Serve in the World

  • Our Partnership in Guatemala

    Woods Chapel is excited to partner with Children’s HopeChest, an organization we’ve worked with before, now serving communities in five countries—including El Paraíso, Guatemala. Together, we’re building a long-term, relationship-based partnership focused on sustainable community development.

    At the heart of this partnership are Friendships—a monthly sponsorship that supports a child’s education, health, environment, and spiritual formation, while creating a meaningful, personal connection through letter writing.

    Friendship Sundays:
    On these Sundays, our congregation will have the opportunity to become a Friend to a child in El Paraíso. Sponsorships are $45/month, and children in the community will choose their HopeChest Friend—honoring dignity and deepening connection.

    Looking ahead, Woods Chapel will also:

    • Participate in partner visits to Guatemala, focused on relationships and meeting your HopeChest Friend

    • Support key community projects like clean water access, medical care, and improved facilities

    • Celebrate a Match Party later this winter, when children choose their Friends

    Our first partner trip to Guatemala is planned for summer 2026.

    This is more than sponsorship—it’s friendship, partnership, and a shared journey of hope.

  • This group is committed to helping our church become more responsible stewards of God's good gift of creation by lowering our carbon footprint and building a church culture that demonstrates its love for God in the careful and thoughtful ways we live out our mission. We do this by finding ways to decrease our energy use, eliminating waste, especially single-use plastics, supporting church-wide recycling and composting efforts, emphasizing the importance of creation stewardship in teaching and worship, and managing our grounds in nature-protecting ways.

    Learn more about this group and join HERE.

  • Fantastic News! Woods Chapel is more than halfway to our goal of building 25 homes in El Chile Nicaragua!! You have funded 19 houses already! That is incredible! Help make the final push to reach our goal of $140,000 to help those in need in Nicaragua.

    Learn more and give HERE.

  • We have the opportunity to partner with families in El Chile to bring clean water to their new homes. A well will be dug, bringing fresh, clean water to each home. The cost of the project is $30,000.  Click HERE to donate! Choose “Other” as your Fund and write “Nicaragua Clean Water” in the memo line.

  • Community Sponsorships provide nutrition, micro-loans, education, and medical care to our partner community El Chile.

    Learn more HERE.

  • Student sponsorships allow children to reach an education past the fifth-grade level. They also provide an opportunity for you to form a one-on-one relationship with a child in one of our beloved communities.

    Learn more and sponsor a student HERE.