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Maranatha Volunteers International (Maranatha) is a non-profit Christian organization founded in 1969 and is based in Sacramento, California USA with offices in Canada, Latin America, India and Mozambique. It is a supporting ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church with the primary focus of organizing volunteers to build churches and schools in developing nations. ==History== In 1969 under the direction of John Freeman a commercial photographer, a group of Seventh-day Adventist volunteers flew to the Bahamas to build a church This idea expanded to other projects involving volunteers flying their private planes to locations to build churches and was organized into Maranatha Flights International based in Berrien Springs, Michigan.〔 In 1989 Maranatha Flights International merged with Volunteers International under the new name of Maranatha Volunteers International and moved the headquarters to Sacramento, California. In its 40 year history more than 60,000 volunteers have built churches, schools, orphanages, hospitals and community buildings in 67 countries.〔 Maranatha has requests for 100,000 buildings pending.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maranatha Volunteers International」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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