2021 Good Samaritan Fund Project Report
So far this year, your contributions to the fund total over $240,000. Disbursements from the fund are over $230,000. The Good Samaritan Fund balance stands at about $276,000 at the end of October, which is about $8,000 above the 2020 year-end balance. Over 80% of the 2021 grant funds were given out to humanitarian relief agencies. Of that portion, nearly $30,000 has been given to meet the needs of homeless in the Greater Seattle area. Nearly $40,000 has been given out so far to meet the needs of individuals as ECC members have brought their needs to our attention. We encourage you to be on the alert for those in need during these desperate financial times. Please keep bringing those needs to our attention.
Thank you for your continued support of the Good Samaritan Fund. May you be encouraged and blessed.
Please find below the Good Samaritan Fund project reports, letters of thanks from agencies we have supported, and our current year-to-date giving reports.
2021 Thank You Letters
- Letter of Thanks from Veritas Foundation for health care needs and building projects at Paul School for the Blind in Bo, Sierra Leone (PDF)
- Letter of Thanks from WIND (When It Needs Doing) for COVID-19 relief in Guatemala (PDF)
- Thank You Video link from Bethany Children’s Home (Orphanage in Taiwan) {From Sharon Chiang}
“Thank You, ECC! Here is a video that our staff made to represent our gratitude for the love and support to our church and the many dear brothers and sisters.” - Letter of Thanks from Roger Tomlinson, Director of Dayspring Outreach Ministries (PDF)
2021 Approved Grants
- Easter Miracle and Christmas Miracle Projects. Each year, ECC Redmond members provide for clothing needs including PPE and other COVID-19 supplies for homeless youth through the ministry of Vicki Karr. This grant approves the pre-authorization for reimbursement of all expenses up to a $5,000 limit.
- Union Gospel Mission: $20,000 for Hope Place women’s and children’s program.
- Dayspring Ministries: $15,000 to partner with ECC Missions in helping build a second story at the El Higo orphanage.
- World Concern: $11,500 to provide relief and support for 500 families in South Sudan during near-famine conditions with food vouchers and education and tools for agriculture or fishing.
- Kin On Community Health kitchen remodel: $10,000 for equipment upgrades.
- International Christian Response (ICR): $20,000 for refugee relief in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
- Medical Teams International (MTI): $10,000 for relief efforts in the war torn Tigray region of Ethiopia. This grant will help MTI establish health care facilities and provide essential medical supplies and relief to refugees at risk for various diseases and malnutrition.
- Veritas Foundation: $10,100 for the health care needs and building projects at Paul School for the Blind in Bo, Sierra Leone, Africa.
- WIND (When It Needs Doing): $10,000 to help feed mountain villagers in the Cotzal region of Guatemala deeply impacted by COVID-19. Food distribution continues to be the primary need as less than 5% of the population is fully vaccinated.
- Christian Veterinary Missions (CVM): $12,525 for the following projects in Mangolia:
- Gift of Love project: 100 sheep for needy herder families
- One-week training course in Ulaanbaatar for 50 veterinarians
- Training for 100 herders in the countryside
- Bethany Children’s Home (Taiwan): $10,000 to help purchase a new 7-9 passenger van.
- World Concern Haiti Relief: $10,000 to provide food, clean water, emergency supplies, medical supplies, and help in the rebuilding of homes in response to the major earthquake and ongoing relief efforts.
- World Relief: Grant funds of $5,000 to help replace a van used in their ministries, and $10,000 to help fully resettle a refugee family in the Seattle area.
- Dayspring Outreach Ministries: Of the grant funds of $10,000, $5,500 is for food packages for villagers unable to travel or work due to COVID-19 restrictions. Another $4,500 of the grant will go toward a new well for children and staff at the Casa Orphanage. Here’s a video about the new well project from Roger Tomlinson, the Director of Dayspring Outreach Ministries.
- Chinese Information Service Center: Annual grant of $10,000 toward the general fund to help provide for ongoing needs to help support youth, families, and elders throughout King County.
- Operation Nightwatch: $10,000 to help replace their older van with a larger van to help in their ministry to the homeless in the Seattle International District.
- Samaritan’s Purse: $10,000 for Kentucky tornado relief victims.
COVID-19 Relief Efforts
- Youth With A Mission (YWAM): $5,000 for Rohingya Muslim refugee relief. Grant funds for food, water, and basic needs as these refugees migrate across India and cross the border into Bangladesh.
- Commission to Every Nation (CTEN): $10,600 for food packages to help relieve poor villagers in India now facing a COVID-19-triggered famine, with no income (due to lockdowns) and no food in stores. Grant funds will be channeled through community contacts via the ministry of ECC missionary Devendra Rai.
- Direct Relief: $10,000 for ongoing relief efforts in India providing oxygen concentrators, masks, other PPE, and clothing supporting frontline health providers working to aid and protect patients in India.
- World Vision: $10,000 to support strengthening of health care systems in India, provide oxygen concentrators, beds, tents, and temporary structures, and to help set up COVID care centers as treatment and possibly future vaccination centers.