritual vitality that makes them eager to share the gospel - believers in other parts of the world have much to learn! |
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Nigeria - Rescue Fellowship of Nigeria
Program Name: The Good Seed Ministry
Description: A church-centered MED program operating in the middle belt of Nigeria among 15 church denominations and over 85 ethnic groups. A portion of the interest revenues paid by the micro-entrepreneurs on their loans goes to provide partial funding for 10 Nigerian missionary couples to spread the gospel. The Good Seed Ministry is currently the largest of the partners in the PEER Servants Network.
Lending Model: Solidarity Groups of 4-8 people where “peer accountability” is used to encourage each person to repay their loan.
# of Participants: Almost 4,000 since program inception.
Average Loan Size: Less than $100US per person.
Year Partnership Started: 1998 |
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South Africa - Aloga Financial Services
Program Name: Aloga Financial Services
Description: A community-based program with a growing church-centered element focused currently on the greater Tswane (Pretoria) area, Mamelodi in particular. The board and staff of Aloga, largely through exposure to their Nigerian partner (Rescue Fellowship of Nigeria), are intent on raising missions awareness within the black South African church and, over time, providing funds to be able to send out black South African missionaries.
Lending Model: Individual loans.
# of Participants: Approximately 300 since program inception.
Average Loan Size: Approximately $300US per person initially, and successively larger as the micro-entrepreneur’s need for capital grows.
Year Partnership Started: 1999 |
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