"Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty, suffering, and injustice when He could do something about it." "Well, why don't you ask Him?" "Because I'm afraid He would ask me the same question." - Anonymous

Welcome to Second Table Ministries ("STM"), a non-profit ministry dedicated to helping the poor in South Africa.

STM has three basic goals:

1. To help meet some of the urgent needs of people in desperate poverty.
2. To encourage South African white and black churches to work together to build solutions and engender unity.
3. To help inform others about the urgent human need in Africa, and provide opportunities for those who wish to help.

Projects we select to fund will have the following characteristics.  They will:

1. be operated and controlled by people who are served - usually indigenous churches;
2. have cooperation and involvement by neighboring white churches and/or their members;
3. generate financial support from other sources in the U.S. and in South Africa;
4. have in-kind and financial contributions and volunteer involvement from the groups who are served.
5. have sustainability - ministry continuation without on-going STM assistance.
   

Check out our completed projects and current projects pages.