Dedicated to the forgotten children of Central Asia

Our Mission

The Association of Christian Schools of Central Asia (ACSCA) is a non-profit organization formed in 2000 to unite the efforts of several international and domestic organizations in serving the needy children of Central Asia through the opening and operation of:

• Schools
• Children's Homes / Orphanages for children whose parent/guardian(s) are in jail, under psychiatric care, alcoholics, drug-abusers, or otherwise unable to provide minimal parental care
• Summer Camps
• Clubs to keep kids and teens off the streets and use their leisure time productively

ACSCA projects now serve hundreds of poor children in northern Kyrgyzstan, formerly part of the USSR (see flag and seal).  ACSCA helps provide for basic needs, physical (food, clothing, shelter, health care, and education) and moral-spiritual (moral education, a chance to study the Bible--assuming parental consent--and to experience respect and care from Christian role models).  It is hard for many people in the West to understand that without our schools, most of our students would not be able to go to school at all: even the costs of public school (for food, textbooks and building repair), approximately $10/month, are prohibitive for very many families in Central Asia.  Some of our students, ages  12-13, had never attended school before our schools made it possible for them to learn to read and write.

ACSCA intends to expand its work into central and southern Kyrgyzstan, then into other nations of Central Asia such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, then westward  toward the Caucasus and Turkey.  Believing that if we “train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6), we hope and pray that this holistic ministry to the next generation will bear fruit not only in changed lives, but in a changed region of the world, as our children take their places as contributing, moral, honest, well-educated adults in the emerging Central Asia of the 21^st century.  

Our Current Projects

ACSCA currently administers five projects, all in northern Kyrgyzstan.  For more information and pictures of each project, please click on the name of the respective project.

Rev. Jesse Wesley Hughes, Chairman of ACSCA and President of New Life Ministries

Elder Chia Shan Yang, President of New Life Company, Ltd. (Kyrgyzstan) and Central Asian Sharing Aid (USA).

Serik Iskakov, Director of Good News Mission of Kyrgyzstan

David Broberg, Dean of Silk Road Bible College in Bishkek, Kyrgystan

Vladimir Mandych, Bishop of the Assemblies of God of Kyrgyzstan

Peter Shimbolyov, Treasurer of the Assemblies of God of Kyrgyzstan

David Beutel, Treasurer of ACSCA and Administrator of New Life Ministries in Kara-Balta and Belovodsk

Founding  organizations in ACSCA include New Life Ministries, Central Asia Sharing Aid (CASA), New Life Company, and the Good News Mission of Kyrgyzstan.  Mission of Mercy is ACSCA's key partner organization, raising funds through sponsorship of individual children that are served in all ACSCA schools, and

How to Partner with ACSCA

We hope that the information you find here has inspired you to take part in the very significant work of ACSCA.  There are several ways in which any interested person can become an integral part of our projects and make a difference in the lives of needy children of Central Asia:

1. Support ACSCA with a one-time tax-deductible contribution.
2. Support ACSCA with a monthly tax-deductible pledge.
3. Sponsor a child for $25/month at an ACSCA school in Kyrgyzstan through Mission of Mercy.
4. Pray for ACSCA’s work.
5. Become an ACSCA field worker: a school administrator or another role that best utilizes your gifts and calling.
6. Participate in stateside fundraising for ACSCA in your church, business, or circle of acquaintances.

If you would like to support us financially (1-2), please make your checks payable to Mission of Mercy (which maintains our stateside bank account) and designate them “ACSCA.”  Then, to insure that your contribution is recorded and properly processed by Mission of Mercy, mail your contribution to either:

Association of Christian Schools of Central Asia
c/o New Life Ministries, 1003 US 17
North Windsor, NC 27983
(252) 793-4045
Email New Life Ministries

OR

Association of Christian Schools of Central Asia
c/o Central Asian Sharing Aid
2254 Chenowith Ct.
Rockford, IL 61107
(815) 282-2493
Email Central Asian Sharing Aid

If you wish to sponsor a child or participate in stateside fundraising, please contact New Life Ministries for instructions (first address immediately above).  Or, if you would like to consider joining our team of field workers, please contact Rev. Jesse Wesley Hughes.

Rev. Jesse Wesley Hughes

Elder Chia Shan Yang

Bishop Vladimir Nikolaevich Mandych

Administrator David Beutel

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man" (Tagore).