Kids for the Kingdom provides intermittent and regular monthly support for projects, missionaries, and programs in sensitive areas, war zones, and political hot-spots around the world. For security reasons and to protect the safety and security of service providers, national workers, and missionaries the names and exact locations of these projects are not published. Kids for the Kingdom also provides regular monthly, intermittent funding, and one-time grants for disaster relief assistance and other projects, missionaries, and programs.

“The people have lived for centuries in an atmosphere of fatalism and superstition,” says Kids for the Kingdom national director referring to the Afghani people. “It takes much time of interaction to bring people and communities to the place where they can accept the idea they can make changes which are good for their lives.”

Progress is slow in an ancient culture like Afghanistan. After centuries of cultural norms and fatalism inculcated into their thinking it is difficult to convince the Afghan people that there is hope for a renewed life. Compounding these cultural challenges is the war and the national rebuilding. The new Afghan Constitution allows freedom of religion but favors traditional Islam. Immediately following the war in Afghanistan Kids for the Kingdom responded by assisting Afghan refugees in Pakistan and in Fremont, California. Those that fled across the Pakistan border received blankets, medical assistance, water services, and temporary shelter.

In 2006 Kids for the Kingdom assisted a missionary team that provides services and community development projects for 3,992 hearing impaired children, disabled children, and families in Jalalabad, Kabul, and Kandahar.

Bosnia is trying to emerge from a war-torn state. But the challenges are enormous. Though the Balkans war ended a decade ago, the evidence of war is seen throughout Bosnia. Entire villages bombed or burned to the ground. Buildings in downtown Sarajevo are splattered with bullet holes. Apartments and office buildings still have large gouges caused by mortar hits. Many neighborhoods are cordoned-off with signs warning of land mines.

The social fabric of Bosnia is fractured. The middle class and middle-age population fled the country during the war. They have not returned. Those that remain in Bosnia are unemployed and aimless. The unemployment rate is over 50%. Average monthly wages for those with jobs is a scant $50-$100 per month.

The church is equally traumatized. While there are no laws opposing evangelicals, the church meets in near-underground conditions due to the overwhelming presence and influence of the Muslim faith. It is estimated there are less than one thousand evangelical Christians in the entire nation of Bosnia (total population of four million). Public schools teach the Muslim religion. Mosques broadcast prayers (in Arabic) five times each day.

Kids for the Kingdom is working with Bosnian nationals. Under the direction of missionaries Art and Tammie Arreguin Bosnian women have developed a job-training project for teen girls in Zenica. The project, called Peace Crafts, hires women and trains them to produce Bosnia-handicrafts. These traditional items are sold in the United States. The Peace Crafts project currently employs 37 young women. As they work each day their supervisor (Hiba) reads them Scripture and talks about the Christian faith. Peace Crafts is a project developed and run by Bosnian Christian women. Photo: Bosnian women in Zenica, Bosnia are training and working in a business started by missionary Tammie Arreguin. The project (called Peace Crafts) employs 37 women. Each day as the women work on sewing projects they hear Bible lessons. The finish products are sold in the US to provide the women with salaries.

In 2006 Kids for the Kingdom provided financial support for missionary team and national workers to expand job-training program center in Zenica. Provided school supplies and other services to 832 children, youth, and families. Photo: An old woman in the village of Cekercic describes the hardships of raising her two grandchildren. Teams brought her a supply of food and staples to help her through the cold winter months.

Kids for the Kingdom provided funding to assist missionary couple with operation costs of two orphan homes in Atenas, Costa Rica providing daily care for 44 orphans.

When Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba in the late 1490s he found the indigenous people to be friendly and peaceful. To his surprise he also found the natives already had folklore traditions of Biblical Creation and the story of the Noah’s Ark and the Flood. Spanish missionaries who followed Columbus
brought the complete Christian message to Cuba in the 1500s. For the next five hundred years waves of pirates, slave traders, buccaneers, filibusters, banana barons and revolutionaries have come to Cuba.

Yet the Christian message has quietly endured in the soul of the Cuban people. Today, Cuban churches are bursting at the seams as an evangelical revival sweeps the island-nation. Kids for the Kingdom is partnering with the church ‘Liga de Evangélica de Cuba.’ Members of this Havana-based church (along with its 230 affiliate churches throughout the island-nation) are serving the Cuban people by feeding the hungry, assisting the elderly, reaching out to women contemplating abortions and ministering to children with terminal illnesses. Their efforts delivered practical aid and services to 2,614 youth, children, families, and elders.

Iraqi Christian church leaders believe there is a window of opportunity to bring the Gospel to the Iraqi people. Kids for the Kingdom is assisting Iraq’s church by delivering Arabic language Children’s Bibles (see cover photo on right). These Bibles are liberating the hearts of hundreds of Iraqi children. The cost of printing, shipping, and distribution of Children’s Bibles is $8 per Bible. Kids for the Kingdom supplied Arabic version children’s Bibles for Iraqi Christians to distribute in Bagdad and throughout Iraq.

Very little grows on the hills in Rosarito, Mexico. Scrub brush and tumbleweeds do the dry landscape. Yet on one of those hills is a little oasis where hope grows. It is a cluster of buildings called 'Rancho del Niños Nueva Vida' (New Life Boys Ranch) where twenty-two orphan boys - once outcast and forgotten - are growing in their love for the Lord.

The New Life Boys Ranch, is located just south of the Mexican - US border near San Diego, California, was originally pioneered by the Kiser family. They adopted one of the boys and raised him as their son. Today, Oskar Kiser (and his wife Beatriz) are directors of the home. New Life Boys Ranch is recognized by the Mexican government as a model for orphan care. Kids for the Kingdom provides on-going support for the New Life Boys Ranch and 'Rancho de los Niños.' Kids for the Kingdom financially assisted two orphanage facilities with the care and nurture of 39 handicapped and orphan children.

Our outreach to Muslim and Arab nations begins in Morocco. It is difficult to openly present the Word of God in a country like Morocco. Therefore our workers are quietly serving the people and have established a small home church. Since it also very difficult for Western Christians to secure visas to enter Morocco Kids for the Kingdom has commissioned missionary teams from Central America. For security and safety reasons we can not public ally identify our workers in Morocco. The ministry outreach in Morocco is just beginning to touch hearts and lives. Pray for our missionary workers and for the people of Morocco. Kids for the Kingdom provided monthly support for a Guatemalan missionary team based in Morocco’s capitol city.

Utilizing teams of nationals Kids for the Kingdom is helping to provide Turkish children the opportunity to attend Christian Camps during the summer months. Kids for the Kingdom provided cash grants for 200 children to attend Christian summer camp.