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Gifts that support Economic Development Ministries

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor” (Luke 4:18a).



Some of the world’s best innovators live in the midst of poverty. When you give, you facilitate agricultural development, encourage new businesses and help with environmental sustainability. Join the journey to enable people to generate income and support their families.

$25.00 supports the Fellowship’s most pressing economic development ministry needs.


Start a Business

Sometimes all people in poor areas need is initial funding to begin climbing out of poverty.

$500.00 provides a cow or water buffalo in India for a struggling widow, who can care for her family by selling milk because of this ministry started by Sam Bandela – one of CBF’s field personnel.


$160.00 provides start-up funds for a new business in Moldova, where the Romany people are among the country’s poorest.


$100.00 provides materials for a refugee in North Africa to begin a small business.


$500.00 helps start a business in a poor U.S. county through Together for Hope, CBF’s rural poverty initiative.


Job Training

Often, people living in poverty don’t have skills to compete for limited job opportunities. Help CBF field personnel offer vocational training.

$25.00 provides books for vocational training classes among Dom Gypsies in the Middle East.


$500.00 provides a computer for computer training classes among Dom Gypsies in the Middle East.


$200.00 helps provide a stipend for an inner-city teen, who learns job skills by working as a summer camp intern with CBF field personnel Angel and Jason Pittman at Touching Miami with Love.


Support Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs can jumpstart local economies, particularly those struggling with poverty.

$75.00 provides a sewing machine in India for a teenage girl or widowed woman, who can make clothing to earn income and support her family because of this ministry started by Sam Bandela – one of CBF’s field personnel.


$40.00 provides materials for 20 sets of earrings, 10 bracelets or five necklaces in Helena-West Helena, Ark., where CBF field personnel Ben and Leonora Newell helped start Delta Jewels, a jewelry cooperative of teenagers who often live in poverty but are learning entrepreneurial skills and earning income by selling jewelry.


$250.00 provides an entrepreneurship academy training session for teenagers in Phillips County, Ark., one of the 20 poorest counties in the United States and one of the focal counties of CBF’s rural poverty ministry, Together for Hope.