- 450 students (K1 through 12th grades) now attend Naomi’s Heart Mission Christian Academy. Twenty students attend public school and 63 students attend college. That is a total of 533 sponsored students.
- Since 2015, 150 students have graduated from college and gone on to be teachers, engineers, policemen, policewomen, immigration officers, pastors, accountants, IT specialists, social workers, nurses, a midwife, and one student overseas teaching English in Korea.
- Students receive a quality Christian education allowing them to overcome poverty. Daily Bible classes and weekly chapel services ground them in Christian values.
- 90% of child sponsorship goes to the education and needs of the sponsored student.
- Thanks to donations from Filipino officials, cages were built and families are now raising chickens to sell, butcher or keep for laying eggs.
- Catfish are being raised in small cement pools and pens have been built to house pigs providing more income for families in the future.
- Naomi’s Oasis Water Refilling Station provides clean, affordable water for the community while generating support for children and families. Money from this project also funds programs in education, health, and community empowerment.
- Rice is provided to impoverished areas.
- Children at several public schools receive a hot meal each week along with Bible lessons. Eighty children at the Academy, who are considered malnourished, also receive meals.
- Street feedings, along with Bible lessons, are done for children, many who do not attend school, in a poor area by the sea.
- Once a month a team visits the women’s prison providing worship, a message from one of the NHM pastors, and a pot of Lugaw (rice porridge). The women are also given soap, toiletry items and flip flops.
- The Mission teams up with other non-profits quarterly to go to mountain areas providing clothing, rice, sardines, toilets, buckets, tarps and hygiene items.
- Children in six different churches are fed on Sundays after services.
- Naomi’s Heart Mission has four planted churches serving the area. Pastor Teddy Duran serves Riverside Community Church by a nearby river. Pastor Charlouie Planos serves Lanton Community Church meeting at the Mission. Pastor Aldrin Mirafluentes and Pastor Kevin Mendoza serve Higher Ground Community Church near our new Academy. Pastor Filbert Gansing serves Pao Pao Community Church located in the mountains. There are plans to plant a new church in 2026.
- The pastors also teach in the public schools, give messages at parent meetings, come to staff meetings, and participate in Mission outreaches.
- The pastors and churches are actively involved in First Steps Discipleship, grounding new believers in the basics of the Christian faith.
- Through the pastors’ work in sharing the gospel, 22 new believers were recently baptized.
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