History
In 1969 under the direction of John Freeman a commercial photographer, a group of Seventh-day Adventist volunteers flew to the Bahamas to build a church This idea expanded to other projects involving volunteers flying their private planes to locations to build churches and was organized into Maranatha Flights International based in Berrien Springs, Michigan.
In 1989 Maranatha Flights International merged with Volunteers International under the new name of Maranatha Volunteers International and moved the headquarters to Sacramento, California. In its 40 year history more than 60,000 volunteers have built churches, schools, orphanages, hospitals and community buildings in 67 countries. Maranatha has requests for 100,000 buildings pending.
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