Online Giving
Contribute online to the work and mission of Hosanna. Use the By Web Payment Page for processing live payments directly to Hosanna's bank account.
Contributions accepted 24 hours a day through "click and pay" solution. Simply log on to the Hosanna website, click "Online Giving" and contribute (either recurring or one time payments). Use checking account, savings account or credit card. It's easy and Vanco Services handles all the details. Click here for the Online Giving Page.
Administerd by Vanco Services LLC
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Interface Samaritan Counseling Center
Interface Samaritan Counseling Center offers a wide range of counseling services are offered by state licensed and certified clinical practitioners who are sensitive to the physical, psychological, relational and spiritual dimensions of life.
Click here for available professional services.
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Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Harris County
Habitat for Humanity NWHC is a nonprofit, nondenominational Christian housing organization. All are welcome to help build simple, decent, affordable houses in partnership with those who lack adequate shelter.
Go to the Habitat for Humanity, Houston Northwest Harris County, website - Shop the ReStore, volunteer, donate and contact.
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Interfaith Hospitality Network
Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) offers shelter, meals and assistance to homeless families. Host Congregations, like Hosanna, provide overnight lodging and meals and hospitality for three to five families for one week on a rotating basis throughout the year. Ways to help: fix meals, provide food items, set up rooms, serve as hosts.
Go to the Interfaith Hospitality Network (IHN) web page.
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ELCA Good Gifs
ELCA Good Gifts, the giving catalog of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, lifts up more than 65 gift ideas filled with meaning and love. ELCA Good Gifts are a special way you can help make a significant impact on the mission and ministries of our church while giving a gift to a friend, pastor, teacher, neighbor or other loved one. Popular gifts incluce: 10 chicks, mosquito net, bundle of roof shingles, pig, school uniform, child immunization, survival kit, 10 soccer balls, microloan, month's rent, cow, seminary tuition, water well.
Go to the ELCA Good Gifts web page.
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African Initiative
The African Initiative is a partnership between Hosanna Lutheran Church and the Anglican Church of Tanzania-Kagera region in Africa to help orphans in extreme poverty attend high school.
Hosanna sponsors two programs in Ngara, Tanzania under an umbrella
organization known as the African Initiative.To aid us in matching your
contribution to the program you intended to support, it would be helpful if
your contribution was titled to the specific program as explained below.
WomenCraft
WomenCraft is a community driven social enterprise that connects talented
rural East African women with fair-trade markets.This program has allowed
families to buy such basic needs as kerosene, soap and sugar.Also many
families are saving their income so that they can buy and raise farm
animals such as chickens, goats, pigs and cows - or turn their grass huts
into houses.
If you would like to contribute to this effort, make checks payable to
Hosanna Lutheran Church with the gift designated as "WomenCraft."
Gifts will be used to benefit the program as determined by its leadership team. You may also designate how your gift will be used. For example, "WomenCraft Production Center."
Kagera Scholarship Fund
The purpose of this scholarship fund is to provide academically qualified students who are orphaned ( have lost one or both parents) or who are in extreme poverty, with financial assistance.In Tanzania, a students education is not paid for by the government after grade 6.The scholarship fund will enable these student to continue their education, which will allow them to have prospects for the future and become contributing members of their society. Since this program began in 2005, it has served more than 150 students.
To contribute to this program, make your check payable to Hosanna Lutheran Church with the gift designated "Kagera Scholarship Fund."
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Northwest Assistance Ministries (NAM)
NAM is a non-profit, community-based social service agency established in 1983. NAM consists of an interfaith coalition of 48 Covenant Congregations, 18 Service Partners and numerous Community Partners. Guided by a small staff, nearly 2,000 volunteers work together to provide a variety of basic services to neighbors in need throughout the Houston area. Their misson: "We strive to meet basic human needs through neighbor helping neighbors." Learn more and donate online.
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Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (WELCA) is a network of half-a-million women who make a difference in the world because God has made a difference in their lives. WELCA's missions include: anti racism efforts, cross-cultural program, global education, grants program, Monday Prayer at Noon, scholarships, stewardship, witness etc.
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Hosanna Ministry and Support Teams
Hosanna has eight teams whose purpose is to carry out areas of ministry in the congregation. Each has its own budget and responsibilities. The teams are divided into two groups, ministry teams and support teams. The four ministry teams are Spiritual Life, Stewardship, Discipleship and Care; the four support teams are Financial Management, Lay Leadership, Mission Focus and Staff Support. Learn more about the support teams and consider being part of one.
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"Hosanna is our extended family."
-Tripp and Pam Smith