Local & Global Partners

We love our local and global partners! If you are donating to support one of our partners, send donations directly to the non-profit you wish to support. Please do not give checks or online donations to SCC for these non-profits. Contact the Global Partners Team if you have any questions.

Global Partners Team Co-Leaders:
Katie Keranen, sponsor@hopeafricakids.com
Rich Shultz, shultz.rich@gmail.com

Ghana

A Sisters Community Church partnership reaching children for Jesus and offering education in a poor neighborhood of Accra, Ghana has been going on since 2018. It is built around deep relationships going back over 30 years with Calvary Atamudzi and his wife Abigail. Calvary, as a 17-year-old with a father who practiced sorcery, came to Christ and attended a Bible school, helped by none other than Pastor Steve Stratos. Since 2018, SCC has partnered with Calvary and Abigail with their multifacted ministry, the cornerstone of which is a low-fee school, as well as theological education, church planting, discipling young pastors, and sewing.

A recent photo of school construction shows four functional classrooms with windows and textured and primed walls, and roof completed. Electrical, plumbing and toilets, along with finishing tile on the walkways, are in process to bring this building to a completed state.

Central Asia

We support the W* family. J# and L# and their 3 children live and minister in Central Asia. Their photos and exact location are being withheld for their security. The family has been working and living there for about 6 years. They are utilizing a community development/business-as-mission model in agriculture to kindle relationships in the villages where they have their ministry. They have made inroads in the last few years, and some disciples and seekers are being influenced for the Kingdom. The kids are enrolled in local schools and also forging relationships with their peer groups. The family covets prayers for more seekers and disciples, for the success of their kids in local schools, and to be able to find favor for their business and its infrastructure.

If you would like a secure email news letter from them, so you can get to know them better, and get more information that will not compromise their security, please email a missions team member.

Joan Warburg joan@warburgfamily.com

Cleone Davis c.leondavis@yahoo.com

Mark Sauerwein yakimareds@gmail.com

Faith Seeds Guatemala

One of the global partners our church supports is Faith Seeds Guatemala. Gaby Munoz is the founder and leader of this organization.

Guatemala has the highest illiteracy rate in Central America. On average, children in Guatemala attend school for only 4 years. The families that Faith Seeds works with live in a remote community of Quetzaltenango that is adjacent to the city's 'basudera' (garbage dump). The bus to school takes over a half hour each way. All transportation is provided by Faith Seeds.

Over 60% of Guatemalans are living below the poverty line. Many children, especially those in rural areas, are often forced to leave school to help provide for their family. Their living situations are also often without water or electricity, so Faith Seeds offers a school house (La Escuelita) to them in the evenings to complete homework, receive tutoring, and eat a warm meal.

Public education in Guatemala comes with many fees which many families simply cannot afford. There is very little government support for education, especially in rural areas, so the schools have to charge for even the most basic things. Faith Seeds scholarships cover 100% of the expenses related to the students' education including: enrollment fees, school supplies, books, uniforms, transportation, and some extra-curricular activities. Faith Seeds staff visit the schools weekly and are in regular contact with the teachers. One of the goals is to make sure each child that comes to La Escuelita receives a warm and nutritious meal each day.

Read more at www.faithseedsguatemala.org.

Hope Africa International

Sisters Community Church started a partnership with Kapchorwa, a rural mountain town in Eastern Uganda in the early 2000s. In 2009, SCC launched a child sponsorship program, Hope Africa, with the heart to invest in education, physical well-being, and Biblical discipleship of vulnerable children.

In 2014, Hope Africa International was established as an independent 501c3 nonprofit. Since SCC's initial investment, Hope Africa International has impacted over 1,000 children and has seen the physical and spiritual fruit of SCC's investment. The ministry has graduates who serve as teachers, nurses, doctors, mechanics, tailors, small business owners, and much more. Most importantly, graduates are giving back to their community, families and churches, with a passion to share the gospel.

Hope Africa International also partners with Powell Butte Christian Church to sponsor children to attend K&K Schools in the valley below Kapchorwa, between two villages called Kaplobotwo and Kabacheriya. The Primary and Secondary Schools collectively educate and disciple 600 students.

Sponsorship with Hope Africa International offers a child immediate hope by covering the practical costs of a healthy start in life. Most importantly, Hope Africa assures that the child has access to the eternal hope found in relationship with Jesus.

Holy Cow Sisters

Holy Cow is in their fourth year as a non-profit which raises grass-fed cattle to sell, benefitting the vulnerable locally and globally. They have a herd of 25 cattle raised on over 50 acres of donated grass, and have had a number of local landowners partner with them.
Holy Cow partners with Good Samaritan Mission in India, which provides care and education to total orphans. The proceeds from beef sales and donations built a beautiful new building to house over 70 children. Their next venture is to contribute yearly to the existing milk operation Good Samaritan Mission has in India. Proceeds from beef sales in Central Oregon will help purchase milk cows to provide milk for the orphans and elderly in India, as well as create a sustainable income source for the mission.
Holy Cow also serves the needy in our own community. They have given over 500 lbs. of fresh, local, grass fed beef to the Wellhouse Market Food Pantry, to be distributed locally to help people and families in Central Oregon.

Jonathan and Janie

Jonathan and Janie work with Co-Serve International, where they come alongside and train missionaries, mission agencies, nonprofits, and church leaders all over the world in the Biblical servant-leadership model that both Christ and the Apostle Paul taught, which has been supplanted by tradition and cultural models that are not like Jesus at all. Jonathan and Janie are serving in Thailand this February, working with nonprofit ministries and training church leaders in a minority ethnic tribe along the border of Myanmar and China. Janie will be applying her counseling degree to teach a trauma workshop so leaders will be better able to understand their own trauma and that of others.

Jeff and Julie

Jeff and Julie share over thirty years of ministry experience and now call the Pacific Northwest home.

They spent their first anniversary leading a missions team, a sign of things to come. After entering pastoral ministry, the young family spent four years on a team in the Philippines with an initiative called HARA - Helping Asians Reach Asia. Returning with a love for Asia, a better understanding of global life, and a love for indigenous partners, they served on a church staff in Knoxville, TN for ten years. In their decades of ministry, God has used them to care for missionaries and cultivate national partnerships with their combined gifts of teaching, mentoring, and encouraging. They have provided training and support from Turkey to Timisoara and Nepal to Nanjing. The Sanders have two grown children who share their love of Asia and the PNW.

Jeff and Julie serve together as Global Partnership Developers with Live Global, cultivating trusting relationships with national leaders who impact their own cultures and communities for Christ. They come alongside indigenous partners who lead in a national-first approach, customizing support by providing mentoring, training, and development of national ministries.