Organization Name: ABBA Fund

Partnership Model: Launch a Local Church Adoption Fund

Use Orphan Sunday as an opportunity to launch your own local church Adoption Fund so your church can help families considering adoption. By providing financial assistance through interest-free loans and matching grants, this simple yet effective fund opens the doors of faith to adoption-minded families and helps them overcome the financial obstacles.

What Local Host Does: Organize local vision and details of the fund. Name the fund. Decide on creative ways to raise money for the fund. Cultivate church leadership support.

What Organizational Partner Does:
ABBA Fund provides:

  • administration and an approval process for the local church adoption fund at no cost to the church. That way the local church can have the ministry without the administrative burden.
  • a third party applicant approval process which helps the church in decision making.
  • coaching for the local host in how to present the idea to the church and leadership.

Contact for Further Information:

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Organization: Buckner International

Partnership Model: Shoes for Orphan Souls® Shoe Drive

Description:

Shoes for Orphan Souls®, the largest humanitarian aid project of Buckner International, provides new shoes and socks to orphans and vulnerable children in the United States and throughout the world. From conducting shoe drives to humanitarian aid trips, Buckner offers hands-on opportunities to individuals, groups and organizations wanting to transform lives. Since 1999, more than 2.3 million pairs of new shoes have been distributed to children in 74 countries, including the United States.

For many children around the world, shoes are a constant and urgent need. New shoes improve the health of a child and prevent them from contracting preventable diseases. They also provide opportunity for education, since most schools around the world require children to wear shoes. And lastly, new shoes provide hope. Children in most orphanages share everything and do not own a single possession. When you provide a new pair of shoes, it communicates love and helps a child know they are not forgotten.

What Local Host Does: Host a Shoe Drive

Hosting a shoe drive is a fun, easy way to make a significant difference in the lives of children around the world.  Shoe drive hosts engage their local church, business or organization to collect shoes.  When a host registers their shoe drive, Buckner provides promotional materials to make their shoe drive a success. After the shoes or socks are collected, all items should be delivered or shipped back to the Buckner Center for Humanitarian Aid in Mesquite, Texas.

What Organizational Partner Does:

The Buckner Center for Humanitarian Aid in Dallas, Texas, packs and ships shoes, socks, medical supplies, and other humanitarian aid to Buckner-affiliated Community Transformation Centers and network partners around the world.  These centers work with families and children in need to transform the poorest communities one life at a time.

Contact for Further Information:

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Organization: Caroline’s Promise – North and South Carolina
Partnership Model: Assistance in promoting Orphan Sunday in churches in North and South Carolina.

Description: Let us help you promote Orphan Sunday in your church:

  • We can provide speakers for Sunday school classes, small groups, and children’s ministry.
  • We offer church bulletin inserts at no charge as a way to promote the needs of orphans.
  • We offer a way for your church to “give back” to orphans through our Caroline’s Promise Giving Banks. The banks are delivered to your church where people take them home, fill them with change and return the banks at a specified date. This is a great way for families of any age to get involved.
  • We offer a school supply or flip flop drive that your church or civic group can host. Items collected will be delivered to orphans in Guatemala, Uganda and Guyana. A speaker and video will be provided to help promote your drive.

What Local Host Does: Contact us with your needs and arrange a time for materials to be delivered. Communicate regarding time, location, etc.

What Organizational Partner Does: Deliver materials to church, provide a speaker, etc.
Contact for Further Information:

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Organization Name: Christian Adoption Services, Inc.
Partnership Model: Monthly Child Sponsorship

Description: A commitment of $40 a month can help provide food, medical care and an education for an orphaned, abandoned or indigent child in Liberia.

What Local Host Does: Partners with Christian Adoption Services and an indigenous church in Liberia named African Christians Fellowship International to care for children in need in Liberia. The local host commits to raising up monthly sponsors who will pray and send $40 a month.

What Organizational Partner Does: Sponsors will receive a photo of their sponsored child and a letter from the child once they sign up. Then, the sponsor will receive a letter from the child 1-2 times a year, and an updated photo will be placed on the AfricanChildSponsorship.com website once a year. Sponsors also receive monthly email newsletters with updates about

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Organization Name:  CoMission for Children at Risk (an initiative of Russian Ministries)

Title of Partnership Package: Bibles for Orphans

Brief Description: This Orphan Sunday you can help place The Jesus Storybook Bible in the hands of orphans in Ukraine! Just $3 will provide a vulnerable child with God’s Word and hope!
Through our Orphan Care Resources project (www.orphancareresources.org), we are working with indigenous partner ministries, The Alliance for Ukraine Without Orphans and In Lumine Media, to help them print and distribute 30,000 Jesus Storybook Bibles to orphans in Ukraine. Local believers will personally deliver the Ukrainian-language Jesus Storybook Bibles on Easter through Ukraine Without Orphans’ network of over 100 churches and 30 Christian organizations already working in orphanages in every region of the country.

The Jesus Storybook Bible contains 44 Bible stories, beautiful illustrations, and “invites children to see that Jesus is not only at the center of God’s great story of redemption – He is at the center of their story too.” Orphans will receive hope as they read about their loving Father in heaven Who sent His Son to rescue them and bring them into His family. This resource will also equip churches and Christians in Ukraine with a wonderful tool to enhance their ministries to children.

Through the Bibles for Orphans project, you can come alongside believers in Ukraine and provide orphans with God’s Word and it’s message of HOPE!

What Local Host Does:

Step 1: Sign up to coordinate the Bibles for Orphans project at your church or community-wide Orphan Sunday event.

Step 2: Promote the Bibles for Orphans project. We will provide you with materials you can use for this purpose.

Step 3: Collect funds – Every $3 donation = a Bible in the hands of an orphan!

Step 4: Send your donation to Russian Ministries (US and Canada)

What Organizational Partner Does:  We will provide you with materials you can easily download and use to promote your Bibles for Orphans fundraiser, including:

•    General information about orphans in Ukraine
•    Bulletin insert
•    Poster
•    Power Point slide
•    Printable color excerpts from the English and Russian-language versions of The Jesus Storybook Bible
•    Video (3 minutes) of Christians in Ukraine using The Jesus Storybook Bible as they minister to children, some of whom are orphans, in a tuberculosis hospital

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Organization Name:  Dresses for Orphans

Title of Partnership Package:  Love Bank Missions Program

Brief Description: 

The mission of Dresses for Orphans is to help orphans feel special, loved and cared for by providing them with new, specially made dresses and shirts.  Churches and Christian organizations in the United States deliver these FREE outfits to the children in their care and this program is a way to partner with them to provide these outfits and helps families become involved in ministry.  Pictures of the kids wearing their new outfits can be seen on the Web site.  There are over 50 volunteers in 3 states sew these outfits and as of July 2012, over 8,400 outfits have been made for 52 orphanages in 22 countries.   All funds raised go to purchase supplies to make the dresses and shirts.

What Local Host Does:  There are Five Steps to Implement This Program:

1. Designate a person to be in charge

2. Place an order for the Love Banks

3. Set a date for the banks to be returned

4. Give banks out with instructions to fill with coins

5. Count the money and send a check to Dresses for Orphans

What Organizational Partner Does:  Dresses for Orphans Provides the Following:

1. The Love Bank Cans

2. Hand-outs to give each participant

3. Leader’s guide for the coordinator

4. Posters for advertising

5. Bulletin inserts for promotion

6. News release/announcement copy

7. Sample dress and shirt

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Organization: East-West Ministries International
Partnership Model #1: Gifts for Orphans

Description: We need craft and game supplies to carry to orphans and at risk children in India and Haiti. They will be used to help convey the Good News of Christ Jesus to children who desperately need to know Him.

What Local Host Does: Gathers gifts which can be taken on short term mission trips and distributed to the children in India and Haiti. Send funds to purchase gifts or buy and deliver them to East-West Ministries International office: 4450 Sojourn Dr., Suite 100, Addison, TX 75001

What Organizational Partner Does: Provides supply list upon request
Contact for Further Information:

  • Vicki Mullins
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  • 214-265-8300

Partnership Model #2: Adopt-A-Legacy – Support an orphan in Kenya

Description:  Adopt-A-Legacy (ALIM) is a ministry founded by an East-West Ministries missionary in Kitale, Kenya. It provides essentials for at-risk children of all ages. The children include orphans whose parents have died from HIV/AIDs, children with a surviving parent who is terminally ill and can’t work, and abandoned children. The children are placed within loving Christian homes, rather than an orphan home, to provide as normal an upbringing as possible. Adopt-A-Legacy has several categories of sponsorship from which a person or group can choose. These include schooling (including tutoring, transport, and uniform), hygiene, food, and meat for the family.

What Local Host Does: Provides an opportunity for ALIM, an affiliate of East-West Ministries International, to inform those in their congregation, company, or organization about ways to sponsor an ALIM child. A host also encourages involvement in the ALIM sponsorship program.

What Organizational Partner Does:  Provides materials including:

  • stories
  • photos
  • video for the host to present
  • all necessary information
  • follow-up to those who contribute to one or more categories of child sponsorship.

Contact for Further Information:

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Organization Name:  Every Orphan’s Hope

Title of Partnership Package:  JUMP in and JOIN US to Defend the Cause of the Fatherless

Brief Description:  Every Orphan’s Hope builds homes for widows and orphans in Zambia. We pair eight orphans with a widowed woman, whom they call “Mama,” and they form a new family in a new home. Through our ONE:27 sponsorship program, 100% of your $27/month goes toward the care of your child. It’s as simple as that.

What Local Host Does:

  • Pastors, give a SERMON on orphan care using the Power Point presentation provided on the jump drive in your Orphan Sunday packet.
  • Invite an ORPHAN in your community to give his or her TESTIMONY to your congregation.
  • Display the Orphan Sunday POSTER (provided in your Orphan Sunday packet) throughout your church and around your community.
  • Wear and share the GOOD NEWS WRISTBAND (provided in your Orphan Sunday packet). You can purchase 5-pack and 100-pack wristbands on everyorphan.org.
  • Hold an INTERACTIVE BOOTH at your church with videos and print materials in your Orphan Sunday packet. With a laptop or iPad, like the Every Orphan’s Hope FACEBOOK page, and encourage everyone at your booth to send our orphans in Zambia a comment.
  • In your small group, PRAY for orphans in Zambia and around the world.
  • Host a BIBLE STUDY on caring for widows and orphans. Some verses to discuss include: Isaiah 1:17, James 1:27, Matthew 18:5, Exodus 22:22, Psalm 27:10, Psalm 68:5-6, Psalm 82:3, and Jeremiah 22:3. (Bible study guides are also available in the “Resources” section.)
  • BUY A CHICK. HELP AN ORPHAN! Chicks 4 Orphans is a sustainable poultry farming business of Every Orphan’s Hope. Buy a chick for only $5. (Details at everyorphan.org)
  • SPONSOR A CHILD through Every Orphan’s Hope! 100% of your $27/month donation goes toward the care of your child. YES! 100%.
  • On 11.4.12, invite your family and friends over and host THE ORPHAN’S TABLE (details in the “Resources” section). Then, pop some POPCORN, provided in your Orphan Sunday packet, and watch the Orphan Sunday celebration in Zambia!

What Organizational Partner Does:  We will send you an Orphan Sunday packet that will include print materials, popcorn, the Good News wristband, and a JUMP DRIVE with Power Point presentations, photos, videos, and audio recordings of our kids in Zambia!

Contact for Further Information:

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Organization: Forgotten Voices International

Partnership Model: Individualized Church to Church Partnerships

Description: Forgotten Voices International is demonstrating the love of Jesus Christ by equipping local churches in southern Africa to meet the physical & spiritual needs of AIDS orphans in their communities.

We are focused on locally developed, locally run orphan care to protect the voices of pastors, community leaders, and the children they serve. This focus on local churches extends to US churches, who play a vital role in encouraging African church leaders, financially supporting orphan care projects and raising awareness about the needs of children orphaned by AIDS. We see amazing opportunities for the global Church to come together to provide care for vulnerable children and offer mutual encouragement, support and discipleship – all using the strengths and resources God has given them to address the needs of orphaned children.

What Local Host Does: Use your voice to serve as an advocate within your own congregation for the children and churches served by Forgotten Voices. Determine the best way to share the ministry of Forgotten Voices with your church community, using Orphan Sunday as an awareness builder and launching point for on-going involvement. Using provided video, handouts and activities, present the opportunity for individuals and/or your church as a whole to partner with Forgotten Voices. Collect contact information of those who wish to get involved or know more.

What Organizational Partner Does: Work with you to determine the best way your church can develop a mutually beneficial relationship with Forgotten Voices and the church partners we support in southern Africa. Will ship necessary presentation materials to local host, equip host with the information needed to advocate, and provide follow up for individuals and church leaders interested in on-going partnership opportunities.

Contact for Further Information:

Partnership Model #2: Be a Voice

Description: Receive information on being an advocate for children orphaned by AIDS in southern Africa. Equipped with prayer requests, videos, stories from the ground, and literature for distribution, you can share the ministry of Forgotten Voices with churches, organizations and individuals in your area and help them find creative ways to get involved.

Contact person:

Partnership Model #3: Student Research Ideas

Description: High school and college students (or anyone who loves learning) can help equip churches and empower orphans. If you have a paper, project or research requirement, focus your work around one of our suggested topics. Then email your finished product to us with the research topic in the Subject Line. Through targeted research, you can provide invaluable information that will help us fulfill our mission.

Further Information: Visit Forgotten Voices

Contact person:

Partnership Model #4: Become a monthly donor

Description: Your investment is needed to train and equip local pastors, finance school fees for orphaned children, provide homebased care and psycho-social support to families directly impacted by AIDS, offer agricultural training and resources, and expand our ministry to new communities. Together, by God’s grace, we can accomplish great things!

Further Information: Visit Forgotten Voices

Contact person:

Partnership Model #5: Kids Serving Kids

Description: Kids Serving Kids is an outreach of Forgotten Voices International that equips parents, kids and families to know, love, pray, give and serve kids whose voices are forgotten in their communities, Southern Africa and the world. Kids Serving Kids connects parents with resources, materials and opportunities to empower, inspire and serve side-by-side with their kids to demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ throughout the world.

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Organization Name:  Hope for Orphans

Title of Partnership Package:  FREE If You Were Mine DVD Workshop ($100 value)

Brief Description:  Over the past ten years, If You Were Mine has helped thousands of people explore and better understand adoption and in turn, has been used by God to bring many children home to their families.

This year, in celebration of Orphan Sunday, Hope for Orphans is giving away If You Were Mine DVD Adoption Workshop kits ($100 value) for FREE to the first 500 people who commit to hosting an If You Were Mine Workshop on or around Orphan Sunday weekend (November 3-4, 2012). The If You Were Mine DVD Workshop is extremely easy to use, requiring just a DVD player, and can be done as a weekly or one-day event.

What Local Host Does:  The local host will arrange a location to conduct a one-day event or a seven-week series. Depending on the format used considerations may include:

  • Child Care
  • Snacks
  • Lunch (for one-day event)
  • Optional live breakouts/testimonies from church and/or community
  • Order attendee workbooks available at $10/ea (host may choose to charge registration fee to cover costs)

What Organizational Partner Does: Hope for Orphans will provide a FREE If You Were Mine DVD Kit that includes:

  • Seven 30-45 minute sessions on 4 DVDs
  • One Leader’s Guide
  • One Participant Workbook
  • One CD ROM containing customizable posters and flyers as well as a promotional video

Hope for Orphans staff will also follow up by email periodically and be available to answer questions as churches coordinate their events.

Contact for Further Information:

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Organization: Hopegivers International
Partnership Model: Adopt a Hope Home Ministry provides church to church orphan care support

Description: Nearly 40 years ago Hopegivers International’s founder, Dr. M.A. Thomas, following the heart of God for the fatherless, began rescuing orphaned, abandoned, and at-risk children from the streets, slums, leper colonies, and garbage heaps of India. What began as a single church following the Lord’s cry to serve orphans has started a movement that has seen the Gospel go forth in pursuit of the ends of the earth. These children are recieved into our “Hope Homes”, which are 24/7, Christ-Centered Ministries.  At Hope Homes the children receive care: Emotionally-with family love and guidance, Mentally-with education and vocational training, Physically-with a home, food, water, clothing, and protection, and Spiritually-with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and a loving church family.

What Local Host Does: Show video, hand out brochures, obtain contact information for those wanting to get involved or know more, and encourage individuals to sponsor a child at a Hope Home or encourage families, small groups, or their church to partner together to “adopt” an entire Hope Home.

What Organizational Partner Does: Will ship requested materials to the host free of charge and will follow up with individuals and churches wishing to be involved.

View Hope Homes in need of support.
Contact for Further Information:

  • jbatastini@hopegivers.org

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Organization Name: Lifesong for Orphans
Partnership Model #1: Launch an Adoption Fund @ Your Church

Description of Event Partnership: 

Make Orphan Sunday result in something very tangible: Launch a Church Adoption Fund. An Adoption Fund is a very encouraging and practical help to Christian families who feel called to adopt, but run into the feeling that adoption is “financially impossible”. The fund can maximize stewardship by utilizing innovative funding tools of Adoption Matching Grants & Interest-Free Loans.

What Local Host Does:

  • Highlight orphan care and adoption on Orphan Sunday ( sermon, event, or Sunday school class) and video provided by Lifesong (ex: http://vimeo.com/8036445)
  • Use prayer cards provided by Lifesong to distribute to attendees
  • Shape how the Adoption Fund might be used, and name the fund
  • Allocate Orphan Sunday financial offering to be used as “initial seed funding” to launch the Fund, or discuss other creative initial funding ideas
  • Partner with Lifesong to administer the Fund

What Organizational Partner Does:

Lifesong will administer, manage, and facilitate the Adoption Fund on behalf of each church — at no cost to the church! We are prepared to provide solutions to these most common barriers:

  • Church staff “plate is already full” to administer fund
  • Church feels uncomfortable/awkward approving/denying their own families (viewing financials, etc.)
  • Adoption Fund is unfamiliar territory

Contact for Further Information:

Partnership Model #2:  Orphan Sunday Coffee House

Description:

Encourage your church to think missionally and act intentionally.

Create an atmosphere conducive to orphan related conversations, networking, etc, by setting up a “coffee shop” environment in your church foyer, hallway, or other room that could be a little “hang out” coffee shop area. As you serve and drink Gobena Coffee you have a natural opportunity to highlight orphan ministry initiatives you church is working on: foster care, adoption, orphan care, etc. While sitting and enjoying the best cup of coffee ever you can reflect on the small things that you can do to help out in BIG ways caring for the orphan.

Gobena Coffee provides organic fair trade coffee from Ethiopia, Colombia and Guatemala! 100% of profits get reinvested into the lives of children through orphan care initiatives.

What Local Host Does:

A local host would buy, brew, serve and/or sell Gobena Coffee and:

  • Display orphan related videos, banners, displays, brochures, etc. illustrating the orphan need and/or what YOUR church is doing/would like to do in creating solutions related to foster care, adoption, orphan care, etc.
  • Serve coffee for free – OR- sell the coffee, using proceeds for their orphan ministry, etc.

What Organizational Partner Does:

  • Distribute Gobena Coffee
  • Provide Gobena & Lifesong videos for your use on Orphan Sunday & beyond
  • Provide Gobena / Lifesong banners for awareness purposes, etc.

Contact for Further Information:

Partnership Model #3: Both Hands (One for the Widow, One for the Orphan)

Description:

Host a “Both Hands” Orphan & Widow Renovation project (to help launch a Church Adoption Fund, support a Lifesong orphan care project, or adoptive family in your church). “Both Hands” helps serve WIDOWS in a very practical way in your community, while raising funds to help ORPHANS. A Both Hands event is similar to a golf event, or bike-a-thon…with a twist! THE TWIST: Instead of participants being financially sponsored to play golf, or ride a bike…. participants are being sponsored to fix a widow’s house and the funds raised can be used to help orphans!

What Local Host Does:

  • Identify a widow in the community whose home needs renovation / improvement (siding needs replaced, painting, landscaping, de-cluttering, etc.)
  • Identify a Lifesong orphan care project, adoptive family, or Church Adoption Fund that will utilize the funds that are being raised through Both Hands project.
  • Identify 10 -20 volunteers (friends, family, etc.) who will work 1 Saturday and help send out sponsorship funding letters.

What Organizational Partner Does:

  • Lifesong facilitates an innovative method to help raise funds for orphan care, adoption, or a church fund.
  • 100% of funds donated through this project will be allocated to your the project of your choice (adoptive family, church adoption fund, or Lifesong orphan care project)
  • If Church Adoption fund is your choice, Lifesong will manage/facilitate the Church Fund and carry the administrative load on behalf of the church, using mutually agreed upon criteria – at no cost to church (processing applications, accounting, donor receipts, disbursements for adoption expenses, etc.).
  • LS/Both Hands Coordinators will work with and empower a Project Manager from your church, providing step-by-step instructions to help you in the process of getting the project together.

Contact for Further Information:

Partnership Model #4: Sponsor a Child in Ukraine

Description of Event Partnership: 

Make Orphan Sunday result in something very tangible: sponsor an orphaned child in Ukraine who is involved in Lifesong Ukraine Constant Christian Presence (CCP) mentoring program. Through this sponsorship, children receive: mentorship/discipleship, improved living conditions, one-on-one counseling, group Bible studies, job skills training, sports ministry, music lessons and computer skills training.

What Local Host Does:

  • Highlight orphan care and adoption on Orphan Sunday (sermon, event, or Sunday school class) and watch a video provided by Lifesong
  • Use prayer cards provided by Lifesong to distribute to attendees

What Organizational Partner Does: 

Lifesong will provide you with information on a child in Ukraine and encourage prayer and support for this specific child. Lifesong will also provide a prayer card for you to use in your home to encourage your family to pray for these children and their situations.

Contact for Further Information:

Partnership Model #5: Host a local Foster Care panel

Description: Use Orphan Sunday to teach and encourage your church of the needs in your local Foster Care System.

What Local Host Does:

  • Highlight what orphan care looks like in America through a Foster Care panel and watch a video like this (https://vimeo.com/6576611).
  • Invite local Foster Care parents, Foster Care case workers, or adults who were foster care children to share their stories and insights into how your church can serve the Foster Care community.
  • Use foster care prayer cards provided by Lifesong to distribute to attendees.
  • Check out http://www.heartgallerykids.org/ to see if you can display a gallery of children in your community

What Organizational Partner Does:

Lifesong will provide you with foster care prayer cards as well as ‘call to action’ points of how your church can pray and be involved in your local community. We will connect you to our partner organization “The Forgotten Initiative” to give you practical ways you can serve your foster care community.
Contact for Further Information:

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Organization: Loving Shepherd Ministries
Partnership Model: Individualized Church Partnership Event

Description: Loving Shepherd Ministries works with churches all over the U.S. to help mobilize them to action in the Orphan Crisis. Our distinctive is a commitment to empowering churches to do what God is calling them to do to care for the fatherless. As a result, LSM develops individualized church-based Orphan Ministry programs and is now making these same services available to churches around the country in planning an Orphan Sunday Event. Cutting edge material available to partnering churches includes video, printed handouts, and compelling activities showing God’s heart for the orphan and more importantly what we as His people can do about it. Orphan Sunday is a great opportunity for either existing Orphan Ministries, or churches that are just looking to get started to partner with us in defending the cause of the fatherless. We’d love to see an Orphan Sunday Event be a catalyst for your church’s vision!

What Local Host Does: Assemble a team of passionate people from your church who will secure support from church leadership, consult with LSM on the event planning, implement the individualized Orphan Sunday event, and provide follow-up to help your church come to the aid of the fatherless.

What Organizational Partner Does: Provide resources and consulting to the local church to plan a maximum impact event for the local host church and provide ongoing support after the event to help bring long-term effectiveness to the work of the local church.
Contact for further information:

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Organization: Make Way Partners

Partnership Model #1: MWP Freedom Fest

Description: A “Make Way Partners Freedom Fest” is an exciting way for talents & voices to unite to protect orphans from modern-day slavery through a benefit concert or talent show!

Freedom Fests are a great tool as speakers and local talents share throughout the night about orphans who are so vulnerable to human trafficking – raising awareness in between meaningful music, songs, poetry or drama.

Through donations and/or cover charges, the ministry of MVP uses funds raised to make a direct difference in the lives of women and children at-risk.

Raise Your Voice and Raise the Volume this Orphan Care Sunday – so the most vulnerable and least protected orphans will be known and will receive care!

What Local Host Does: A Freedom Fest takes many shapes and sizes but essentially it is a fundraising event that uses music, art and testimonies to raise awareness and funds to end slavery and protect orphans.  Freedom Fests engage the community in taking local action to make a global impact in the fight against human trafficking.

Make Way Partners will help you every step of the way as you prepare for your Freedom Fest.  We have a great list of questions to consider as you build the event God has placed on your heart.

Contact us to hear what volunteers have done in the past and how we can help you bring your Freedom Fest to life!

What Organizational Partner Does: Make Way Partners serves as a resource for all volunteer Freedom Fest groups. Please feel free to contact us to talk through your ideas, to request free materials or to invite a MWP representative to speak at different times throughout the night.

Contact for Further Information:

Partnership Model #2: Child Sponsorship Dinner

Description: There are an estimated 30 million victims of human trafficking in the world today. More than 1/2 are children. Orphans are the most vulnerable to modern-day slavery, starvation, disease and all forms of oppression. Through child sponsorship you can make a direct impact to END SLAVERY.  You can help Make Way Partners grow a true anti-trafficking orphan-care network throughout Sudan and the D R Congo to save, heal, protect and prepare thousands of at-risk orphans for leadership in the future.

A Child Sponsorship Dinner is a commitment to help protect & provide complete care for more of the children in Sudan & in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  It starts simply: Invite your friends and family to a special dinner that you host. At the dinner share why you became ‘family’ for an orphan in Sudan and what difference that has made in your life!  Then extend the joy.  Invite your guests to join you by becoming MWP Child Sponsors too. You will find resources and materials on our website that will help make your dinner memorable - including fun, Sudanese-style recipes and dinning tips!

What Local Host Does: Hosting a Child Sponsorship Dinner is a great way to invite your friends to action & share together the joy of protecting orphans at-risk to slavery!  It’s so easy to spread the word about Make Way Partners Child Sponsorship!

  1. Invite your friends over for dinner.
  2. Share your story on how Child Sponsorship has impacted your life.
  3. Encourage your friends to make a difference through Make Way Partners Child Sponsorship program in Sudan and Congo!

What Organizational Partner Does: MWP has created and provided all the party materials you will need to host a Sponsorship Dinner – including: invitations, checklists, recipe ideas, how to share your story, etc. Simply go to our website:  http://www.makewaypartners.org/child-advocate.html and start downloading today!  Contact Audrey Moore for child sponsorship pictures and brochures OR with any additional questions at 205-240-8597.

Contact for Further Information:

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Organization: Olive Crest

Partnership Model: “Launching With Hope”

Description:  Over 25,000 foster youth emancipate every year nationwide. Olive Crest recognizes the need to serve and assist these young adults who are exiting the foster care system. Without family or support, 65% of emancipated youth become homeless within the first 18 months of emancipation. With statistics like this, they are often referred to as the foster system’s “true orphans”.

“Launching with Hope” gives your church family an opportunity to be present for emancipating youth during their uncertain transitions. By collecting gift cards, your state’s emancipating youth program(s) will be able to meet the overwhelming needs of these young citizens. Will you consider standing in the gap between “system and society” as they move from a life of dependence to a full life of independence?

What Local Host Does: Dedicate a church service and/or host an activity/event to collect gift cards for emancipating youth in your state.

General needs of emancipating youth include, but are not limited to:
Housing, groceries, household items/appliances, clothing for job interviews, public transportation passes, pre-paid phone cards, and text books

National stores: Target, Wal-Mart, JC Penney, Kohl’s, Sears, Food 4 Less, Ralphs, Smiths, and Vons.

Contact local services for Public Transportation passes/cards.

What Organizational Partner Does: Prior to your church’s service or activity/event, Olive Crest will send you:
1) Statistics on emancipating youth and an emancipating youth story
2) A PowerPoint slide with emancipating youth information and statistics
3) A sample bulletin insert with emancipating youth facts (if requested, the file will be emailed to
your church for printing)
4) Suggestions of what your church can do to serve emancipating youth – custom designed for your
state.
5) A “Project Independence” brochure and DVD

If you are a church in CA, you will also receive an envelope and form to mail with the gift cards to Olive Crest.

Contact For Further Information:

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Organization Name: Orphan Outreach
Partnership Model #1: Mission Backpack Collection

Description: Orphan Outreach Mission Backpack provides orphans with new backpacks and the message that they are not alone. Individuals and groups can easily get involved in this mission project by collecting new and gently used backpacks for orphans and vulnerable children in Christian schools and orphanages around the world. On Orphan Outreach short term mission trips backpacks are distributed with school supplies and the hope of Jesus Christ. You can also consider recruiting a team of individuals from your church to join an Orphan Outreach mission trip and personally distribute your backpacks and the Gospel to orphans.

The mission of Orphan Outreach is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world, by meeting their spiritual, physical, emotional and educational needs.

What Local Host Does: Plan a collection activity for Orphan Sunday weekend.  This could include inviting people to bring backpacks [or undies] to church on Monday, November 7, as well as incorporating a sermon, Sunday School class, prayer time or student event focused on God’s heart for the orphan.

  • It’s easy to sign up online at www.missionbackpack.org
  • Use supplied posters to promote collection
  • Collect backpacks and school supplies
  • Send collected items to Orphans Outreach

What Organizational Partner Does: Orphan Outreach will supply you promotional posters and Mission Backpack “luggage” tags so that each donor can write personal notes and attach them to their backpacks.  Orphan Outreach will get supplies and backpacks to orphans in desperate need!
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Partnership Model #2: “Undies for Orphans” Collection

Description: Let others know about the desperate needs of orphans by hosting a “Undies for Orphans” collection. All areas of your church can easily get involved by bringing socks and underwear to be distributed by Orphan Outreach to orphans and vulnerable children in Christian schools and orphanages around the world. Undies are practical, inexpensive items that are urgently needed by every orphanage we serve. You can also consider recruiting a team of individuals from your church to join an Orphan Outreach mission trip and personally distribute your “undies” and the Gospel to orphans.

The mission of Orphan Outreach is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world, by meeting their spiritual, physical, emotional and educational needs.

What Local Host Does: Collect “Undies for Orphans” and send them to Orphan Outreach.

What Organizational Partner Does: Orphan Outreach will supply you with graphics and photos for your collection.  Orphan Outreach will also get the “Undies” to the children in desperate need!

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Partnership Model #3: Wheelin’ for Orphans Worldwide Bike-A-Thon

Description: All areas of your church can easily get involved by volunteering or biking to raise awareness and money for orphans. Riders will get their own sponsors, collect their own donations and turn them in after the ride. All donors will receive a receipt from Orphan Outreach for 100% of their donation.

The mission of Orphan Outreach is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world, by meeting their spiritual, physical, emotional and educational needs.

What Local Host Does: You will work with Orphan Outreach to determine a country and project that your funds will go to support orphans.

What Organizational Partner Does: Orphan Outreach will supply you with sponsor forms, rules, waivers and other forms you will need to produce a bike-a-thon.

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Partnership Model #1: Show Hope Advocates

What Local Host Does:

As a congregation, organize a creative fundraiser for Show Hope. For example, other advocate groups have held bake sales and garage sales, made “Change for Orphans” collection buckets, and hosted benefit concerts.

Description:

Show Hope’s advocate program empowers believers to answer God’s calling to care for orphans by using their unique gifts and talents. Advocates use their creativity to organize events and fundraisers that help Show Hope transform the lives of orphans.

Your church can host a love offering to raise enough for an adoption grant, they can host an event on Orphan Sunday or on that weekend to raise funds and awareness, and you can even create your own webpage to make fund collecting easy.

What Organizational Partner Does:

We provide advocates with promotional tools for their event, like advocate fundraising websites, flyers, and sample posters on our website. We also provide a step-by-step guide to successfully creating an advocate event on our website.

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Partnership Model #2: Show Hope Sponsorship

What Local Host Does: In the spirit of Orphan Sunday, encourage your congregation to become sponsors of Show Hope to join the 10,000.

Description: Show Hope’s sponsorship program empowers believers to answer God’s calling to care for orphans at both the domestic and international levels. Your church can be a part of providing orphans with lasting love and life-giving care!
Sponsors’ monthly support of Show Hope provides medical, emotional, and spiritual care to orphans in China and provides waiting children around the world with loving families. In honor of Show Hope’s tenth anniversary in 2013, we are launching the 10,000 Campaign to reach our goal of having 10,000 sponsors. This would allow Show Hope to change the lives of over 1,000 orphans every year.

What Organizational Partner Does: We will provide churches with information about becoming a sponsor and videos about Show Hope’s mission to share with your congregation.

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Partnership Model #3: Collect Supplies for Orphans with Special Needs

What Local Host Does: Begin a collection drive of the needed supplies for Show Hope’s Special Care Centers.

Description: Show Hope is a movement dedicated to caring for orphans. One way that we work to transform the lives of orphans is by providing surgeries and medical help through our Special Care Centers in China such as Maria’s Big House of Hope. Our sponsors provide us with funds to support these care centers; however, there are a number of supplies and items we need that your church can collect together and donate.

What Organizational Partner Does: On our website, we provide a list of items that Show Hope currently needs to keep our Special Care Centers functioning. We also provide packing slips.

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Organization: Stand4Kids

Partnership Model: A Day in the Life of an Orphaned Child

Description: After church on Sunday, offer a one-hour **family time with lunch. During this gathering, run the simulation offered on the Orphan Sunday home page “Orphanage Simulation” which is part of the Red Card curriculum. Offer a light lunch consisting of only soup, bread and water; a typical meal an orphaned child would eat in the orphanage.

**Family-we define family as parents/children, singles, single parents, empty nesters

What Local Host Does: Offer the family time, and lunch. Explain that the simulation is part of a larger curriculum Red Card which is a family class on children at risk. Take an offering to help Stand 4 Kids with translations costs to translate Red Card into Spanish, and Russian for the Spanish and Russian churches. Having Red Card translated will enable believers throughout the world to help the orphan.

What Organizational Partner Does: Stand 4 Kids creates high-quality mobilization resources designed to enable believers to take the next step in their quest to bring Christ to the least-reached peoples of the world. One product created by Stand 4 Kids is Red Card (www.redcardkids.net), which mobilizes the church to care for the 1.2 billion vulnerable children throughout the world.

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Organization: Sweet Sleep
Partnership Model #1: Sweet Sleep’s Build-A-Bed Project (Kid-Specific)

Description: Through Sweet Sleep’s Build-A-Bed Project, take your kids on a journey to help provide healthy, comfortable beds to orphans around the world during Orphan Sunday!

What Local Host Does: Orphaned and abandoned children around the world often sleep on old, broken or soiled beds or have no beds at all – forcing them to sleep on paper-thin mats or cold, hard floors, making them susceptible to crawling, biting insects and disease.  Your kids can help! When you share Sweet Sleep’s Build-A-Bed Project with your kids, you’ll be amazed as they go above and beyond to help orphans finally sleep sweetly like they do.

What Organizational Partner Does: Everything you need for your project including missions moments, photos, videos, craft plans and even cardboard collection boxes for each of your kids is FREE! You can even choose which Sweet Sleep project you’d like your kids to provide beds for – Moldova (Eastern Europe), Uganda or Haiti.

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Partnership Model #2: Sweet Sleep’s Insomnia Project (Youth-Focused)

Description: You may think there’s no reason to put yourself through the torture of another lock-in. Here are 210 million reasons why you should. According to UNICEF, there are 210 million orphaned and abandoned children worldwide. Many of these children sleep in old, broken or soiled beds or have no beds at all – forcing them to sleep on cold, hard floors making them susceptible to crawling, biting insects and disease. So there you go. 210 million reasons to plan a lock-in for Orphan Sunday.

What Local Host Does: Your students can literally change the lives of orphans around the world by participating in INSOMNIA — an all-night event where students experience what it’s like to be an orphan and not have a place to pray, to dream or to sleep sweetly.

What Organizational Partner Does: Make accessing the materials you need for your “Lock-in” easy!  Everything you need is free and available for downloading.  Resources include:

  • Bible studies
  • videos
  • prayer experiences and quiet time guides
  • schedules for planning
  • fundraising forms and more, is free and available for download.  INSOMNIA is easy, flexible, fun and engages your students in their God-given call to minister to orphans.

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Partnership Model #3: Sweet Sleep’s Nickels for Nets Project (Church-wide)

Description: Nickels for Nets is a challenging, educational and fun program to get your church members involved with Sweet Sleep’s mission to provide life-saving mosquito nets for orphaned and abandoned children in Africa and Haiti.  Without these nets, children are susceptible to malaria and its dangerous, deadly effects. Cerebral malaria (the worst case of the disease) can kill a child in 72 hours after being bitten by the infected mosquito.

What Local Host Does: Your congregation will be challenged to give or raise as much money as possible (whether in the form of nickels, change or dollars) to provide life-saving mosquito nets to other children in Third World countries. Each mosquito net is only $8, so for every 160 nickels (or 800 pennies, 32 quarters, 80 dimes, etc.) a child raises, a net will be provided to an orphaned or abandoned child in immediate need of a mosquito net.

What Organizational Partner Does: Sweet Sleep will provide:

  • Nickels for Nets program curriculum.  It is designed for use in children’s ministry classrooms but easily adapted for students or adults, and focuses on the importance of using mosquito nets in other parts of the world.
  • Nickels for Nets personal collection boxes to be given to church members.  These boxes can collect monies given by family members, friends, co-workers and others.  What a great way to engage the community!
  • Video: “Now That I Have Seen: Sweet Sleep for Uganda”.  This video is designed to engage your congregation in a special, one-time offering.  It shares facts about malaria and addresses our call to minister to orphans and widows.  For a one-time offering we suggest you use buckets to collect your Nickels for Nets in the back of the sanctuary or use your normal offering practices instead of requesting the small collection boxes.

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Organization Name:  Unthinkable
Title of Partnership Package:  “Faultless” Event Packages Available for Orphan Sunday!
Brief Description:

The team from Unthinkable recently premiered the full-length documentary “Faultless: The American Orphan” at Summit 8. Now, after weeks of requests, we are making this film available for ministries to use on Orphan Sunday! Using a mix of adoptive/foster parents, children from the system, and a variety of experts providing commentary along the way, “Faultless” was developed to engage people who are currently not engaged in the process of caring for the fatherless. Among many other topics, the film discusses aging out (when a child turns too old to remain in the system), the importance of church and state collaboration, the need for more African-American parents, and the fears adoptive families face. All of the topics in the film are covered through the lens of the Gospel with explicit motivation from James 1:27.

What Local Host Does:

The local host plans a movie screening! But thats the easy part. The hard part is actually putting your audience to work. The host’s job is primarily to equip the viewer by providing tangible and immediate opportunities for them to get involved serving the fatherless. “Faultless” is not intended to be just an inspiring film. With the help of our partner organizations, it is intended to be a motivating force for inspiring AND equipping local churches to care for the fatherless.

What Organizational Partner Does:

The job of Unthinkable is to work side by side with each ministry depending on their needs. We offer a variety of packages and options for ministries of all shapes and sizes. Since we put the responsibility of equipping volunteers on the local ministries, we take the burden of inspiring those volunteers on ourselves. We work very closely with each party to make sure they are fully prepared to have a GREAT event. Its an incredible partnership!

Website:  http://iamfaultless.com
Contact Name:  Jonathan Goode
Contact Email:jonathan.goode@beunthinkable.org
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Organization: VisionTrust

Partnership Model: Give Christmas to Orphans

Description: Christmas is about hope… hope in Jesus to save the world. For orphaned and impoverished children, hope can be a difficult concept because their parents have abandoned them or they go to bed hungry with no idea if they will eat tomorrow. You can give hope by meeting their real needs.

What Local Host Does:  Visit www.visiontrust.org/christmas (available after October 25) to download the VisionTrust Christmas Catalog.  Share the Christmas gift ideas with your church, Bible Study, work team or group of friends and decide together which items you would like to donate to give hope to orphans this Christmas.

What Organizational Partner Does: VisionTrust provides you with Christmas giving ideas for orphans and impoverished children that we are working with overseas. Then, we will deliver your gifts to these children overseas!

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Organization: Warm Blankets
Partnership Model: For information on a Partnership Package with Warm Blankets, click here Warm Blankets Partnership Package
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Organization:  Watoto – Rescue a child, Raise a Leader, Rebuild a Nation
Partnership Model:  Screen the powerful documentary “Restore Gulu: Child Soldier No More”
Description:  Thousands of children have been left orphans after being abducted by the LRA and forced to serve as child soldiers. Watoto has stepped in to answer the call in Gulu to care for those forced to do the unthinkable and robbed of their childhood. Restore Gulu provides an inside look at a piece of the work Watoto is doing to care for Orphans in Africa specifically in Gulu.

From the Producers:
“In April 2010, Tim Skinner (themediasquare.com.au), Edurolu Raju and myself (Dave Rubie) went to Gulu, which is in the North of Uganda to capture this tragic yet beautiful and inspiring storing of restoration and hope. It was an amazing experience to see with my own eyes places of such beauty, yet such devastation. It was obvious that wherever we went in this war torn region, there was an atmosphere of hope and I believe this is largely due to the work that Watoto is doing by providing wholistic care.”

Preview the film here! http://vimeo.com/32358106

What Local Host Does:

  • Host a screening of the documentary “Restore Gulu: Child Soldier No More” for the church congregation and their friends at the day/time that works best for you.
  • Your congregation and community will be moved to see the hand of God in providing hope and healing for these orphans.
  • If your congregation would also like to take an active role in supporting the work of Watoto we are happy to provide a child sponsorship kit for you to display with children currently in need of a sponsor. These children were orphaned either because of war or HIV/AIDS which has wiped out entire generations of parents in Africa. Through child sponsorship Christians in the U.S. can have a life-changing impact on the child of their choice. Their sponsorship will truly change their child’s story and help to fulfill the plans God has on their life!

What Organizational Partner Does:  We will ship you the documentary and provide you with a Watoto child sponsorship kit to display at your church. We will be with you every step of the way! If you have any questions or special requests please don’t hesitate to ask! We are so grateful for the potential opportunity to share with you what God is doing in Africa through Watoto.

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Organization: World Orphans
Partnership Model: Church to Church Partnerships

Description: World Orphans is committed to rescuing millions of orphaned and abandoned children, the strengthening of thousands of indigenous churches, and the impacting of hundreds of communities with the Gospel of Jesus Christ…through the cost-effective empowerment of church-based orphan prevention, rescue, care and transition programs in the least reached areas of the world. Learn how western churches are partnering with indigenous churches to care for the least of the least.

What Local Host Does: Show video, hand out WO provided literature, and obtain contact information for those wanting to get involved or know more. View video here

What Organizational Partner Does: Will ship requested materials to the host free of charge and will follow-up with individuals and churches wishing to be involved.
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Organization name: Zoe Children’s Homes
Partnership Model: You can rescue a child.

Description: Orphans are highly at risk of being sold into slavery because they have no one to love them and care for them. By partnering with zoe children’s homes you can help rescue a child and bring them the love, nurture and security that every child needs and deserves. By bringing awareness of this issue and what zoe is doing about it, you can rescue a child.

What Local Host Does: Introduce and support our Kids Helping Kids program in which children collect quarters to give to other children who have been rescued or are in need of rescuing.  You can also become a “partner” of Zoe Children’s Homes.

What Organizational Partner Does: To participate in our Kids Helping Kids program we will provide:

  •  quarter tubes
  • a promotional poster
  • activity sheets for each child who participates

If you choose to become a partner of Zoe’s Children’s Homes we will provide you our brochures for display and distribution.

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