[6] The government also banned the singing of Christian songs in the orphanage, prayer, and the unauthorized distribution of food and clothing.
[6] While searching out and caring for the poor and needy, Iris volunteers have founded thousands of churches, Bible and ministry training schools, medical clinics, church-based orphan care programs, children's villages, primary schools, cottage industries, widows' programs, vocational training and well drilling projects.
[7] Iris volunteers make regular visits to care for children living at a dump,[2] and the organization combats the second-class status of women and girls by campaigning for equality of the sexes.
[6] Iris opened Harvest Schools at which local students and visiting Westerners receive training to become pastors.
[7] Iris workers sometimes pay for life-saving medical care for others, and the organization has handed out condoms in an effort to combat the AIDS pandemic.
[2] The Bakers have claimed that prayer has restored sight and hearing,[14] which was assessed and confirmed by researchers in a peer-reviewed article published by the Southern Medical Journal.