...helping women grow in grace and the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Rabuna Fi is an outreach of Far Reaching Ministries Aviation, a California-based religious non-profit corporation, using the Word of God to bring hope, forgiveness, salvation and sanctification into the lives of women and to proliferate self-reliance through income generating activities and training.
Rabuna Fi is Arabic for “God is here,” a common response when a Christian is trying to comfort someone who is sick or in trouble. In 1999, Vicky Bentley started a discipleship-training program for women in Sudan. She started working within the local churches. The women had heard the message of the gospel and would say they were Christian, but most were not truly born-again
Listening to the testimonies of the home lives of these women was heartbreaking. Their husbands were either dead or gone for years at a time. Most women had three or more children to provide for, no education, no job opportunities, and no hope.
God stirred our hearts to find a way to teach them how to be self-reliant. We began developing ideas for simple crafts the women could make, in hope that we could use the crafts as fund-raising tools at churches in the United States.
As we shared the crafts and the stories of the women who made them, God broke the hearts of women in America. Women who never met, could not speak the same language, lived thousands of miles apart, and came from entirely different cultures were supernaturally bonded together by their love for Christ. Women in America recognized they could be prayer warriors, advocates, and fundraisers. Without leaving their homes, they are now reaching the world for Christ.
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed... 2 Corinthians 4:7-9