2010 Voting

The 2010 holiday season is quickly approaching!  E-mails are pouring in as to ideas for this year's beneficiary.  

All votes and submissions are held strictly confidential.

1.  Gospel for Asia

Gospel for Asia's mission is to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with those who have never heard His name. Christmas gifts purchased from GFA do this by helping two distinct groups: the poorest of the poor and missionaries on the field.

GFA supports over 16,500 national missionaries who share the hope of Christ. The items found in the Christmas Catalog aid them in their work.

GFA sends 100% of the funds for Christmas gifts to the mission field. Nothing is taken out for administrative expenses.

GFA is a charter member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability and is certified as one of the "Best in America" by the Independent Charities of America. The ministry meets the highest standards of public accountability, cost efficiency and program effectiveness set by these organization.  

For more information, please visit their website:  www.gfa.org

2.  Operation Homefront

Operation Homefront provides direct services to alleviate a military family’s or individual’s actual/complete emergency financial burden, as well as counseling and/or recovery support. Emergency financial assistance is in the form of checks paid directly to mortgage lenders, auto mechanics, contractors, hospitals, doctors, dentists and other providers. Other emergency funding assistance, which an applicant receives within 24 to 72 hours, includes the following:

• Financial assistance
• Emergency food
• Emergency home repairs
• Critical baby items: formula, food and diapers
• Home and appliance repair
• Furniture and household items
• Local moving assistance
• Community events
• Wounded Warrior Transitional Family Housing

For more information, please visit their website:   www.operationhomefront.net

3.  Southern Eye Institute

Dr. Schanzer dreamed of being a medical missionary since her childhood days when she first heard a Marynoll priest describe his missionary adventures.  Shortly after completing her medical and ophthalmology programs she began researching various missionary opportunities.  She selected a program in Abak Nigeria and in February 1988 embarked on her first missionary trip.  Accompanied by her husband, Tom Lewis, Dr. Schanzer performed as many cataracts and other eye surgical procedures as the local generator and their 30 boxes of carry-in supplies would allow.  It was a very successful and rewarding experience, which marked the beginning of their mission career.  Her missionary dreams became their passion.  Over the years, Cathy and Tom have also worked in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Sierra Leone.  All of their efforts were carried out in existing programs that gratefully accepted Cathy’s surgical skills, Tom’s administrative support and their donated medical/surgical supplies.  However, in 2006 this pattern of mission work changed.  For the first time in their mission career, Cathy and Tom led the development of a permanent eye care center in a remote village in Sierra Leone.

For more information, please visit their website:   www.southerneyeinstitute.org/Africa

4.  ShelterBox

We instantly respond to earthquake, volcano, flood, hurricane, cyclone, tsunami or conflict by delivering boxes of aid.

Each box supplies an extended family with a tent and lifesaving equipment to use while they are displaced or homeless. The contents are tailored depending on the nature and location of the disaster, with great care taken sourcing every item to ensure it is robust enough to be of lasting value.

Each box bears its own unique number so as a donor you can track your box all the way to its recipient country via the website.

Highly trained ShelterBox Response Teams distribute boxes on the ground, working closely with local organisations, international aid agencies and Rotary clubs worldwide.

Since its inception in 2000, ShelterBox has firmly established itself at the forefront of international disaster relief, providing emergency shelter for the people who need it most on every continent.

For more information, please visit their website:   www.shelterbox.org