Please join us at one of Oakseed Ministries International’s Annual Banquets to enjoy fellowship with Oakseed friends while hearing about how the Lord is calling men, women, and children to Himself worldwide!
Each year, Oakseed invites ministry partners to share what the Lord is doing in and through their ministries at our annual banquets. These are times of fellowship and celebration of God’s steadfast love and faithfulness, and they provide opportunities for our supporters to hear from our ministry partners in-person and face-to-face.
Registration is now open for our Pennsylvania and Northern Virginia banquets, and we’d love to see you there!
There is no cost to attend, and childcare is provided at both locations.
Pennsylvania Banquet: Saturday, October 14, 2023, from 6–8 p.m.
Faith Reformed Baptist Church
110 State Road, Media, PA 19063
Special Guest: Dr. Frew Tegene of Love Never Fails in Ethiopia
*Due to the sensitive nature of this content, childcare will be provided for ages 12 and under.
Click here to register for the PA Banquet.
*Please complete the entire form to register. If you have successfully registered, you will receive an email. Contact erin@oakseed.org with any questions or for help registering.
Love Never Fails decreases the spread of HIV/AIDS and frees women from lives of prostitution. Working in the slums of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Love Never Fails cares for the daily physical needs of men and women living with AIDS, encourages HIV testing, provides AIDS awareness programs, and leads training to destigmatize the disease.
In addition, the ministry offers both income-generating activities for former prostitutes and educational support for children so that vulnerable women and children have job skills to become self-sufficient. Over the years, several of these women have professed Christ, participated in Bible studies with the staff, integrated into a local church, and started their own businesses.
Because prostitution carries such a societal stigma, churches struggle to welcome these women into their communities. Love Never Fails also provides pastoral training to educate and equip local pastors to help their churches embrace women leaving prostitution and integrate them into the church body.
Northern Virginia Banquet: Saturday, November 11, 2023, from 6–8 p.m.
McClean Presbyterian Church
1020 Balls Hill Road, McClean, VA 22101
Special Guest: Maheshwari Deep of Sugandh in India
*Childcare will be provided for ages 5 and under.
Click here to register for the Northern VA Banquet.
*Please complete the entire form to register. If you have successfully registered, you will receive an email. Contact erin@oakseed.org with any questions or for help registering.
The Sugandh Child Development Center, located in a slum of South Delhi, India, has been transforming the lives of working children for 22 years. Before going to work as trash collectors in the marketplace, children ages 6–10 come to the center for two hours. Kids receive a meal and are taught reading, writing, mathematics, and about Jesus. Sugandh also operates a Bible and vocational skills school where young adults and teenagers learn sewing, painting, and card making.
Sugandh offers savings and loan cooperative groups to women in the slums who do not have the documentation needed for a bank account or the cost of getting to a bank exceeds what they can save in a month. Money from savings and low-interest loans from the cooperative groups enable women to buy small plots of land in their villages, cover medical expenses, and fund their children’s education.
Sugandh operates community outreach programs to provide basic health care and awareness campaigns and empower vulnerable communities to participate in improving their quality of life—from access to clean drinking water to electricity in homes—Sugandh networks with schools, other non-government organizations, and community leaders to meet the neighborhood’s needs. Additionally, adults can participate in a six-month sewing certificate program to help families develop skills to become self-sufficient.
