Good Samaritan Fund Progress This Year
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.
Prior Year Good Samaritan Fund Project Reports:
2022 Thank You Letters (Please click on the link to download and view each PDF report.)
2022 Approved Grants
- Kin On Community Health: a grant of $10,000 to provide a new Combi Oven to replace older kitchen equipment no longer able to handle the volume of food needed for their Assisted Living Facility, which is now at 100% resident capacity.
- Dario Christian Academy, a K-12 Christian school in Dario, Nicaragua: a grant of $11,150 to help improve classrooms by providing three air conditioning units and completing ceilings for two rooms, add a bathroom, and provide internet for one year for their computer science classroom.
- Medical Teams International (Portland, Oregon): $10,000 to provide for basic medical needs of Ukrainian refugee families.
- World Vision (Federal Way, WA): $10,000 for humanitarian relief for Ukrainian refugees and children.
- Salvation Army Eastside Corps: $20,000 for homeless feeding program; for distribution in 4 parts through 2022.
- Dayspring Casa Orphanage in El Higo, Veracruz: Additional $20,000 to help out with a 2nd floor to provide more classrooms and bedrooms.
- Operation Nightwatch, is a ministry in downtown Seattle with a feeding program for the homeless. This $10,826 grant is for repairs and improvements to their main office.
- The Care Ministry recently approved a Good Samaritan Fund grant of $12,000 to Starfish Asia. These funds are to help them complete a 2nd story for the Holy Shepherd Grammar School, a 600-student Christian school located in the slum area of New Mianwali Colony, Karachi, Pakistan.
- Bethany Children’s Home in Taipei: $15,000 grant to furnish and equip the newly-constructed dormitory building for the orphanage. The orphanage is expanding capacity to house more children. This grant will help to fully equip 24 new dormitory rooms.
- Daybreak Development Corporation: Support for the Akha tribal people in Thailand. The Akha villagers have been severely impacted by COVID-19 with unemployment and financial stress. This grant for $5,000 is to help with the growing and distribution of rice. Children and adults are to be fed at the ministry center and farmers will be supported in growing rice in their villages.
- Medical Teams International (MTI) Hurricane Ian disaster relief: $10,000 for health and hygiene kits to provide medicine and health supplies for communities affected by the disaster.
- International Christian Response (ICR) Refugee Relief: $20,000 as our recurring annual grant to help support refugee relief in Syria, Yemen and Iraq, and other Middle Eastern countries.
- When It Needs Doing (WIND): a $20,000 grant supporting a food distribution project and classroom construction project in the community of Cotzal, Guatemala; $10,000 for each project.
- Hand-in-Hand Farm, Oregon: $10,000 to support building a machine and equipment shed. This farm ministry supports families with children of challenging behaviors or disabilities such as autism or ADHD. Several ECC families have benefited from the mentorship, training, and care Hand-in-Hand Farm staff provide in their effort to help nurture and rebuild family relationships.
- Chinese Information Service Center (CISC): $10,000 for general fund. This year’s grant has a special donor willing to match 2-for-1 since this is CISC’s 50th year.
- Everett Gospel Mission (EGM): $2,000 for EGM’s Thanksgiving meal outreach program for the homeless.
- Ninos Tres Rios (N3R): $2,500 to provide food assistance to 200 families in the rural Nauhizalo region of El Salvador. The grant amount should supply enough food to feed a family of five for two weeks.