2025 Special Offerings

Our June Special Offering will go toward supporting The Indigenous Roots and Reparation Foundation, an Indigenous led nonprofit established in 2021 to preserve history, culture, traditions and indigenous languages in North Central Washington. Their goal is to provide a space on ancestral homelands for members of all tribes to practice cultural traditions, ceremony, and fellowship. This space will also serve as a hub for tribal members displaced by wildfire. According to their website they continue to pursue funding to build a community center: “Our goal is to continue to amplify Indigenous voices while creating a safe space. As we continue to fundraise for land or a generous land owner donates a piece of land, this fundraiser will continue to raise money to build a community center & trading post. The community center will be for all Indigenous Peoples to have a safe place to gather, practice traditions, dance, meet and more. The trading post will carry authentic Native American art. All funds raised through this fundraiser will go directly to the Indigenous Roots & Reparation Foundation to manage. We will continue to use our voice to promote positive change, honor our ancestors and the land we walk on. We are the land and the land is us.” Learn more at their website: Home (indigenousrrf.org)

Since 2008 the Sunnyslope Church has been an active member of Growing Hope Globally. For about eleven of those years, the Sunnyslope Church has been supporting the Argentina Bolivia Gran Chaco project. This program is uniquely structured to work in two different remote areas of the Chaco with two different partners, based in two different countries.   As a Christian response to hunger, Growing Hope Globally links the grassroots energy and commitment of rural communities in the U.S. with the capability and desire of smallholder farmers in developing countries to grow lasting solutions to hunger. We envision a day when all people around the world have enough to eat and the physical, financial and community resources to live hopeful, healthy, productive lives. Growing Hope Globally’s constructive role in this transformation is to raise resources to support sustainable smallholder agricultural development and to increase opportunities for all people to work together consciously toward a more just and equitable world for all.

Mission Statement: YWCA NCW is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. Our local vision is to empower women, men, and children to break the cycle of economic insecurity and homelessness and achieve self-sufficiency through assistance, support, and education. Check out some of the exciting things our local YWCA is doing right here in North Central Washington at their website: https://ywcancw.org/

Mission: The Chelan-Douglas CASA Program is a powerful voice for abused and neglected children. Purpose: The purpose of the Chelan-Douglas CASA/Guardian ad Litem Program is to recruit, train, and support community volunteers to advocate for the best interest and enhance the lives of children who are in the foster care system as a result of abuse and neglect. Vision: A world where every child thrives in a safe and loving home free from abuse and neglect. Ethics Statement: It is CASA’s duty to promote the safety and well-being of the children we serve. We shall protect children from abuse and from practices that are emotionally and physically damaging, disrespectful, degrading, dangerous, exploitative or intimidating. Visit their website at: Chelan Douglas CASA (cdcasa.org)

One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) special offering involves us in disaster, refugee/immigration, and development ministries throughout the world. When a disaster strikes or people are displaced or made refugees by violence or extreme poverty, we are part of the immediate response and of the long-term recovery. Through OGHS we engage in holistic development programs including health care, education, agriculture, food sustainability, micro-financing and women’s empowerment. Because the UCC and the Church of the Brethren relate in mutual partnership to churches and organizations through worldwide response & recovery networks, our contributions to One Great Hour of Sharing put us in the right place at the right time for the relief, accompaniment and recovery of the most vulnerable. We meet immediate needs and we address the underlying causes that create those needs in the first place.

Wenatchee Pride is the positive stance against discrimination and violence toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning people to promote their self-affirmation, dignity, equality, rights, increase their visibility as a social group, build community, and celebrate sexual diversity and gender variance. Pride, as opposed to shame and social stigma, is the predominant outlook that bolsters most LGBTQ+ rights movements throughout the world. Wenatchee Pride puts on events throughout the year for LTBTQ+ people and allies in the Wenatchee area. Learn more at https://www.wenatcheepride.org/.