Giving runs from Saturday, October 19 through Sunday, October 27.
This year's giving project will resource food for survival, programs for youth and the vulnerable, bring remote and unreached people groups access to God’s Word, and enable our global workers to be the hands and feet of Jesus in strategic ways. Paired with Christian discipleship, this “over and above” offering will extend hope and opportunity to people with physical and spiritual needs in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and here in our community.
Projects to be Supported
Additional projects will be supported as funds allow.
Gifted software developers D & J, are using technology to take God’s Word where it is presently unavailable. Our $7,000 grant will build a new smartphone app to bring Scripture and discipleship resources to an unreached people group in Asia.
Our missionaries Brett & Kelsey Miller and coaches of GO Ministries are discipling over 1,000 at-risk athletes. Our $8,000 grant will launch a basketball and soccer program for youth in an under-resourced community near Santiago. GO Ministries has already planted a church in this barrio, where drug use and teenage pregnancy are high.
Costa Rica was a nation where foster care and adoption did not exist–until 2005, when our missionaries Philip & Jill Aspegren founded Casa Viva and placed their first vulnerable child with a Christian Costa Rican family. Since then, Casa Viva has “nested” over 1,100 children into local Christian families and churches. $15,000 will train & resource 10 new churches to welcome dozens of waiting, at-risk children into stable, loving Christian families.
In East Africa—alongside our incredible Kenyan partner Josephine—water access literally means survival for the children of the “Hope for Life Center.” Droughts and inconsistent rains regularly threaten harvests. A $15,000 grant will restore reliable, solar-powered water access to keep the gardens of HFL thriving…nourishing bodies and souls for years to come—and supplementing HFL’s feeding program, where 150 kids receive a healthy meal each day
Our eight-year partnership with “Raising Esthers” schools in this Muslim-majority nation has enabled hundreds of girls and boys to gain literacy, math skills, and Bible education—affirming their dignity and opening doors of opportunity. $15,000 from our Giving Project will help construct a 5-room school alongside a church of our long-time indigenous partner Dr. Khan, where a Call of Hope medical clinic also serves a brick-kiln laborer community.
In another South Asian nation AND in East Africa—trusted indigenous leaders who attended WBC while in graduate school are now equipping leaders with quality theological education. Through ministries founded by Robert Sityo in Uganda and Dr. Biju Thomas in South Asia—277 church planters and pastors are now immersed in Biblical study and practical ministry training. Our generosity will help equip these 277 pastors—some with an accredited, 3-year theological education—and others with a certificate required by new government standards. Our goal is to provide both partners with a $20,000 grant to further develop indigenous pastors who are seeing their villages transformed.
Good Neighbor Kits
In tandem with our Local partner World Relief, we want to supply household essentials for “Good Neighbor Kits” for arriving refugee and immigrant families. This will enable World Relief to extend a Gospel welcome in Jesus’ name to new neighbors from the nations.
Here are two ways to see what items are needed:
- “See a Star, Take a Star, Be a Star”: During MissionsFest, visit the World Relief display in the Atrium near Connect Central and choose the item(s) you would like to purchase/contribute by taking a STAR that lists one or two of the household items needed.
- Download the complete list of items in the “Good Neighbor Kit” and mobilize a group you are part of to collect items for an entire kit!
Please bring only new or gently used items from the list and return them to the World Relief display area in the Atrium by Sunday, October 27 … or no later than Tuesday, October 29.
Thank you for your generosity and for empowering our global and local partners to go the extra mile.
For questions, contact Chelsea Carrillo, Local Outreach Director.