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Karraker Vocational Center (KVC)
Karraker Vocational Center’s mission is to train rural-bound Indonesian pastors how to organize agriculture-based community development initiatives, in the regions where they serve.
When fully developed and funded, the 160 acres owned by KVC can potentially generate enough funds, through agribusiness activities, to financially support the STTK seminary year-round.
At present, government-imposed limitations on foreign funding of Christian organizations is a tenuous situation at best. The income generating capabilities of KVC are critical to the seminary’s long-term sustainability.
An Income-Producing Ministry in the Works
It has always been the dream to make Karraker Vocational Center an income producing ministry to help support the seminary of STTK. We also wanted it to be a place where pastors who were going to undeveloped areas could learn how to create projects that would help sustain the ministry and enhance the economy of the village in which they were ministering.
Ferry Tanuwijaya, one of our board members, along with Herry Korengkeng, one of the leaders at STTK, are in the process of developing two projects that will produce income for the workers at KVC and STTK.
- The first project is to buy 500 day-old chicks (DOCs) and raise them to broiler size which takes approximately 48 days. The broilers are then sold and replaced by same number of DOCs. The market for chickens in Indonesia has increased dramatically over the past several years.
- The second project is buying 8-10 piglets and raising them to market weight which would take about 6 months.
A Board member has provided some startup funds for this endeavor. However, you can be a part of this new project! If you would like to help, consider buying 20 chicks for $25, or a piglet for $20.
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