Chiangmai (Short Term Team Visit)

Let us know if you are keen to be a part of a Short Term Team Visit to our Chiangmai community. Kingdom Inroads offers you a unique opportunity to volunteer with a Singapore based organization which serves communities in the region and in...

Church Planting in Indonesia

The Vineyard family of churches founded by John Wimber is a leading church planting movement. Many Vineyard churches have started to work together in partnerships to plant churches all over the world. It is more effective to work together since you can pool people and resources in order to nurture an indigenous, self-sustaining church planting movement in the adopted country. A partnership also...

SALT In Practice

In an earlier post, we went into some details about SALT. One of our Principal has participated directly in the implementation of SALT (Sloping Agriculture Land Technology) in a SE Asian community which is located in a remote and hilly area. After one year, the community leader was able to demonstrate the effectiveness of SALT and about 150 other leaders from his own community and from...

Batam

A recent discovery trip to Batam was quite exciting as after the 45 minutes ferry ride from Batam we still had to travel some ways by water (say a sampan). Batam is an island which in turn is surrounded by many island-lets and many of the communities that live on these islands stay on house on stilts in the water. Electricity is now available from communal generators but fresh water is...

Farming Your Hilly Land With SALT

Much of the land under cultivation in Asia have been classified as degraded or land that have already undergone moderate to severe erosion. One problem of the region is the rapid depletion of forest cover. Mass deforestation occurs for many reasons. Often due to population pressures, communities moving into newly opened areas begin to practice “slash and burn” agriculture. SALT Sloping...