Table of contents:

Introduction Goshen Foundation

The Plan

The Mission

The Church

The Farm

Bamboo and briquettes

Ghosen Foundation.

Some years ago, I was on a working holiday with a Christian denomination in Hungary. During this trip, we built chicken coops for the local residents.

During this trip, I saw all the poverty and problems among these people. Slowly a love began to grow in my heart to want to help these people.

After this experience, I went to live in Hungary myself for several years and lived among the Roma people. There I got to know the people and also their customs, rituals and manners.

The biggest problems I saw were unemployment, drug addiction, alcohol addiction. From this comes prostitution, unwanted pregnancies, broken marriages, families destroyed. Children of divorced parents who have almost no food and therefore roam the streets and are exposed to all kinds of dangers mentally and physically.

The biggest problems take place in the neighbourhoods where the Roma live and you literally see the harrowing conditions.

I also saw how difficult it is for Roma youth specifically to be accepted. Discrimination against this group within Hungarian culture is rife. Often, by not being given a chance, the youth choose the criminal path. They end up in criminal organisations that completely exploit them. It becomes a vicious circle with no solution for them, causing many to choose suicide.

The age at which many choose to leave life via suicide is between 20 and 30 years old.

That is why it is so on my heart to build a church with community where Hope in Jesus may become an anchor. To form these communal gatherings with a church building, I need a start-up. Let's say a financial flow on which, guided by God, I can continue to work out the plan independently.

In James 2:17 it says that what you do shows your Faith and so we do !

The plan.

Fortunately, the foundation owns a nice piece of agricultural land that can be expanded in the future.

To get started, we want to establish a farm on this land with cattle and small livestock. This could include cows, calves, pigs, goats, chickens, etc.

From this, products such as meat, milk, eggs, cheese will be produced for sale.

The farm also provides jobs to run.

The foundation wants to cultivate the farmland with bamboo plants. By cutting off the plants and processing the wood into briquettes, we can sell them into affordable firewood. Again, this will create jobs with which we can support the local population.

By making this investment self-sustainable, we can strengthen the Gospel out of the profits.

Here we can then tell about the goodness of God and His Son Jesus. And His gift of Grace to them and us.

Here, then, everyone is welcome and a place is created from which the Gospel can do its work. By building a bridge between people and Gospel, this step is necessary. So that the people feel heard and we can assist them physically and spiritually.

Because I speak the language myself and work in the project, I can get close to the people. This gives me a great advantage in making contacts. These contacts are very important for the entrances of the local authorities to be able to go down all these roads.

The Mission.

To explain my mission, I first want to tell you my story.

My mission stems from my personal experience what I saw and had the opportunity to experience there. I saw people walking around there mentally wounded, aimless and jobless, not knowing how valuable they are and deserving of their own identity and opportunities.

That time did a lot for me and the Lord formed my heart into a deep love for the Roma.

I prayed a lot during that time if I could be a link between God and the people there.

What was I allowed to mean there? I asked God if He would teach me the language and He did so by letting me speak Hungarian within 3 weeks.

Within 5 weeks I was able to trade cows and horses with the locals.

Slowly, evangelising came around the corner and I started telling people what Jesus had done for me.

As time passed, my desire grew stronger and I came into contact with a somewhat elderly Hungarian man who held a small church service every Sunday.

Unfortunately, he had to return abroad for work and this church meeting stopped. It was also difficult for him to sustain this financially due to too little income.

My mission I have been given by God on my heart is to start building a church there for the local people to bring God's word. With the farm, I want to tap into as much finance as possible so that we can be self-sufficient.

But before everything is up and running, we need a start-up capital to make the basic arrangements. We therefore hope that you will support us which will help lift this project off the ground.

The Church.

You must understand from me that in the villages there is a lot of rivalry among themselves. Big families making each other's lives miserable. That is why we want to build the church building not in a village but outside it so that no wrong influences can be exerted by the villagers themselves.

It should be an independent building where everyone can and may go in freedom. On the contrary, it should be a free way to hold church services there but where weekday meetings, prayer groups, Bible study and a listening ear can also be offered.

Everyone should feel at home here, a place of safety and warmth where the love of Jesus is shared.

An opportunity will also be created for speakers from home and abroad to share the Good News of Jesus Christ.

He who is the only way to salvation.

The spiritual hunger for the Word of God is great within the Roma culture. Often these Roma people are excluded from the Hungarian churches and thus from the Good News that is meant for them as well.

There is also often a lack of understanding between the Hungarian population and the Roma due to cultural and habitual differences. This leads to confusion and miscommunication, causing prejudice to prevail.

This is where we, as a foundation, want to make a difference with our church, because we all deserve the opportunity to be the Body of Christ.

We are a church with an open door for everyone who longs for Jesus and His Gospel.

We do not discriminate and want to make an outstretched hand to the poor and rich.

Therefore, we would like to propagate what Jesus teaches us, by looking after the poor and caring for widows and orphans, loving yourself and your neighbour.

The Farm

As a foundation, we would like to give the young people a direction by building the farm together with them. This will give them a future perspective. They learn a trade and get more social interaction.

Everyone has his or her qualities that we are going to use during this project.

We want to build on those qualities by offering them work on the farm.

Because there are many different activities, we can look for the opportunities that suit that person. One might think of helping with livestock or working in the vegetable garden.

Another is more technically inclined and will then be involved in machinery and its maintenance. Also taking care of animals by feeding them and cleaning stables. Also consider carpentry and maintenance of the buildings.

The produce we receive from the land and livestock we want to sell at the market and in local shops. We also want to establish a country shop in the future so that the fresh produce from the land can be offered for sale directly. In this too, we can offer employment opportunities such as sales staff.

As brand awareness among the local population increases and in the meantime the community church has been established, we can start giving the gospel work more direction alongside the farm.

It is a growth process that requires time, investment and development, both physical labour and Spiritual sowing in their hearts.

The farm will become a connection place where people may come to know God alongside labour. The love of Jesus bearing fruit

Bamboo and briquettes

The agricultural project will consist of planting bamboo. The giant bamboo that can reach a height of about 25 metres has a very good yield.

I will not reach this height on the Hungarian soil but 15 metres is very realistic.

We want to cut these bamboo plants by machine.

We will grind the wood from the bamboo and use the residual product to make briquettes.

The yield from 1 hectare of land will yield at least 15 tonnes per hectare.

These briquettes are more environmentally friendly than the brown and steam coal currently used.

Bamboo has the property of absorbing a lot of co2, which in turn helps us contribute to cleaner air.

In order to press the briquettes, the bamboo canes will be shredded and then compressed by a briquette press under great pressure into blocks of wood that we will then sell or give away to the poorest.

We will also create workplaces in this process.

Financial overview

Building church materials and contents € 40,000

Farm equipment, stables and storage. € 85.000,00

Cattle and fodder € 10,000.00

Purchase of additional land € 30,000.00

Car and livestock trailer € 40,000.00

Machinery and transport equipment € 50,000.00

Total required costs € 255,000.00