| Summary Ulf Ekman Ministries ...
• ... has founded 15 international one-year, full-time, mutli-lingual Bible schools (nine of them active today), from which more than 18,000 students have graduated since 1983 (more than 45,000 people including Bible schools started by Word of Life alumni).
• ... runs Livets Ord University, which is affiliated with Oral Roberts University (Tulsa, U.S.A.) and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in theology, history and education.
• ... has tailor-made a mobile one-year pastors’ education, which so far has been conducted in six countries with close to 1,000 pastors from 23 nations.
• ... runs a Christian elementary school (preschool through 12th grade) with approx. 750 students.
• ... works in 11 of the 38 countries in the world where half of the population has never heard the Gospel.
• ... has published 5.5 million books (610 titles in 36 languages) through Word of Life Publishing House.
• ... issues the Missions Magazine in four languages, reaching more than 65,000 subscribers.
• ... has established regional centres in Russia, the Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, central asia and Israel, with more in the making in Central and South-East Asia.
• ... has sent out 200 missionaries in 15 years and more than 1,500 team trips to 55 countries.
• ... has directly or indirectly planted far more than 1,000 churches, besides the more than 300 churches established through our centre in the Ukraine (altogether representing more than 220,000 people).
• ... runs rehabilitation centres for drug addicts, homeless children and orphans in Russia and Central Asia.
• ... runs various educational programmes for poor children, hearing-impaired people and illiterates in the Caucasus, Central and South Asia.
• ... has completed close to 30 large-scale humanitarian projects in 18 different countries (in year 2005: to tsunami victims in Indonesia, to earthquake victims in Pakistan, and to orphans in Tajikistan).
• ... has helped more than 15,600 Russian Jews emigrate to Israel through the organisation Operation Jabotinsky,
• ... has taught more than 38,000 highschool students in Russia, the Baltic states and the Ukraine about the Holocaust.
• ... arranges annual Israel tours, which so far has attracted more than 11,000 travellers.
(numbers as of spring 2006)
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