At Keystone, our mission to love + lead people in a growing relationship with Jesus knows no borders, we're called to reach across the street and around the world! Through Outreach, we strategically partner with incredible organizations and missionaries. Your giving not only helps meet tangible needs; your support shares the Gospel, engaging this generation in God's purposes for the world!
local Missions
SALINE AREA SOCIAL SERVICE
HOPE CLINIC
We partner with Saline Area Social Service throughout the year to provide volunteers and resources to those in need in Saline. We often sponsor donation drives or community wide food drives. Their mission for over 60 years is to provide food, emergency aid, and support to those in need in the community. Their aim is to build a stronger community of neighbors helping neighbors. Learn more about serving at SASS.
Hope Clinic is an interdenominational Christian organization that provides compassionate and practical help + healing to those in need, ministering to the whole person with dignity and respect. They provide a wide range of social services to low-income children and adults without medical insurance. They run mental care as well as medical and dental clinics in Ypsilanti and Wayne. They also provide hot meals and groceries. Learn how you, families, or groups can get involved.
Safe Families for children
Compassion ministry
Mill Pond Manor Meals
Safe Families for Children hosts vulnerable children and creates extended family–like support for desperate families through a community of devoted volunteers who are motivated by compassion to keep children safe and families intact. SFFC surrounds families in crisis with caring, compassionate community. They are a volunteer-driven nonprofit that provides hope and support to families in our local communities that is motivated by faith to keep children safe and families intact. Learn more about Safe Families For Children.
Compassion Ministry of Milan is a nonprofit food pantry for people in Washtenaw county or in the Milan area school district. As a Jesus led organization their goal is to treat everyone with integrity, care, and kindness. They provide weekly groceries, fresh produce and prepared food to eat every Saturday. Volunteer Opportunities include helping weekly on Fridays to prepare and package food from food truck donations, and on Saturdays to assist guests. Learn more about volunteering.
Volunteers have the opportunity to prepare and serve a full holiday dinner to the wonderful group of elderly residents at Mill Pond Manor for both Thanksgiving and Easter sharing care + God's love with them. Volunteer opportunities include organization of the menu, servers, preparation, bringing a dish, creating centerpieces, connecting with + sharing a meal with residents, serving and clean up of the meal.
Global Missions
VAPOR MINISTRIES
Vapor Ministries transforms impoverished communities through a holistic approach to community development. They establish sustainable outreach centers for alleviating poverty + multiplying disciples in the world's poorest areas. They meet physical, spiritual, and economic needs in West Africa, East Africa, and Haiti while developing indigenous leaders who drive change in their communities. They are actively scaling this proven model with the intent to physically + spiritually serve millions on a weekly basis. Find out more.
SAMARITAN’S PURSE – SUDAN
For the past several years, Keystone helped support church rebuilding in war-torn Sudan through the international relief organization, Samaritan’s Purse. More recently our funds assisted refugees in Sudan through the same organization. Read more about church rebuilding projects and feeding the hungry in Sudan.
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD
Keystone collects gift-filled shoeboxes each fall. The shoebox gifts, along with the Gospel message in each child’s language are distributed in the U.S. and around the world to the tune of over 8 million boxes!
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LIFE TOGETHER NICARAGUA- MANAGUA, NICARAGUA
middle east
Amy and Tim Taylor + their sons minister to the poor in Christo Rey through a daily feeding program for children who have little food to eat and often live in tiny shacks. Missionary teams visit multiple times a year to assist with the feeding program, help construct walls on the property and have built many homes for the residents. Find out more.
Christians in several areas of the Middle East provide material assistance and emotional support, along with the Gospel of Christ, to the poor, the lonely and the forgotten.
Wycliffe Translators – Musoma, Tanzania
Mitch and Tara Wimbush and family serve with Wycliffe Translators. Mitch is a vernacular and media specialist, while Tara assists with financial services. They are part of the Mara Cluster Project that is working on translating nine languages to help provide Bibles for approximately 1.6 million people in the Mara region of NW Tanzania. Find them on Facebook.
EMERGING YOUNG LEADERS & NIRIKSHA TRUST – BANGALORE, INDIA
Emerging Young Leaders – Dhaka, Bangladesh
Samuel Balachander (Bala) and his son Aaron teach Christian leadership principles and skills to young people in various cities in their country. They’ve also reached out with their EYL (Emerging Young Leaders) ministry to Sri Lanka, South Africa, Malaysia and several other countries. EYL in India reached thousands of people in 2013. Bala’s wife and daughter-in-law’s ministry, Niriksha Trust, is currently constructing a building which will provide Christian guidance, health services and career skills to young women who are often marginalized.
Khushi Saha provides Christian leadership seminars and pastor conferences through Emerging Young Leaders (EYL) in Dhaka, as well as in the hill country where few pastors get the initial and ongoing training they really need. Funds are used for training materials and provisions for conference attendees who are desperate for Christian teachings.
Samaritan Children’s Home Medical Clinic – Bangladesh
Keystone supports the doctors and nurses who diagnose and treat the hundreds of children at the Samaritan Children’s Home, as well as many people in the community. Keystone is their primary supporter.