The vision of the SIM Forest, Fruit, and Forage for Farm Families Project is "a better life for farm families." This "better life" includes physical health, basic life necessities, and spiritual health. The primary target is the resource-poor subsistence farm families of Awi Zone.

Farm families receive training, seedlings, and appropriate agriculture-related technologies that are first tested at the project's test site and in on-farm trials. This has served as a bridge and point of contact with the rural Awi population which in the past been antagonistic to any spiritual influence outside traditional Orthodox religion.

The greatest opportunities are the result of success in the fruit component, especially in the introduction of apples and plums to the area. Because fruit trees take years to develop, it has taken more than five years. But now, we are seeing fruit production and a local fruit cooperative has formed. The forest component has also been successful through plantings of thousands of seedlings of threatened local trees species

Because of the project, there has been established mutually respecting relationships between SIM missionaries and staff and the Awi farm families; some have believed.