American Leprosy Missions, Inc.

Summary

American Leprosy Missions ("ALM") provides care, cure, and holistic rehabilitation to people around the world with leprosy and disabilities. ALM strives to minister hope and restoration for those suffering with the disease. ALM strives to be an enabler, training health and development workers with appropriate skills and working with and through partner organizations. ALM incorporates Christian witness into its programs wherever possible. ALM supported services address spiritual, physical, social, economic and psychological needs, helping people with leprosy break the cycle of hopelessness and maximize opportunities for fullness of life. The ministry now supports more than 150 projects in 24 countries. ALM was founded in 1906. This organization is a nonprofit. Contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. It is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).

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Purpose [ Back to top ]

American Leprosy Missions ("ALM") provides care, cure, and holistic rehabilitation to people around the world with leprosy and disabilities. ALM strives to minister hope and restoration for those suffering with the disease. ALM strives to be an enabler, training health and development workers with appropriate skills and working with and through partner organizations. ALM incorporates Christian witness into its programs wherever possible. ALM supported services address spiritual, physical, social, economic and psychological needs, helping people with leprosy break the cycle of hopelessness and maximize opportunities for fullness of life. The ministry now supports more than 150 projects in 24 countries. ALM was founded in 1906.

This organization is a nonprofit. Contributions to it are fully tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. It is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).

Mission Statement [ Back to top ]

American Leprosy Missions' Mission Statement is:

To serve as a channel of the love of Christ to people with leprosy and to those with disabilities, helping them to be healed in body and spirit and to be restored to lives of dignity and usefulness within their communities.

Program Accomplishments [ Back to top ]

• Two nurses and four nursing assistants were trained in Queimados and Belford Rozo.
• The Paul Brand outpatient clinic is now under construction. Soon leprosy patients and others in South India’s Katpadi area will have their own primary healthcare clinic.
• The new IESA health clinic and rehabilitation center will soon be serving leprosy patients and others in the Benguela region of Angola.
• Twenty tutoring programs for kids 4-17 are reaching over 1,100 children in Ethiopia.

  Statement of Faith [ Back to top ]

  American Leprosy Missions uses the following to express its Statement of Faith (adopted from the National Association of Evangelicals):
  
  1.We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
  
  2.We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  
  3.We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
  
  4.We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential, and that this salvation is received through faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and not as a result of good works.
  
  5.We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life and to perform good works.
  
  6.We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
  
  7.We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

  History [ Back to top ]

  American Leprosy Missions was begun in 1906 by Christian missionaries. In those days, healthworkers could do little more than provide clean bandages, a safe haven, and Christian love.
  
  Today leprosy can be cured. During the early 1980s, ALM became one of the first agencies to use the new multidrug therapy (MDT) in its projects to cure leprosy.
  
  For decades, ALM has supported specialized leprosy hospitals, missions, and government leprosy campaigns.
  
  This "top- down" model is gradually being replaced by a model of "integrated care." This means that leprosy services are provided in general health centers by general health workers. It also means community-based services that are provided with other medical, social, and economic services. Leprosy patients do not need to be isolated from the general population.
  
  ALM's vision remains constant. Yesterday and today, they are Christ's servants, freeing the world of leprosy.

  Ministry Needs [ Back to top ]

  American Leprosy Missions has communicated the following needs:
  
  There is a great need for funding the medicines needed to cure leprosy. A year long treatment to cure this diease is $240.00. If one can not fund the whole treatment other amounts would greatly appreciated also. This month's focus is on getting these meds to the children with Leprosy.
  
  An additional project called Centennial Celebration has begun a campaign in hopes of raising enough money by the year 2006 to fund research for a Leprosy vaccine. This will be the 100th Birthday of ALM.

  Research Analysis

  Transparency Grade [ Back to top ]

  Transparency Grade of : A
  Criteria category	Grade	Other Comments
  Timeliness:	100
  Financial Information:	100
  Foundational Clarity:
  Level of Cooperation:

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  MinistryWatch.com 5 Star Financial Efficiency Ratings [ Back to top ]

  Ranking Category	Rating	Overall Rank	Relief and Development Sector
  Overall Efficiency Rating		346 of 347	52 of 52
  Fund Acquisition Decision		339 of 347	51 of 52
  Resource Allocation Decision		306 of 347	49 of 52
  Asset Utilization Decision		326 of 347	51 of 52

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