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For the past several years, AFM has partnered with motorcycle enthusiasts and churches to raise money to purchase motorcycles and tuk-tuks critical to reaching and serving some of our missionary projects. What started as funding for a single motorcycle has grown into an ongoing campaign through the love of people like you.
More motorcycles are needed. Your help would be greatly appreciated! This ongoing fund has an open goal based on the needed motorcycles for the current calendar year.
In 2022, the motorcycle fund that you heavily sponsor, has purchased 9 motorcycles for AFM missionaries and their national associates. The last of these was actually a trike, and it went to Uli and Toussaint whose long ministry among the Ottamari in Benin has included children and orphans. They recently sent some pictures and a letter of thanks in the hopes that we would forward them along. Here they are. The first picture is of their new trike. Those at the bottom of the letter illustrate points made in the letter itself.
The Otammari project wants to thank all the donors who made it possible for us to purchase a tricycle.
Our project does not have a vehicle; we do all our errands on motorcycle, bicycle or public transportation. However, for our kids’ center we sometimes need to transport heavy goods. We feed about 25 kids lunch on weekdays, so we regularly buy big sacks of rice and corn as well as big cans of oil. In the past we had to hire a tricycle to bring these goods home.
Also, we need to haul firewood or bring in the harvest of manioc and yams from our fields that are about 3 miles away from our center. We used to do that with a handcart or wheelbarrows, but that takes much longer and is very tiring.
And every now and then we have bigger items that need to be transported to our church groups or church members out in the villages. We transported tables, chairs, and a wheelchair, all precariously tied down on the back of a motorcycle! Now we can do that in a much safer way.
So, we are very thankful for this gift that will allow us to be more efficient, independent, and safe in the future. Thank you for being a blessing to us. Uli and Toussaint on behalf of the Otammari project.
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In 2021, new motorcycles are assisting the Coker family, in Sierra Leone, with discipleship activities throughout their community and surrounding villages. The bikes are helping Mr. Joy reach his Center of Influence (COI) and visit people’s homes. Motorcycles provide the best transportation in the hot, dry climate where Mr. Barakah develops relationships with the Muslim community and in Albania, where Bible workers needed to replace their broken bike to reintroduce the Apostle Paul’s western Macedonian people to the gospel. And the purchase of tuk-tuks is helping missionary teams in Asia deliver delicious, fresh bread from their bakery ministry to their patrons as a supporting arm for their local elementary school and a way to reach the people with the Bread of Life. The average cost of new motorcycles is $1,400 – $1,650, while tuk-tuks cost $3,500 each.
