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A Fantastic Virtual Concert for Global Empowerment!

The Virtual Concert for Global Empowerment is getting rave reviews! From the Global PEER Teens Dance to the Ugandan Rap, from the Quechuan Worship from Peru to the Traditional Hymn from Kenya, this was a celebration of our annual theme, “Infinite Value”. We thank God for everyone in the PEER...

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A Dessert Reception for Our Filipino Guests

Team Boston – PEER Servants’ Boston Chapter of volunteers – is super excited to welcome three leaders from The Center for Community Transformation, PEER’s partner in the Philippines. We call them the AAA Team – Ann, Arlene, and Arleia! You are very welcome to join us for a Dessert Reception...

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Our Annual Concert for Global Empowerment – Virtual or Live!

Join us for fantastic music from around the world and inspiring stories of transformation, especially focused on PEER Servants’ Education Programs. Our 2023 Concert for Global Empowerment is both Virtual (Saturday, March 11, 10 am Boston time via Zoom) and Live (Saturday, March 18, 7:00-9:00 pm Boston time, at Grace...

Burundi, Education, Guatemala, India, Latest News, Microfinance, Moldova, Our News, Peru, Philippines, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Youth Empowerment, Zambia

A Record Level of Partner Grants!

PEER Servants is pleased to announce that, thanks to God’s provision and your generosity, we were able to make a record level of Global Partner Grants in 2022! Over $750,000 was given as Grants to our Global Partners to further extend the kingdom through their microfinance, education, youth empowerment, healthcare,...

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Give a Micro-Loan, School Kit, or Seed/Tools Kit for GivingTuesday!

What are you passionate about this GivingTuesday, November 29? Providing a micro-loan to a small business owner to build her business and enable her to provide for her family and impact her community? Enhancing access to education for a young person to brighten his future? Empowering a farmer to enhance...

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An Invitation to our Turkey Trot!

We are so thankful for the young people of the Global PEER family who make up PEER Teens. They really are “setting the example” for all of us in their speech, conduct, faith, love, and purity (1 Timothy 4:12). This Thursday (Thanksgiving in the United States), they are hosting a...

Education, Latest News, Microfinance, Our News, Peru, Peru - Nov 2022, Youth Empowerment

A Mountaintop Experience in Peru

Our Peruvian partner, Kallarisunchis, serves the indigenous peoples in the mountains and valleys surrounding Cusco and they do it extremely well! Our November 2022 trip to see their work was very, very special. A small PEER Servants team – Jervie (from the Philippines and PEER’s Co-Director of Youth Empowerment), Mary...

Education, Latest News, Microfinance, Our News, Philippines, Philippines - Oct 2022, Youth Empowerment

Global Gathering in the Philippines

We are always blessed when we travel to the Philippines to be with The Center for Community Transformation. This is especially true when we can gather with a few of our other Global Partners as well! We are just returning from a week with CCT and our Global Partners from...

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Our Annual Lydia Celebration is SOLD OUT!

Our Annual Lydia Celebration is this Sunday, October 30, but, as happens almost every year, we are SOLD OUT. Did you miss getting your tickets? If so, email us at celebrate@peerservants.org and we will try to find some open spaces at reserved tables. If we can find any, we will...

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Our Annual Lydia Celebration is October 8 and 30

Our Annual Lydia Celebration is coming up soon and we are super excited about it kicking off our 2023 Theme of “Infinite Value”. Paul writes “Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else,...

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Our Annual Prayer Conference is July 2-3

How will we accomplish a task so big as extending the kingdom of heaven to earth? It starts with prayer. Join us July 2 and 3 for our Annual Prayer Conference as we travel to Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Americas and stand with our Global Partners in prayer....

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Our Walk for Global Empowerment is Saturday, June 4

We’re super excited to announce that our 2022 Walk for Global Empowerment will be Saturday, June 4. We have a crowdfunding goal of $250,000 – 100% of which will go to microfinance, education, youth empowerment, healthcare, and food/water security programs that are empowering the materially poor around the world. The...

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Our Concert for Global Empowerment Recording

Did you miss our 2022 Concert for Global Empowerment? No worries – we recorded it for you, and it’s a click away! Just click here (or on the graphic to the left) and you will arrive at our Concert webpage which has the links for our 2022 Concert (there is...

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Our Concert for Global Empowerment is March 12!

It’s one of our favorite events of the year – 90 minutes of music, dance, poetry, art, and inspiring stories of changed lives and kingdom-focused volunteers. It’s our Concert for Global Empowerment, and it’s coming to a computer or phone screen near you on Saturday, March 12 (two shows –...

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Over $700,000 in 2021 Global Grants!

Thank you for enabling us to provide over $700,000 in 2021 Grants to our Global Partners and Chapters to extend a bit more of the kingdom of heaven to the materially poor! Through your generosity, our Global Partners continued to serve their micro-business clients and enable them to provide for...

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How Much Would You Pay for Water?

How about $50? For well over a year, members of our Kenya Chapter of PEER Servants volunteers have been establishing a strong foundation of fellowship and friendship with the Animist Samburu people of Tuale village in Kenya. As they have listened to the expressed needs of the Tuale Elders, access...

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30 Years in 9 Minutes!

We’ve captured our 30th Anniversary Lydia Celebration highlights in a 9-minute video! Click on the 30th Anniversary logo above to check it out. If after watching this, you want to see more of the program, just click here. And if you’re seeing this by November 15 and want to help...

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And our 2021 Lydia Award Winner is…

Atputhaseeli, an inspiring Fish Net Retailer and Repairer from Sri Lanka! Congratulations to Atputhaseeli, YGRO-HEED (our Sri Lankan Global Partner that serves Atputhaseeli), and the Team Sri Lanka PEER Servants volunteers who worked closely together to tell her story to the world. Congratulations to our two other Lydia Award finalists...

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We’re Turning 30!

PEER Servants is turning 30! We have so much to celebrate and we’d love for you to join us! We will have House and Virtual Celebrations in the September 24 – October 7 date range and there is no cost of admission. We’ll celebrate what God has done in these...

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Meet Our 2021 Lydia Award Finalists!

We’re super excited to announce our 2021 Lydia Award finalists! Click the picture to the left to meet them and vote for your favorite. You will go away inspired by a fish net retailer/repairer in Sri Lanka who is overcoming the atrocities of war, a Filipina delicacies manufacturer in the...

Burundi, Events, Latest News, Our News, Uganda

Global Walk: Burundi/Uganda Teens Take First Steps

We’re super excited that the first steps in our weeklong Walk for Global Empowerment have been taken, and that they have been taken by youth in Burundi and Uganda! The PEER Teens affiliates in Bujumbura (Burundi) and Arua (Uganda) led us off. By the time the week is over, we...

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Bidding “Adieu” to Hope Fund Burundi

Effective April 30, 2021, PEER Servants has bid “adieu” to our Burundian microfinance partner, Hope Fund Burundi. We are very excited to continue to partner with PEER Teens Burundi through their youth empowerment and education programs as they faithfully extend more of the kingdom to the Burundian people. Our partnership...

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Join Us as we take “A Million Steps to a Million Dollars”!

Our annual Walk for Global Empowerment is fast approaching – Saturday, June 5. Our event theme this year is “A Million Steps to a Million Dollars” as we reach for our goal of raising $150,000+ that, together with what we have raised through the Walk in previous years, would allow...

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Here’s the Concert Recording!

What an event! How we thank God for our “Perfect Peace” Concert for Global Empowerment – a fantastic celebration of music, dance, poetry, Scripture, volunteer testimonies, and stories of kingdom transformation. Did you miss it (or just want to see it again!)? Go to peerservants.org/concert and scroll down to the...

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Our Concert is Saturday, March 13!

The big day is here – Saturday, March 13 (10:00 am and 7:30 pm Boston time) and we’re ready for our Concert for Global Empowerment! It’s a FREE event (not even an offering!) and will be a fantastic celebration of music, dance, poetry, Scripture, volunteer testimonies, and stories of kingdom...

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Save the Date – Our Concert is March 13!

Mark Saturday, March 13 (10:00 am and 7:30 pm Boston time) on your calendars for our Concert for Global Empowerment! It’s a FREE event (not even an offering!) and will be a fantastic celebration of music, dance, poetry, Scripture, volunteer testimonies, and stories of kingdom transformation. Go to peerservants.org/concert for...

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Over $500,000 Invested in the Materially Poor!

Thanks to God’s grace powerfully at work in and through you, PEER Servants was able to make over half a million dollars in global partner grants in 2020! This is the most we have ever made in a year with needs like never before. Thank you! This year was one...

Burundi, Education, Events, Guatemala, India, Latest News, Microfinance, Our News, Peru, South Sudan, Uganda, Youth Empowerment, Zambia

GivingTuesday is Tuesday, December 1

GivingTuesday (Tuesday, December 1, 2020) will be one of the most generous days of the year! If you would like to express your generosity through PEER Servants on that day, we offer you three opportunities to do so… Microfinance: Provide $100 for a micro-loan in India. Education: Provide $25 for...

Events, Latest News, Microfinance, Our News, Philippines

Congratulations to Dionnie Juan, our 2020 Lydia Award Winner!

Congratulations to Dionnie Juan, a vegetable farmer served by our Filipino partner, CCT, as the recipient of our 2020 Lydia Award! Dionnie was wrongfully accused of murder and spent ten years in jail before being acquitted. He came out of that experience embracing God’s love and mercy and has since,...

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Watch Our Virtual Banquet When Best for You!

All of our House and Virtual Banquets are now finished – what a fantastic time we had together! If you missed them, you can still watch the entire program right where you are at a time convenient for you. We’ll take you around the world – Latin America, Africa, Australia,...