Life Together International

What it reported doing in 2024

Form 990-EZ - Part III, Line 29 - INVESTMENT IN MINISTRY PARTNERS' DEVELOPMENT, EFFECTIVENESS, AND SUSTAINABILITY - TOTAL $17,543. These funds help our long-term ministry partners move forward in their ability to serve others every day. One of our ministry partners from the Diocese of Mara in Tanzania is named Max. He asked LTI for a loan to buy an outboard motor and other equipment he needed for a new fishing boat he purchased. Max wanted to increase his income in retirement by fishing for Daaga-the tiny sardine-like fish full of protein that are everywhere in Lake Victoria. We continue to be concerned about the quality of food and the amount of protein the girls at the Safe House are getting. So, we offered Max the loan amount he needed, $2,510, but made a deal that he pays it back, not to LTI, but by supplying the Safe House with in 100 kilos of Daaga per month for 2 years till the loan is paid off. Daaga is a favorite food for Tanzanians. Now the girls are getting healthier, Max has a new boat, and he has employed 5 out of work fishermen to run it. We are grateful to God that meeting Max's need also meets the need of 23 girls and 5 fishermen! We also made a gift of $386 to the Diocese of Mara towards a newer, safer vehicle for the Diocese and the Safe House. In Uganda our team of 8 ministers work very hard to help keep all of our 25 projects going, equipped, and monitored. They also make all the arrangements for each of our conferences, which takes time and skill to get everything in the right place at the right time. As volunteers, they work as hard as many in the USA with well-paying ministry jobs and they stay in communication with me and our board constantly. This year we decided to gift each team member with a new smart phone to help facilitate their ministry work, take quality pictures of all that we do, and keep in touch with us here in the United States. The cost for 8 phones, cases, chargers, cables and adapters was $3,325. I took Stephen and Alice Mwanika on a 3-day retreat, away form the normal and endless tasks of running a school for 580 students, 100 of whom are orphaned and live on the campus. We took a deep dive into beautiful new discoveries about what the Bible says regarding men and women. The retreat cost $1,169. Our Medical Compassion Fund used $3,692 this year and made a very important impact on several lives. Our dear ministry partner Rev. Bosco had a life-or-death need for emergency brain surgery. We are grateful to God that we could serve our brother with the cost of this need. We also cared for a boy from Agape school who had deformed feet and had always been in a wheelchair. We praise God that, though he may need more surgeries in the future, Michael can walk now with only a cane. One of the girls in our Terenpoy, Uganda group, named Kerine, fell into a pot of boiling beans when she was 2 years old. Every part of her face melted. She couldn't close her eyes or her mouth; she has only one finger and a thumb on her right hand and no fingers on her left. Her neck was fused to her chest. One of our LTI team members, Joyce, saw a flier about a team of doctors coming from the Netherlands to so plastic surgery on people just like Kerine. She was accepted to the program and this year she had her 2nd surgery. The doctors perform the surgery at no cost, and Joyce volunteers her time to take care of Kerine all along the way. We only pay for their transportation, food and Joyce's accommodations while Kerine is in the hospital, plus for return postop visits. It is sheer joy to see this young woman (now 26) being able to close her eyes and her mouth. Her neck is no longer fused to her chest, and soon (we hope) Kerine will have a reconstructed nose and perhaps an finger on her left hand. Our second Compassion Fund used $2,008 this year. We helped to rescue a Ugandan girl from being kept against her will in what we can only be describe as domestic slavery in Saudi Arabia. We got her released and paid for her tra

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 90.6%; rating input score 91
• Program expense ratio: 82.9%; rating input score 83

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -9.4%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 11.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -14% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings