Alpha Pregnancy Center is committed to empowering women to make a fully informed choice regarding pregnancy. Clients receive free and confidential services, including ultrasound imaging, through the compassionate staff at Alpha.

BeLoved's purpose and passion is to strengthen families in foster care as well as care for reunified families through community partnerships, services and programs. Through their Compassion Closet, families in our community have access to much needed items, such as clothing, furniture, bedding and car seats.

ChildVoice was founded in 2006 to restore the voices of children silenced by war in northern Uganda. ChildVoice's Lukome Center in northern Uganda has provided a therapeutic community for adolescent girls, including former child soldiers and sex slaves, war orphans, child mothers, and other highly vulnerable girls from Uganda and South Sudan. At the Center, girls are able to recover from the trauma of war and receive the educational and vocational training they so desperately need to rebuild their lives.

Discipleship Works' strategy is to replicate the ministry approach that Jesus implemented with His disciples by raising up mature, Christ-centered leaders to transform hearts, communities and ultimately the world through the power of the Holy Spirit. Rickey Bolden, former Cleveland Brown and founder of Discipleship Works, is preparing a Bible study for some members of Congress with whom he's built a relationship. Pray for this group as they intentionally develop relationships with their brothers and sisters on the opposite side of the aisle.

As Lead Director for Chi Alpha at UMO, Dolan's main goal is to see the next generation transformed by the gospel through biblical discipleship on the secular college campus. He also has a goal to send missionaries from UMaine Chi Alpha into other northern New England universities to pioneer Chi Alpha, as well as around the world through the local Career Missionary in Training program.

Journey to Hope seeks to guide university students through support and encouragement toward the next level in their development. They also seek to educate and inform these young adults about the reality of human trafficking, and to protect this generation through preventative measures such as informing them of dangers attached to social media behaviors.

Morning Glory's desire is to educate, equip, and encourage the community. Once children enter their halls, they are not "poor kids." They are children of the King and Morning Glory commits to treating them as such. Their story is the story shared by hundreds of children in San Raymundo, Guatemala: following Christ from humble beginnings to pursue and achieve fullness in the Kingdom of God.

Rivers of Mercy is a Christ-centered orphanage in Juarez, Mexico whose desire is to show Christ's love to the neglected, mistreated, and suffering children in their area. They provide these children with a safe home where they feel loved and where they can know the love of Christ.

One-fourth of the people in Ethiopia live in poverty. When families break apart, children are often left without parents and, in many cases, are considered "unadoptable." Selamta Family Project creates families for children who have lost their own by uniting 8-10 children with a Selamta-trained mother in their own home, integrated into their local community. These children grow up as a family over a 10-20 year period before launching from Selamta's care into independence. Their professional staff serve each family with an emphasis on education, wellness, psychosocial support, and spiritual development.

Thrive exists to prevent child exploitation and serve those who have experienced or been affected by commercial sexual violence with personalized, trauma-informed training and care. They work to end the exploitation and trafficking of children in New England by raising awareness and providing prevention education for teens. They have been actively engaged in educational programs within the Sanford school system.

Value Plus, established in 2012 by Pastor Marian Paduret, has a passion to serve and help the young generation of Romania. This population is in need of role models, education and practical help. The ministry of Value Plus is connected to the local church, but because they are not a church, they are able to work together and partner with state institutions, public schools and other organizations without any limitations on sharing the Good News with young people.

Wycliffe Bible Translators' passion is to see everyone who wants God's Word to have access to it in a language they understand. Through their work with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Dallas, TX, Sanford natives Jim and Becky Clarke are helping five specific language groups in Zambia get the Bible.

Young Life's mission is to introduce adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith, but it doesn't start with a program. It starts with adults who are concerned enough about kids to go to them, on their turf and in their culture, building bridges of authentic friendship. Those relationships take time, patience, trust and consistency. Through these relationships, young men in Africa have found the hope found in Christ and their lives have been forever changed.

Young Life's mission in Sanford is the same as that of Young Life Africa: to introduce adolescents to Jesus Christ and help them grow in their faith. In Young Life, kids find adults who care enough about them to go to them, on their turf, building bridges of authentic friendship. those relationships take time, patience, trust and consistency.