CompassCare is a Christ-centered organization dedicated to erasing the need for abortion by transforming women’s fear into confidence. In 2016 our church helped launch what was then called the Southtowns Care Center. They merged with CompassCare in 2019.

Heart Check Goals: Promotional advertising on local TV and radio to let women considering abortion know there is help and hope. The Gospel is shared with each woman as she receives information and care from professional nurses.

Every Child supports foster care, adoption and global orphan care ministry in a collaborative effort with churches in WNY. Their goal is to see that every child within our reach is cared for and has an opportunity to hear and see the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Heart Check Goals: They are building a CarePortal—an online resource for fostering & adoptive families who have tangible needs. It also promotes events. 

The mission of the Buffalo Peace House is to provide safe housing and facilitate access to legal counsel for refugees and asylum seekers as they follow the legal process toward permanent residency. Many of the people they serve are women and children.

Heart Check Goals: A second location in the village of Hamburg recently opened and needed funding for more staff. We’ll be able to support those positions

We will be performing exterior maintenance as well as completing another phase of the roof at McKinley. We’ll also be renovating the children’s space at South Creek. Well maintained facilities give us a place to grow and train our church family so we can go on mission. As part of this campaign, we will continue to care for the properties and buildings that God has blessed us with. 

There are nearly 400 people who attend Watermark Wesleyan who live in and around East Aurora. It has been our desire to have a thriving campus in that community just as we have seen happen in South Creek and Springville. Recently, new momentum has been generated, and we hope to launch a campus in East Aurora in 2021. This giving will help provide a space to meet and pursue community outreach opportunities.

This program trains inner city men and women to find meaningful employment and transformation through Christ. It was actually conceived by a member of our congregation who wanted to use his skills to train people who may struggle to find job preparation and introduce them to Christ in the process.

Heart Check Goals: We will help them establish a training center at 1021 Broadway Ave. in Buffalo and provide salary support for the training center director, thus expanding the scope of their training.

Adult and Teen Challenge is a 9-12 month Christ-centered residential program for adults with drug or alcohol addictions. Pastor Keith in Springville has had a relationship with Buffalo Adult & Teen Challenge, and we are excited to welcome them onboard as official Heart Check partners.

Heart Check Goals: Our funding will help them meet the expenses of their residential facility in Buffalo, which serves up to 24 adults.

Buffalo Urban Mission Partnership (BUMP) is a one-year long internship program in Buffalo where young adults live in community, serving and learning together to prepare for lives of service in urban ministries. BUMP was started by pastors on the West Side of Buffalo to specifically prepare them for ministry in cities.

Heart Check Goals: We’ll help them convert basement space to housing so they can increase rental revenue and become self-sustaining.

People Against Trafficking Humans (PATH) is a faith-based ministry to end human exploitation through education, prevention, and restoration. They work with local, national, and international organizations to eliminate human trafficking, prevent the vulnerable from being victimized, and provide therapeutic support services to survivors.

Heart Check Goals: We will be supporting programming and staff at the new Enrichment Center, specifically the Program Coordinator and an adult program provider.

Seneca Gospel uses educational and nutrition programs to teach nutrition and introduce kids and teens in the Seneca Babcock neighborhood of South Buffalo to the spiritual truths that God loves and values them. Promise Valley Farm was started by a member of our congregation who wanted to provide tangible help in a food desert of Buffalo and share the Gospel, the bread of life, with that community.

Heart Check Goals: We will help continue nutrition and spiritual education programming, increase the size of the farm, and create a new micro-enterprise to train teens for employment.

Jericho Road's Wellness Clinic at New Hope Center seeks to improve healthcare for the most vulnerable individuals in Goma, especially orphans, traumatized children, and widows and their children, who would otherwise have no access to primary care. In addition to primary health care, the Wellness Clinic also provides some surgical services, prenatal and maternity care, health education, spiritual care, and family planning services.

Heart Check Goals: We will help them add additional staff to their clinic to serve this community.

World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization that brings sustainable solutions to the world’s greatest problems – disasters, extreme poverty, violence, oppression, and mass displacement. They partner with local churches and community leaders in the U.S. and abroad to bring hope, healing, and transformation to the most vulnerable.

Heart Check Goals: Heart Check will continue to fund their Church Empowerment Zones (CEZ). These zones connect churches who were previously divided. Only together can they combat the many problems facing the area.

Peak Partner Missions works with the community of Belot, Haiti, to provide a quality education to children in the remote mountains of southern Haiti. Before the creation of The New Birth School in 2010, students either didn’t attend school or had to walk hours up and down the mountain to the nearest school. 160 elementary-grade students now attend.

Heart Check Goals: We will help them launch a community garden for the school in this remote mountain village and install solar panels to sustain the school and community.

India Gospel League (IGL) has planted more than 90,000 village churches in the past 25 years, and from these, hope is shining out to a world darkened by desperate poverty and ancient idolatry. IGL has grown from a small mission in South India to an international mission sharing the gospel, serving with compassionate care, and seeing God at work.

Heart Check Goals: This coming year, they will adopt an unreached area of India to provide training and church planting.

Heart for Lebanon works with Syrian refugees in tent cities and throughout Lebanon. They provide humanitarian needs, food, shelter, education, and medical care. They lead the refugees to a relationship with the ultimate healer, Jesus Christ.

Heart Check Goals: Our goal is to provide additional aid to those in need affected by the Syrian war, COVID, and the Beirut explosion.

Youth for Christ works with high school and middle school students as well as Syrian refugees in tent cities near the Syrian border. They provide education opportunities and reach kids through sports ministry. They also work for reconciliation between refugees and Lebanese in Beirut in the Manara Center.

Heart Check Goals: We will help them continue their work by supporting the costs associated with staffing, equipment, online promotion, and production

Poetice empowers the church to fight for justice. They do remarkable work, training missionaries, church planting, providing help to widows and orphans, and more. They seek to help the lost, the oppressed, the sick, and the vulnerable by bringing the Gospel to them and addressing the spiritual roots of injustice.

Heart Check Goals: We’ll provide scholarship funding for local and global training for their school of justice to send missionaries throughout the world.

Mark and his wife Angie work alongside Cru (formerly known as Campus Crusade for Christ) in Michigan. Mark works with Athletes in Action, the sports arm of Cru. He ministers to high school students who are USA hockey players through discipleship and small groups.

Rod serves with Youth for Christ in Buffalo. Rod works with middle school and high school students in after school programs, sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and continually building relationships with both students and their parents.

Pastors Steve and Ruth Strand have served The Wesleyan Church in all corners of the Western Hemisphere for 30 years. Their latest mission field reaches the world in a single city: Buffalo, NY. They provide spiritual care and comfort to patients at Jericho Road Community Health Center, teach at Houghton College on the east and west side of Buffalo, and help network urban and suburban churches.

Nate is the area director of Young Life in the Southtowns of Buffalo. Nate works primarily with high school students by creating exciting programs and events and building relationships with students to share the love of Jesus Christ. 

Camp Hickory Hill offers a variety of events and activities designed to build and strengthen relationships with God and with each other. Through their summer camp programs, retreats, family events, and camp rentals, Camp Hickory Hill is a place that allows people to grow in their knowledge of and relationship with God.

We wanted to highlight just a few of our legacy partners, but we have several more working with students, refugees, immigrants, the homeless, athletes, kids, and community organizations. Their work is varied and stretches from Hamburg to the other side of the globe. They rely on our support to continue their work in the mission field, and Heart Check makes all of this possible!