How do you change a life for the better?

You help those in need with skills and education and empower them to proudly improve their own life!

We are approaching service and missions differently!

Serving and including empowerment with compassion

Recognizing potentials, meeting needs and giving skills

Changing lives, showing love and sharing God’s Word

Join us and make a difference!

Changing Lives by empowering those in need with skills to pursue what they want to do!

We do not come in with a set program! We listen to the needs and wants of those we are serving and help them accomplish the goals they choose! We find this approach builds self- reliance, pride and has a greater success rate!  LTP’s successful empowerment practices include: partnering to empower those in need and providing education, training, support for small business start-up and long term success. 

Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Over half of everyone working in Africa only earn less than $1.25/day (the extreme poverty line) and women represent about 70 % of the world’s poor and earn 23% less than men. At least 30% of women and girls are severely undernourished; half have had cholera or other water-born illnesses; 6% to 30% of women die during pregnancy/childbirth depending on what country they live in and the access to medical care, and fewer than one-fifth of women are given access to education. 

 Together, with the help of people like you we are changing communities, giving dignity and making a better future for generations to come.  Lighting the Path is approaching poverty differently by including empowerment.  Meeting the needs of food, water, medical care, shelter and education are the necessary starting points. We then include empowerment with education, skills, small business training and supplies to start a small enterprise and earn an income.  Every person wants to feel valuable and competent and, if given a chance, will work hard to have a good life.  Our vision is to empower people to provide for themselves and their family and to see them flourish and live out their full, God-given potential. To accomplish this vision, we engage and challenge societal norms. We work to alleviate suffering through action oriented work while respecting cultural and personal differences, along with caring for physical and emotional needs.

We have directly empowered over 736 women with skills to start a small enterprise and the knowledge to train others to do the same.  The “ripple effect” has been huge and we are seeing more and more women taking their skills and using them to help their family thrive.

We have formed and empowered over 35 women’s associations to work as a combined team of different strengths to make a product and  run a sustainable enterprise.

In our newest Giving Hope Project, we have taught over 38 refugee women to sew and make products to start their own small business       or gain employment.

The Girls for Girls project provides washable and reusable feminine hygiene kits to girls who have no supplies to deal with her monthly menstrual cycle.  We have sent over 850 hygiene kits to schools, clinics and organizations in Zimbabwe, the Congo, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Malawi, Cameroon and Ghana.

We have built and opened a residential technical school for young women which allows them to live in a safe environment and learn skills to run a successful and sustainable small business that will allow them to take care of themselves and have a brighter future.  Our first class has been amazingly successful and we have already expanded our enrollment with the completion of a housing building.