Ministries Making a Difference
Officer’s Christian Fellowship, leadership work in Japan, healthcare in Tanzania, and more.
A3 is working with churches in Japan to identify and train the next generation of leaders as aging pastors continue to inch toward retirement. A3 says record population decline in Japan has challenged churches and businesses in the country as older leaders have no one to succeed them. A3 has one star and an “A” transparency grade in the MinistryWatch database, and a donor confidence score of 92.
Papua New Guinea women donated a food harvest to the missionaries at Nazarene General Hospital, who then shared much of the food with a nearby orphanage.
On July 30, the Officer’s Christian Fellowship (OCF) rededicated its newly renovated Harrison House hotel at White Sulphur Springs, the ministry’s eastern conference center in Pennsylvania. To have a room in the Harrison House named required a collection of $25K, to be used for the hotel’s renovation. The Hampton Road chapter of OCF, for example, raised more than $26K from 22 different donors and dedicated a room as the Hampton Roads Room. OCF has three stars and an “A” transparency grade in the MinistryWatch database, and a donor confidence score of 96.
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The Fellowship of Associates of Medical Evangelism (FAME) is partnering with Remember the Children by donating $30,000 toward the building of a healthcare clinic in the Tanzanian village of Malolo. Remember the Children provides housing and families for orphans in Romania, but recently expanded to Tanzania where an estimated 3.1 million children are orphaned. FAME has four stars and an “A” transparency grade in the MinistryWatch database, and a donor confidence score of 90.
A group of women from churches in Papua New Guinea donated over 1,000 pounds of fresh produce, including bananas, pineapples, tomatoes and potatoes, as well as sugar, eggs, and oil to the missionaries at Nazarene General Hospital (pictured). The missionaries were able to share much of it with a nearby orphanage that had been running short on food. Nazarene Compassionate Ministries has five stars and an “A” transparency grade in the MinistryWatch database, and a donor confidence score of 96.
Catholic Charities USA in Virginia has announced Kerry Alys Robinson as its new president and CEO. She will become only the second layperson and second woman to guide the domestic humanitarian work of the Catholic Church in the United States, according to The NonProfit Times. Catholic Charities USA has two stars and a “D” transparency grade in the MinistryWatch database, and a donor confidence score of 42.
