Witness As Ministry
Adopt-a-Church
A congregation here partners with a congregation there. This page is public. The detailed packet is sent on request.
How it works
One congregation walking with another
A church in the United States commits to walk alongside one congregation overseas: regular support, regular contact, and a relationship that outlasts a single fundraising season.
What is not on this page is the list of congregations, where they are, or who leads them. Publishing that is what puts them at risk. Church leaders and mission committees receive the detailed packet by email after a short request.
What the partnership carries
Support, and then a report you can read
A sponsor's giving goes to the pastor and the congregation directly, for the work the church has already decided to do in its own neighbourhood.
In practice that has meant keeping a church's doors open and its services running through months when almost everything else in the country stopped, caring for displaced families who arrived with what they were wearing, and running programmes for the children of the congregation and the neighbourhood around it.
Twice a year the sponsoring church receives a written report from the pastor, in his own words, with what happened, what it cost, what is growing, and what he is asking prayer for.
[SPONSOR COUNTS, DATES AND ATTENDANCE FIGURES WITHHELD. The figures exist in WAM's mid-year reporting but those reports are written for one funder and name pastors, congregations and conversions. Nothing from them is published until the clearance standard is signed and each figure is cleared on its own.]
Request
Ask for the packet
The request goes to Partnership Development. Someone replies with the packet and a name to talk to.
A shared page password was considered and rejected: one credential, no record of who used it, and no way to withdraw access. A request that produces a named recipient is the safer control, and it satisfies the clearance standard rather than working around it.
Witness As Ministry, Dovetail Global Aid and Wamhiba all operate under WAM Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization and the legal recipient of all funds. One entity, one EIN, one IRS determination. A gift made under any of the three names is a gift to WAM Inc.
Stand with us
Partner
For churches and partnership enquiries, contact Partnership Development.
Start a conversationPray
For the families WAM serves, for the congregations walking beside them, and for the staff who stay when others go.
Read what to pray forTogether, we can provide Care Beyond Crisis.