Who We Are
Micah Challenge USA is not simply another organization. Micah is a global movement of thousands of individuals, families, churches, communities, organizations, and denominations. In the United States Micah Challenge is a Campaign governed by a national steering committee of Christian organizations and Churches.
Staff
Jason Alfonse Fileta, National Coordinator,
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Vanessa Martinez, Field Organizer: Santa Ana, CA,
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Ben Juarez, Field Organizer: Santa Ana, CA,
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Dana Doll, Field Organizer: Grand Rapids, MI,
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George Youhan Lee, Administrative Assistant,
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Jeff Hayden, Program Intern,
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Sara Eccleston, Intern,
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Micah Challenge USA Steering Committee
National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
The National Hispanic Association of Evangelicals is America's largest Hispanic faith organization with 25,434 member churches while simultaneously serving the 16 million strong Hispanic Born Again community. Correspondingly, the conference provides leadership, fellowship, networking, partnership and advocacy platforms to the 7 Directives of Life, Families, Great Commission, Stewardship, Justice, Education and Youth. www.nhclc.org
NHCLC is proud to partner with Micah Challenge in the mobilization of the Hispanic American Community for the purpose of poverty alleviation both domestically and globally. Via this historic partnership, we stand committed to a missional and incarnate gospel where Matthew 25, Luke 4 and Isaiah 61 comes to life.
Compassion International
Releasing children from poverty in Jesus' name. In response to the Great Commission, Compassion International exists as an advocate for children, to release them from their spiritual, economic, social and physical poverty and enable them to become responsible and fulfilled Christian adults. www.compassion.com
“Children need their governments to provide adequate social services such as health care and education. Governments made promises to their children (MDGs) and Christians need to insist that their governments keep their promises. Compassion exists as an advocate for children and supports Micah Challenge as it equips Christians to advocate on behalf of the poor, including children, that they might be protected, given opportunity and released from poverty.”
National Association of Evangelicals
The mission of the National Association of Evangelicals is to extend the kingdom of God through a fellowship of member denominations, churches, organizations and individuals, demonstrating the unity of the body of Christ by standing for biblical truth, speaking with a representative voice, and serving the evangelical community. Since 1942, the NAE’s goals have remained the same - to unify, support, and represent evangelical community in the United States. www.nae.net
Micah Challenge brings together evangelicals worldwide in support of justice and compassion for the poor and vulnerable, one of the NAE’s core commitments. By supporting world leaders in their commitments to reduce poverty, improve health, and promote sustainable development, we uphold biblical values and bear witness to the kingdom of God.
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
CRWRC --the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee --is a comprehensive international development and disaster response organization working in more than 30 countries around the world and in North America. It is a bi-national organization, with home offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan and in Burlington, Ontario. www.crwrc.org
CRWRC strives to incorporate justice/reconciliation into all aspects of its programming. Micah Challenge is a natural partner for CRWRC at the national level of the countries in which CRWRC works. This allows us to work together with church leaders for policies and practices that support the transformation we long to see in every community, both domestically and internationally. See www.crwrc.org for a listing of countries we serve --and other information about CRWRC programs.
Evangelicals for Social Action
ESA seeks to help Christians live more faithful to Jesus and the Scriptures. We especially seek to follow the biblical teaching on God’s special concern for the poor. www.esa-online.org
Micah Challenge helps ESA live out our passion for justice for all, especially the poor and marginalized.
Sojourners
Sojourners is the largest network of progressive Christians in the United States. Bringing together Christians from many traditions –evangelicals, other Protestants, Catholics and others – as well as allies of other faiths, Sojourners seeks to educate and mobilize people of faith on the biblical call to social justice. www.sojo.net
Sojourners is pleased to support the Micah Challenge and its efforts to end extreme global poverty. We believe God has given us the responsibility as Christians to advocate for the needs of poor people and therefore are very supportive of Micah Challenge’s efforts to unite the church in advocating for the achievement of Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
World Hope International
World Hope International exists to alleviate suffering and injustice through education, enterprise and community health. WHI’s work includes programs that support rural development, anti-trafficking initiatives, microfinance, child sponsorship, disaster response and HIV/AIDS prevention. www.worldhope.org
World Hope International sees Micah Challenge as an important way to educate the church about the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) and mobilize action through “on-the-ground” organizations like World Hope International. In addition, Micah Challenge USA links arms with Micah Challenge participants around the world who are mobilizing their own churches and governments to meet the challenges of health, education, equality, environment, and good governance.
Baptist World Aid
For over 80 years Baptists have been making a difference and caring for those in need through Baptist World Aid (BWAid), irrespective of their race, creed or color. The hungry have been fed and the sick healed. The naked clothed and the imprisoned visited. Funds have been used to provide food, medicines and medical equipment. Agricultural and educational projects have been funded. www.bwanet.org/bwaid
In 2004 the Baptist World Alliance adopted a resolution that called upon the nations of the world to take seriously the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the United Nations in the desire to halve current levels of world poverty by 2015. Baptist World Aid has focused its projects in the last quinquennium on the 8 MDGs. Christians around the world have been supporting the MDGs through the Micah Challenge. BWAid serves on Micah, USA, as many Baptists around the world are involved in the Micah Challenge in their own countries.
Salvation Army World Service Office
Support and strengthen The Salvation Army’s efforts to work hand in hand with communities to improve the health, economic and spiritual conditions of the poor throughout the world.
The Salvation Army has long been a leader among Christians in pursuing an integral or holistic mission in the world. We believe that working for the transformation of global poverty and injustice is a profoundly evangelical mission, because in doing so we are proclaiming the good news of God’s redemption for a broken world. This is why we are enthusiastic supporters of the Micah Challenge campaign as a voice that is global and prophetic, calling on the world to live up to the promises we have made to end extreme poverty.
Bread for the World, World Vision, World Relief, Evangelical Covenant Church, Food for the Hungry, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation, UN Millennium Campaign, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Care of Creation, African Leadership And Reconciliation Ministries (ALARM)...
