This past fall, after a concerted effort to identify new and returning Christ-centered ministries seeking to expand their impact in the world, the Kingdom Builder Foundation awarded $87,261 in grants, the largest round of funding (separate from designated gifts) in KBF’s 15-year history. Since its inception, KBF has awarded 169 grants for a total of $997,442 in funding for ministry efforts. Congratulations to the following 12 ministries that received grants during the 2022 fall funding cycle:
 
Amor Ministries (Mexico) – For more than forty years, Amor Ministries has been building homes, providing school supplies, conducting youth programs and distributing food to marginalized families living in Tijuana, Tecate, Rosarito, Puerto Peñasco, and Juarez Mexico. KBF has provided a Fall 2022 grant to help support Amor’s food bank program that feeds 250 families each month. It’s in meeting the physical needs of the families they serve that Amor demonstrates the love of Christ, opening doors to deeper spiritual exploration and growth.
 
Building for Christ (Mexico) – In partnership with SBPC-supported missionaries, Ellie and Enrique Goolkasian-Lugo, Building for Christ has been planting churches and making Christian disciples in the Baja region of Mexico since 1992. This year, the organization will establish a new church in the town of Jamarillo by renovating a former rehabilitation center into a sanctuary, youth center and parsonage for the church’s pastor. The new church campus will provide a safe and nurturing environment for more than 1,000 of the community’s youth. KBF has provided a grant to help offset renovation costs.
 
Dream Dinners Foundation (Ecuador) – In partnership with Kids Around the World (KATW), Dream Dinners will utilize KBF funds to help build a learning center where children of an impoverished village will receive daily meals, Bible-based learning activities, as well as safe and healthy play opportunities at the center’s new playground. Project leadership envisions this as a pilot program that can be replicated in as many as 27 other poor communities throughout Ecuador.
 
Foster Hope Ministries (North San Diego County) – A vibrant ministry of Solana Beach Presbyterian Church, Foster Hope has been meeting the physical and spiritual needs of hundreds of foster youth and their families since 2009. Because of the love they’ve experienced through Foster Hope’s many programs, many youth and their families have expressed interest in being part of the  SBPC worshipping community, but are unable to because of lack of transportation. KBF is bridging this gap by providing a grant to help offset travel costs to and from the church. 
 
Interserve (Pakistan) – In 1996, a surprising number of Hindu and Muslim people in the Sindh province of Pakistan were turning to Christ owing in part to the work of SBPC-supported missionaries, Paul and Pat Stock. Partnering with the Audio Visual Center of the Church of Pakistan, the Stocks helped create a hymnbook of worship songs called “Kirtan Sagher” (“Ocean of Worship”) to encourage growth among new disciples. KBF has provided a grant to print an updated version of the songbook with a treasury of new songs in seven different languages.

The Murbarak Center (Southern California) – This KBF grant will help underwrite English language classes for newly arrived Afghan refugees. English language instruction is a potent expression of love for these families, helping them better understand and navigate what is often a disorienting new culture. What’s more, the classes help open doors to relationships with families who are often eager for connections in their new homeland..
 
Operation Mobilization (Sudan) – Scripture indicates the Gospel resonates even in unlikely places like the cab of a dusty chariot where Philip shared the Good News with an Ethiopian Eunuch. KBF is helping provide similar evangelistic opportunities in the Sudan by underwriting the purchase of a “tuk-tuk” (3 wheeled, motor-powered taxi) and a year’s supply of gasoline for use by a local missionary. The vehicle will also provide income for the missionary, as well as transportation between church plants.   
 
Pathways to Citizenship (North San Diego County) is a faith-based nonprofit agency that helps immigrants navigate legal and cultural pathways to citizenship, sharing the love of Christ with “strangers in our land” by providing pro-bono and low-cost legal immigration and educational services, including free ESL classes and citizenship tutoring. KBF funding will help offset the cost of an Education Program Coordinator to increase the number of students served.
 
Solana Beach Community Senior Center (North San Diego County) – KBF grant funds will be used to provide transportation to older adults in the area for weekly meetings at SBPC and to subsidize meals at the meetings. This will enable local seniors to continue to attend the activities and meals where they find true community, fellowship, friendship and the love of Christ. 
 
South American Theological Seminary (Brazil) – The South American Theological Seminary (SATS) was founded in 1994 to teach and practice theology in an interdenominational, evangelical context. SATS has over 4000 alumni serving churches, NGOs, and other Christian organizations in Brazil, Latin America, and around the world. With the help of a KBF grant, the seminary will launch a new three-year program aimed at students who have never had any formal theological training.
 
Studio Internship (Southern California) – Studio Internship provides an intensive, three-month training program for prospective missionaries preparing for cross-cultural ministry opportunities. KBF will help support a unique element of the program that is part retreat, and part real-world training, simulating conditions trainees may face in the field. The retreat curriculum focuses on self-awareness, connection with God and healthy community life – all key elements for a sustainable and fruitful mission experience.
 
Young Life—San Diego Metro (El Cajon) – Next Generation Leaders (NGL) is a program developed by Young Life to identify, recruit, train, empower, and cultivate young leaders of color who are called to disciple teens in communities of color. The goal of NGL is to develop young leaders who more fully represent the population of teenagers Young Life is reaching with the gospel. KBF funding will be used to help offset stipends for two young leaders of color.