Mercy Ministries-AFM Africa About-Face Missions

Mercy Ministries-AFM Africa is our primary mission where we are serving the poor and needy in western Kenya with our commissioned missionaries Jeff and Stephanie Bys and 7 of their children. In 2022 we have continued to take in more at-risk children into both our Mercy Children's Home and our Mercy Christian Academy and expanded our services to the local community to avert serious crisis as the pandemic continued on worldwide. While continuing our aid to the local community through Gospel training, feedings and care for the needy, we used much of the year to build up needed campus facilities including a much more sanitary restroom facility for the Church, playground and middle school and High school campus. This project was a costly inground septic system properly done that was needed with so many people on campus using facilities on the school campus. We also did likewise for our Mercy Home facility along with adding a dining pavilion and improving the courtyard landscaping and cleanliness. We added a large and required-by-law food storage facility to accommodate the significant supplies of food we must buy weekly and monthly and improved our electrical system. With our significant growth, we had to also upgrade our campus with a large generator due to unreliable local power and drill a new water well, and add pressure pumps to better serve all our children and guests on campus. Many many badly needed upgrades that were costly were completed while still taking care of hundreds of poor children and community members.

Our Legacy About-Face Missions continued to wind down in scope from what we did years before, yet we still remain sensitive to God's call to not neglect those we feel God has given to us for which to care. A large part of these program expenses below went towards helping our Ugandan ministry with Ronald and Stanley, for whom AFM was formed around initially $15,212 was spent towards them. We continued monthly support of Gude Manikumar AFM Church and Orphans in India due to their dependence on our outside support to keep the orphan teens under their care, as will likely continue throughout 2022 also, investing $4129 towards them. Then about $5200 was used in a ministry of helping a sick and needy individual here locally here in the States.

Throughout 2022 AFM continued to facilitate our Legacy Sharon Bible School ministry through former AFM SBS director Jim Clark. Jim funded and helped raise fund to continue printing tens of thousands of Bible tracts and helping local pastors in Africa and Philippines with ministry Gospel outreaches and their discipleship. This entire ministry is overseen by Jim as we continue to support this legacy About-Face Missions legacy work as long as Jim has the means to keep it going. These funds represent the programs funded through his SBS Tract Ministry.

AFM Ministry/Mercy Ministries back end overheard expenses, which consists of financial money transfer fees/expenses, subscription of website and financial services, bookkeeping, shipping, office backend expenses were as usual kept to a very minimal with our all volunteer staff working remotely from their homes. These costs are represented below.