December 2016 Annual Report

2016
ANNUAL
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PERSECU ION.org
INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CONCERN

2016 Annual Report
Table of Contents
3 Letter from the
President
4 Our Mission,Our
Mandate
6 2016 at a Glance
8 Persecution: Pervasive
& Persistent
26 Expanding the Church
28 Rebuilding-Restoring
Communities
30 Strengthening Pastors
32 Trips
34 Finances & Distinctives
10 A Year of Firsts
12 Advocacy
16 Shouting and Exposing
18 Spiritual Fertilizer
20 Rescuing Kids
22 Rescuing Families
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International Christian Concern
President’s Letter
Dear Friend,
As I reflect on the trials and victories of another year
in the trenches with our brothers and sisters in Christ,
I cannot help but wonder how our work has impacted
eternity. As humans, we like to look back and take an
accounting of our deeds.
In 2016, Christians suffered increasing persecution
all around the globe. ISIS has ensured that ancient
Christian homelands in Iraq and Syria are now mostly empty of believers, and yet we can still
celebrate a successful year. Why? Because though we expose wickedness and seek justice for and
relieve the suffering of the oppressed, our mission is not to end persecution - it is to love, comfort
and grow the suffering body of Christ - orphan by orphan, widow by widow, church by church and
community by community.
How do you calculate the value of giving persecuted Christian kids an education that will break
them free from a 1,400-year cycle of poverty? How do you calculate the value of the release of
just one prisoner or the value of bringing the weight of the US Congress against a nation that
persecutes? For me, these things are astronomically valuable.
From the simple to the heroic, the mundane to the extraordinary, we are guided by one simple
fact – that whatever we do for the least of these, His brothers and sisters, we do for Him. Your
partnership, both financial and in prayer, makes us partners in doing the seemingly impossible and
I can’t thank you enough for allowing us to be your hands and feet to the persecuted.
It is the great compassion of the Father that has seen fit to grow this ministry of “five loaves and
two fish” to touch more lives than we ever could have dreamed of. The truth is, in the light of
eternity, that’s about all we ever have to offer - and we like it that way.
When you stand with ICC, your gifts will be used effectively, ethically, and efficiently in the mission
of bandaging and building the persecuted Church. I promise!
All God’s Blessings,
Jeff King, President
International Christian Concern
Jeff King,
President
International Christian Concern
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OUR MISSION
OUR MISSION
Since 1995, ICC has relieved the suffering of the worldwide
persecuted Church and helped it grow in strength and
breadth by providing effective assistance, advocacy and
awareness with integrity towards God and donors.
OUR MANDATE
The Father calls us to remember the prisoners (Hebrews
13:3), to speak up for the voiceless (Proverbs 31:8), to seek
justice, reprove the ruthless, defend the orphan, and plead
for the widow (Isaiah 1:17). We bring the good news to the
poor, bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to the
captives, and open the doors of the prison (Isaiah 61:1). We
leave the 99 to save the one (Matthew 18:12).
OUR CONTRACT
Donors trust us for our efficiency and effectiveness since
we aren’t focused on growing our organization, but rather
on building and bandaging the persecuted Church. That
trust has produced a long-term partnership with our donors.
It has allowed us to continually expand to the point
that we are operating in 85% of the 10/40 Window where
most of the world’s persecution happens.
OUR PRESIDENT
Jeff King has served as ICC’s president since 2003 after
serving 11 years with Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU) and
a previous career in banking. He has traveled to approximately
50 countries and his inspiring stories and incredible
life experiences, combined with his passion for the persecuted,
make him an energetic and compassionate leader.
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OUR MANDATE
ADVOCACY
AWARENESS
ASSISTANCE
Members of Congress
USCIRF
State Department
White House
Fellow Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs)
We work with those who
hold the levers of worldly
power to push back countries
that persecute and free
imprisoned Christians.
ICC is working daily to make the
secular and the Christian world
aware of the suffering of persecuted
believers.
Persecution.org: Millions of annual
visitors
Social Media: 900,000 followers
Newsletter: 50,000/month
News Releases: 46 this year
Press Interviews: 129 this year
Building and Bandaging the
Persecuted Church:
• Assisting widows and children
of murdered Christians
• Smuggling Bibles
• Caring for persecuted kids
• Rebuilding communities devastated
by large-scale attacks
• Supporting church planters
in the most dangerous areas
• Broadcasting the Gospel into
closed areas
A THREE-PRONGED ATTACK ON PERSECUTION
Persecution is holistic; the response needs to be as well.
Persecution is a multi-dimensional problem
which deserves a multi-dimensional
response. ICC uses awareness, assistance,
and advocacy to fight persecutors
and to serve the persecuted Church.
When an attack happens, we shout to
the press to push persecuting countries
to protect believers. We arrive on the
ground to bandage and care for the hurting.
Then, we work with the US government
in Washington D.C. to use its power
and influence to punish persecutors and
free imprisoned believers.
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2016 AT A GLANCE
WHERE WE WORK (STAFF/PROJECTS)
Afghanistan
Algeria
Azerbaijan
Bangladesh
China
Egypt
Ethiopia
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Mali
Mexico
Niger
Nigeria
North Korea
Pakistan
Somalia
Sudan
Tanzania
Turkey
UAE
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Zanzibar
Washington D.C.*
*ICC Headquarters
AID DISTRIBUTION
MOST ACTIVE COUNTRY
Bibles for the
Persecuted: 10%
Save Our Sisters: 4%
Underground
Pastors: 12%
2016
Community Rebuild: 13%
Kids Care: 9%
Broadcasting
the Gospel: 7%
EGYPT
Suffering Wives and
Children: 24% Hand of Hope: 21%
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WHERE MOST
NEEDED
OUR FUNDS
H
HOPE
HOUSE
COMMUNITY
REBUILD
GREATEST NEED
FUND BALANCE: CRITICAL
FUND BALANCE: MEDIUM
KIDS
CARE
SAVE OUR
SISTERS
BIBLES TO THE
PERSECUTED
FUND BALANCE: CRITICAL
FUND BALANCE: CRITICAL
FUND BALANCE: HIGH
UNDERGROUND
PASTORS
BROADCASTING
THE GOSPEL
SUFFERING WIVES
& CHILDREN
FUND BALANCE: CRITICAL
FUND BALANCE: CRITICAL
FUND BALANCE: HIGH
ADVOCACY EFFORTS
ADVOCACY RESULTS
EGYPT INDIA MEXICO NORTH KOREA
147 Government
Meetings
6 International
Petitions
107 NGO and
Partner Meetings
7 Christian
Prisoners Freed
NEPAL
PAKISTAN SUDAN SYRIA
82 Congressional
Member Signatures
4 Congressional
Letters
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Persecution: Pervasive & Persistent
Persecution Is Spreading and Getting More Violent
“Before I arrived at church, they called me to say we were
under attack,” Pastor Kevin told ICC in 2016. “I heard gunshots,
people screaming, crying. It was like a horror movie.
It was just like hell.”
Unfortunately, Pastor Kevin’s story is not exceptional. In 2016,
millions of Christians around the world faced persecution.
In Nigeria, Christians continue to face brutal attacks from
Muslim Fulani militias and Islamist terror group Boko Haram.
Together they have killed more than 20,000 Christians during
the last 15 years.
In Iraq and Syria, ISIS has almost completely driven Christians
from where they have lived for 2,000 years. In India, the rise
of Hindu nationalism has resulted in attacks against the country’s
Christians rising to unprecedented levels.
From Nigeria’s turbulent northeast, to ISIS’s caliphate, to
the prison camps of North Korea, Christians continue to
pay dearly for following Jesus and face intense persecution
for their faith.
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Opposite Page: A Christian farmer in rural Nigeria
shows ICC where the Fulani Islamic militants came
from when they attacked his village.
Top Left: Pastor Kevin relives the Sunday morning
when his church was attacked by three gunmen
from Al-Shabaab who killed six members of his
congregation.
Lower Left: Because of intense persecution, the
Church in Afghanistan gathers secretly to worship.
Top Right: Christian and Yazidi families have
faced intense persecution from Islamic extremist
groups like ISIS. Many communities have been
forced into internally displaced people (IDP)
camps throughout northern Iraq.
Lower Right: A scar runs the length of Samuel
Kangethe’s abdomen as a result of an Al-Shabaab
attack on his rural village in Kenya.
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A Year of Firsts
In 2016, God Allowed ICC to Reach Four Long-Term Strategic Goals
The Bridge
Christianity is under massive attack around the world and is facing
intense political and cultural threats in the US. Christians
can no longer afford to operate in silos. The Body must come
together and bridge theological, organizational, and societal
divides.
This past summer, after years of planning, we launched The
Bridge (www.thepersecutionconference.org) where we bring
all sectors of the Church (laypeople, pastors, government
leaders, politicians, and ministry leaders) together to fight
persecution in a united front. The Bridge is not an ICC conference,
but a conference for the Church to come together to
fight persecution.
Hope House
Persecution is much more complicated than martyrdom and
imprisonment. For instance, many countries intentionally restrict
Christians’ access to education so that they are trapped
in multigenerational poverty and are permanent residents of
the lower class.
In 2016, we launched Hope House to address these needs. One
Hope House program trains promising Christian kids in English
and computer skills after school. In a few short years, they can
rise to the top of the employment pool. We also provide access
to microfinance for promising and driven young Christians so
that they can purchase simple businesses, with a commitment
to finding and training other Christians to push the Christian
community forward.
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Pastors’ Trip
“My trip with ICC changed my life,” said one pastor about our
first pastors’ trip. We took several pastors to the Middle East so
that they could directly experience the reality of Christians living
under intense Islamic persecution for 1,400 years and to see
how we are making a difference in their lives.
We introduced them to the families of martyrs, had them
preach sermons in small churches, showed them the launch of
a Hope House, and showed them the effect of persecution on
Christian kids. The Church may be asleep about persecution,
but any pastor who comes with us to see the persecuted firsthand
will be changed forever.
Congressional Testimony
In 2016, ICC was called for the first time to testify before
Congress on the horrific persecution of believers taking place
in India under the Modi regime. Speaking in a packed room on
Capitol Hill, ICC’s president, Jeff King, clearly explained the rise in
persecution, telling the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission,
“The silence of Modi and government authorities is deafening.”
This testimony capped off six months of exceptional progress in
uncovering persecution throughout India.
In this “Year of Firsts,” ICC efforts also led to four Member
Letters (a joint letter from numerous senators and congressmen
pushing foreign governments to take action on persecution
in their country).
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Top Left: ICC’s President Jeff
King testifies before Congress
in June 2016 at a hearing on
the persecution of Christians
in India.
Lower Left: The hearing was
scheduled by Congress to coincide
with a visit from India’s
prime minister to the US.
Right: ICC’s advocacy director,
Isaac Six, testifies on the
plight of Christians in Mexico
at a briefing for congressional
staffers.
Advocacy
Working with Government Officials to Fight Persecution
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, a radical Hindu,
came to power in May of 2014. We immediately saw the
leash come off of his fundamentalist followers across
the country as attacks against Christians increased in
breadth and intensity.
In late 2015, we conducted an investigation into one
of India’s most dangerous areas, the Bastar District.
Interviews with dozens of victims uncovered rampant
persecution, and even the outright banning of
Christianity in 50+ villages. Our advocacy team then
launched a major initiative to educate members of
Congress in regards to Indian persecution.
As a result, in February of this year, 34 congressional
members, including eight senators, wrote to India’s
Prime Minister Modi to halt the persecution of religious
minorities in Bastar. CNN, Fox News, Vice News,
The Economist, Times of India, and many others reported
on the letter. Then, in June, ICC’s president,
Jeff King, was called to testify before Congress on the
subject as Prime Minister Modi arrived in the US for a
historic visit. Thanks to this effort, the plight of hundreds
of Christian families went from near obscurity to
a major international issue. ICC continues to push for
more action in their case.
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Advocacy cont’d
In 2015, ICC’s president personally went to Mexico with
Christian Solidarity Worldwide to investigate persecution.
Upon his return, he tasked ICC’s advocacy department
with informing and educating members on Capitol
Hill about the persecution of Christians in Mexico. While
the Mexican government isn’t the main cause, they consistently
refuse to arrest or prosecute perpetrators (impunity).
This year, ICC’s advocacy efforts on Mexico paid
off with unprecedented pressure on the Mexican government
in regards to persecution. A nationally known
politician initiated multiple conversations with the
Mexican government about the issue. On ICC’s recommendation,
the State Department sent an investigative
team to Mexico and followed that up with the first-ever
visit to Mexico by the ambassador for religious freedom.
This sent a strong signal that the US is now seriously
concerned about persecution taking place just over the
border.
In December, seven Christians in Chiapas, Mexico, were
released from jail after ICC raised their case with the
State Department.
Top Left: ICC’s President Jeff King
meets with government officials in
Chiapas, Mexico, to discuss ongoing
cases of persecution.
Middle Left: Based on gathered
stories and testimonies, ICC
informs key congressional offices
such as Rep. Pitts.
Lower Left: After meeting with ICC
about Mexico, Rep. Pitts grabs Rep.
Garrett to impress on him the need
to be involved in this issue.
Above: ICC worked in the background of Congress to
initiate four different “Member Letters” (a joint letter
signed by multiple congressional members on a specific
issue). Those letters garnered 82 signatures from members
in 2016. The letter above is in regards to persecution
in Mexico, calling for the protection of Christian
communities and the prosecution of persecutors.
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Shouting and Exposing
With the Press Being Uninterested in Persecution, Our Role of Exposing Persecution is Vital
Sudan is one of the world’s worst persecutors
of Christians. As the Gospel spreads, Sudan
continues to arbitrarily detain Christian leaders,
often without official charges or a release
date. The key to Sudan’s persecution is secrecy.
As long as Sudan can hide its egregious
human rights abuses, the government will
continue to arrest, persecute, and mistreat
Christians.
There is a clear inverse relationship between
awareness and persecution. To put it simply,
our job is to turn on the light so the roaches
will scatter. By raising our voices, we pierce
the darkness and expose their deeds (persecution)
done in secret (John 3:20).
Whether through our website, magazine, social
media, news releases, interviews, videos,
or speaking engagements, we have seen how
“shouting” opens the prison door.
In August, we celebrated the one-year anniversary
of Sudanese pastors Yat Michael Rout and
Peter Yein Reith’s release from prison. These
pastors were arrested and faced potential death
sentences, but were freed after an onslaught of
international outcry motivated the Sudanese
government to reconsider the penalty. While
God ultimately opened the prison doors, ICC is
privileged to serve as His mouthpiece for not
just Pastors Michael and Peter, but for many
persecuted Christians around the world.
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Website
13.9
Million
Website Hits in 2016
Social Media
900K 4
People
Following ICC
Biggest Week
Million
People Reached
Far Left: A Fox News article on
Christian persecution in India. Fox
interviewed ICC’s President Jeff King
about the situations investigated by
ICC.
Left: An OpEd written by ICC President
Jeff King in The Washington Examiner
regarding the presidential candidates
and religious freedom.
Top: Social Media platforms continue
to grow as some of ICC’s main
communication tools.
Middle: Some of the news organizations
that ICC has been published in
or interviewed by as ICC continues its
media outreach.
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Spiritual Fertilizer
Spreading the Gospel in Creative Ways
Above: ICC installed an underground
printing press in a Muslim country.
This year, it printed 70,000 Bibles!
Scripture is God’s fertilizer for the Church.
Wherever it goes, the Church grows and its
roots deepen. In 2016, ICC used a variety of
exciting ways to provide access to Scripture.
In one country, USB drives with Scripture
and various types of literature are smuggled
in through remote-controlled drones. In the
same country, hunger is a major issue, so
the Gospel and small portions of Scripture
are put into bottles filled with rice and floated
down river! Who knew a “message in a
bottle” approach could be so successful?
Occasionally, we also install underground
printing presses in countries where it is too
difficult to smuggle in Bibles. We installed
the press above in late 2015 and it started
printing Bibles this past year for the growing
underground community in one Muslim
country. This printing press will provide
Muslim-background believers (MBBs) with
unprecedented access to the Gospel.
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Top Left: If countries block or
suppress the spread of Bibles,
we will move them in. We provide
for the printing of Bibles in
major languages as well as local
dialects. They are printed in
massive quantities before they
come off the ship.
Top Right: They are then taken
to an “underground” warehouse
until they can be distributed.
Middle Left: Then, they are
packed into small loads of hundreds
and taken across borders.
Middle Right: The end result?
Bibles in the hands of believers
and those searching for life.
Lower Left: We also love to fund
new and innovative ways to
move Scripture into the toughest
places like North Korea.
Here, bottles filled with rice
and Scripture are dropped into
a river that will take them into
North Korea.
Lower Right: These are massive
“church in a box” kits on
DVD that we send into an Asian
country which include Bibles,
songs, slideshows, literature,
etc.
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Rescuing Kids
Saving a Generation Physically and Spiritually
James 1:27 commands us to look after the orphans in
their distress because this world has a way of ignoring
and exploiting the weakest members of society.
ICC serves persecuted kids with short-term relief
projects to put a band-aid on immediate needs, but
most of our work with kids involves long-term projects
to protect and restore their lives. These longterm
projects include Egypt’s Hope House and our
orphanage in India for children who lost their parents
during the massive anti-Christian violence in
Orissa, India (2008).
In short, our projects focus on ensuring that persecuted
kids receive a quality education, food,
medical assistance, and discipleship to give them
the best shot at a second chance in life. The more
we work with persecuted kids, the more we realize
that God has gifted them with a powerful hope to
continue living and loving in spite of tragedy. ICC is
grateful to help them do just that.
Top Right: Children in an internally displaced
people (IDP) camp in northern Iraq
receive treats as their families are given
coats and blankets from ICC to keep them
warm through the cold winter.
Middle Right: A boy receives a blanket
from ICC in a Christian community in
India that has faced discrimination and
persecution.
Middle Far Right: Children who lost a parent
when Islamists bombed their church
receive an education through a joint ICC-
Voice of the Martyrs project.
Lower Right: Children at a church in India
receive new reading material from ICC
after a radical Hindu broke in and burned
all of the church’s books.
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Ten families, including this one
(below), that lost their homes to
ISIS have been living in tents and
tarps (right) in Iraq for the last two
years. ICC and a partner church
in Philadelphia provided 10 new
micro-homes (lower right) with
electricity, water, and plumbing so
they can start a new life.
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Rescuing Families
After Two Years in Tents, 10 Iraqi Families Receive Homes
Persecuted Christian families are constantly forced to restart their lives. Whether they are
driven from their homes or experience the loss of their husbands and fathers to persecution,
they are often vulnerable and in need of rescue. ICC regularly rescues the wives and children
of these martyrs, but we also rescue intact families that have suffered devastating loss due to
persecution.
ISIS has displaced more than 100,000 Christians in Iraq from Christian communities that are
thousands of years old. This year, ICC moved ten of these displaced families from tents that
they had lived in for two years to new micro-homes (below). In addition to housing, ICC frequently
provides affected families with small businesses so that they can support themselves
as a family and the kids can continue in school. Whether it’s a bee farm, transportation business,
goats, mechanic shop, beauty salon, or sewing factory, ICC has provided reliable income
opportunities for thousands of Christians.
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Rescuing Families cont’d
Upper Left: ICC helped many
ISIS victims who lost their homes
and livelihoods in Iraq, including
these brothers. ICC purchased a
tuk-tuk (a three-wheeled vehicle)
that is used as a taxi and delivery
vehicle and also purchased
mechanic tools for this group of
believers (upper right) who were
able to start a mechanic shop.
Lower Left: ICC set up 20 families
with a beekeeping business
in Ethiopia after they
were forced out of a Muslimdominated
area due to constant
persecution.
Above: ICC built a small garment
factory for the families of
a group of martyrs in Egypt. We
brought in trainers and worked
with them for months to get up
and running. The factory is now
fully operational and has several
large orders!
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Top Left: A couple of years ago,
a donor gave ICC $1,000,000
which we used to start a 24/7
satellite TV channel in one of the
world’s most strategic Islamic
countries. However, we don’t
just broadcast. We also follow
up with those on the ground
who listen to the broadcasts and
ask for Bibles and discipleship.
Lower Images: ICC provided the
resources to rebuild this church
in Indonesia after it was attacked
and severely damaged.
Above: We love to broadcast the
Gospel, but we really love the
combination of broadcasting
and being able to follow up with
those touched on the ground.
Expanding the Church
Building and Rebuilding the Physical and Spiritual Body
Muslims remain among the world’s most unreached
peoples. Radical Islamists attack and kill
effective missionaries and church workers in the
most fundamentalist countries, so the traditional
missionary method to expand the Church doesn’t
work very well. In these countries, ICC uses radio
and satellite TV to “jump over the fence” that Islam
erects to keep the Gospel out.
Through ICC’s Broadcast Fund, ICC created a 24-
hour satellite TV channel that broadcasts the
Gospel into one of the world’s most dangerous
countries. We don’t just broadcast, but in 2016,
we continued to meet with those touched by the
programming to build the Church in the toughest
areas of the world.
The bottom line? We love to bandage the persecuted,
but just as importantly, we are on the front
lines of Church expansion through building the
Church in the toughest places in the world.
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Top Left: A Christian community in northern
Nigeria receives two-way radios which they
use to warn neighboring villages when they
are under attack by Fulani militants.
Upper Middle Left: When a Christian community
was attacked by Fulani militants,
this man was shot in the leg; ICC helps with
his medical expenses.
Lower Middle Left: Families of the kidnapped
Chibok girls (#BringBackOurGirls)
receive seed and fertilizer from ICC.
Top Right: A Christian community in Mali displaced
by Islamic attacks receives agricultural
seed from ICC to help with this year’s crop.
Upper Middle Right: A church community in
Pakistan carries in new carpeting supplied
by ICC after a man broke in and set fire to
their building.
Lower Middle Right: A group of Christians
in Nigeria gathers to receive agricultural
aid from ICC after Boko Haram attacked
their community.
Lower Left: Victims of a bombing attack on
a Christian community in India receive food
aid from ICC.
Lower Right: A Christian family in Kenya is
given food and supplies by ICC after their
father was killed by Al-Shabaab.
Rebuilding-Restoring Communities
We Stay Behind After the Headlines Pass
ICC supports entire persecuted communities by
rebuilding after attacks. We also seek to prevent
attacks. In Nigeria, for example, ICC recognized
that Islamic militants were easily attacking one village
after another because there was no efficient
method for villagers to warn each other of current
attack. So, ICC provided radios and training so villages
can alert each other when attackers come.
When targeting Christian communities, attackers
seek to devastate Christians in the long run. In
farming villages, attackers will eliminate the villagers’
crops to drive them off the land. ICC frequently
delivers immediate food assistance coupled with
long-term community rebuilding assistance like
seed and fertilizer to help them stay in their villages.
As one African villager noted, “By ourselves we
couldn’t make it…We needed ICC’s help.”
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Strengthening Pastors
Working with the Leaders of the Flocks
At the front lines of persecution, pastors face extraordinary
pressure. They are targeted by radicals and terrorists
with everything from legal threats to the threat of losing
their lives and families. Often, there is no community of
Christians to support them as they go to the front lines of
persecution, so their financial support is often very weak.
ICC provides pastors with the finances, tools, and support
they need to build the Church in the most dangerous places
in the world. We also stand with them when they are
attacked by paying for their medical expenses so that they
can return to ministry. This year, ICC gave a motorbike to
an Indonesian pastor frustrated by his inability to access
underground believers in remote areas. In disbelief, the
pastor exclaimed, “Now we can evangelize the unreached
people group and disciple the underground believers in
more places where there is no public transportation. Our
leaders can go to these villages without having to stay
which would put their life in jeopardy. Praise the Lord!”
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Top Left: An especially effective pastor in
Indonesia receives an ICC-supplied motorcycle
that greatly increases the number of
people he can disciple and reach with the
Gospel.
Center: Pastors on the front lines often
have no community to support them. ICC
supports pastors with finances or livestock
to allow them to work in the toughest
areas.
Lower Left: A pastor in Zanzibar talks with
a Muslim-Background Believer he led to
Christ and disciples.
Right: An Indian pastor in the hospital
recovering from an attack by Hindu radicals.
ICC provided his medical care.
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Trips
Investigate, Document, Assist
“It is good that you came here,” a persecuted
Christian leader from rural India shared during a recent
trip. “Now you can get the real picture and understand
what is going on.”
ICC continually sends our staff to the world’s hotbeds
of Christian persecution. From places like
Nigeria to Egypt to India, these teams were able to
meet face-to-face with Christians experiencing intense
persecution.
Through these trips, we are able to assess the
needs of persecuted Christian communities, record
and share testimonies from individual Christians
affected by persecution, and collect vital data regarding
persecution in order to advocate on behalf
of those Christians who have been rendered voiceless
by persecution.
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Top Left: An ICC regional manager speaks to
Christians driven from their homes by Boko
Haram in Nigeria.
Top Middle: The view along the way in Africa.
Top Right: An ICC representative checks in on
a community we previously helped in India.
Lower Left: ICC field staff documents an official
tribal area in Pakistan.
Lower Middle: A bush village in Kenya visited
by ICC staff.
Lower Right: ICC gathered some of its field
staff for training in January.
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FINANCES
ICC’S ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT 2015
An increasing number of individuals, churches, foundations, and other ministry partners
supported ICC during 2015 with record giving to our projects, and for general ministry support.
ICC always seeks ways to wisely use the Lord’s money for ministry to the persecuted
Church, and to maintain our administrative expenses at an absolute minimum. Our General
and Administrative Expenses and Fundraising Expenses as a percentage of Income was 9%
of our total income this past year.
A comparison of ICC’s financial results for the past five years follows:
Fiscal Year 2015 * 2014 2013 2012 2011
Income $2,732,166 $2,488,287 $2,131,624 $1,491,855 $1,234,958
Program Expenses ** $2,124,117 $2,050,614 $1,940,119 $1,299,477 $1,149,480
General & Admin. $181,009 $140,015 $146,019 $120,602 $96,193
Fundraising $72,910 $49,162 $55,728 $47,816 $33,974
Total Expenses $2,378,036 $2,239,791 $2,141,866 $1,467,895 $1,279,647
*2015 figures based on internal review until audit is complete.
**Program expenses are funds we are spending to do ministry.
ICC is a 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt
corporation organized in 1995 in
the State of Maryland.
All gifts to ICC are fully taxdeductible.
Our latest IRS Form
990 is available on our website at
www.persecution.org. Copies of the
latest independent financial audit
or IRS Form 990 are available for
cost of reproduction and postage.
Requests should be directed to us,
in writing, at 2020 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW, #941, Washington DC
20006-1846.
ICC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
JAMES SCHNABEL, CHAIRMAN
JEFF KING, PRESIDENT
CHRISTOPHER KIRK
WILLIAM NICKLES
SCOTT STREATOR
STEVE SWALES
ED WORMALD
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LONGEVITY TRACK RECORD
Established in 1995
LOW OVERHEAD
General and administrative
expenses kept around 10 percent
TARGETED FUNDS
Many organizations only have a general
fund. ICC gives you options to
specifically target your donations, so
your money goes where you want.
CONSISTENT GROWTH
in expertise, impact, and
finances
FOUR-STAR RATING
from Charity Navigator.
Only 10 percent of all non-profits
receive this rating.
ECFA COMPLIANCE
We adhere to industry financial
and ethical standards and we are
audited by independent accountants
to ensure our compliance.
DISTINCTIVES
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CONTACT INFORMATION
icc@persecution.org
1-800-422-5441
2020 Pennsylvania Ave NW #941
Washington, DC 20006-1846
www.persecution.org
www.facebook.com/persecuted
www.twitter.com/persecutionnews