Global Partner Ministry
At Prince of Peace we strive to care for and support each other, our neighbors, and the world. To do that, we offer many ways for our members to use their God-given gifts in ministry and to support various projects in our community and throughout the world.
Prince of Peace divides its Beyond Our Walls ministries into Local, Global, and the Refugee Assistance Program. Each of these teams works to partner with other ministries to help people in need wherever they are found.
Global Partner Ministry focuses awareness on world needs and relief efforts. We have a personal relationship with all our Global Partners.
Awareness
To seek out and raise awareness of opportunities in the world where we as a church can provide assistance via monetary gifts, goods, encouragement, and prayer, to support sustainable, ongoing initiatives that address health, education, and social justice issues.
Response
To identify specific means by which our ministry can provide meaningful and appropriate support in a manner that shows respect for other cultures, treats all recipients with dignity, and provides accountability to our congregation.
Action
To initiate and encourage congregational participation in and support for those organizations we determine are willing and able to use our gifts in an efficient and effective manner to help those in need.
Join our Global Partner Ministry!
If you're interested in joining us, we invite you to attend our monthly meetings on the first Saturday of the month (except July) at 9 am.
Jim Hoyt, Chairman, Global Missions, hoyt_ndm@fastmail.fm
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Global Partner Ministry
The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities tell their stories, strengthen their institutions, take action, and mobilize support.
A current initiative is the construction of accessible toilets in schools in the town of Gulu in Northern Uganda. The construction of accessible toilets encourages children with disabilities to attend schools. The Advocacy Project’s plan is to monitor the use of these toilets and collect data showing the increase in school attendance, in the hope that the local government would take over the financing and building of these toilets.
Read more about The Advocacy Project or to make a financial gift at their website.
For more information, contact Ken Scherpelz, kscherpelz@att.net
Through the New Jersey organization PeaceWorks, whose focus is on theis on the Central American country of Nicaragua, Global Missions connected with two amazing projects. First, the Axyacatl Masaya Women’s Collective in Masaya provides support to women and children who are victims of domestic abuse. Research shows that communities have better potential for growth and prosperity when the women in those communities are emotionally and economically strong.
Axyacatl is dedicated to empowering women, fighting domestic violence and sexual abuse, and promoting economic self-sufficiency through micro-lending and sustainable agriculture projects.
Global Missions later established a relationship with The Pearl Foundation Nicaragua, a nonprofit organization based in South Carolina. Part of their work involves building simple tin-sided houses and latrines for those who live in the city dump of Granada, Nicaragua. Their initial goal was 10 homes, but as word spread about their commitment and success, they are now well over 130 houses and 35 latrines. When we learned that the houses required a donation of $750 and the latrines only $350, it was clear that we could make a meaningful difference to those who live in a setting that is hard for us to fathom.
Caribbean Children’s Foundation (CCF) provides education and medical care sponsorships for children living in the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The main areas of ministry of CCF are: Sponsorships for orphaned children; Tuition assistance for elementary, secondary, and university students; Construction of a school in Ile-a-Vache, Haiti (a small island off the coast of Haiti); Expansion of an orphanage; Medical care for critically ill children; Construction of a medical facility for the people of Ile-a-Vache.
For more information, contact Barb Hunt, bhunt508@gmail.com
Good Will Family (GWF) helps get distressed street and abandoned children off the streets of Jacmel, Haiti and provide them a safe living environment, access to health care, education and practical training to gain skills in various trades. Additionally, these youngsters are given the opportunity to do internships in local businesses when they have reach the eligible age and connect them to a professional network and possible job opportunities.
For more information, contact Roger Colson, allezroger@gmail.com
Amy Back, co-founder of Grain of Rice Project, and her son, Ellis, live at the Grain of Rice Academy (K-8), which launched in May of 2021 with 70 students on 8.5 acres near Nanyuki, Kenya, 4.5 hours from Nairobi. In addition to 160 students in 2024, the Academy houses 20 artisans from the village and the Kibera Slum (Nairobi) where Grain of Rice Project began in 2013.
Quality education is hard to come by in Kenya unless you have a lot of money. The Academy (K-8) is a primary school that strives to nurture creative, critical thinkers and provide high-quality cross-curricular education within a Christian context for all students (poor or rich). The school’s focus is on a hands-on, literacy based curriculum with emphasis on STEM, arts, technology, character building, positive discipline education and mental health counseling. The goal is to help children become problem solvers and leaders in their communities.
Amy has made yearly visits to Prince of Peace since our collaboration started in 2015. The church supports the Academy though craft sales & greeting cards in our book store, funds from Closet Cause, Sunday School offerings, individuals and families who have become Child Advocates, and participation in the Brighter Futures 5K held in May each year.
For more information go to www.grainofriceproject.org. Updates from Amy may be found on our Facebook group.
For more information, contact Mary Lou Anderson, maryloumusic@gmail.com
Since its inception in 2005, the Haiti Nursing Foundation has worked tirelessly to support a healthier Haiti. Prince of Peace participates in the Student Sponsorship Program, providing scholarships for nursing students at The Faculty of Nursing Science of the Episcopal University of Haiti (FSIL), where more than 200 students have completed a rigorous nursing program and have earned a BSN degree. Many more students have completed, or are working toward, nursing graduate degrees. Approximately 95% of these health care providers remain and work in their beloved Haiti.
For more information, contact Megan Orr, orr.meganh@gmail.com
The Haitian people, living just 90 miles from Florida, are among the most marginalized people in the Western Hemisphere. Surviving on $1.25 or less a day, most cannot break free from natural disaster and systems which too often trap them in endless cycles of despair. By partnering with the Haitian Timoun Foundation (pronounced ‘tea-moon’) we are empowering Haitians to break free from extreme poverty and build a brighter future.
We currently empower Haitian-led initiatives in three areas:Investing in vulnerable children through Wings of Hope and Lekol Sen Trinite in Jacmel.
Equipping the brightest students with collegiate studies through H.E.L.P (Haitian Education and Leadership Program) in Port au Prince. Decades of repression and injustice drained Haiti of the professionals it needs to develop.
Investing in ultra poor women to achieve a pathway to a better life through Fonkoze’s 18-month cooperative program called Chemen Lavi Miyò near Mirablis.
Our middle and high school youth are entrusted with the honor of distributing more than $800 in Kiva loans to people around the world.
One recipient of a loan this spring is Barkiyah and her daughter, who live in Serang, Indonesia. Like everyone, their lives have been touched by Covid and schools have been closed. Having no electronic device, their daughter’s education has been cut off. Barkiyah puts great value on education, so she applied for the loan to get a Smartphone for her daughter. Their story had an impact on one of the Prince of Peace student groups, so their part of our KIVA funds went to Barkiyah.
Other loans went to Uganda, Puerto Rico, Kenya, Ecuador, Samoa, Vietnam, Rwanda, and Detroit, Michigan.
For more information, contact Martha Scherpelz, scherpelzmartha@gmail.com
Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) is an ELCA’s organization that provides support to disaster survivors to meet urgent needs and help with the long road to recovery from disasters such as floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and epidemics.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, LDR has supported responses in 39 countries around the world. These efforts include supplying personal protective equipment and medical equipment, providing food and necessary supplies, and establishing water, sanitization, and hygiene awareness education. Additionally, 28 synods have received LDR support for congregational feeding ministries, such as food pantries, hot meal delivery and meal distribution.
For more information, contact Bob Brueggemeier
“We are a church that rolls up our sleeves and gets to work.”
Lutheran World Relief (LWR) provides aid in emergencies to help families restore their lives. LWR partners with communities to build and grow rural economies. LWR’s goal is to help people build self-sufficiency and create new community-owned approaches to problem-solving that will last.
Prince of Peace provides school kits, quilts, and personal care kits to communities around the world via LWR. The LWR School Kits contain a backpack, notebooks, pencils, pens, scissors, crayons, and erasers necessary for students to attend school. Quilts donated are used as warm bedding, simple tents, or floor coverings. Personal care kits include cloth face masks, soap, towel, toothbrush and comb.
Financial donations from the Global Missions Fund support LWR’s sustainable projects such as providing seeds, tools, water systems, and training to help families get the most out of their small plots of land.
LWR fair-trade coffee, tea, and chocolate are available for purchase in the Prince of Peace bookstore.
For more information contact Bob & Sue Brueggemeier
Janet Schneider, the daughter of long-time (now deceased) Prince of Peace member Art Pauch, runs a ministry to help the indigenous Maya Achi people. Janet travels to Guatemala twice a year, bringing basic necessities and a message of God’s love to the community. Beyond the necessities of food, toiletries, clothes, shoes and toys, Janet has provided: tubing for water delivery to each house, sewing machines, fabric and supplies, headlamps for fishing in the dark, fencing for school yard safety, backpacks to ease the transportation of goods to the village, files to sharpen tools, school supplies and education fees for children. Recently Janet created a loan program. She is making small business loans with the hope of fostering more creativity and independence. As money is repaid, it is available for future loans.
For more information, contact Jim Schafer.
Watoto Read is a local non-profit organization of volunteers working to promote education in sub-Saharan refugee camps in Goz Beida, Chad. Watoto (Swahili for ‘children’) Read is presently raising funds to build and furnish school classrooms in the refugee camps in Chad.
Funding from Prince of Peace has been designated for building bench-desks for multiple children.
For more information, contact Jim Hoyt.
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