Giving Tuesday...and beyond!
Excited to do good in the name and power of Jesus? Looking for a Family Gift Idea? Make a Difference for Jesus Christ in Greater Milwaukee and Beyond - join BASICS for Giving Tuesday!
Brothers and Sisters in Christ Serving Together to Love God, Love People, and Serve Milwaukee!
“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.” Isaiah 61:1
Read through each description below, and when you find an option you'd like to support, click the "Giving is Easy!" button next to your selection!
Brothers and Sisters in Christ Serving Together to Love God, Love People, and Serve Milwaukee!
“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.” Isaiah 61:1
Read through each description below, and when you find an option you'd like to support, click the "Giving is Easy!" button next to your selection!
BASICS Operations
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It’s our behind the scenes team and services that make BASICS run smoothly! Providing support to 14 Ministers to Milwaukee as they serve men, women, and families on their life’s journey. Administrative Support, Business Operations, Leadership Coaching, Facilities, Technology, and more. Help us reach our goal of $180,000! No gift is too small and every dollar makes an impact! |
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Urban Outreach
Takin’ It To the Streets! Mobile Movie Events
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Especially during these days of pandemic and unrest, our visually-oriented society is aching to receive good news! Minister to Milwaukee John Jones and the Mobile Media Van bring hope to urban and suburban communities of greater Milwaukee. The Media Van is a renovated medical screening van, repurposed as a mobile street theatre, bringing exciting Christian videos, testimonies and animated Bible stories to inner city neighborhoods - showing that grace and peace come from a personal relationship with Jesus! |
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Sponsor an Urban Street Theatre event featuring Big Blue the Mobile Media Van!
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Soul Care Retreat
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As we care for our souls and connect with the Father, we’re able to impact our families, workplaces and communities for Him! This 2 night/3day retreat led by Minister to Milwaukee Andrea Hopgood unites city and suburban women for a time to unplug from everyday life - and plug into creativity, friendship and uninterrupted time with God! |
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Help Widows Find Hope
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“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27 Widows Find Hope is a ministry open to all women who have experienced the loss of their husband, regardless of their faith background. Widows Find Hope serves approximately 30 widows per month through prayer, support, outings, and monthly gatherings. This ministry is based upon mutual encouragement, love and moving forward through Christ-centered community. BASICS Is pleased to support Mark Pagel, Mark Mallwitz and their team of humble servants on a monthly basis in coming alongside those who’ve experienced loss. |
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Sponsor Hope for a Widow 2022
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Reaching Neighborhoods Through the Schools
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.COVID has greatly impacted already stretched/stressed educators. Classes in-person? Classes online? Sometimes teachers don’t know from day to day. That instability affects staff and students alike. Chaplain Jane Turner and her team minister through MPS Covered in Prayer, hosting monthly prayer walks providing peace through prayer for Milwaukee Public Schools, their staff, students and families. BASICS volunteers currently serve 10 schools through MPS Covered in Prayer.
Encouraged teachers foster an encouraging learning environment. BASICS encourages Teachers and Staff through Appreciation Lunches called Golden Apple Events. |
Sponsor a Golden Apple Staff and Teacher Appreciation - $1200 serves 40 Staff and Educators
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Passport to Freedom - Prison Discipleship
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Every person is made in the image of God. No life is beyond His reach.
Minister to Milwaukee Mike Moses serves those in correctional facilities throughout Wisconsin, sharing the Gospel and spreading hope to incarcerated men. Through pastoral visits and prison worship services, Mike brings the message of the freedom that can only be found in Jesus Christ. Each Passport to Freedom supports travel costs to take the Good News of Jesus to those who need it most! |
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Sponsor a “Passport to Freedom”
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Mending the Soul
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The trauma of abuse is all too often buried, and unwarranted shame causes people to withdraw from within. Survivors don’t want anyone, including themselves, to see their pain, shame, and brokenness.
Abuse can be sexual, physical, neglect, spiritual, and verbal, and can cause us to be haunted by past identities in our lives. Broken. Beaten down. Divorced. Addicted. Abused. Degraded. Isolated. Invisible. Not good enough. Uneducated. Unlovable. Unwanted. Used. Useless. Shamed. Rejected. All of these identities are shame-based lies that have become imbedded in the original design God has for the lives of His people. Mending the Soul provides biblically-rooted and psychologically proven abuse-healing curricula in a community-based setting. |
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Partner with Minister to Milwaukee Peggy Neal by providing support for Mending the Soul participants
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Serving the Lost and Forgotten - New Years Eve Day Outreach
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New Year’s Eve - a time of celebration many of us look forward to. But for those who are homeless and under-resourced on Milwaukee’s Northeast Side, it’s a cold day, without the benefit of open food sites. Partner with Minister to Milwaukee Frank Woods providing prayer, a hot meal, coats, socks and thermal underwear for our lost and forgotten neighbors in need. “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.” Matthew 25:35-36 |
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Support Our Officers
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Lack of emotional and spiritual support for officers and their families can lead to health and family struggles. Chaplain George Papachristou and his team of ordained chaplains meet spiritual needs of officers as they come face to face with the most traumatic situations in our society. Ride-alongs, Bible studies and Blue Line Chapel, a church service designed for officers and their families bring truth, hope and healing to MPD officers. |
Build a Benevolence Fund for officers and their families who’ve experienced loss or trauma.
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Front Row Seat
“Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!” Psalm 133:1
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A December 2018 report published by the Brookings Institute shows Greater Milwaukee as the single most segregated metropolitan area in the entire United States. Nearly 80% of the residents live in neighborhoods comprised only of people who are the same race as them. How do we bridge the gap toward racial unity, being able to work together on solutions to challenges in the church and community that trouble us all? Bringing together city and suburban, Black, White and Brown, to begin to understand one another’s experience, to learn to love and support one another in practical and meaningful ways. |
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Pastor and Ministry Leader Appreciation
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Fight Clergy Burnout - Connecting God’s Servants Pastoral service can be the most lonely of places. In the midst of a crowd of people, pastors can sometimes feel the most left out. In addition to regular responsibilities of preaching, leading teams, pastoral visits, there are few times to come together with others in the trenches to connect. |
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Provide for our spring Pastor Appreciation Breakfast!
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SYIS - Sharpening Your Interpersonal Skills Workshop
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Few things are more glorifying to God than living together in community. And few things are more destructive than not doing so. One of the significant challenges we face on a day-to-day basis is working with others, often from different cultures and with different personalities. Sharpening Your Interpersonal Skills Workshops are designed to enhance the knowledge, attitudes and skills of Christian workers in how we relate to family, co-workers, friends as well as those from other cultures. SYIS is highly interactive. We will work, share, and practice skills together in pairs, small groups, and as a whole group. The best methods of adult education are utilized so that maximum learning takes place. |
Laurie Hendrickson of BASICS is proud to collaborate with the team of Ethnos360 to provide 5 full days of Biblically-based training in relationship skills for life and ministry. Skills such as:
* Loving Listening
* Advice and Problem Solving
* Confronting
* Conflict Management
* Community
* Stress
* Suffering Loss
* Loving Listening
* Advice and Problem Solving
* Confronting
* Conflict Management
* Community
* Stress
* Suffering Loss
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We thank you for your partnership in God's work in Milwaukee!
"I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now" Philippians 1:5
On behalf of the BASICS Team,
Gary and Laurie Hendrickson
Executive Directors
BASICS in MKE
"I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now" Philippians 1:5
On behalf of the BASICS Team,
Gary and Laurie Hendrickson
Executive Directors
BASICS in MKE