Summit Missions Inc

“MOBILIZED PEOPLE AND RESOURCES TO ASSIST NATIONAL CHRISTIAN PARTNERS - Summit Missions International SMI was responsible for coordinating and sponsoring the following activities 1. Visited our mission partners in Chisinau, Gaugauzia, Moldova, Tiraspol, Linz, Austria Transnistria to provide outreach programs, meet and encourage the leaders and evaluate effectiveness. 2. Conducted a three-day conference for Christian leaders followed by a week of leadership training workshops for Romanian Immigrants in Linz, Austria. 3. Sponsored Summer Bible clubs which included training leaders and 60 teen workers to assist them at the 30 locations where the clubs would meet. Attendance at the clubs topped 2,400 children this year. 4. Provided 10,000 crafts and lunches for every student and staff member of the Summer Bible clubs. SMI supplied total funding for the clubs 35,794 in 2019. 5. Conducted a Fall 5-day English Club in Tiraspol, Transnistria for 100 university students with follow-up by a local mission partner. These clubs are sponsored by SMI and include materials, the hire of 5 translators, the rent of facility, gifts, prizes. 6. Funded the renovation of the Parcani Orphange auditorium in Transnistria. 150 children live in this state-run orphanage. 7. Renewed support for Children of the Street an after-school feeding and tutoring program in Grigoriopol Transnistria. 8. Supplied support for church planting ministries and leaders throughout Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Austria. 9. Provided logistical support to a team of 14 people traveling to Moldova and Transnistria for the first time with YWAM from Boquete, Panama. 10. Continued support for Adventure Camps which offer teens an intense rafting, camping, extreme sports, discipleship and leadership development program centered on Christ. MULTIPLIED CHURCHES THAT POSITIVELY INFLUENCE THEIR COMMUNITIES - 1. SMI sponsors a church planting ministry known as Generations Mission Association, based in Kiev, Ukraine. There are two leaders involved using training materials called Generation. Potential church-planters come to Kiev three times each year for specialized training. Currently the trainees are from five countries. 2. In the Summer of 2019 a team visited Linz, Austria to meet with our SMI Minisitry partner and church planter. The new church of Romanian-speaking immigrants had been planted less than a year before. The team led a three-day Christian leadership conference and a week of church leadership workshops for the young church. MAGNIFIED THE LORD AND REVEALED HIS MERCY, LOVE AND GRACE - SMI is responsible for maintaining accurate records, local and international communications, public relations, publications, information technology and other duties that are an integral part of the daily operation. These are some of the aspects of administration 1 SMI operates with staff consisting of only one full-time and four part-time employees. 2 2,900 newsletters were created and distributed during the year. 3 650 prayer calendars were designed, printed and mailed. 4 All financial records, receipts and expenditures are accurately processed, reviewed by a CPA and Reviewed by an independant accounting firm each year. 5 All day-to-day operations in both the office and warehouse are conducted by the SMI staff.”

“MOTIVATED YOUTH TO EXPERIENCE GODS LOVE AND RECOGNIZE THEIR PERSONAL WORTH - 1 SMI employs a part-time Bible Club Coordinator in-country as well as a summer staff to manage more than 2,400 children meeting at 30 locations in Transnistria, Ukraine and Moldova. 2 Adventure Camp for teens is a Summit Missions sponsored program. SMI provided monetary help, camping supplies, and other items for this program. 3 SMI also brings teams individuals from neighboring countries to assist in programming. 4 The future development and hope for children and young adults are of primary importance to SMI. This is reflected in the partnerships we have with these ministries a Help the Children Foster and Transitional Care, b English Clubs, c Summer Bible Clubs, d Children of the Street feeding and tutoring, e Orphanage Ministries, f Construction Projects for foster families and families at-risk. g Sports Ministries, h Adventure Camp”

“MET NEEDS THROUGH PRODUCT SHIPMENTS AND PROMOTED BUSINESS AS MISSIONS - 1 Mobilized 154 volunteers who served a combined total of 5,219 hours valued at 130,475 derived from a recent report from Independent Sector for the State of Ohio. 2 SMI sorted, packaged and prepared 220 tons of aid in 17 shipping containers for distribution to the needy and for our Thrift Store partner in Eastern Europe. In 2019 we helped supply 34 Thrift Stores employing more than 324 people in a severly economically distressed region. 3 SMI provided administrative services without cost for more than 68 kids in the Help the Children foster care and Transitional Care programs for at-risk children and vulnerable youth. HTC opened 3 new community centers for children and families at-risk in villages and cities in Transnistria. 4 Through the assistance of donors and volunteers, SMI packed 627 plastic utility boxes with personal care items and school supplies and shipped them to our ministry partners in Transnistria for distribution to those in need.”