Partnerships
Cross Lutheran Church
Cross Lutheran Church in Milwaukee has been in partnership with Ascension for many years. Cross is located in an area of high poverty. Its ministry to the local community is one of constant challenge and change. What does it mean to be partners? We share joys and challenges and currently work with Cross in three different ways: 1) Hands-on volunteering, preparing or serving at their meal program or their jobs pro- gram. 2) Gifts in-kind, donating food to their food pantry. 3) Financial, committing support in our Ascension budget.
Ascension partners with two sister parishes in the Usa River region of Tanzania outside of the city of Arusha. We share in the lives of the congregations through regular communication and prayer requests. Our desire is to promote our relationship with our brothers and sisters by exchanging delegates from the respective congregations every two years.
Ascension members have been visiting El Salvador annually since 2009. Beginning in 2010, we became partners with the Agroferreteria (hardware store) ministry in Usulután. Ascension was one of three groups that helped the hardware store raise the funds necessary to obtain the property and the initial inventory. Since the store opened, Ascension has become the sole partners with Agroferreteria, allowing the store to increase in size and to increase the variety of their inventory. This ministry provides jobs for men and boys in the area, funding for church activities, and low cost hardware and farming supplies to families in need.
In addition to our work with the hardware store, Ascension participates in ministries in two congregations in the Usulután and San Jorge areas. Ascension regularly participates in the activities of the Greater Milwaukee Synod El Salvador committee. To learn more about partnerships with El Salvador visit http://www.partnerswithelsalvador.org/index.php.
Global Partners
ELCA World Hunger
Disaster Response
Social Services
Local Partners
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