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We Need You for Christmas Outreaches
Got COVID cabin fever? We've got the perfect solution. Together, let's get off the sidelines and make a difference this Christmas! We need volunteers to join our Christmas teams to Ecuador and South Africa. The outreaches will be smaller and more intimate than past...
Volunteers Arrive Ready to Serve
We welcome two volunteers to Fish Hoek, South Africa. Bethany Johnson, a Nashville, TN native, will spend six weeks shooting video and photos and writing updates on ER programs. Joanna Turner, from Athens, GA, will pour into kids at our Dream Center. They join Mary...
Fish Hoek First Graders Dream Big
One of our favorite activities is "onboarding" new kids to our Dream Centers. We challenge them to dream big by asking them, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Our Grade 1 students in Fish Hoek recently had fun thinking about that question and ER's Dawn...
Pandemic Response: Emergency Veggies
"Relief update: 1,856 families received their veggies from Baguio, for a total of 3,927 families getting emergency food." When the coronavirus outbreak hit in the spring of 2020, ER responded by distributing emergency food to families in need in the communities we...
COVID Craziness Part 4: Child Passport Leaves Us Spinning
In Part 4 of our series on how COVID craziness is impacting ER staff in extraordinary ways, Robyn Wallace shares how her family's visit to the U.S. is stuck in the spin cycle. The Wallaces serve in Ecuador. UPDATE: Great news! The Wallaces received a passport for Clay...
Newlyweds Donate Wedding Gifts to Belwop Kids
Paige Brenner Eubank was immediately intrigued when she heard about a ministry in Kenya that was helping vulnerable kids. In the summer of 2018, Canvas Church sent a team of volunteers through Extreme Response to serve at partner Belwop Child Rescue Center in Nyeri,...
Drivers Survive Kidnapping; Lemuel Leaders Express Joy
“After receiving the news, we were almost paralyzed with relief. All we could do was praise God and thank Him over and over." There was high drama in the Western plateau of Haiti for long-time Extreme Response partner Lemuel Ministries when two employees were...
Skills Training: Patterns for Life
By Anne Benavidez, Golden Hands Director Our current Golden Hands Livelihood advanced sewing course trainees have finished their straight sewing projects. They've learned how to sew pillows, curtains, miniature bedsheets, reversible bags and aprons. They've also...
Quito Dream Center Kids Get Crafty
Trying times call for creative solutions. The COVID pandemic continues to make in-person learning an elusive target for children in Ecuador. Their schools are a mix of distance learning, unusual schedules and much confusion. In response, our Quito Dream Center staff...
COVID-19 PANDEMIC EXPOSES DIRE NEED FOR COMPUTER LABS
How important is it for vulnerable children to have access to computers in 2021? It's massive. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed this critical need. Kids from families that cannot afford computers or Internet access are getting left behind as communities increasingly rely...
Life Skills Breakthrough: Quito Women Lead Bible Studies
The women from the Quito recycling community who participate in ER programs have come such a long way. In the early years of our work in the Quito Dump, most of the women recyclers had dropped out of school and had little education. They focused on gleaning ...
Brad McKenna Joins Extreme Response as President & CEO
Our ER family is about to become stronger! I first met Brad McKenna in 2006, when he joined a short-term work team to Malawi, Africa, and I liked him immediately. He is from the same area of Michigan where Dawn and I grew up and where our sending church is located....
The Edge of Hope: Sewing Face Masks Empowers Mayette
By Pen Bullo, Pathway for Hope Staff ER's Pathway for Hope program operates with support from Grace Church of Glendora, CA. Since launching in 2018, the program has helped hundreds of vulnerable Metro Manila families through livelihood training, business basics and...
ATAIM Increases Impact with Guest Housing
If you've been waiting to join a volunteer team serving with ER partner ATAIM in Beaufort West, South Africa, we have great news. ATAIM recently received and remodeled a sea container, making more room for you and your team. In his most recent newsletter, ATAIM's...
COVID-19 Response: Emergency Food
https://youtu.be/S1Qwdujn8f0 Brian Wallace, ER Americas Region Director, shares a glimpse of the emergency food distribution taking place since the beginning of our COVID-19 response. The Quito Garbage Transfer Station (Dump) has restricted work, causing severe stress...
Giving Tuesday: A Day to Support the Cause You Love
Tuesday, Dec.1, is Giving Tuesday, a day set aside to support your favorite charitable causes. GivingTuesday.org defines its mission like this: "Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their...
ER Canada Invites You to Its 2020 Virtual Dinner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8tauxTJ_Kc&feature=youtu.be Help Make ER Canada's 2020 Virtual Dinner a Big Success Extreme Response Canada is not letting COVID-19 hinder its annual banquet. After some hearty discussions, the team has shifted to a virtual...
ER Scholarships: Quito Dream Center Reaches 26!
ER scholarships are launchpads to opportunity! We are thrilled to share that 17 26 (as of Oct. 21) new scholarships have been provided by donors for the kids in the Quito Dream Center. What a blessing! These scholarship will allow these kids, most of whom are part of...
