New Directions International

What We Do

Partners

ASIA: (currently active)

Name:  Rev. Murli & Usha Menon
Organization:  Impact International
Location:  Coimbatore, India
NDI Partner since:  1984
Primary Ministry:  specialize in training leaders, planting churches, housing orphans, and feeding poor children all across India.

Name: Bishop Ezra Sargunam
Organization: Evangelical Church of India
Location: Chennai, India
NDI Partner since: 1984
Primary Ministry: ministers to the lowest castes and untouchables in Indian society through various spiritual and practical initiatives. NDI also partners with key ECI staff in Calcutta and Manipur.

Name:
Eliya Pradhan
Organization: Nepal Christian Children’s Education Fellowship
Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
NDI Partner since: 1990
Primary Ministry: providing training for Sunday School teachers in children’s ministry

Name: Dil Tamang
Organization: Himalaya Bible Training Center
Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
NDI Partner since: 1996
Primary Ministry: mobile training of grassroots pastors and evangelists

Name: The Tshering Family
Organization: Champa Choeling
Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
NDI Partner since: 1996
Primary Ministry: reaching out to the Tibetan refugee communities in the Kathmandu Valley

Name: Joseph Chhetri
Organization: Evangelical Bethel Church
Location: Dalsingpara, India
NDI Partner since: 1999
Primary Ministry: outreach to tea plantation workers in northeast India

Name: Dr. S.S. Rai
Organization: Holy Palace Health & Education Center
Location: Naxalbari, India
NDI Partner since: 2001
Primary Ministry: medical outreach through community hospital and mobile clinics

Name: Ranjan Fernando
Organization: United Christian Fellowship of Sri Lanka
Location: Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
NDI Partner since: 2001
Primary Ministry: village outreach through community and children’s centers and mobile medical clinics

Name: Bharat Tamang
Organization:
Location: Delhi, India
NDI Partner since: 2002
Primary Ministry: reaching out to the Nepali Diaspora in the Delhi area

Name: David Mang Sum
Organization: Harvester Christian Missions
Location: Yangon, Myanmar (Burma)
NDI Partner since: 2006
Primary Ministry: church planting among unreached people groups

Name: Dinesh Sunuwar and Gyane Sunuwar
Organization: Everest Base Camp Outreach
Location: Jiri, Nepal
NDI Partner since: 1996
Primary Ministry: church planting among the villages leading up to Everest Base Camp

Name: Manju Thapa Magar
Organization: Manjushree Elderly Home
Location: Kathmandu, Nepal
NDI Partner since: 1998
Primary Ministry: operates home for homeless elderly women

AFRICA: (currently active)


Name: Stakwell Yurenimo
Organization:  Samburu Sports Camp
Location: South  Horr, Kenya
NDI Partner  since: 1994
Primary Ministry:  reaching unreached tribes in northern Kenya including Samburu, Turkana,  Rendille, and Pokot through healthy athletic competition
 
Name: Nick Swanapoel                        
Organization: AIM  International
Location: Korr,  Kenya            
NDI Partner  since: 2003
Primary Ministry:  ministering to the Rendille tribe through church planting  and literacy programs
 
Name: Bishop Trevor Manhanga
Organization:  Senior Pastor of Victory Tabernacle
Location: Mutare,  Zimbabwe  
NDI Partner  since: 1983
Primary Ministry:  In addition to the holistic outreach through his local  church, he is training pastors and planting churches throughout all of  Zimbabwe
 
Name: Simon Mkolo   
Organization:  Zimbabwe Assemblies of God
Location: Hwange,  Zimbabwe
NDI Partner  since:  1983
Primary Ministry:  church planting ministry in extremely rural regions of  western Zimbabwe as well as pastoral leadership training
 
Name: Dr. John  Nyikako         
Organization:  Eden Keepers Farms and African Revival and Restoration Ministries
Location: Yei,  Sudan
NDI Partner  since: 2004
Primary Ministry:  initiating an agricultural development project to supply  food to southern Sudan
 
Name: Dale Hamilton  
Organization: AIM  International
Location: Lake  Victoria Islands, Tanzania
NDI Partner  since: 1997
Primary Ministry:  church planting and evangelistic outreach among the island  villages as well as HIV prevention education

Name: Dr. Tesfaye  Yacob
Organization:  Kale Heywitt Church
Location: Addis  Ababa, Ethiopia
NDI Partner  since:  1987
Primary Ministry:  church planting ministry and holistic outreach of self  support initiatives and pastoral leadership training to all of Ethiopia
 
Name: James Byensi
Organization: The  Rebuilders Ministry
Location: Bunia,  Congo
NDI Partner  since:  2006
Primary Ministry:  leading the church in Congo post civil war to rebuild the  country through leadership training, church planting, and feeding programs

Name: Yaw Assante    
Organization:  Spirit and Life Center    
Location: Kumasi,  Ghana
NDI Partner  since:  1986
Primary Ministry:  providing retreat center facilities for pastoral leadership  training and initiating an agricultural development project to help provide  food to region
 
Name: Noah Yattara
Organization:  Tahanint N’Massinag E Tinbuktu
Location:  Timbuktu, Mali
NDI Partner  since:  2003
Primary Ministry:   reaching unreaching muslims of Mali
 
Name: John Partor
Organization:  Frontline Indigenous Ministries   
Location:  Monrovia, Liberia
NDI Partner  since:  2005
Primary Ministry:   evangelism and community development to the rural villages  of Liberia

CARIBBEAN: (currently active)

Name:  Chavannes Jeune
Organization:  Evangelical Baptist Mission of South Haiti
Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
NDI Partner since:  1990
Primary Ministry:  reaching out to the Body of Christ, particularly in South Haiti; training church leaders deeply involved in outreach at all levels of government

Name:  Jean Baptiste
Organization:  Movement for Efficient Evangelism
Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
NDI Partner since:  2002
Primary Ministry:  evangelism and church planting in rural and urban areas, particularly using open-air outreach and the EvangeCube to start house churches

Name:  Edner Jeanty, Jr.
Organization:  Evangelical Baptist Union of Haiti
Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
NDI Partner since:  2003
Primary Ministry:   training leaders, providing teaching resources, evangelism, and outreach through practical means

Name:  Dieuseul Estivene
Organization:  Cite Soleil Feeding Program
Location:  Cite Soleil
NDI Partner since:  2004
Primary Ministry:  runs a feeding program within Port-au-Prince in the worst and largest slum in Haiti

Name:  Wilbur Outten
Organization:  Freeport Bible Church
Location:  Freeport, Bahamas
NDI Partner since: 1984
Primary Ministry:  community evangelism and outreach