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 forest component has also been successful through plantings of thousands of seedlings of threatened local trees species. In 2009, we distributed over 55,000 tree and shrub seedlings of local trees. Some of these are species that are truly endangered. We are trying to do what we can with our care of creation, that these species are not lost from the area forever.

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