Many of the students are living under extreme poverty needing financial assistance to attend college. Global Prayer Ministries has put in place a scholarship program to assist the students with their tuition, meals & lodging while they are attending college preparing for ministry.

Global Prayer recognizes that not all pastors are able to attend Bible School. We are offering Schools of Ministry for pastors and lay workers to better equip them in all areas of church management. In order for the pastors to attend the School of Ministry, we will have to cover their travel costs as well as their meals & lodging. The cost for us to host a School of Ministry could range anywhere from $10,000 up to $50,000 depending on the attendance and location of each School of Ministry.

Currently the offices for the leadership are located in the house churches which also serve as the pastor?s private home. As this is a brand new venture we are in need of everything required to set up the offices. At present we are in need of qualified employees, desks, computers, telephone system, office supplies and the list goes on, virtually everything that it takes to set up an office from scratch. As you can appreciate this work is so new that prior to last December there was no need for workers, however since the church began to organize the work load is growing greater by the day. Our prayer right now is that God will provide funding to put all this in place.

The majority of the Christians still meet in house churches and it will probably remain that way for many years to come. However, with the rapid growth within the house churches there is a need for new churches. A recent statistic coming out of Asia claims that there are over 160 million Pentecostals and that number is growing rapidly. One pastor in Ho Chi Ming City told us that they were averaging 10 new converts per week. This was recently confirmed by an article released by Far East Broadcasting Company who reported after a census in nine churches last year, statistics stated that 3,443 people had accepted Christ and attended church regularly. What is so amazing is that even though the church was underground, over 75% of the Christians range in ages 40 and under. Because of the lack of finances many of these new churches will continue to worship in pastors homes. This would eliminate the need for raising funds to build new church buildings especially in the rural areas however in the urban areas the need to construct churches is very important.

The goal of the PAOV is to win as many souls for the kingdom that they can. Already plans are underway to send evangelist and missionaries into the neighbouring countries of Cambodia and Laos. With our support of equipping and financing they will be able to accomplish the goals that they set out to achieve.