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, 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. The project managers are also investing time and resources into monitoring the toilets for cleanliness and completing necessary maintenance tasks.
Read more about The Advocacy Project or to make a financial gift at their website.
For more information, contact Ken Scherpelz, kscherpelz@att.net
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
Disability Support International (DSI) seeks to address the tremendous inequality for living disabilities and the need to change this reality. Currently, 1.3 billion people in our world live with a significant disability. 80% live in developing countries where exclusion is the norm and access to services and opportunities are greatly lacking, if they exist at all.
The main focus of DSI is to provide disability training to local teachers so that they understand children who struggle with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Utilizing a “Training of Trainers” model, their program is sustainable and can continuously gain momentum to reach communities that need this help.
DSI also operates Global Disability Directory, an online resource that shares information on over 500 disability organizations that have been identified across 116 countries. This allows people in need in these areas to learn about existing support.
For more information, contact Ken Scherpelz.
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, her husband and sons 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.
In October of 2025, a team of five from Prince of Peace visited the Grain of Rice Academy where they worked with teachers and students in the classrooms and helped with various projects around the school and grounds. We are hoping to make other trips in the future.
For more information go to www.grainofriceproject.org. Updates from Amy may be found on our Facebook group.
For more information, contact Erin Shah, erincshah@yahoo.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 280 students have completed a rigorous nursing program and have earned a BSN degree. More than 40 have completed recently added advanced nurse practitioner degrees in Family Practice, Nurse Midwifery, and Health Education. 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.
Homes for Hope is an organization that focuses on improving the lives of families who have lived and worked in a dump outside of Granada, Nicaragua for years. Instead of living in homes made from cardboard and whatever scraps they can find, Homes for Hope can build a one-room home with a concrete floor, solid walls, a tin roof, and a door with a lock. The cost of these homes is only $750. They have also built group latrines for only $350. This gives these families safety, security, privacy, and dignity. Their vision has now expanded to include programs to support education, nutrition, and community development.
When we learned that houses and latrines could be built for such a reasonable amount of money, it was clear that we could make a meaningful difference to those who live in a setting that is hard for us to fathom.
Our middle and high school youth are entrusted with the honor of distributing 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.
LDR provides relief supplies, crisis counseling, and support for local pastors so they can focus on caring for their congregations and communities. LDR engages with synods and Lutheran social service agencies in the US and around the world, wherever a disaster occurs.
LDR not only helps communities starting with immediate relief but also through long-term recovery. They partner with companion churches and other Luteran and ecumenical relief agencies to deliver the help that is needed as long as it is needed.
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 Partner 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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