Grace & Peace: Projects to aid the Widows as well as others...

The following is from the "Why is Grace and Peace Here?" page on their website.

The Farming Project: This project is important to assist all of Grace and Peace's other programs. This project will provide food for the widows, the children, the ministry center, all of the families of those laboring in the ministry and those that pass through the medical clinic where the doctors see a nutritional-based problem, along with many missionary families in our region of the country. This farm will have over 200 dairy cows, beef cattle, a fish pond for protein, 7000 chickens for eggs, 2500 ducks for eggs, 250 goats for meat and milk, pigs and many acres of vegetables.

Also from the Jan/Feb 2007 Newsletter, Bill Rumple updates about The Farming Project:

"The farm, which has by far been one of the most difficult "universities" of my life, is finally starting to produce a number of things. We've already been producing platanoes, bananas, corn, and yucca. Yucca is what the Native American Indians brought to the first thanksgiving using the term "Manioc". It is similar in shape to a sweet potato or a yam, but is stringier and has less taste. A couple things that grow real well on the farm, for which the soil is perfect, are peppers and onions. Along with peppers and onions, we have papaya, chinola (passion fruit), cabbage, and tomatoes. After using what things we need from the farm in the widows program for example, the overages get sold to pay for the farm costs and to buy things that we don't produce, i.e. rice, cooking oil, etc. Now that we've begun to bless the widows along with what they have been getting over the years, they are just thrilled to death and so are we!"