What the ECC Care Ministry is Doing in Response to COVID-19

You may recall that earlier this year, the Care Ministry pledged to set aside $100,000 in 2020 for COVID-19-related relief. By year-end, the total given out in response was $161,364. Thank you for your generosity!

1. Seniors Meals on Wheels: $5,000
2. Food Lifeline (which provides food to food banks): APPROVED for $5,000
3. Union Gospel Mission: advanced 2nd half-year gift of $10,000 to be disbursed immediately.
4. Eastside Salvation Army (meals for the homeless): $5,000
5. Operation Nightwatch (meals for the homeless in Downtown Seattle): $5,000
6. Bethel Renewal Center (masks for frontline hospital workers): $10,000
7. Additional support for Union Gospel Mission (due to COVID-related expenses): $10,000
8. Providence Saint Joseph Foundation COVID-19 Fund: $5,000
9. Youth With A Mission food staples for unemployed Kashmir day wage earners: $1,000
10. Dayspring Ministries – food packages to villagers in Doctor Arroyo, Veracruz, and Oaxaca, Mexico: $5,000
11. Kin On Community Health Care Center COVID-19 response: $5,000
12. Jubilee REACH: ECC Redmond English Council approved $1,000 for bulk grocery items.
13. Boro Pregnancy Counseling Center (Bayside, New York) baby care packages: $1,500
14. WIND (“When It Needs Doing” – https://wind-guatemala.org/) food packages for mountain villagers: $5,000
15. Food packages for village families in India via ECC missionary Devendra Rai: $10,000
16. Food packages for village families in Nigeria via ECC missionary Mawo Abaya: $10,000
17. Additional support for Youth With A Mission (for more families of unemployed Kashmir day-wage earners): $5,000
18. World Relief (provides food, lodging, employment assistance, and legal services for detainees and immigrant refugee families): $5,000
19. Yakima Seventh-Day Adventist Church Food Bank for food bank supplies: $3,000
20. Supporting village day workers in the Philippines via the ministry of Commission To Every Nation: $5,150
21. Additional grant to Eastside Salvation Army (groceries and kitchen supplies for 1200 meals to the hungry): $3,000
22. Food packages to villagers in Mexico under Dayspring oversight: $5,000
23. WIND – an additional gift to feed children and families in Guatemala: $5,000
24. Eastside Salvation Army – groceries and kitchen supplies for homeless feeding program: Pre-approval for 2021: $20,000 total ($5,000 each quarter)
25. 2020 Christmas Miracle grant for Redmond Mandarin outreach to homeless families – pre-approval given for reimbursement based upon receipts. Funds will help replenish personal protective equipment (PPE) and household items.
26. Additional grant of $10,000 through ECC missionary Mawo Abaya to meet the ongoing need for food staples for persecuted Christian communities around Jos, Nigeria, who are victims of terrorist attacks.
27. Additional grant of $10,600 through ECC missionary Devendra Rai providing food staples for poor villagers in Central India, South India, NE India, Thailand, and Myanmar.

Other GSF Grant Activity, non-COVID-19 related

1. Seattle Urban Academy: $10,000, our annual GSF donation for 2020.
2. Kin On Community Health Care Center: Additional $5,000 to help defray the costs of an unexpected fire at Kin On’s Community Network Office in the International District. This is the home base for Kin On’s Home Care and Social Services programs. The facility was completely destroyed.
3. Drug Rehabilitation Ministry, “Blessing Home,” Chiang Mai, Thailand: $5,000 for re-modeling a multi-purpose hall. This grant is via Rev. Dr. Boonprasert Vijitrakul, an ECC missionary with CNEC Singapore.
4. World Concern: relief for families affected by the Somalia drought and locust swarms. A Good Samaritan Fund (GSF) contribution of $10,400 will go to purchase seeds and tools for planting new crops and provide food security to fifty households.
5. Ninos Tres Rios: $9,600 to help defray 2021 budgeted costs for transportation and the regular and emergency medical care of indigenous children and their families in villages near Nahuizalco, El Salvador.
6. Rainbow Ministries: $10,000 for scholarships for children with autism, blindness, or cerebral palsy at a special school in southern Guangdong Province, China.
7. Medical Teams International mobile dental care visits for the homeless when they gather for the Hot Meal Program provided by the Phinney Ridge Neighborhood Association held at St. John’s United Lutheran. Grant for $10,500 will go towards funding 12 visits, once per month at the site on Phinney Ave N.
8. World Vision: $10,000 grant for disaster relief for Hurricanes Eta and Iota, back-to-back storms devastating Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala on top of the COVID-19 response efforts there.
9. Jesus Loves Seattle Project: provided $935 for miscellaneous items to help complete 360 gift packages for the homeless. This was part of a joint project between ECC and Calvary Christian Assembly.
10. Jubilee REACH outreach to indigent families of students in the Bellevue School District: $4,000 for a new refrigerator. In addition, the Care Ministry has provided pre-approval for the reimbursement, based upon receipts, of up to $1,000 each month for groceries and bulk items purchased between December 2020 and May 2021.
11. Chinese Information Service Center: $5,000 annual grant renewal.
12. Bread of Life Mission: $10,000 to help with a new flooring project.
13. International Christian Response: $12,000 given out as $3,000 quarterly grants for refugee relief in Yemen, Iraq, and Syria.
14. Union Gospel Mission: the additional year-end gift of $10,000 in support of women’s and children’s programs.