2019-11-15T08:59:57-08:00 2018-12-31 VREDEVELD HAEFNER LLC 4001 GRANADA CT NW GRAND RAPIDS MI 495342257 990 2018-01-01 474648581 Free the Oppressed FREE 9077208900 PO Box 60972 Colorado Springs CO 80906 Wes Price Treasurer 9077208900 2019-11-15 true Peter Haefner P01420387 6164609388 2019-11-15 198.110.59.2 2019-11-15 08:59:51 PS P 755A4DE3F14D77BF25D7E9FF728DAB3D45F0A470 755A4DE3F14D77BF25D7E9FF728DAB3D45F0A470 2018 2020-03-31 21:24:44Z Free Burma Rangers Wes Price PO Box 60972 Colorado Springs CO 80906 2452680 false X www.fto.org X 2015 CO To support, encourage, and facilitate the loving and saving gospel of Jesus Christ while working and helping people of different religions and creeds; (continued in notes) 10 8 1 350 0 0 2049308 2452318 0 0 166 362 2049474 2452680 0 0 93672 115384 0 22762 1816666 2056332 1910338 2171716 139136 280964 1031177 1320335 8936 16140 1022241 1304195 X To support, encourage, and facilitate the loving and saving gospel of Jesus Christ while working and helping people of different religions and creeds; (continued in notes) false false 1150023 0 0 Burma Ministries - We have 92 FBR teams in Burma and performed 57 missions in 2018, treating more than 59,000 patients with medicine, and resulted in over 35 web reports about the situation in Burma. We performed Good Life Club (GLC) programs all over Burma, sharing the gospel by sharing the message that "Good life comes from God." To tell them the gospel story through GLC bracelets, to pray with them, and to remind them they are not forgotten by God or by the international community can bring healing. As the Burma Army continues its attacks in the ethnic areas of Burma, the Good Life Club (GLC) is now more important than ever. Burma has been divided for more than 70 years and, while the government has attempted to broker peace with the ethnic groups, the predatory attacks of the military at the same time belie the sincerity of these peacemaking overtures. The focus of the GLC is to show God's love to the children in conflict areas. Through spiritual dramas, songs, games, and other activities, GLC counselors spend time with the children and show them that, even though their lives don't always feel very stable, they are not alone. Inspired by John 10:10, where Jesus promises abundant life, the GLC believes that promise is true even for these children and strives to share this life with children everywhere they go. In February 2018 we went to Kachin State, Burma, where we, together with an FBR Kachin team, completed a mission to internally displaced people (IDPs) hiding in high, cold mountains. The people had fled their villages and, for safety, established their camps in these remote areas. We drove far over broken roads to reach these families, many of whom lacked warm clothes; we saw many red-cheeked children, barefoot, cold, with running noses. When we gathered them for a program in a big field close to one of the schools, they all crowded together, shivering. Their faces looked serious and suspicious. We thought, "Children are not supposed to worry about anything, but these children are worried that they will freeze or starve, and they might not even trust us." In Matthew 11:29-30, Jesus says, "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." This might be easier said than done, especially as an IDP, when there are so many things to worry about. But Jesus promises to carry our burdens and take our worries and we believe He speaks to the children as well. They shouldn't have to worry about things like clothing, food, or the Burma Army. This is one of the reasons we do GLC: to show them love, joy and to give them an opportunity to just be children. We also conducted our annual Ethnic Unity, Leadership and Relief Team Training and celebrated our 21st anniversary of FBR's existence. On 27 December 2018, 137 new rangers comprising 28 teams, and 40 advanced rangers, stood at attention on the drill field of FBR's Tah U Wah Training Camp in Karen State, to be honored for completing the Free Burma Ranger Servant Leadership and Relief Team Training. This was the end of more than two months of training that had begun on this same field with opening ceremonies on 15 October 2018. This year, students came from nine different organizations and five different ethnic groups. Arakan, Kachin, Karen, Karenni and Shan organizations all sent men and women to be trained. There are three requirements for FBR team members: 1) They must be literate in at least one language, to be able to send out reports. 2) They must have the physical and moral courage to be able to do physically hard and dangerous missions, and cannot run away from the enemy if the villagers they are helping cannot run. 3) They must do this work for love; they are not paid by FBR. On arriving at camp, many students find themselves next to others who they, either because of ethnicity or organization, would normally be in conflict with. But the training forces them to work together and the spirit of love that the teaching is founded on often breaks down these conflicts. One Shan ranger, after finishing the 'ranger run,' in which the whole camp of some 180 people together run up and over the mountain, help each other ford the river and return to the field for pushups, exclaimed, "I feel like I've gained a new family! So many new brothers and sisters!" Just before graduation ceremonies, five rangers were baptized. Four were new graduates and one was one of the founding members of FBR. The teams are then divided into five groups to complete follow-on relief missions, together with their instructors. They will have an opportunity to practice their new skills on a real mission but with instructors and experienced rangers available for further coaching and feedback. Once finished with the mission, they will return to their home areas, ready to conduct missions there. They will have learned and practiced many new skills to be able to help their people in many kinds of crises, as well as having gained new relationships across ethnic lines. Both these skills and relationships will be of vital importance as Burma and her people move into an uncertain future. The greatest benefit students walk away with is a strengthened heart that knows what it is to be loved. New FBR teams are routinely field-tested on various skills throughout the course of the training. During training exercises, they visit a series of stations that are scattered in the jungle surrounding the training camp. The exercise must be completed without food or sleep and not using trails. Besides being an opportunity to practice specific skills, it is designed to push the rangers beyond what they think they can do, and teach them to never surrender. They are encouraged to pray, and ask God's help as they go. At this year's training, five rangers asked to be baptized as they came to the end of training. In 2018, the Jungle School of Medicine-Kawthoolei (JSMK) trained 19 medics, four interns, and five second-year students. By combining training and patient care, the Jungle School of Medicine Kawthoolei (JSMK) is able to serve the needs of sick Karen patients both now and in the future. Over its nine years, JSMK has trained 150 medics. Students train for 15 months, including initial FBR team and leadership training, two month-long missions, and 11 months of on-campus classes and clinical rotations. If they pass their foundations examination, they carry on for the remainder of training, which combines patient care and didactic activities in the classroom. The JSMK campus provided healthcare for 13 villages within a day's walk from the clinic. JSMK cared for 229 inpatients and 1826 outpatients. This year 19 patients were referred to a more advanced medical care and 22 patients came back for follow-up care. One such patient, Naw Moo Nay Dah, came to JSMK in June. She was 2 months old, small, weak, and croupy. Born with a cleft palate, she had difficulty nursing and so was malnourished with a compromised immune system. She was referred out to a neighboring country, where we partnered with another organization that focuses on cleft-palate patients to have the necessary surgery. Surgery was successfully performed three months after her initial JSMK visit. The JSMK team provides vaccinations to seven surrounding villages. Every vaccination visit also includes deworming, vitamin supplementation, water and toilet infrastructure development and maintenance, and village health education. We also partnered with others to build two playgrounds and a school near JSMK. At our Cross Border Clinic we examined over 400 patients and provided or promised over 200 glasses, 15 hearing aids were dispensed, and 80 surgical cases were performed including four glaucoma, three removal of blind painful eyes, four strabismus, and the rest advanced cataracts 20/100 or worse. In 2018, JSMK made several improvements: the size of the in-patient ward was doubled from 6 to 12 beds; a brick-maker was purchased and construction of a new, brick lab building begun; the solar power system was finished, and the bridge, which was washed out in extreme flooding, was replaced. Despite its remote, off-grid location, JSMK offers a variety of ancillary and diagnostic services, including: Ultrasonography, X- rays, Simple laboratory testing (hematocrit, urinalysis, pregnancy testing, blood typing and crossmatching, sedimentation rate and rapid diagnostic testing for malaria, HIV, Hepatitis B), Microscopy for malaria, tuberculosis, white cell count, and gram stain, and EKG. 554384 0 0 Middle East Ministries - In the Middle East we provided medical treatment for more than 5,000 patients and fed 30,000 more (includes beginning of 2019). We assisted more than 1,000 orphans and partnered with others to build playgrounds in the Middle East. In Kurdistan and Iraq we continue to bring teams from Burma to support our Kurdish and Iraqi team there. We work with our Iraq and Kurdish friends to help people under attack by the remnants of ISIS, to provide relief, follow up on medical assistance to those who were wounded in the battles against ISIS and to build playgrounds in the former battle grounds with the help of organizations like Reload Love. We miss our many friends who died, like Shaheen, our Yezidi team member who was killed by ISIS in the battle of Mosul saving an Iraqi family. Before he died he told me, "I used to hate Iraqis because of what they did to my people. But now I love them, God has changed my heart. That is why I am here." We were involved with saving lives while families fled the horror of persecution by ISIS. On several accounts, our FBR teams risked their lives to save men, women and children from ISIS sniper fire. During the chaos, we offered GLC programs to share the good news of the gospel and distributed supplies until the mortar fire and fighting came too close. In the fall of 2018, Basra, a city in southern Iraq, experienced a water crisis - over 100,000 people became sick from polluted water and riots occurred with many factions involved. Adding to the problem were seven years of drought, the fact that Iranian and Turkish dams control waters coming into the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and historic factional tensions. In September 2018, the Iranian consulate was burned down and the US consulate subsequently shut down as tensions rose among the different groups vying for control of the nearby oil fields. Iraqi friends asked for help and so in Nov. 2018, a small FBR team traveled down to Basra. Despite the unstable situation, the team met up with Iraqi Army friends like General Mustafa - who the Rangers had worked with in 2017 during the Battle for Mosul. Together we helped distribute water, clothing, and food to families in need around the city. 154935 0 0 Thailand Ministries - We supported three hostels in Thailand, provided medical treatment, patient care, and other medical training. In 2018, we formalized an aviation department to help spread the word of God, help with relief work, and help others if God is willing. We also support students and short-term missionaries in Thailand. Every year on the second Sunday in March, the Free Burma Rangers participate in a Global Day of Prayer for Burma and encourage others worldwide to join in praying for Burma, its many people groups, and its ongoing conflict. As part of the DOP, FBR publishes a magazine that gives a deeper look into the situation and the people affected by it. For the 2018 DOP, 18,000 magazines were printed. The magazine was translated into Burmese, Danish, German, Karen, and Thai. Over 4,500 English copies were mailed worldwide and the remaining languages and copies were handed out throughout the year in Thailand, Burma, the United States, and many other countries. All magazines and publications, including the annual report, are available for download on the Free Burma Rangers' website. 79376 0 0 Advocacy 79376 0 0 1938718 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false true false false true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false true true false false false false false false false false true 9 0 1 true false true IZ TH false false false false false false false false X 10 8 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true true true true false CO X X X Wes Price 9077208900 PO Box 60972 Colorado Springs CO 80906 Kiryn Trask Director, Asst. 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Pt VI, Line 11b The organzization Treasurer and Board of Directors are responsible for review of the IRS form 990 before filing. Pt XI The other change in net assets is a foreign currency translation adjustment of $990 Pt VI, Line 12c The Treasurer monitors financial transactions throughout the year and brings any suspicious activity to the Executive Committee and/or Board of Directors to enforce the conflict of interest policy. Pt VI, Line 15a To determine compensation, the Board Members, elected advisors to the Board, and all public individuals at the annual meeting openly discuss, compare to other ministries and nonprofits, and deliberate to decide the compensation of the CEO. Pt VI, Line 15b To determine compensation, the Board Members, elected advisors to the Board, and all public individuals at the annual meeting openly discuss, compare to other ministries and nonprofits, and deliberate to decide the compensation of the Treasurer. 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