
Throughout 2026, we are honored to support ministries that reflect Christ’s love both locally and around the world. Each month, we highlight a partner doing meaningful work for the Kingdom.
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January
Rise Against Hunger
Rise Against Hunger is growing a global movement to end hunger by empowering communities, nourishing lives, and responding to emergencies. Working in countries worldwide, they provide volunteer-packaged meals and other assistance—often through school feeding programs—to support nutrition, education, and health. They also partner with local leaders to implement sustainable agriculture and income-generating projects that promote long-term food security and community self-reliance.
https://www.riseagainsthunger.org
February
Safe Families for Children, SWMI
Safe Families for Children surrounds families in crisis with compassionate, family-like support. Through a community of devoted volunteers, Safe Families hosts children and provides practical help to parents who have nowhere else to turn. Their work focuses on family stabilization, child abuse prevention, and keeping families together whenever possible.
https://southwestmichigan.safe.families.org
March
Workplace Chaplaincy Foundation - Roger Matthews
The Workplace Chaplaincy Foundation exists to develop, resource, and serve workplace chaplain organizations. They support the chaplaincy movement by providing training and certification, facilitating research and internships, offering consulting services, resourcing forums, and helping launch new workplace-based employee care services.
https://www.workplacechaplaincy.foundation.org
April
Jessie & Elijah Brook
Jessie, a daughter of Haven, and her husband Elijah are planting a church in Levenmouth, Fife, Scotland in partnership with Mission to the World. Through relational ministry and church planting, they are working to expand God’s Kingdom in a region with limited gospel presence.
https://www.mtw.org
May
Kids Alive (Brian Reynolds, Guatemala)
Kids Alive in Guatemala is committed to rescuing girls from severe abuse and helping them discover their God-given worth. In safe, loving homes led by Christian house parents, rescued girls receive quality education, trauma-focused therapy, and spiritual care as they begin healing and rebuilding their lives with hope and dignity.
https://www.kidsalive.org
June
Loaves & Fishes
Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes feeds hungry people while engaging the community in the fight to end hunger. As a “Food Bank Plus,” they distribute food through 77 sites across Kalamazoo County and operate five food programs designed to meet people where they are, ensuring access to nutritious food with dignity and care.
https://www.kzoolf.org
July
Kalamazoo Gospel Ministries
For more than 86 years, Kalamazoo Gospel Ministries has served the Kalamazoo community by offering radical hospitality in Jesus’ name. Through meals, shelter, recovery programs, and spiritual care, KGM supports individuals facing hunger, homelessness, abuse, and addiction on their journey toward healing and restoration.
https://www.kzoogospel.org
August
Christian Neighbors
Christian Neighbors serves local families in need by providing food assistance, emergency financial help, and skill-building education. Their goal is to promote long-term stability and self-sufficiency while offering compassionate support during times of crisis.
https://www.christianneighbors.org
September
Unknown Nations
Unknown Nations exists to make Jesus known in the most remote and spiritually unreached regions of the world. With nearly half of the world’s population lacking access to the gospel, they focus on planting churches, distributing audio Bibles, and providing humanitarian aid—bringing lasting transformation to communities that have never heard the name of Jesus.
https://www.unknownnations.com
October
Corbyn and Tyler Sylvey
Tyler and Corbyn Silvey partner with the North American Mission Board and serve through Church of the Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland. Their mission is to declare God’s truth and display His love so that people become devoted followers of Jesus through gospel-centered community engagement.
https://www.churchoftheharbor.org
November
Youth for Christ
For 75 years, Youth for Christ has been reaching young people throughout Southwest Michigan by building authentic relationships and pointing students to Jesus. Last year alone, YFC connected with more than 1,500 students, with many making first-time decisions to trust Christ.
https://www.yfc.net/chapter/kalamazoo-area/
December
SHALOM
SHALOM provides Christ-centered residential communities for adults with special needs. With seven homes and 40 residents, SHALOM operates as an extended family, offering stability, belonging, and compassionate care through Christian caregivers who help residents thrive in a place they can truly call home.
https://www.shalomkazoo.org