History of Talmudine Foundation
In 2005, I traveled with a medical mission team to Zambia, Africa. It would be my first of many visits to the sub-Saharan country about the size of Texas with a little over 10 million people. We had been told that the people were infected with AIDS and a deadly form of malaria. After ten days of medical clinics set up in communities of abject poverty, city streets, and the country's prison, I was struck by the fact that so many of the diseases we treated were the result of the absence of health education and the lack of available clean water.
Upon returning home, I sought information on long lasting solutions to the problems of the majority world. After reading two incredible books on missions, The Poor Will Be Glad and When Helping Hurts, I took a course on the principles of micro-finance and sustainability. That was when the Lord led to the formation of the Talmudine Foundation whose mission, vision, and goals were established to provide funding for micro-finance projects in the majority world.
In 2014 Talmudine Foundation in partnership with Gilgal Christian Community Centre in Kitwe, Zambia established Amenshi4Life, a water well-drilling project. A portable drill rig was shipped to Zambia and a team from the USA sent to train a team of Zambian men to drill for water and establish a business offering well drilling services. After three years of drilling wells, Amenshi4Life received an increased number of requests for boreholes that can be "gifted" to those in desperate need without any means to fund.
Another difficult reality we confronted as medical missionaries was the horror of "dumped babies". New mothers, many HIV postitive, living in poverty without support, often leave their newborns on the steps of buildings, in trash cans, or latrines. In response, Talmudine and Gilgal Christian Community Centre partnered to build and equip Somone House for Babies, completed in 2011.
The Lord has given us this opportunity to share these needs with you. By telling our story and sharing what the Lord has done, we hope to encourage you to join our team and provide "water for life" (Amenshi means water in the Bemba language).
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Our Mission
The Talmudine Foundation through the principles of micro-finance will seek to fund the ministry of its vision to be in the world serving mankind as Christ’s hands, feet, eyes, ears, and heart through the wise investment of gifts that God has provided, the Foundation, directed by its Board of Trustees, will provide funding to the developing world in the manner of disciples of Jesus Christ.
Our Vision
God has called us at Talmudine, disciples of the Rabbi, Jesus Christ, to become like His Son. As citizens of His Kingdom here on earth, we are to visit the orphans and the widows in their trouble, heal the sick, defend the poor and fatherless, feed the hungry, teach men to “fish”, serve mankind, and go and make disciples of all the nations. (James 1:27, John 5:5-9, Psalm 82:3, Mark 6:37, John 21:6, John 13:8, Matt. 28:19)
Our Goals
- Support the building up of the body of Christ around the world.
- Support micro-economic development projects around the world.
- Teach the principles of capitalism and free enterprise to the majority world.
- Defend the defenseless whose human rights are violated in the world.
