The Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center (MBRLC) is a non-profit, private development organization with public concern.  Its base project is a 19-ha demonstration center, which hosts over 20,000 visitors but has several satellite projects throughout the southern Philippines.  Out of a total of 120 staff, over half are working in in-village development programs.

The MBRLC is the originator of Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT) and its modifications, Food Always In The Home (FAITH) gardening, and other sustainable farming schemes.  It also conducts training on community development, extension strategies and techniques, primary health care, and moral values.

The specific objectives of the MBRLC are:

• To research and develop appropriate farming technologies, systems, crops and livestock that will help Filipino farmers increase and sustain their production and income;

• To extend these farming schemes proven to be sustainable to upland farmers, especially tribal groups on Mindanao and throughout the Philippines;

• To educate and train farmers and farm families in sustainable farming technologies, primary health care, and Christian living; and

• To enable people to understand that God loves them and that He has a purpose and plan for their lives.