Announcing Our 2018 Special Project Grants
We are very pleased to announce our 2018 Special Project Grants. These Grants are in response to special projects our global partners present to us each year that are above and beyond the regular funding we provide to them for their microfinance, education, and youth empowerment initiatives. This year they... Read More
Our Fall Fundraising Banquet is October 28
We’d love to have you join us for our 2018 Fall Fundraising Banquet on Sunday, October 28, 5:00-7:30 pm at Lexington Christian Academy. It will be a fun evening of great food and fellowship, global music, and inspiring stories of micro-entrepreneurs, students, and young people from around the world. Our goal... Read More
A Record-Setting Walk for Economic Empowerment!
The final donations are in for our 2018 Walk for Economic Empowerment and a whopping $87,555 was raised – 100% of which will go to programs empowering inspiring micro-entrepreneurs, hard-working students, and kingdom-minded young people. Thank you to all of you who walked and reached out with your crowdfunding and/or... Read More
Congratulations to our 2018 Lydia Award Winner!
Congratulations to our 2018 Lydia Award winner, Minda Esparraguerra, along with our Filipino microfinance partner that serves her, The Center for Community Transformation (CCT), and our volunteer team that serves CCT, Team Philippines! Minda’s dream of starting her own ice cream business has grown and prospered, starting with her first... Read More
Meet Our 2018 Lydia Awards Finalists and Vote Online
A Burundian tanner who is creating income for 50+ people in one of the world’s materially poorest countries. A Filipino ice cream seller who wouldn’t put up with sexual harassment at work and now owns her own ice cream business selling to some of the best restaurants and hotels in... Read More
Our 2018 Walk for Economic Empowerment is June 2
Much more than a fundraising walk – our June 2 Walk for Economic Empowerment is a fun day for family and friends complete with recreation for all ages, great food from our corporate sponsors, and an opportunity to extend more of the kingdom to hardworking materially poor families around the... Read More
What A Concert!
Check out pictures from and a short video clip of our 2018 Concert for Economic Empowerment. It was a fantastic evening of great music, inspiring stories, and kingdom-extending response as many stepped forward to get further involved as a PEER Servants volunteer. Thanks to everyone who made the evening so... Read More
Rewarding Trip to South Asia
HEED/Sri Lanka and CSS/India sponsored excellent January 2018 trips to see their inspiring work. The time in South Asia was packed – visiting hardworking micro-entrepreneurs, holding training retreats in both Jaffna (Sri Lanka ) and Kolkata (India), and networking the two partners to learn from each other. As with most... Read More
Our (Free!) Concert for Economic Empowerment is March 10
It’s one of our favorite nights of the year – our annual Concert for Economic Empowerment! Join us for a free evening of great global music, featuring very talented musicians from near and far. Betwixt music sets we’ll hear the stories of PEER Servants volunteers who have been experiencing and... Read More
2017 Results from the Philippines
We love partnering in the Philippines with Visions of Hope, CCT’s education arm. They do amazing and very inspiring work among very at-risk children. Those who used to struggle to survive on the streets now experience a warm, loving home environment, are getting a great education, and are discovering... Read More