Program areas at CMI
Delivering bibles and christian literatures to persecuted churches in the gospel restricted nations such as north korea, china, islamic nations, and israel with the combined effort of other partnering Ministries, mission organizations, and individual missionaries. Have distributed 31,403 bibles including 10,130 chinese bibles, 6,602 north korean bibles, 2,736 hebrew bibles, 308 arabic bibles, and 10,038 myanmar bibles. We have published the 'south and north korean parallel bible' so that north korean refugees living in south korea can read the north korean bibles in parallel with the south korean bible. We printed north korean bibles including the parallel bibles in preparation for the opening of north korea. We are also broadcasting over short wave and apps to reach believers and christian leaders in north korea and overseas. We read north korean bibles at dictating speeed over radio. We produced and broadcasted over short wave 60 minutes per every day and 90 minutes on sunday. We produced 90 minutes worship service on sunday and 30 minutes on wednesday on am frequency.
Facilitating and supporting missionaries for networking and partnering with other Ministries and training people to be missionaries in korea and in the restricted nations. The mission confernces were held in january and july with 887 participants. A total of 444 people were trained in 10-12 weeks long courses to prepare to go to mission field. These courses includes inner healing, worship and praise, biblical foundation for mission, community development program as well as International diaster response classes. During the padenmic period, chinese local carried out training in 3 teachings sites for 32 leaders. At the mission center in israel, we had printed over 83,000 evangelistic tracts and distributed over 7,300. In indo-china we are preaching the gospel to locals including chinese immigrants, preparing bases for missions to china and north korea.
Raising up leaders in the restricted nations for them to minister to propogating the gospel of jesus christ by having bibles school, seminaries teaching, and conferences along with the other Ministries, missionaries, and organizations. Equip potential leaders among korean living in korea and living around the world to enter into the restricted mission field. 631 students took classes on-line and off-line at 9 teaching sites in 8 cities, 70 students graduated from 6 teaching sites. Total 5,846 hours of teaching were taught by 212 lecturers. We continued to support a theological college in india and provided leader's training in vietnam and supported other mission organizations for leadership training in israel. In the field, covid-19 became an opportunity rather than a crisis. We distributed newsletters and prayer letters to inform the needs of supporting leaders and current situation of the persecuted church in the restricted nations.
Networking with the existing local leaders and pastors of the persecuted church in north korea and china to assist them furthering in church planting and pastoring churches in their communities. We have facilitated and assisted those pastors who were willing to plant a church in their neighborhood. During the pandemic period, travel between north korea and china was restricted. We were continuing to train north koreans who are stranded in china. We have trained 19 leaders in china, north korea, and south korea in 2022. In 2022, 12 churches were planted in 6 regions, and the number of underground believers increased by 34. We also started training leaders in south korea to mobilize north korean defectors for the nk mission. We implemented digital methods to train north korean in china. We delivered 4 tablets and 2,004 usb, 20 sd cards.
Providing humanitarian assistance to needy people in north korea, refugees of north korea in china along the border, defectors of north korea in south korea, north korean orphans and widow in china, and other nations. Through humanitarian assistance, we shared the love of jesus christ and to meet their immediate survival needs. We assisted the needy people in the gospel restricted nations with foods, clothes, medicines, necessary items. We also partnersing with other Ministries, ngo, missionaries, and organizations. We were able to provide slightly over 160 tons of rice to our church network and helpers. We have helped to provide foods to orphans. We sent christmas gifts to north korean children. We also have provided human basis necessity items to those north koreans in china, russia, and mongolia to share the gospel of jesus christ.