Christmas in August Missionary List

Emanuel Carvalho • Deerfield Beach, Florida
Senior Pastor, New Hope Brazilian Baptist Church

 

Our ministry is New Hope Brazilian Baptist Church, and we serve Brazilian and Portuguese-speaking immigrant families in South Florida. Through our church, we minister to children, youth, women, men, and families who are adjusting to life in the United States while also seeking spiritual support, community, discipleship, and practical help. Many of the families we serve are hardworking immigrant families with significant financial responsibilities, and gifts like these would be a meaningful blessing to our church outreach and community support efforts.

These items will help us serve families in our congregation and in the surrounding community through children’s ministry, family support, outreach events, and practical care for those in need.

 

Items Needed

• Backpacks for children and youth

• Notebooks and composition books

• Pens, pencils, crayons, and colored pencils

• Folders, binders, and basic school supplies

• Hygiene items (toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, shampoo, deodorant)

• Diapers and baby wipes

• Walmart gift cards

• Publix gift cards

• Office supplies for church ministry use (copy paper, printer ink, markers, tape, etc.)

• Craft supplies for children’s ministry and outreach events

 

Mailing Address
Emanuel Rubens de Carvalho
New Hope Brazilian Baptist Church
2150 SW 10th St., Unit A
Deerfield Beach, FL 33442

Sanghun Lee • Buford, Georgia
Everlove Church

 

Everlove Church was born in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. When many churches were closing their doors, we began worshiping in a parking lot. With no building, limited resources, and many uncertainties, we chose to gather anyway — believing worship must continue and hope must not be delayed. Those early days were simple. Families sat in their cars. Sermons were heard through speakers. Yet in that place, God was building something deeper than a structure, He was forming a community.

Today we continue that same mission. Each week, we meet people who are starting over. Some are new to the area, adjusting to a new culture. Others come carrying unseen burdens — loneliness, financial pressure, or the quiet question of where they belong. Many walk through our doors not just looking for a church but for hope.

We have seen how small acts of love can open hearts. A simple gift becomes a conversation. A child who comes for snacks begins to hear the gospel. A family that once felt alone finds a spiritual home.

As a church plant, we do not always have abundant resources, but we have a deep desire to love people well and to faithfully share the good news of Jesus Christ. The items we are requesting are not just supplies. They are tools for ministry. A hygiene kit can become a bridge. A backpack can open a child’s heart. A Bible placed in someone’s hands can change a life forever. Even a small gift card can create a moment of care, dignity, and connection.

Through your generosity, you are not simply sending items — you are helping us welcome people, care for families, and share the love of Christ in tangible and lasting ways. We are deeply grateful for your prayers, your partnership, and your willingness to be part of what God is doing through Everlove Church.

 

Items Needed

• Walmart and Target gift cards (for groceries)

• Staples and Amazon gift cards

• Starbucks gift cards (for outreach and one-on-one meetings)

• Hand sanitizer (for outreach and welcome gifts)

• CSB Bibles (especially for children and youth)

• Backpacks (for children and outreach events)

• School supplies (notebooks, pencils, crayons, folders)

• Paper towels (Bounty or Kirkland preferred)

• Basic hygiene kits (toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, wipes)

• Small gifts or toys for children (for outreach and events)

 

Mailing Address
Sanghun Lee
4821 Miller Hill Rd.
Buford, GA 30518

Sung “Jonathan” Lee • Federal Way, Washington
Connections Church

 

By God’s grace, we planted Connections Church during the pandemic with a focus to become a church that reflects its community. Our city has more than 120 different home languages, which makes it one of the most diverse cities in the country. Because of this reality, we are heavily involved with Diaspora Ministry throughout the year, serving more than 2,000 people (refugees, immigrants, and international students).

We have two major ongoing events throughout the year: school supply drive and sports camp. Our goal is to use these events to connect with families so that we can share the gospel of Jesus Christ and make disciples of all nations. We would be grateful if you could support us with any of the items listed below. Most importantly, please join us in prayer as we strive to share Jesus!

 

Amazon Registry:

https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/CHDE2HF24WB0?ref_=cm_sw_r_apann_ggr-subnav-share_YRFILNWW1EKRM9XTPLLY&language=en-US

 

Items Needed

• School supplies: backpacks, pencils, coloring pencils, pens, highlighters, crayons, sticky notes, glue sticks, mechanical pencils, erasers

• Amazon gift cards

 

Mailing Address
Connections Church
Attn: Pastor Jonathan Lee
PO BOX 23986
Federal Way, WA 98093

Kim McGibbon • Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Send Relief Hamilton

 

Send Relief Hamilton is a Christ-centered community ministry serving vulnerable populations in Hamilton, Ontario. Our mission is to meet practical needs, build meaningful relationships, and share the hope of the gospel of Jesus Christ through compassionate, community‑based initiatives based on our vision found in Isaiah 61:1–4.

Our ministry operates through three core initiatives:

1. Building Bridges Initiative — Serving Newcomers and Refugees

The Building Bridges Initiative focuses on welcoming newcomers into the community through ESL classes that include shared meals, Kids Club programming, and settlement support. While parents participate in English language learning, their children are cared for through our Kids Club, providing a safe, loving environment rooted in biblical teaching.

This initiative prioritizes relationship-building, cultural connection, and language learning while fostering trust and belonging. As relationships develop, participants are invited into deeper conversations, prayer, Scripture engagement, and opportunities to explore the gospel in the context of local churches.

2. Friendship Initiative — Supporting Those Experiencing Homelessness and Addiction

Through the Friendship Initiative, we walk alongside individuals experiencing homelessness and addiction through programs such as Stop & Care and Recovery Church Ministry. These programs are rooted in consistent presence, compassion, and dignity, offering practical care while building trusting relationships. Within these relational spaces, individuals are invited to experience Christian community, hear the gospel, and pursue healing and restoration through faith-based recovery and ongoing discipleship.

3. Engage the City Initiative — Mobilizing the Church

The Engage the City Initiative equips and mobilizes churches and individuals to meet tangible needs within their own communities. Through training, partnerships, and hands-on opportunities, we empower believers to live on mission, serve their neighbors, and share the gospel through word and deed. This initiative extends the impact of our ministry by helping local churches and volunteers actively participate in compassionate outreach and gospel engagement across the city.

 

Amazon Wishlist

The items on our Amazon Wishlist support these initiatives by helping us create welcoming, well-resourced environments where relationships can flourish, needs can be met, and individuals and families can encounter both practical care and the transforming hope found in Jesus Christ.

https://a.co/0gqoUWOt

Items purchased through the Amazon Wishlist can be shipped directly to our Ministry Centre using the address saved within the wishlist checkout.

 

Items Needed

• Coffee, Tim Hortons (for Building Bridges and Friendship Initiative)

• Hot chocolate, Tim Hortons (for Building Bridges and Friendship Initiative)

• Paper coffee cups, 10 oz. (for Building Bridges and Friendship Initiative)

• Sugar packs with stir sticks (for Building Bridges and Friendship Initiative)

• Who Is Jesus? tracts (for Building Bridges and Friendship Initiative)

• Wooden Crosses (for Building Bridges and Friendship Initiative and Stop & Care)

• Dry-erase markers with erasers on top (Building Bridges Initiative ESL)

• Construction paper (Building Bridges Kids Club)

• Dry-erase markers, assorted colors (Building Bridges ESL and Kids Club)

• 1-inch binders (Building Bridges ESL and Settlement)

 

Mailing Address
Send Relief Hamilton — Ministry Centre
286 Sanford Ave North, Suite 503 & 504
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8L 6A1

Oscar Ortiz • Carolina, Puerto Rico

 

We are serving an elderly home near our church. This will be our first time ministering to them, and we pray these gifts will open the door to meaningful gospel opportunities.

 

Items Needed

• Shampoo and conditioner

• Toothbrush

• Toothpaste

• Mouthwash

• Deodorant (for men and women)

• Elderly diapers (for men and women, any size)

• Twin sheet set

• Latex free gloves

• Body lotion or Vaseline

• Wipes

 

Mailing Address
Ps. Oscar Ortiz
Urb. Villa Carolina
210-24 Calle 507
Carolina, PR 00985

Joshua Payne • Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

 

The Airman/Guardian Food Pantry serves E-1 to E-6 and O-1 to O-3 military families who are struggling with finances and food insecurity. The pantry is colocated with the Airman’s Attic at our Kittyhawk Commons building on Area A at the base. The pantry partners with the Dayton Food Bank as our main distribution center.

These supplies will help ensure we are able to continue providing prepacked food boxes for easy distribution to our Airmen and their families. We appreciate you thinking of us and supporting this important endeavor!

 

Items Needed

• 8.5-by-11 full sheet shipping labels—Amazon SKU# X0035GSBZD

• Rolls packing tape

• 9-by-9-by-9 cardboard boxes

• Kroger or Walmart gift cards for military members to purchase perishables

 

Mailing Address
WPAFB Integrated Resilience Office
88 ABW/CDV 5030 Pearson Road
WPAFB, OH 45433-5547

Jenny Schindler • Waxahachie, TX
Chaplain

 

I serve as the manager of pastoral care at Baylor Scott & White in Waxahachie, Texas. I lead a team of six chaplains who provide spiritual and emotional support throughout the hospital. One of the most tender and meaningful parts of our ministry is caring for families who experience the loss of a baby through fetal demise. These moments are marked by profound grief, as parents mourn not only the death of their child but also the hopes and dreams they held for their baby.

Through our pastoral care ministry, we strive to offer a compassionate presence, grief and bereavement resources, and tangible items that help families honor, remember, and say goodbye to their baby. Donated supplies — such as memory-making items, keepsakes, comfort items, and written resources — allow us to support families during this incredibly painful time. These gifts make a meaningful difference, providing comfort, validation, and a lasting acknowledgment of their baby’s life. We are deeply grateful for any support that helps us continue this sacred ministry to families and to the staff who care for them.

 

Amazon Wishlist

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1T2F916H50R7S?ref_=wl_share

 

Items Needed

• A cuddle cot: This device helps preserve the baby after death so families can spend more time with him or her. A cuddle cot can be bought by filling out the request form through the following website: U.S. CuddleCot Package - CuddleCot

• Spanish Baby Bibles

 

Mailing Address
Baylor Scott & White MC — Waxahachie
Jenny Schindler, Manager Pastoral Services
2400 N I-35 East Rd
Waxahachie, TX 75165

Jeremy Stewart • San Diego, California
Breakthrough Church of San Diego
jeremystewart891@gmail.com

 

Thank you for the opportunity to ask for items for the work of the ministry at Breakthrough Church of San Diego. I am so humbled that we would be considered for such a blessing. Below are some things that would help us out tremendously. Some are costly, but they would go a long way in reaching our city.

 

Amazon Wishlist

https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/21LZUJCE7FYFV?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_ggr-subnav-share_WDTYXKAJQBFF24XAYX5Q

 

• Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro (CINECAMPOCHDEF06P) — We have had numerous requests to start live-streaming. The camera we have will not give a live-stream output in 4k, so the quality is poor, but this camera would provide that output. Having this would greatly increase our ability to reach those who are shut-in or distant, and we could also have sermons live for our childcare workers. This camera is costly at $2,795 on Amazon, but it would be such a blessing to what we are trying to do in getting the gospel out there.

• Bouncy House — This would be a blessing to our kids’ program. We are a church plant and don’t have a playground. It would be great to get something that we can set up and put away as needed.

• iPad: $300–$500 — Or any refurbished or used iPad can work as long as it is USB-C and not Lightning Cable charging. This would be used for our child check-in process.

• iPad stand or case with prop-up features: $33.99 (for worship team)

• IK Multimedia iRig USB Guitar Audio Interface: $69.99 (for worship team)

• USB Hub: $26.98 (for worship team)

• USB-C Extension Cable: $13.98 (for worship team)

• Sunday Keys Account Full Access: $150 (for worship team)

• 4 Rugs [Royal / Froggy / Fire Engine / Tangerine], $156 each — We’re asking for color-coded kids rugs to help things run smoothly and safely when kids come into the room. Each child would get a color that matches their group and teacher, so they know exactly where to go right away. This would really help cut down on confusion, make transitions easier, and help our team stay focused on the kids instead of trying to direct traffic. It also adds another layer of safety by making sure every child is connected to the right group. Overall, it just helps us create a more organized, safe, and intentional environment for our kids and leaders.

• 2 radios for security — We were given some of these from another church and need more.

Brian Williams • Copper Center, Alaska
Fields of Alaska Ministries

 

We minister in a rural part of Alaska’s road system called the Copper River Valley, an area around Glennallen, Alaska. We are about three and a half hours away from the nearest Walmart, and the few stores around here are very expensive. We were called here in summer 2025 as NAMB/Send Network church planters, and we were sent by our sending church in Gainesville, Georgia. We had previously lived in rural Alaska.

Since we arrived, we have prayed and God has opened doors. Today we serve about 30–32 school-age children and youth each Wednesday in Kenny Lake, and our Sunday worship service hosts between 30 and 45. We serve a hot meal to our youth every week. The local school does not have a regular cafeteria, so they come hungry. Many in this area of Alaska are very poor, but they are proud and hardworking.

We host an open gym night each Friday at the local school and a morning tot-time at our Copper Center Ministry Center. We hope to have regular youth engagements this summer because there usually isn’t much engagement for the young people here. All giving will go directly toward supporting this ministry’s effort to meet community needs and engage the community with the gospel of Jesus.

 

Items Needed

• School supplies — Around 20 children/youth in our youth ministry are low income, and buying school supplies can be a challenge in this rural part of Alaska. We would also look for additional children in need in the area who are not part of the youth ministry. We estimate no more than 40 are in need of supplies.)

• Printer paper for flyers, bulletins, and educational materials.

• Ink for Epson ET-2800 printer

• Gift cards to Walmart or Costco to purchase food for the youth ministry.

• Youth activity games (i.e., cornhole, outdoor tic-tac-toe) — We are looking for more ways to engage the youth when weather opens up.

• T-Shirts — We’d love to hand out shirts to the youth group to wear. They would make great conversation starters in the community. We encourage them to be multipliers. The shirts simply need to say “Youth @ KLCC”. KLCC stands for Kenny Lake Community Chapel, the church where we serve. Sizes from Youth Small through Adult XL.

• ESV Bibles for youth group and adults

• Expo dry-erase markers and erasers

• Pens, highlighters, and Sharpies

• Tot-time toys (for ages 5 and under)

 

Mailing Address
Fields of Alaska Ministries
c/o Brian Williams
PO Box 353
Copper Center, AK 99573

 

Alternative Mailing Address (if item cannot ship to PO Box)

The PO Box is our primary address, but some items will not ship to a PO Box. In those cases, the alternative address may be used.

Fields of Alaska Ministries
c/o Brian Williams
1960 Aurora Dr.
Glennallen, AK 99588

Nathan Wood • Lansing, North Carolina
Appalachian Church Northwest

 

Appalachian Church Northwest would love to be a part of Christmas in August. We are working with a local elementary school in the mountains of Ashe County, North Carolina, to provide needed supplies to students in January. There are 333 students in grades K–6, and 70% of enrolled students are at or below the poverty level.

Each student will be given a “You Matter Bag” which contains supplies for the second semester as well as a personal gift. The school does not permit religious materials, but we will be able to include a note from our church along with our website.

 

Items Needed

• Clear plastic water bottles (Example of Water Bottles)

• Durable pencil pouches (Example of Pencil Pouches)

• K–2 sketch pads (Example of Sketch Pad)

• 3–6 lined journals (Example of Journals)

• K–2 washable markers (Example of Markers)

• 3–6 colored pens (Example of Colored Pens)

• Travel games (Example of Games)

• Pencils (Ex. of teacher-preferred pencils: Pencils)

• Quality erasers (Example of Erasers)

• Drawstring bags (Example of desired bags: Bag)

 

Mailing Address
Pastor Nate Wood
Appalachian Church Northwest
145 Powers Hollow Rd
Lansing, NC 28643