Great Lakes District | The Christian Missionary Alliance

Assistance, advocacy, & awareness for the persecuted & suffering Christian Church with integrity towards God.  Persecution.org

Kiva’s mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.

Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.  Kiva.com

Soles4Souls facilitates the donations of shoes, which are used to aid the hurting worldwide. Shoe companies, retailers, and individuals can donate footwear (both new and used). Since 2005, Soles4Souls has given away over 14 million pairs of new and gently worn shoes (currently donating one pair every 7 seconds.) The shoes have been distributed to people in over 127 countries, including Kenya, Thailand, Nepal and the United States. Anyone can join their cause, and they need your help.

If it involves anything travel in the mission world then 963 wants to help.  They work with hundreds of churches and mission organizations all across the country to provide the very best air fare to groups and individuals who traveling to all corners of the globe.  963 recently partnered with Mocha Club to provide trips to sever different African countries where Mocha Club is currently ministering.  They have also begun offering trips to coffee cooperatives so people can see first hand how purchasing 963 fair wage coffee can change lives.  When it comes to anything travel they want to serve you and your ministry.

Crowdrise is about volunteering, raising money for charity and having the most fun in the world while doing it. How does Crowdrise work? Well that is the easy and fun part: Sign up for a profile, Start a fundraiser, Ask for Donations (through social media), Have Fun!

In seven countries throughout northeast Africa, LIA is mobilizing, training and equipping local churches to implement wholistic ministries focusing on the poor, orphaned and vulnerable within their very own communities.

When disaster strikes around the world, Save the Children is there to save lives with food, medical care and education and remains to help communities rebuild through long-term recovery programs. As quickly and as effectively as Save the Children responds to tsunamis and civil conflict, it works to resolve the ongoing struggles children face every day — poverty, hunger, illiteracy and disease — and replaces them with hope for the future.

Operation Christmas Child is the ministry of Samaritan’s Purse  (Franklin Graham, President). Your church group can fill shoe boxes with gifts that send hope and much-needed items to children in designated places (it varies each year), along with a personal note about the Gospel message of Jesus Christ. This is a hands-on project, for which your church or group will be collecting anything from toys to hygiene items.

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.  Wherever World Vision works, their prayer is that their efforts will be used by God to heal and strengthen people’s relationships with Him and with one another. They do this by demonstrating God’s unconditional love for all people through our service to the poor — which includes providing for daily needs, working to build peace and promote justice, and partnering with churches and individuals to encourage spiritual transformation.

One Day’s Wages (ODW) is an international grassroots movement dedicated to ending extreme global poverty. They are not trying to re-invent the wheel but rather to collaborate and partner with others.  In short, One Day’s Wages is joining them in the fight.  The numbers are staggering:

• 25,000 children under the age of 5 die each day due to poverty-related causes.
  
• Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. Nearly 900 million people do not have access to clean water.