Global Outreach

Faith In Action: Global Ministries

For the 2024/25 church year, Lakewood Congregational Church will again be supporting two projects sponsored by Global Ministries and we hope you will join us in providing financial support for one or both of them in the coming months.

The Mount Selinda Hospital is located in the southern African country of Zimbabwe and is a ministry of the United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe. We have been supporting this mission for a few years and are glad that we have been able to help the hospital provide improve services to the country. Mt. Selinda Hospital serves many marginalized communities around the area including patients from Mozambique across the border. The life-saving services provided here have been challenging due to the ongoing need for structural repairs to the buildings. 

Project to Support Refugee Communities in the Congo is a program through the Church of Christ in Congo that is an umbrella of more than 95 Protestant denominations. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is experiencing the largest internal displacement crisis in Africa with millions internally displaced, mostly in the eastern regions of the country. It hosts more than one million refugees from neighboring countries as well. The World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations have warned of the food crisis affecting a quarter of the DRC’s population, and one in four children is considered an orphan or vulnerable child in the DRC according to UNICEF. North Kivu has received the largest number of internal refugees fleeing conflict from rebel groups, with approximately 2.3 million displaced in the region. The Protestant Service for Development and Diakonia (SEPPRODIA) unit of the Church of Christ in Congo (ECC) works with refugees in two areas: the North Kivu and North Ubangi regions. In the refugee communities, SEPPRODIA, with the assistance of pastors and local volunteers, has been working to provide food, drinking water, and non-food essentials including tarps, blankets, supplies for cooking, clothing, school supplies for children, buckets for washing, and medical services.

Will you help us in providing support for these two missions in a very economically challenged part of the world? Please write a check to Lakewood Congregational Church or donate online and indicate that your donation is for the global missions’ project that you would like to designate. We hope you can join us in supporting this important global work! Please reach out to David Sangree or Kristina Kovach with any questions about the projects or how to make a donation.