LOCAL MISSION PARTNERS
We seek to learn, teach and practice organic gardening and farming in the places that have been neglected and abandoned in and with the neighborhood of Garfield.
Contact: John Creasy – john@pghopendoor.org, Kelly Dee – lifelessordinary@gmail.com
Open Hand Ministries
http://openhandpittsburgh.org/
The mission of Open Hand is to respond to the injustice and inequality common to inner city neighborhoods by providing low/moderate income, disadvantaged families the opportunity for affordable homeownership in the economically challenged Pittsburgh neighborhoods of Garfield and East Liberty.
Contact: Nick Burdette – nburdette@gmail.com
Allie and Phil Mollenkoff – Coalition for Christian Outreach (CCO)
http://www.ccojubilee.org/2008/12/10/allie-mollenkof/
http://www.ccojubilee.org/about-us/where-we-serve/staff/philipmollenkof/
The CCO is a campus ministry that partners with churches, colleges and other organizations to develop men and women who live out their Christian faith in every area of life.
Contact: Allie Mollenkof – alliemollenkof@gmail.com, Phil Mollenkof – pmollenkof@ccojubilee.org
NEIGHBORHOOD MISSION PARTNERS
East End Cooperative Ministries
EECM is an interfaith ministry dedicated to helping at-risk children and youth, the homeless, and others in need throughout Pittsburgh’ s East End.
Sojourner House
http://www.sojournerhousepa.org
A faith-based residential rehabilitation facility where addicted women learn to break the inter-generational cycle of poverty and chemical abuse while maintaining their own apartments.
The Upper Room
A church plant located in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, whose purpose is to grow God’s Kingdon, call people to a relationship with Jesus, equip them for ministry, and send them to minister to the world. They are a cross-cultural, sacramental, and missional community.
Contact: Chris Brown – church@pghupperroom.com
East Liberty Family Health Care Center
ELFHCC is a local health care center whose aim is to witness to God’s love, through Jesus Christ, by offering quality, whole-person health care to all, especially the poor.
GLOBAL MISSION PARTNERS
Lion of Judah
Millers (Tanzania)
Open Door Short-Term Missions
Jessica Gormley de Pérez and Emanuel Pérez de la Roca
http://cten.org/cgi-bin/MissionaryList.cgi?section=&cat=Guatemala&rec=113&LAYOUT=publicusa.htm
Jessica and Emanuel serve in Chichicastenango, Guatemala at ASELSI (Association Equipping the Saints International) Ministries. After working for three years at Pittsburgh Urban Christian School, Jess moved to Guatemala in 2007 to teach missionary kids. Eman has been working at ASELSI since 2004. They got married in August of 2009. Jessica now serves at ASELSI teaching women how to read, and tutoring special needs children. Emanuel teaches at ASELSI’s Bible Seminary and also works as an administrator at ASELSI.
ASSOCIATE MISSION PARTNERS
Amizade – Brazil
http://theaccommodation.wordpress.com
http://www.amizade.org/community_partnerships/brazil.html
Amizade empowers individuals and communities through worldwide service and learning.
The Fundação Esperança - is a Brazilian nonprofit organization that has been providing health and education to the inhabitants of the Amazon for over 30 years. The health clinic depends on volunteer dentists and physicians to provide care for the needy people of the Amazon.
APAE – The Association of Parents and Friends (Amigos) of Exceptionals (APAE) was founded in 1977 to provide assistance in health, education, and welfare to people with disabilities. It is the only private, non-profit organization in the area (a region that is approximately the size of Belgium) that is actively promoting the prevention, rehabilitation, and education of physically and mentally disabled children.
Contact: Nathan Darity – ndarity@gmail.com and Valerie Hess – valhess1@gmail.com
Ambassadors in Sport (AIS)
Using soccer to transform the physical, emotional, and spiritual lives of urban youth.
Contact: Lenny Muckle – Lenny@yesac.org
Just Coffee
Café Justo is a coffee grower cooperative based in Salvador Urbina, Chiapas, Mexico. We market a pure, organic cofee which is grown, harvested and marketed in the spirit of justice. Our goal is to provide incentives for people to remain on their family lands.
Contact: Nick Burdette- nburdette@gmail.com
Living Ministry
We are L.I.V.I.N.G. to serve Pittsburgh’s homeless and needy in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
God has given us a mission, and that mission is pretty clear. We are to to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke of bondage. We are also to share our food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter, and when we see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from our own flesh and blood. (From Isaiah 58:6,7)
Contact: contact@livingministry.org
PULSE
http://www.pulsepittsburgh.org/
PULSE, the Pittsburgh Urban Leadership Service Experience, was founded in 1994 by John Stahl-Wert. Since then, PULSE has brought more than 90 college graduates to the Steel City, pairing them with responsible positions at community-building organizations ranging from hospitals to local radio stations and food banks. About a third of PULSE alumni are still living in Pittsburgh, making important contributions to their adopted city.
Contact: Chris Cooke – info@pulsepittsburgh.org
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