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Foursquare Foundation

The Foursquare Foundation is a charitable foundation of The Foursquare Church. Its mission is to invest in high-yield evangelism worldwide.

Visit the Foursquare Foundation Web site to learn more about available grants and funded projects.

Below are the grant recipients for the first half of 2007:

National Recipients

Race Track Revival will use horse-racetrack chaplains, the chaplaincy council, and local church volunteers to hold crusades at eight U.S. horse tracks in the next year. With the desire to see 4,000 souls saved over the course of these events, the project will feature former champion-jockey-turned-evangelist Pat Day, Gospel music, and free food. The message of Christ will be preached—and also translated into Spanish—for event attendees. Relying on the chaplains and other resources, each new convert will be discipled and encouraged to join a Bible study, on-track worship service, and local church.
Run to Jesus expects to see 60,000 souls come to the saving knowledge of Christ in the Tete Province of Mozambique, Africa. This project will utilize crusades, leadership training, church planting, and the development of an internet café to spread the Gospel. The project will train and deploy four additional evangelism teams, along with local pastors, to spearhead crusades within their province and city.
Interdenominational WOW Jam Moorpark, Calif. is partnering with Moorpark’s Foursquare Church and seven other local churches as well as a handful of local ministries and corporations to serve the community in practical ways. WOW JAM outreaches offer free food, hair cuts, groceries and bike repairs culminating with a Gospel message and invitation to salvation, healing prayer and baptisms by water and Spirit. Based on past experience and growth in event attendance, project leaders are anticipating approximately 950 conversions by 2008.
Cuba Church Plant seeks to have 50 additional Foursquare Gospel churches planted in the formerly closed country. Working through the current 12 Foursquare churches in Cuba, project leaders will help equip churches with evangelistic tools to aid in community outreach while also conducting leadership seminars on church planting. The project will concentrate on establishing four Bible Institutes in the country to prepare Cubans for stability in leadership and ongoing evangelism. Some 9,000 decisions for Christ are expected.

Recipients in Africa

Sudan Outreach Project has a desire to plant 20 churches within the next two years. The project will concentrate first on the southern city of Juba, where project leaders will plant 10 churches throughout the city. In the second year, the team plans to target the Islamic cities of Bor, Rumbek and Yei, planting 10 churches in those regions to help break Islamic strongholds. It is expected that 20,000 new believers will put their trust in Jesus.
Gambia Inland Mission will plant three village churches in the rural areas of northern Gambia. Conducting open-air crusades, organizing film screenings, and offering biblical materials in the local language, the mission will bring 300 new converts into the body of Christ. The mission will also assist in establishing an adult education literacy center and help provide clothing to people during in-home evangelism outreaches.
Grace Evangelical Team conducts evangelical outreaches in Uganda through door to door evangelism, crusades, screenings of the Jesus film and concert events. Funding from the Foundation will allow for 12 outreach crusades and the ability to plant 12 new churches in areas of Uganda that are dominated by witchcraft and Islam. It is predicted that almost 30,000 people will come to know the Lord through the efforts of this team.

Recipients in Asia

Upper and Lower Burma Evangelism and Discipleship will support the raising up of a new generation of young men and women to be trained and sent out to evangelize and pioneer 20 new churches by 2009. Foundation support will help purchase facilities for new churches and also assist in providing materials like Bibles and curriculum for discipleship and follow-up. Project leaders estimate that 4,500 new believers will be added to God’s kingdom through these churches.
Bangalore—seven Church Plants will send seven new church planters into the Hindu villages outside Bangalore to plant seven new congregations this June. Working among the urban poor, these seven leaders, who have completed several years of training, will involve themselves in intensive evangelism and discipleship. Project leaders believe that in one year’s time nearly 3,500 Hindus will trust Christ alone for their salvation.
Pastoral Training through Discipleship will work with Training All Pastors in a discipleship program aimed at preparing 500 high school and college-age orphans with pastoral ministry skills. Working in Cambodia, where 80% of the population is Buddhist, this project will prepare youth for full-time ministry as a pastor, evangelist, teacher, prophet or church planter. Through this project, 12,500 of Cambodia’s forgotten souls will have the opportunity to choose Christ and change the course of their country forever.
Bangladesh Church Planting and Leadership Development uses a focused process of evangelism, discipleship, leadership development and church planting to train and deploy 108 new pastors in 108 Hindu villages in Bangladesh. Implementing a proven micro-business program, each new pastor will be able to support himself financially and train more self-sustaining leaders. This project will help bring more than 13,000 to saving faith.
Cambodian Foursquare Holistic Ministry is designed to increase the sustainability of the Cambodian church by meeting the urgent social and material needs of the local Cambodian body of believers. The ministry will provide start-up costs for cafeteria buildings, generators, fish ponds and furniture factories. In addition to the financial assistance, project leaders will equip local pastors and congregants with tools for micro-business enterprises that will help sustain ministry in one of the world’s poorest regions. Project leaders believe that some 37,000 new believers will be won to Christ thanks in part to this financial assistance.
Vietnam Evangelism and Discipleship is working with Foursquare Missions International to identify emerging leaders in the area who can help with local church planting efforts. In conjunction with the local Foursquare Bible College in Manila, leaders are being trained through a correspondence program they can complete without ever leaving Vietnam. Once properly trained, these leaders will assist in establishing local churches throughout the region. The predicted fruit of this effort is 6,200 new converts.
PNG Central Province Church Planting is building thriving churches in the country of Papua New Guinea, one of the world’s poorest nations. Funding will help to continue placing evangelistic and church planting teams into receptive villages week after week until a viable body of believers is established. It is expected that 8,900 new Christians will be discipled through the project’s efforts.
Golden Triangle Church Planting and Leadership Development will see 10,000 people or more come to know Jesus as their Savior through the ministry’s church plants by 40 newly trained workers. In addition to the plants, the project will establish schools and agricultural efforts that will serve the community and bring sustainable income into the new churches.
Cambodian Children’s Playground Evangelism will build 25 new playgrounds in urban locations across Cambodia, where almost 50% of the population is under 15 years of age. Each playground will be built close to a home church in the area where the kids will be provided with basic healthcare and where church staff and volunteers will evangelize the visiting children through a planned program each week. This project has the ability to bring 10,000 children into a relationship with Christ.
South Pacific Explosion will have the joy of witnessing 11,000 people become brothers and sisters in Christ when the ministry’s team begins a schedule of evangelistic events and training seminars later this year. On a mission to see all of South Pacific islanders come to faith, the project will hold leadership evangelism seminars, open-air crusades and one-on-one evangelism in cities and villages on various South Pacific Islands.
Kerela Village Evangelism is holding 10 three-day crusades in 10 Hindu villages of southern India. With the help of seven existing churches in the area, the project plans to plant three additional churches to serve the nearly 1,500 new believers that are expected to come to faith. The new churches will be supported by a micro-business program in order to financially sustain the work of discipleship and counseling in the villages.

Recipients in the Americas

Projection Youth Program reaches children ages 9-12 in Honduras with the Gospel message of Jesus Christ and inspires them for service in the work of God. Seeking to equip 100 churches in the field of children’s ministry, the project is developing Bible lessons and supporting materials and is training teachers in the local churches to implement a successful children’s ministry. The project hopes to yield 10,000 decisions for Christ.
Time of Harvest is a project that will plant 30 new churches in Honduras with a projected growth of 10,000 news souls saved in the period of one year. Working with Harvest International Ministry the project will effectively train leaders in church planting, outreach, follow-up and discipleship.
Expansion 2007 has a vision to hold 40 crusades to encourage the growth of 20 congregations in the country of Honduras. Seeking to enlarge each church to an average attendance of 500 believers, Expansion 2007 will develop evangelical teams to train the churches in how to carry out full-time evangelical work. The project will also incorporate a follow-up process for new converts, which are expected to reach 10,000.

Recipients in Europe and the Middle East

Salvation of the Gypsies, a project in the country of Bulgaria, seeks to reach out to some of the most neglected of the region. The project will first use evangelistic teams to reach out to gypsy villages. A new effort will raise up and train new children’s pastors and leaders in 22 existing "gypsy" churches. Project leaders plan to round out the ministry’s efforts this year with 18 new Sunday school ministries. Salvation of the Gypsies has the potential to bring 700 more gypsies into a relationship with God.

Interdenominational Grant Award Recipients

AsSalt Break-Through Tours is a BMX biking and freestyle motorcross movement that includes a line-up of popular extreme skateboard celebrities, live Christian music, choreographed laser lights, and high quality multi-media. These extreme sports events, co-founded by actor Stephen Baldwin, have the opportunity to bring 38,000 young people into a relationship with Christ. New believers will be connected with local churches and youth groups for follow-up and mentoring.
Thailand Harvest Plan will reach out to Buddhists in Thailand with large-scale miracle healing crusades, children’s outreaches, and daily strategic street evangelism. Thai evangelism teams will plant churches where discipleship workshops and evangelism seminars will be offered. Through this project’s efforts, the team will already have planted one church by year’s end. More than 65,000 people are expected to trust in the name of Jesus for salvation by way of these church plants.
Great Commission will conduct 40 evangelistic outreach events in Muslim and Hindu villages in Northern India. Participating in the coordination and facilitation of these events are 700 churches and Bible study groups who will also be providing weekly follow-up with new believers and ongoing discipleship at 100 workshop locations. Over the project term, 200 pastors and leaders will be trained and equipped at the village-based evangelism and church planting seminars. It is anticipated that 20,000 people will be brought into the Kingdom.
Global Pathways Russia will train and mobilize 900 Russian churches through quarterly leadership training seminars and missions outreach conferences. With the goal to bring 64,000 new souls into relationship with Jesus, the project is an effort of Calvary International and will lean heavily on the network of over 1,000 Calvary churches already planted in Moscow.

The projects receiving funding this season exemplify the Foursquare Foundation’s commitment to the Great Commission. "We are helping to reach people groups all over the world with the message of God’s love for people," said Executive Director Dr. Greg Campbell. "With grant recipients in some of the world’s most unreached and poorest countries, the Foursquare Foundation is partnering with project leaders to bring the light of Jesus and His living water to a darkened world."

The Foursquare Foundation is a charitable foundation of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. The Foundation exists to accelerate evangelism efforts in the United States and around the world. Demonstrating a commitment to interdenominational ministry, the Foundation has set a goal to give ten percent of its funding to ministry efforts outside the Foursquare denomination.

Online grant applications are available biannually, Jan. 1-Feb. 15 and Jul. 1-Aug. 15. Submission deadlines are Feb. 15 and Aug. 15.

Please visit www.FoursquareFoundation.net.

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