Echo Compassion

We echo our impact by serving locally, partnering internationally, and investing in church planting.

Local

Local Compassion

We are called to love our neighbors with compassion, generosity, and purposeful partnerships. Discover opportunities below to put love into action and build bridges between our communities and the local church.

Serve Together

We strongly encourage every Echo Group to serve as a team at our local compassion events. Here are a few other ways to serve as a group:


Pray weekly for a global partner or church plant
• Fundraise for one of our global or local partners
• Make hygiene kits for our unhoused neighbors
• Create care packages for local teachers
• Visit the elderly at Life’s Garden senior residence

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Global

Mission Trips

We support partners around the world in their efforts to serve communities in need, while echoing the love of Jesus in different cultural contexts.

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Regional

Church Planting

We believe that God’s primary vehicle for advancing His Kingdom is through local churches. From the beginning, Echo has always been a church investing in the Church — starting, supporting, and equipping other local churches so that more communities will be transformed through knowing and following Jesus.

Support or Serve with Church Plants

Partners

Echo Compassion supports global missionaries, organizations, and pastors that align with our vision and emphasize Kingdom impact — serving the marginalized, loving those in need, and sharing the story of Jesus.

International Justice Mission

IJM’s mission is to protect people in poverty from violence by rescuing victims, bringing criminals to justice, restoring survivors to safety and strength, and helping local law enforcement build a safe future that lasts. They partner with local authorities in 33 program offices in 19 countries to combat trafficking and slavery, violence against women and children, and police abuse of power. We are directly partnered with their office in Guatemala.

Brazil

Orange Brazil

Translates and distributes the Orange curriculum to equip churches across Brazil to teach the word of God to kids in a fun and engaging way.

Brazil

Pastor Nazareno Marciel

Baptist Church in Sitios Novos

Helps local churches in poor areas of Brazil’s northwest regions. These churches host Compassion projects with more than 700 kids. Through this partnership, we’ve had the opportunity to help build a local church and provide relief efforts during COVID.

Lebanon

Nabil & Mimi Khoury

Nabil and Mimi’s vision is to see people in the Arab and Muslim World come to faith in Jesus by proclaiming the Gospel. They accomplish this through the ministry of the local church and theological education, training leaders to serve within the local church.

Local

CityTeam

City Team shares Christ’s unconditional and redemptive love by caring for immediate needs and enabling lasting solutions. Restoring lives and rebuilding communities through innovative programs that provide food, shelter, clothing, training, and spiritual transformation.

Local

Compassion Network

The Compassion Network is a faith-based organization based in Fremont that matches volunteers and resources from over 50 local Christian churches with those in need throughout the Tri-Cities.

Local

Teen Challenge

Teen Challenge NorWestCal Nevada provides successful recovery programs for men, women, teens, children, and families with destructive, abusive, and addictive lifestyles through mentoring, education, training, and spiritual direction.

Local

Life’s Garden

Our Sunnyvale campus partners with Life’s Garden, a residential home for lower-income seniors. We have been able to provide resources and connect with the residents.

Local

Foster the City

Foster the City inspires and equips local churches with the tools, resources, and support they need to develop a sustainable and effective foster care ministry. Together, they are working toward the day when the list of children waiting for a home will be replaced with a list of families waiting to share their homes with them.

Local

CAP-SV

The mission of Coalition Alleviating Poverty-Silicon Valley (CAP-SV) is to see all Christians and Christian organizations in Silicon Valley doing their part in reducing poverty and proclaiming good news to the poor. They equip faith communities to adopt poverty pockets in Silicon Valley and implement place-based and asset-based ministries.

Malawi

Hope Endeavors

Hope Endeavors purpose is to bring HOPE to those suffering in extreme poverty through our hope-giving projects and partnerships around the world. We are committed to helping children not only survive but thrive by providing holistic care and sustaining projects that offer hope for the future. We strive to educate, engage, and empower others to make a positive impact.

Mexico

Pastor Antonio Hernandez

Comunidad Cristiana Jireh and Rehab Centers

Pastor Antonio runs a drug rehab for men, women, and youth as young as 11 years of age. His centers have a feeding program that serves approximately 170 people. Many of the people he helps through the rehab center are not welcomed back into the local churches. Building a church will enable those who complete the program and choose to follow Jesus to find a church home. With this partnership, we have been able to send teams to help build some of their facilities and connect with the community through food programs and VBS for the kids.

Philippines

Pastor Billy Lapuz

Jesus is Lord Global Ministries

JILGM is ministering to families and street children in the province of Pampanga. They also have a feeding program for about 30 to 50 children. Pastor Billy’s focus is to disciple and develop leaders, and he hopes to plant other churches in the region in the future.

Philippines

Pastor Philip Malicdem

Kapilya Pag-asa (Hope Church)

In addition to Sunday services, Kapilya Pag-asa is dedicated to outreach and loving their neighbors through feeding programs for families and for several street children in the area. They also minister to the sick by visiting patients at local hospitals, prisoners in local prisons, and the poor in the area. They have a livelihood program that pairs mothers/women learning to sew tote bags with youth who help to paint or design the tote bags to be sold.

SE Asia

Wings International

Working in SE Asia (India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Nepal) to house and meet the needs of street children while teaching them about Jesus. Additionally, meeting other primary needs, such as addressing water issues, distributing food, and providing housing for the unhoused, as resources allow. Training and supporting nationals to do the work in their own countries and communities to become self-sufficient.

Scotland

Cody & Samantha Richard

Their vision is to collaborate with national partners and churches, starting in Edinburgh and expanding across Scotland, to share the gospel and disciple the spiritual growth of artists and locals. Their goal is to serve and demonstrate Christ’s beauty through the diverse creative gifts of His people.

Spain

Rafael & Carol

After eight years of leading church planting teams in the Middle East, Rafael and Carol now serve the Muslim world by establishing priority locations, developing strategies and training, and helping teams enter and thrive in the most challenging-to-reach places.

Taiwan

Andy Worcester

Andy’s primary goal has been to plant a church in Taiwan. The focus is on engaging the younger generation through recreational clubs, YouTube, and other initiatives. Ideally, Andy would train up local pastors and continue to plant churches every few years, releasing nationals to pastor their own communities.

Zambia

Caleb Mambwe

Caleb is relaunching New Vision for Africa, a faith-based nonprofit organization that provides STEM education and financial aid to vulnerable children in rural Africa.

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