East-West Ministries International

“East-West Ministries' Form 990 is prepared by an independent CPA firm. The finance department reviews and approves the return; it is then made available to the governing body before it is filed with the IRS.”

“Officers and board members complete an annual questionnaire to monitor compliance with the organization's conflict of interest policy. The Chairman of the board monitors and enforces compliance with the policy. Should a potential conflict arise, the discussion and vote are conducted with the conflicting party removed from the room.”

“Independent members of the board of directors set and approve the CEO's compensation using various comparability data; the board's deliberations are recorded in the corporate minutes. The CEO sets and approves other officer compensation based on comparability data. Both the process and decisions are documented.”

“East-West Ministries International makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request.”

“The vision of East-West is to glorify God by multiplying disciples of Jesus in the spiritually darkest areas of the world. East-West exists to mobilize the Body of Christ to evangelize the lost and equip local believers to multiply disciples and churches among unreached peoples and/or in restricted access communities.”

“Evangelize, continued: Beyond evangelism, we are committed to making disciples. Therefore, we only seek to spread the gospel in areas of the world where we have nationals present to do follow up with new believers. Our true overriding motivation is to carry the Light of Jesus Christ into the darkest areas of the world.”

“Equip, continued: We train church planters to develop self-sufficient, church-planting movements. We train emerging national leaders to provide theological leadership to their countries' developing church leaders. And we use business training to open opportunities for evangelism among community leaders. Over the years, we have tried to modify our training models to better fit the needs in each of the countries in which we work. In some cases this has involved residential schools and in others, periodic, field-based, modular courses. Some curricula are geared for the key national leaders who are highly educated and capable of college or graduate-level training. In other cases, the training is aimed at mature "lay" leaders in the churches. In still others, it is aimed at illiterate house church leaders in the midst of church planting movements of rapidly multiplying house churches. We continue to be flexible and teachable in our methodology. In many cases, the governmental restrictions and the hostile environments have required a special approach. And often our approach changes as we perceive changes in the needs of the developing national church.”

“Foreign nationals support: Program service expenses 682,132. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 682,132. Evangelism campaign management: Program service expenses 353,905. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 353,905. Contract labor: Program service expenses 253,628. Management and general expenses 99,578. Fundraising expenses 242,522. Total expenses 595,728.”

“The organization has a finance committee that assumes responsibility for oversight of the audit of its financial statements and selection of an independent auditor. This process has not changed since the prior year.”