Casa de Amistad creates a safe, supportive place where children and teens facing socio-economic and educational challenges are valued, encouraged, and empowered to reach their full potential. With assistance from hundreds of dedicated volunteer mentors, the support of families, and generous community partners, more than 250 students in grades K–12 benefit each year from academic tutoring and guidance, STEM and early literacy enrichment, career exploration, college preparation, and family engagement. 

Since the start of first grade, a dedicated volunteer mentor has walked alongside her student in the Study Companions program. Today, as the student enters third grade, the pair continues to read together week after week, work through challenges, celebrate progress, and share plenty of laughter and matching outfits along the way. This young reader has worked hard to become stronger and more confident and has discovered the joy of finding books she loves. 

Our goal is to raise $5,500 for our reading program to support our youngest students in building strong literacy skills and discovering the joy and possibilities that reading can bring. 

Your gift to Casa de Amistad supports students at every stage of their educational journey with academic support and mentorship. For example, $25 can provide a Casa student with a book to read, and $50 can provide engaging literacy activities and a popular book series.

Come Build Hope provides a short-term faith-based mission trip that gathers people to give their time, spiritual gifts, and financial resources to build casas with Mexican families in Baja. Through this experience, we build connection and hope among Mexican and American families, and we give people opportunities to build skills, deepen their faith, and transform their lives.

A year ago, two boys and their father experienced Come Build Hope and cemented this as an annual trip for the family. For the boys, it was a huge culture shock, an opportunity to serve others, and a way to build their church community. This year their dad realized that Come Build Hope is not an old-person trip - this is a youth trip that many parents join in on. “As a young person, it was incredibly powerful to be working with such a broad range of people from the church to help others that really needed a house,” said Blake. His brother Jack agrees, “It has been very helpful to see the impact we can have on a family when we don’t even have any real skills. I like to go with my youth group because it allows us to build community here at One Youth.”

Our goal is to subsidize an additional 10 SBPC youth builders and keep the registration fee at $250. CBH subsidizes $478 per youth builder equaling a $4780 investment in the enrichment and furthering of God’s Kingdom. We would also like to build one additional casa in 2027 by fund-raising the project fee of $5000.

Your gift to Come Build Hope keeps a family together in their community by giving them a home they cannot afford on their own. For example, $5 can provide nails to build a casa, and $50 can help fund a scholarship for a youth builder.

Every month, members of the SBPC Hispanic Fellowship and volunteers reach out to our neighbors by preparing and distributing sack breakfasts and lunches to day workers waiting on local street corners. The goal of this ministry is to put Jesus’s words and teachings into practice - loving God and our neighbors not only by providing food, but also through hospitality, fellowship, and the offer of hope and new life through relationship with God and His people.

With a smile, wishing them a blessed day and a bag of food they know that someone cares and that God cares. In one encounter, a gentleman asked to take more than one food bag for his family, to which volunteer Gabriel said yes. What takes place next is astonishing. From the bushes he called his two kids to feed them. We hope to share the eternal bread of Jesus Christ because we want to do all this for His honor and glory.

Rising food prices make it more and more of a stretch to provide hearty, nutritious meals for as many day workers as possible each month. Donations will help supplement these rising costs, enabling the ministry team to consistently and generously provide.

Your gift to the Day Worker Meal Ministry provides local day workers sustenance and hospitality through monthly meals. For example, $15 can provide bananas for 15 sack lunches, and $50 can provide a substantial sandwich, fresh fruit, and a bottle of water for 30 workers.

It is hard to imagine walking in the shoes of a child separated from their parents anytime, but especially at Christmas. Foster Hope Ministry provides Christmas gifts on the wish lists of 125 local foster children who are dependents of the child welfare system. They also provide Christmas stockings for 40 or more young adults who have aged out of the foster care system and are now being mentored through Just In Time for Foster Youth. These gifts are a tangible expression of the love of Christ and let them know they are valued. 

In January, Foster Hope launched a new Bible study for former foster youth ages 19 to 26. The group meets for dinner, journaling, and scripture discussion. Members study topics about God’s grace and forgiveness. The impact is that the youth are building a kind community and learning to follow Jesus together. They accept and care for each other and are learning to see the world through God’s truth. We hope they are also learning to overcome fear and worry and move toward faithfulness and fruitfulness. In August, one of the participants was baptized at her newly found church in Oceanside.

Here are your options for helping Foster Hope bless these youth this Christmas:

• Give a monetary gift below

• Give a physical gift by finding the link at solanabeach.church/ACM

For over 20 years, we have had the privilege of faithfully sharing the Gospel with college students across San Diego County through our leadership with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Together, we develop future Christian leaders who create spaces for others to encounter God and experience the love of Jesus - through Bible studies, outreach events, genuine community, and a living witness to the hope found in Christ.

And we’re seeing God do this very work again and again through the ministry! This past year, a student-athlete on the football team started a small group to reach fellow athletes at USD. By the end of the school year, the group had grown to 20–40 student athletes from multiple teams gathering every single week for Bible study.

The goal of our 115 student leaders is to start more than 50 on-campus Bible Study groups to reach the incoming class of university students across San Diego. 

Your gift to the mission will help more college students encounter God and equip them to represent Jesus on the campus. For example, $40 can provide food for a Small Group outreach, and $100 can provide a partial scholarship for one student to attend an evangelistic conference.  

Ladle Fellowship serves the poor and homeless of downtown San Diego in the name of Jesus, meeting practical needs with dignity and welcoming each guest as Christ himself. Our vision is a downtown San Diego where the least of these are no longer unseen and where the homeless are known by name, restored in dignity, and welcomed to the table in Christ’s Kingdom.

We haven’t seen “Kelly” in months, and while that sounds sad, it’s actually a great thing. He finally got sober. For years, he would arrive at our Sunday service, drunk and emotional. He would cry to me about things and beg me for prayer. Every weekend I would pray for him and then pry his hands off me. Then 3 weeks passed where I didn’t see him. He showed up the following Sunday, clear-eyed and sober. Next week he was drunk again. Then, no more Kelly, but another friend reported to me that Kelly was in sober-living, employed, and doing well. God has worked in that man’s life through this ministry. 

Our current goal is to renew our service facilities. We have already received a very generous donation of $20K to replace our chairs! We are repairing walls and expanding our “clothing closet” (~$50K) and we dream of redoing our 30-year old floors with finished concrete (~$100K). It’s a real need because of indelible stains, cracking tile that creates trip hazards, and a desire for our place of worship and service to look and feel nice for our guests. 

Your gift to Ladle Fellowship will continue to bring hope in the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the impoverished community in downtown San Diego. For example, $15 can feed dinner to 3-5 hungry neighbors, and $50 can buy 70 pairs of new socks for sore feet.

New Day Urban Ministries is dedicated to empowering individuals experiencing urban poverty and homelessness in Downtown San Diego and beyond through strategic outreach, operational support, and resource development. Our mission is to provide the critical tools, care, and guidance necessary to foster long-term self-sufficiency and hope.

This year, Margaret arrived in San Diego from Kenya facing severe work obstacles after a false employment offer left her completely homeless. Reaching absolute rock bottom, she reached out to us in desperation. While New Day primarily provides vital daytime resources, like meals, clothing donations, and help securing state IDs, licenses, and professional certifications, our team knew we had to step up and provide her with immediate shelter. Margaret recently shared, ‘Honestly, I didn’t know what was going to happen next...that you stepped up to give me shelter is something I will never forget.”

For the second half of FY 2026, our greatest financial needs center around our vital morning outreach program as well as our essential office printing and mailing expenses. A donation of $50 is incredibly impactful for us, as it completely covers the cost of our daily Prayer, Coffee, and Bread ministry for 50 people, providing immediate physical and spiritual nourishment to our community.

Your gift to New Day provides physical and spiritual nourishment through their morning outreach program. For example, $15 can provide warm bread, pastries, and coffee for 15 neighbors visiting their morning prayer ministry, and $50 can cover the cost of their daily Prayer, Coffee, and Bread ministry for 50 people.

Pathways to Citizenship provides legal immigration services for qualified low-income immigrant and refugee families in San Diego County. Since 2013, Pathways has provided legal consultations for more than 5,500 immigrant and refugee families, filed more than 1,000 immigration cases for clients from more than 55 countries, represented more than 250 new U.S. citizens, and helped more than 550 adults improve their English and prepare for citizenship. Today, Pathways engages more than 200 volunteer tutors, attorneys, law clerks, and translators in this complex and life-changing work.

With less than 24 hours’ notice, Pathways’ supervising attorney Caroline traveled to Otay Mesa Detention Center to meet three Christian women from Cameroon seeking asylum, including Sandy, a nurse caught in the violent conflict. Sandy escaped Cameroon and made her way to Mexico, where she was kidnapped, robbed, and abandoned in an unfamiliar place. In that moment of fear and desperation, Sandy cried out to God, who led her (in her words) to a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Sandy, in detention since requesting asylum, sees that moment as an answer to prayer, connecting her with Pathways, which is representing her in her asylum case. Sandy’s story is one example of what it means for Pathways to welcome the stranger.

Pathways’ goal is to raise $30,000 to provide legal training and technical support for staff, volunteer attorneys, and pro bono law clerks in 2027, which will enable Pathways to represent more qualified immigrant families and asylum seekers, including Christians fleeing persecution.

Your gift to Pathways helps keep local families together and supports them on the path toward citizenship. For example, $50 can provide citizenship preparation class materials, and $125 can provide a legal consultation for an immigrant or refugee family.

Since 1955, the San Diego Rescue Mission has lovingly addressed the needs of men, women, and children experiencing homelessness by sharing the Good News and offering a path to rehabilitation and recovery. From our downtown 1-year program, and our South County emergency shelter (the “Lighthouse”), we serve San Diego County through immediate shelter, a faith-based residential program, children’s services, street outreach, and hunger relief. 

Leticia has been sober for 10 months. Untreated PTSD, anxiety, depression, and meth addiction escalated into homelessness, placing Leticia and her 3-year-old daughter in the flood tunnels near Las Vegas Boulevard for three years of danger, hunger, and survival. Losing custody of her daughter in 2024 was devastating, but it forced Leticia to confront her reality and commit fully to recovery. Today Leticia is rebuilding her future with her daughter because of programs at the SD Rescue Mission.

Our vision is to move our unsheltered neighbors out of homelessness permanently, offering shelter, rehabilitation, and the wraparound care that helps people rebuild their lives. To sustain and grow this work over the coming year, we are seeking to raise $21 million to expand our emergency shelter services into North County, serve more meals, and walk more people through recovery. 

Your gift to the San Diego Rescue Mission helps to offer shelter, meals, recovery, and the hope of Jesus to our neighbors experiencing homelessness. For example, $15 provides puzzles, board games, and toys for families staying at the shelter during Christmas, and $50 blesses a family of four with a week of hot meals.

Brad & Lisa are teachers/mentors with Studio, a training program for new cross-cultural workers.  We provide classroom teaching, paired with hands-on service among refugees and immigrants, to prepare people for field ministry among the unreached. Studio training is for the whole family.  Children who will be moving to another country with their parents get their own special classes.

Our spring 2026 cohort was one of the best ever! This group of seven completed their training in June after a semester of study, team life, mentoring, and ministry in the refugee community.  They bonded as a team and were intentional in using their gifts to support one another personally and in ministry. Through teaching English and other service, they made close relationships in the community and had wonderful experiences sharing stories and praying for their Muslim friends. These new Studio alumni are now beginning their ministries on the field in Central Asia and the Middle East, joining Studio grads in more than 30 countries. 

One of the highlights of every Studio training day is lunch together after morning classes. It’s a time to relax, refuel and connect with one another, as well as tell field stories and pursue deeper conversations between interns and staff.  Additional funds will help cover the cost of lunch supplies.

Your gift to Studio Internship goes towards preparing cross-cultural workers for field ministry among the unreached. For example, $15 can provide books, games, and art supplies for the Studio kids’ program, and $30 can cover an intern’s lunches for a week.

The tribal peoples of Sindh prefer songs to sermons. At the Audio-Visual Center, we produce indigenous audio, visual and printed resources to share the Truth.

The Hindu wife of someone we know passed away, and as is their custom, there was worship every night, with both Hindu and Christian singers. Paul came 3 nights to sing. As he came into the village the 2nd night, he heard children singing one of his songs. On the final worship night, there were hundreds of guests, and when it was Paul’s turn to sing, many children came and sat right in front. They said, “Sing the song that says, ‘If you have a humble heart, Jesus will win and Satan will lose.’” Then they happily sang along through the 4 songs he sang. Simple songs with simple truths are easier to remember than a sermon. 

Recently Paul and his team recorded 40 new songs in three different languages. Since then, 40 more have been written.  It is not usual to write and compose so many new songs in just a few months.  However, our team felt that several tribal languages need more worship songs.  So, the writing began in Marwari, Parkari, Wadhiari, Tharadhari and Sindhi to add to the hymnbook. Finances are needed for recording vocals, instruments, mixing, mastering and distribution of these new songs. 

Your gift to the Audio Visual Centre supports recording and distribution of new songs in tribal languages. For example, $5 can provide delicious curry or hot chai to sustain musicians recording new hymns, and $50 can pay for a professional singer to record the main vocals.

Abdiel and Alejandra equip students for campus ministry in the northern states of Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, and Nuevo León). They also train COMPA (Compañerismo Estudiantil) staff throughout Mexico to serve student leaders in ministry, and they develop courses, materials, events, and Bible expositions for the IFES (International Fellowship of Evangelical Students) student community.

The university student ministry in Northern Mexico is growing! Currently, just 3 staff members support 26 Bible study groups across four cities, including one group in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, that doesn’t yet have local staff of its own. To keep up with this growth, we’re praying for 1 additional staff member and 4 volunteers, along with funding for campus staff support and a staff retreat.

We’re also working to send a delegation of 30 students to the national training camp this year, and we’re praying to launch a pioneering ministry in a new state in the region. Please join us in praying that God provides the people and resources needed to help this movement continue to flourish.

Your financial gift can help equip staff and students for leadership and spiritual growth on university campuses throughout Northern Mexico. For example, $15 can give a university student a book on Christian discipleship, and $50 can help fund travel to form a student leadership team in Ciudad Juárez.

Crossroads Church Thoiry exists to help a growing number of people in the greater Geneva area receive and reflect the love of Jesus Christ. Our passion is to see Jesus Christ change lives and help make fully devoted followers of him.

God continues to use our church family to be a place of healing and hope for the hurting. J, L and V have all suffered abuse in their lives at the hands of family members. Each of them love Jesus and are growing in a relationship with him. Our church has been a place of encouragement and hope for them as they unpack the ways trauma has impacted each of them, but also helping them see that God can use the hurts in our lives to help others. These three ladies have become a source of mutual encouragement to each other. It’s also exciting to see how God is using each of them to bless others in our church family. Please pray that God will help us continue to be a place of healing for the hurting and that God will continue to bind up the brokenhearted through the power of the Holy Spirit. 

Your gift to the Heymans will support their ministry needs. For example, a gift of $20 can help a family send their child to Bible camp, and $50 can help the church replace the sound system.

We seek to reveal Jesus - His salvation, freedom, and healing - to people in the San Quintin Valley of Mexico. Our two churches reach out to those in prison, rehab centers, and abused women’s shelters.

Prison is about waiting. Prisoners wait out their sentences and ministers wait to enter. After they searched both us and the hygiene kits we were donating, there was little to do but wait. My attention fell on one woman after another, imagining what their lives might be if they were not incarcerated. Young women in their twenties, who might be housewives or college students; women in their thirties and forties who would have families, careers, elderly parents; a couple of women in their fifties who might have been here since they were young. “Lord, set them free!” I prayed. Everyone wore the same gray sweatsuit. It wasn’t the lack of fashion that touched me; rather, the lack of individuality. Everyone was a prisoner, end of story.  When we were allowed to proceed, we passed some women talking on payphones. One asked, “What did you do today? Do you have homework?” A mother talking to her child. They’re not numbers; they’re individuals - mothers, daughters, wives, maybe professionals. I pray that Jesus will guide each of these women and their unique story to a joy-filled ending.

The prison in Mexico requires that visiting teams bring hygiene kits for the prisoners. It is costly to purchase the necessary items. 

A gift to this ministry can supply hygiene supplies that help enable prisoners in Ensenada to find hope, redemption, and the mercy of Christ. For example, $10 can purchase art supplies for children of those we minister to, and $50 can purchase supplies for 15 hygiene kits.

This is a ministry of SBPC that partners with the Mekane Yesus Church in Ethiopia to share the good news of Christ in word and deed. This happens through the Keep a Girl in School program, food security initiatives, evangelism and discipleship training.

This past November, an SBPC team sat down with a young Ethiopian woman in her community, and her story stopped them in their tracks. As a girl, her family relied on support through the SBPC “Keep a Girl in School” program to cover fees, uniforms, and supplies, enabling her to stay enrolled all the way through high school. She then did something rare for her region: she moved to the highlands for college and studied social work. Today, she’s back in that remote region, working in her own community to help other young women access the support that changed her life. As she spoke to the team, what stood out most wasn’t just what she’d achieved, but how she shined with a quiet confidence in her education, her career, and her purpose. Her smile said it all: consistent, long-term investment in a child’s education truly works.  

Global economic instability has driven up costs across the board, straining the ability to sustain essential services, from evangelists and discipleship trainers to livestock, food supplements, irrigation work, and the fuel that ministry workers need to reach vulnerable communities. Additional funding is needed to ensure these programs can continue without interruption.

Your gift will help families in that remote region flourish physically and spiritually. For example, $20 can provide the required school uniform for a girl, and $50 can provide a flock of chickens to a woman in a co-op group. 

For 20 years, volunteers have traveled monthly to Tijuana and Rosarito to serve with local churches in impoverished areas. We offer a Christ-centered craft and breakfast to 80 children and provide meals for 160 elderly, infirm, and otherwise homeless residents. We cover utilities, food, crafts, Bibles, medicine, maintenance, safety needs, school uniforms and backpacks, and Christmas boxes for 450 children.

Pastor Mondegron, who runs El Refugio, houses and feeds over 160 people who would otherwise live on the street. His goal is to give them a place to stay, and just as importantly, a place where they will come to know God. This year he was faced with the possibility of having to close the home due to lack of funds to resolve safety issues identified by the local authorities. In order to fix all the issues, construction was needed at El Refugio and also training for the volunteers working there. Thanks to SBPC, Kingdom Builder Foundation, and Hope Without Boundaries, Pastor Mondegron was able to improve the facilities at El Refugio to comply with the safety and fire regulations. 

There is an ongoing need to improve and extend the kitchen at El Refugio, for both safety and health issues.  A grease trap needs to be installed in the kitchen and we are currently seeking $1100 to purchase moveable storage units for the kitchen that will allow food to be kept off the floor.

Your gift to Hope Without Boundaries can help support the children and elderly of Baja California in many ways. For example, $20 can provide a Christmas gift such as a soccer ball to a child, and $50 can provide food for the elderly and breakfast for the children.

Together - Reversing rural poverty. Restoring watersheds. Renewing hope. Rooted in faith. Plant With Purpose’s hope is to see lives and land restored in rural, far-reaching corners of the earth, building up local churches to care for creation.  

After retiring from her career as a teacher, Faith, a partnering farmer in Tanzania, began to struggle. At a time in life when many expect things to get easier, Faith felt increasingly isolated and anxious.  Faith’s story began to change when she learned about her local Purpose Group. Faith decided to join, and for the first time in years, she began to see opportunities where there had only been obstacles. She shared, “After a few months, I started my first avocado tree nursery. I grafted 50 avocado seedlings, and 42 were successful.” Her businesses soon expanded into poultry, and now people travel to her for her reputable seedlings, eggs, and chickens. 

Plant With Purpose works with rural farmers across nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. The families we partner with live on the margins of society, caught in cycles of poverty that are exacerbated by extreme weather events, droughts, and deforestation. Your generosity can support farmers’ participation in our program, giving them the tools they need to flourish in the face of challenge. 

Your gift to Plant with Purpose can equip farmers to care for their land and overcome poverty. For example, $1 can help reverse deforestation by planting a tree sapling, and $50 can help a family grow out of poverty.

In Sudan, the effects of civil war have decimated livelihoods and made it difficult for local mission workers to survive without outside help. This project aims to help them become more self-supporting by providing funds to buy a selection of small food mills for grinding sesame, grains, chickpeas and fava beans – all local food sources.  Each milling machine costs about $600 and $2500 sets up one shop. Participants will give a portion of their profits to help other national workers also start similar micro businesses. This project provides both income and opportunities to share the Gospel as locals wait for their grain to be milled. 

We seek to provide seed money through micro-loans for sustainable small businesses to help national Christian workers become self-supporting.  Our goal is to raise $5000 to start two small milling shops that would support national Christian workers and their families. 

Your gift to the Sudanese Refugee Crisis can provide seed money through micro-loans for sustainable small businesses to help national Christian workers become self-supporting. For example, $10 can provide chickpeas or fava beans to be made into falafels to sell, and $60 can provide a tenth share of a grain mill.

Béla and Ildikó Dobos serve with Word of Life Hungary where their mission is to help every young person take their first step with Jesus - whether it’s their first step of coming to faith or another step along their journey with Him.

In May, 46 students from 15 different countries graduated from our Bible Institute. During the summer, they served not only in our camp but also in various countries around the world. We also had the opportunity to share the Gospel with over 1,500 people through school, church, and street evangelism. Zsófi’s testimony of what God did in her heart during her first year at our Bible Institute: “I realized that following Jesus means living as someone who is sent, not centered on comfort or control. I learned that God’s plan often includes sacrifice, but it is always intentional and shaped by redemption. Where I am right now, is not accidental, but part of God preparing me to be useful in His hands. This gave me the challenge to walk more closely with Jesus, trust His process of sanctifying me, and live with an eternal perspective rather than a temporary one.”

Our greatest financial needs include supporting staff salaries, renovating several buildings and replacing worn-out furniture and equipment. In particular, we need to replace the worn-out tables and chairs in our dining room, an essential part of our summer camp and conference ministry.

Your gift to Béla and Ildikó helps support the WOL Hungary Bible School and camp renovations. For example, $15 can help cover the cost of materials for creative activities for summer camp, and $50 can help cover the cost of a new chair in our dining hall.