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Purpose/Mission:
Athletes in Action at IU is all about community and discipleship with the goal of having a true Christ follower on every team so that every athlete has an opportunity to truly know someone who follows Christ.
Most of the student athletes we work with are not on an athletic scholarship and are not able to work because of their commitment to their sport and studies. So would you please consider giving to allow them some of the same opportuni-ties “normal students” have to go to retreats and/or summer projects?
www.iuaia.com
Wish List:
FCA Competitor or Coaches Bible
Cost: $20
Scholarship for Student Athletes to attend AIA Winter Retreat
Cost: $150 per student
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Purpose/Mission:
Bridges International is a student organization which seeks to help international students through service activities, social networking and spiritual resources. Together, we serve more than 6,000 international students, families, scholars and professionals with the love of Jesus Christ. We also offer our students life-changing conferences, hosted by Bridges, that are a dynamic opportu-nities to deepen their understanding the Christian faith, build relationships and be equipped to return to their homeland as ambassadors for Him.
www.bridgesinternational.com
Wish List:
Chinese Bibles
Cost: $10
Student conference scholarships
Cost: $200Share $20
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Purpose/Mission:
Bryantsville Hunger Relief Project exists to help provide food to the “poorest of the poor” people in third world countries or disaster-ravaged countries by supplying high-protein corn (higher in protein than regular corn) for distribution by various Christian relief agencies. Hollace and Ila Sherwood started the project in 1985. Since then thousands of bags have been sent in the name of Jesus, to destina-tions all over the world. (One bag/bushel will provide 60-80 servings of high protein corn).
Wish List:
High protein corn to feed hungry children around the world.
Cost: $5/bag
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Purpose/Mission:
Child Evangelism Fellowship’s purpose is to evangelize children with the good news of Jesus Christ; disciple boys and girls in the Word of God; and establish them in a Bible-centered local church.
They reach children with the Gospel in neighborhoods, church minis-tries, home and school classrooms and special-day programs through easy to prepare...easy to use Party Kits from Child Evangelism Fellow-ship. CEF has Good News Clubs in several MCCSC schools with the assistance of some Sherwood Oaks volunteers.
www.cefonline.com
Wish List:
Sponsor weekly Good News Club
Cost: $300/schoolShare: $30
Sponsor a case of Bibles
Cost: $50Share: $30
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Purpose/Mission:
The center provides spiritual, emotional and practical support to women and families facing unplanned pregnancies and early parenting challenges. In addition to thousands of area families, we have served people from 6 continents and 29 countries.
Hannah House is a safe place where moms and babies can grow and learn while experiencing Christ’s love. Residents learn valuable life skills . Hannah House offers a ref-uge, a safe haven, for women and teens who need both God’s love and practical help.
www.cpcbloomington.org
Wish List:
Layette Items for Newborns
Cost: $25
New Flooring in Classroom
Cost: $600Share: $50
Pack and Play
Cost: $70
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Purpose/Mission:
Cru (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) exists to help raise up Christian leaders trained to minister wherever God calls them to go. Tony serves as the campus director at Indiana University leading staff and student leaders with a diverse out-reach to athletes, international stu-dents, ROTC, Greeks and Faculty. Julia also helps disciple and train staff members and students. Our vision is to see spiritual movements everywhere so that everyone knows someone who truly follows Jesus.
www.iuccc.org
Wish List:
Freshman Survival Kit
Cost: $5
Impact Movement Training
Cost: $100
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Purpose/Mission:
Hilltop Christian camp is a Christ-centered summer youth program for our member churches and their communities. The camp also serves as a retreat facility for our mem-ber churches and other Christian groups.
Sherwood Oaks has sent children to Hilltop for summer camp for many years.
www.hilltopchristiancamp.com
Wish List:
Trees for Reforestation
Cost: $50
50 lb bag Grass Seed
Cost: $50
Metal Bunk Beds
Cost: $4,000Share: $500
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Purpose/Mission:
IFM’s vision is to reach the world for Christ through International Students. IFM seeks to educate, encourage, train, help, and involve local churches in ministering to inter-nationals. Our goal is to evangelize international studens/scholars and their families. As some of them come to faith, IFM brings them into the fellowship of local churches, helping them mature in their relationship with Christ. IFM seeks to disciple and equip them to be effective witnesses for Christ when they return home or wherever they go. Elan & Rani Rajamani serve more than 7000 international students, scholars and families as campus ministers of IFM at Indiana University.
www.ifmiu.org
Wish List:
New Student Welcome Kit
Cost: $12
Bibles in different languages
Cost: $20
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Purpose/Mission:
Christian Student Fellowship focuses on fulfi lling their core values: Mid-week worship; service with lo-cal neighborhoods; mission trips; involvement with intramural sports; community housing for students; and leadership opportunities.
CSF reaches out to many students on Indiana University’s campus. Sher-wood Oaks has collaborated with CSF staff over the years to connect with more IU students and provide special programming that is of mutual benefi t to both. Each May, Sherwood Oaks and CSF co-sponsor a mission project to Honduras.
www.iucsf.com
Wish List:
Mission Scholarship
Cost: $1,000Share: $100
Winter Retreat Books
Cost: $12
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Purpose/Mission:
Located on Kirkwood in the heart of Bloomington, The Pourhouse Café serves the local and global commu-nities with fi nancial support from the tip jar. Over $55,000 has gone out to Sherwood Oaks Global Outreach partners and local agencies from the PHC so far! They also serve great coffee, delicious food, and provide a safe place where friendships can grow. Over 29 community and cam-pus organizations use the commu-nity rooms on the lower level of the Pourhouse for planning and study groups. Sherwood Oaks has been a proud, active ministry partner with the Pourhouse since it began.
www.thepourhousecafe.com
Wish List:
Kitchen Supplies (plates, utensils)
Cost: $20
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Purpose/Mission:
Wheeler Mission Ministries, Inc. (for-merly Backstreet Missions, Inc.) is a not- for-profi t organization dedicated to providing Christ-centered services to homeless men, women, and chil-dren of our community. Their vision is to see every man, woman, and child served equipped to become productive citizens who enjoy lasting success in Christ.
Outreaches include: Upper Room men’s emergency and transitional shelter, Agape House women’s shel-ter, Geno’s Cafeteria, Food Pantry, and Thanksgiving food baskets.
Sherwood Oaks has partnered with Backstreet since it began.
www.wheelermission.org
Wish List:
Beef for Geno’s Cafeteriaand guests at shelters
Cost: $600/half a cowShare: $25
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Purpose/Mission:
Purpose/Mission Youth for Christ Southern Hills exists to reach young people (teenagers 12-19 yrs old) in southern Indiana. YFC works together with the local church and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of Jesus. YFC has been going strong in the area since 1989, reaching out to youth through ever-changing methods with a never changing message of the hope of Jesus.
Campus Life, Campus Life Middle Shool, Parent Life, Project Serve and YFC Camp are the ministries current-ly offered through YFC Southern Hills to over 500 young people each year.
www.southernhillsyfc.org
Wish List:
Campus Life Snack Pack
Cost: $25 for 50 students
Camp Scholarship
Cost: $100
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Purpose/Mission:
Myanmar Indigenous Evangelism is directed by Abraham and Dimno Thang, Burmese nationals who are committed to take the Gospel to Burmese immigrants who have relo-cated around Fort Wayne, Indiana. Their mission outreach includes Sun-day services, weekly Bible studies, youth meetings, and many personal services that assist new residents from Myanmar (formerly Burma) as they settle into life in a new and different place. One of the most pro-ductive mission fi elds today is among immigrants around the globe.
E-mail:[email protected]
Wish List:
Musical instruments for children
Cost: $50
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Purpose/Mission:
Restoration House Ministries part-ners with the church to transform the spiritual landscape of New England and beyond with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This mission is being accomplished by planting churches in all six New England states, from Portland, ME, to Boston, MA, to Hartford, CT, and in between. In 2013, Restoration House Ministries planted their 14th church in Provi-dence, Rhode Island.
www.rhmnewengland.org
Wish List:
Waterproof Playmats
Cost: $30
Coffee Brewer
Cost: $250
Purpose/Mission:
FAME exists to spread the fame of Jesus Christ to all nations through medical evangelism. They also seek to lead people to Christ and meet physical needs by partnering with other mission organizations to deliver a unique combination of medical mission services. FAME believes that by treating people physically it earns you the right to share about the Great Physician. FAME also partners with North India Christian Mission, Ghana Christian Mission, His Eyes in Honduras, and Central India Christian Mission – all Global Outreach partners with Sherwood Oaks.
www.fameworld.org
Wish List:
Physician’s Kit
Cost: $25
Amoxicillin Suspension
Cost: $325
Share: $32
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Purpose/Mission:
Impact Ministry Group (IMG) seeks to ignite individuals, churches and business leaders with purpose in the planting of New Testament Christian Churches across Canada, Europe, and Russian speaking areas. Impact Canada (a Divi-sion of IMG) is starting a church in Canada’s east coast in Moncton, New Brunswick, and it is anticipated to launch next Fall 2015. Joel & Kia Bridges (church planting couple) have moved to Moncton with their family, and will start building relation-ships with individuals and families in that area. Please keep the Bridges family and this new work in your prayers.
www.impactministrygroup.org
Wish List:
Start up supplies for new church in Moncton, New Brunswick
Cost: $10,000Share: $100
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Purpose/Mission:
Master Provisions connects vital resources like food and clothing to people in need locally, regionally and globally in cooperation with stra-tegic mission partners. They also suupport international farming and sewing initiatives and place orphans into Christian homes in Ukraine and Togo. Sherwood Oaks has sent and distributed clothing in Honduras and North India through the ministry of MASTER PROVISIONS. Sherwood Oaks hosts a MP clothing drive ev-ery two years and has sent over 74 tons of clothing to Ukraine, Kosova, Honduras and India.
www.masterprovisions.org
Wish List:
Container Shipment to Latin America
Cost: $100/share
Farm Animals for Mawuto, Africa
Cost: $100/share
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Purpose/Mission:
Pioneer Bible Translators bridges the gap between the church and the Bible-less peoples around the world. They are serving 17 million people in 46 language projects. God is calling them to expand and begin 26 additional projects and 4 new fi elds! They are seeking 200 new mission-aries who will step up and meet the need for ministry among Bible-less peoples. Their team is composed of Bible translators, literacy evange-lists, church planters and a variety of support personnel transforming lives through God’s Word in every language.
www.pioneerbible.org
Wish List:
Exploratory trip to Caucasus Mountains to reach new people for Christ
Cost: $100/share
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Purpose/Mission:
Helping the Church and mission organizations globally fulfi ll the great commission in and through the world of sport and all whom they infl uence.
Evangelical researchers time-and-time-again point to relationship as the key proponent for conversion and discipleship. We understand that sport is a key factor for building relationships. We use a number of strategies from major sports events, leadership training, and coach’s guides for mentoring Christian athletes.
www.sportsoutreach.com
Wish List:
Indiana Athletes and Coaches Topical Bible for every athlete at IU and three local high schools
Cost: $10/each
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Purpose/Mission:
To equip leaders to train others by providing theological education through correspondence courses, leadership development seminars and other resources to enable the churches of western Africa to grow, mature and evangelize unreached people groups of Africa and beyond.
The primary fi eld of work for CLTI’s TEE programs has been Ghana. The programs and facilities for CLTI were pioneered by Bob and Connie Sheffl er.
www.cltigh.org
Wish List:
Gas for travel to remote villages
Cost: $200
Share: $20
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Purpose/Mission:
Sherwood Oaks is helping bring transformation to Mathare Valley slum in Nairobi, Kenya! The 2.5 mil-lion residents lack the basic necessi-ties of life that most people take for granted: adequate housing, clean water, sanitation services and basic education. The task is too large for any one church or organization, so Christians from Kenya and the United States have joined together in ministry in Mathare Valley of Hope Partnership.
www.cmfi .org
Wish List:
School uniforms
Cost: $30
Bible Training Scholarships
Share: $50
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Purpose/Mission:
Ghana Christian Mission gives the Hope of the Gospel to people in Ghana and beyond through Church Planting by equipping indigenous believers to evangelize their com-munities; Medical Outreach by providing physical and spiritual care for the sick; Education by schooling Ghana’s children and Community Development which supports initia-tives that strengthen and improve urban and rural areas.
Sherwood Oaks has sent Global Outreach teams to GCM on FAME medical mission projects.
www.ghanachristianmission.com
Wish List:
Sewing Machines
Cost: $150/each
New Wheels on Truck
Cost: $200
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Purpose/Mission:
Missions of Hope International - MOHI (Kenya) and CMF International (US) facilitate the Hope Partnership.They fi rst joined together in 2004 to address the need for education - matching the “poorest of the poor” children with stateside sponsors so more students from the Mathare Valley slums could receive a Chris-tian education at MOHI. Today, there are 13,000 students in 16 school centers and growing! Sherwood Oaks specifi cally invests in the stu-detns and families in the community of Mabatini.
mohiafrica.org/
Wish List:
School uniforms
Cost: $30
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Purpose/Mission:
One Child Matters believes that a holistic approach – ministering to all of a child’s needs, not just a select few – is the most effective method of promoting child development. This is why OCM carefully and thoughtfully minister to each child’s spiritual, physical, socio-emotional, and mental needs.
Sherwood Oaks is partnering with One Child Matters in Swaziland, the country with the highest per capita population of HIV in the world. OCM care centers provide medical attention, education, food, and spiritual direction for many chil-dren and parents who are infected with HIV.
onechildmatters.org
Wish List:
Antiretroviral HIV drugs for kids
Cost: $50
Fuel to transport children with HIV to Care Centers
Cost: $100Share: $10
One Chicken:
Cost: $7
Purpose/Mission:
Glorifying the great “I AM” by joining Him in reaching unreached people groups through Church Planting Movements (CPMs). Currently we are working with the Conja, Mam-prusi, Chokossi, Fulani and Dagmani people groups who are up% illiterate in the villages. We are helping both illiterate and literate alike start Simple Churches using Bible Storying discovery methods. We also have been working with Gana Institute of Linguistics, Literacy and Bible Trans-lation (GILLBT) to creat Bible story tools to place on SD Microships that can be placed in phones allowing everyone access to the scriptures and the tools needed to disciple their households.
web.me.com/ruffupdate
Wish List:
SD Microchip for BIble Stories & songs
Cost: $10
Video Camera
Cost: $3,000Share: $100
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Purpose/Mission:
Mission to Unreached Peoples is a broadly interdenominational agency. Their focus is on the unreached peoples of the world who have not heard the gospel of Jesus Christ, specifi cally those who live in the 10/40 window in Asia, Europe and beyond.
Andrias & Carol train and mobilize churches in Manado, Sulawesi, to reach Muslim populations through training seminars, medical clinics, English classes and resourcing the underground church in 100% Muslim communities. Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world.
www.mup.org
Wish List:
Medical packs for free clinics
Cost: $50
Cross-Cultural Evangelism/Church Planting Training
Cost: $100/person
Purpose/Mission:
Kevin & Lydia Kimble teach theol-ogy in an Evangelical Seminary in Taichung and oversee university Christian ministries at a national university. Kevin has been asked to write and teach weekend training seminars in mainland China and to be the lead pastor of an English speaking outreach of his church in Taichung. Lydia is Taiwanese. She and their two girls are very involved in the missionary and Taiwanese Christian communities.
Only 2% of Taiwan’s 23 million people are Evangelical Christian.
Wish List:
Transport cost for outreach trips to Taiwan
Cost: $50/share
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Purpose/Mission:
Asian Children’s Mission promotes justice and Jesus for the women and children of Southeast Asia.
Primarily working in Burma, Asian Children’s Mission operates primary and middle schools in villages that would otherwise have no schools, provides training for Sunday School leaders, operates two children’s homes and is involved in a wide variety of community development activities ranging from safe water projects to the installation of rice mills.
www.asianchildrensmission.org
Wish List:
Books & Stationery for students
Cost: $10
Teacher sponsorship
Cost: $70/month
School Uniform
Cost: $5
Purpose/Mission:
Founded in 1982 by Drs. Ajai and Indu Lall, Central India Chris5tian Mission (CICM) has been taking the love and knowledge of Jesus Christ to unreached people for over 30 years, planting over 1,400 churches, sponsoring almost 5,000 children, training over 450 Christian leaders, treating thousands of people at the Mission Hospital, and baptizing over 350,000 people.
www.indiamission.org
Wish List:
Child Sponsorship
Cost: $360Share: $30
Motorbike
Cost: $1,200Share: $75
Evangelist Sponsorship
Cost: $3000Share: $250
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Purpose/Mission:
Through God’s amazing grace, guidance and provision, we extend HIS love and compassion through various projects, work and food programs in the commuist countries of China and North Korea. In 2013, God opened a new ministry oppor-tunity to build a Leper Community in Stung Treng, Cambodia...the work is underway on this project. In 2014, a new work was opened with the ‘Boat People’, living in a slum area in Bacoor, Philippines. The people of Cambodia and the Philippines enjoy ‘religious freedom.’
www.cramwinc.org
Wish List:
40 bags of rice
Cost: $50 for 40 bags
Orphan Sponsorship
Cost: $30/month
Purpose/Mission:
NICM has grown to include 16 new churches, a training center for evangelists and Christian leaders, Good News Productions Interna-tional, FAME medical and dental clinics, Master Provisions clothing distribution, 20 sewing centers, four Christian primary schools, a special needs school, mobile schools in three slum neighborhoods, two leper churches and feeding programs and over 1000 fi rst generation believers. All of the pastors & evangelists of NICM are nationals who have been rejected by their families as “out-casts” because of their decision to follow Jesus.
www.nicm.org
Wish List:
Disciple-Maker Sponsorship
Cost: $600Share: $60
Child School Tuition
Cost: $180/yearShare: $15
Punjabi New Testaments
Cost: $10
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Purpose/Mission:
Rapha House exists to love, rescue, and heal children who have been rescued out of slavery and sexual exploitation. Rapha House began in 2003 to permeate cultures with love that heals and leads to restoration. Rapha House does this by providing safe homes and aftercare programs for young girls who have been res-cued out of slavery and exploitative situations. All Rapha House homes are currently located in Southeast Asia, with the goal of expanding globally.
www.raphahouse.org
Wish List:
Safehouse Construction
Cost: $100/share
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Latin American Ministries, directed by Erick and Sira Gutierrtez of Nica-ragua, is located near Murcia, Spain. The region is rich in agriculture and fruit farms. Many Arabic-speaking Muslims from North Africa immigrate there each year to fi nd jobs. LAM’s ministry includes teaching Spanish to Arabic-speakers using Biblical texts. They also lead an internation-al church that is attended by some Spaniards and many internationals. Ministry to immigrants is one of the current mission strategies that is adding many souls to the Kingdom.
www.lamtoday.org
Wish List:
15 Computers to teach refugees
Cost: $500/computer
Share: $100
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We endeavor to be a holistic faith based ministry meeting the core needs of children, their families, and their communities in the country of Romania. Four facets of ministry: We’re expanding our reach by shar-ing the Good News through church planting. We’re meeting the changing needs of At-Risk Children through our sponsorship program. We’re providing quality training through mentoring to our church planters and students studying with us abroad. We’re helping the forgotten, elderly,and frail with Elder Orphan Care.
www.remember-the-children.org
Wish List:
Support a child/adult
Cost: $35/month
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Aziz Zaghzagh is a Moroccan Christian convert from Islam. He has a burning desire to see other Arabic-speaking Muslims come to know and follow Jesus. He and his wife, Ingrid, and their 4 children are about the business of befriending Muslims and serving their multicul-tural community using the gifts that God has granted them. Aziz works as a Spanish language teacher and mediator for immigrants. Ingrid runs the second hand clothing depart-ment and offers English classes to youth. They planted a small church, where Spanish, Latinos and Moroc-cans learn and worship together.
E-mail:[email protected]
Wish List:
Christian Literature in Spanish
Cost: $20
Beamer/Language Teaching activities
Cost: $300Share: $100
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Purpose/Mission:
TCM International Institute devel-ops national Christian leaders for signifi cant service by providing graduate level education. TCM graduates and students are from more than 40 countries in Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. The 543 graduates and more than 1,000 students are actively involved in ministry to more than 100,000 people each yer, impacting their churches, cultures, and countries as they share the gospel and serve in the name of Jesus.
www.tcmi.org
Wish List:
Books and Resources
Cost: $25
Student Scholarship
Cost: $16,000Share: $50
Purpose/Mission:
The Lord has laid it upon our hearts to serve in Ireland again. We have always hoped He would give us an-other opportunity as He has always kept the Irish on our hearts and in our prayers. Many Irish have lost faith in the church over the last few years, but there is still a deep spiritualism amongst the people and a desire to know God. We desire to plant a new church in Cork, Ireland that will help people fi nd their way back to God. We are excited to return to Ireland and get started as we already have 20 people in Cork that are very inter-ested in being part of this new work!
Wish List:
Outreach Bibles
Cost: $60/case
Start Up Ministry Costs
Cost: $10,000
Share: $50
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Purpose/Mission:
Guatemala Children’s Mission is raising and educating impoverished children in Guatemala in a loving, Christian environment to be suc-cessful, Christian adults with the desire and ability to help their own people.
Agua Viva Home strives to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the children in Guatemala. Agua Viva School, on the same property, is open also to the public offering scholarships to families in the com-munity. Sherwood Oaks sends two Global Outreach teams each year to Agua Viva.
www.aguavivahome.org
Christmas Wish List:
Child Sponsorship
Cost: $420/yearShare: $35
School Child Sponsorship
Cost: $420/year
Share: $35
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Purpose/Mission:
His Eyes ministry exists to reach Honduras and beyond for Christ through a medical/dental/optometry/laboratory clinic, Church plant-ing, clothing and sports ministries, construction, short term groups, leadership development, feeding program for children and coffee/crop farming.
Sherwood Oaks sends two Global Outreach teams each year to His Eyes in Honduras.
www.hiseyes.us
Wish List:
Perimeter Wall
Cost: $50
Pastoral Retreat Materials
Cost: $100
Coffee plants
Cost: $5
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Sherwood Oaks supports 39 local, national and global missions with prayer, fi nances and short-term work teams.
We support missions that:
• Evangelize and disciple unreached peoples; • Prepare leaders for Christian service; • Are led by indigenous leadership; • Meet the needs of “the least of these,” widows
and orphans; • Manage resources responsibly; • Communicate regularly with the church; • Provide opportunity for fi eld involvement; • Are compatible with our values.
2015-2016 Global Outreach Projects
Go to socc.org/serve/go for more information or to sign up for any of these projects.
• LaCumbre, Costa Rica• His Eyes, Honduras• Mexico Family Camp• South Dakota Res Camp• Remember the Children, Romania• Act Beyond, Indonesia• Hope Children’s Home, Myanmar