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Conspiracy

During the Christmas season, we participate in a movement called Advent Conspiracy, where we reflect on God’s extravagant generosity in giving us the gift of Jesus and move towards being generous to the world around us. Our desire as a community is to move away from the consumerism of Christmas and give towards things Jesus cares about. Through this generosity, we can remind people that we, the Church, are on their side and they are loved by God.

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Projects & Organizations

Aldo Leopold Elementary School

Aldo Leopold Elementary School is a Pk-5 school in Madison with an enrollment of 630. The school closely mirrors the demographics of the Madison Metropolitan School District. Almost fifty percent of Leopold’s students speak Spanish, and over 60% of their students qualify for free and reduced-price meals. As a community school, Leopold works tirelessly to partner with families and community members to identify needs and barriers and act to address them.

Advent Conspiracy funding will go towards Leopold’s Staff Well-Being and Morale Initiative, which aims to strengthen unity, joy, and a sense of belonging among its 130 staff. By fostering a positive work environment, Leopold Elementary seeks to improve staff retention and enhance the relationships between staff, students, and families — key components of a transformative learning environment.

Badger Prairie Needs Network

Badger Prairie Needs Network (BPNN) exists to fight poverty and end hunger locally and has served the Dane County community for nearly 40 years. BPNN operates a grocery-style food pantry that serves families throughout the region, provides hot lunches on weekends, and offers free legal advocacy to prevent homelessness. It also provides on-site access to crisis intervention services, vaccine clinics, clothes mending, ESL classes, and job fairs.

Advent Conspiracy funding will go towards purchasing food to meet the demand for food this season when food insecurity in Dane County is at a record high. It will allow BPNN to continue providing healthy food options to individuals using their services.

Capital High School

Capital High School’s mission is to provide students and their children with resources, supportive and preventative education, and services they need to ensure maternal and fetal health. Capital High aims to lower infant and maternal morbidity rates in the community, improve overall infant and maternal health, and help students earn high school diplomas. The high school’s programming includes three core courses for pregnant and parenting high school students: Childbirth, Parenting, Health & Wellness.

Advent Conspiracy funding will go towards Capital High School’s Student Age Parenting Program as they continue providing students and their children with the resources and services they need to stay healthy and earn high school diplomas.

International Justice Mission

International Justice Mission (IJM) works to protect people in poverty from violence and slavery. IJM works towards this through its efforts to rescue victims, restore survivors, hold criminals accountable, and help law enforcement protect other vulnerable children and women from experiencing abuse and trauma globally.

Advent Conspiracy funding will go towards protecting women and children from violence in Uganda by strengthening the local justice system and empowering survivors of violence in Uganda through partnerships, training, and advocacy initiatives. With the funding, International Justice Mission can anticipate transformational results in casework efforts and the local government’s progress towards sustainably protecting its citizens.

Maydm

Maydm provides technology training for girls and youth of color in grades 6-12. Its holistic approach prepares students from traditionally underrepresented populations to engage in and revolutionize the tech industry.

Advent Conspiracy funding will go towards expanding Maydm’s Career Exploration Program within their Internship Program. The Career Exploration Program will allow students to complete a 12-week PAID hands-on learning opportunity. Students will rotate through participating companies or multiple departments at one company to experience what it is like to work in STEM fields, such as game development, engineering, and software development.

Milele Chikasa Anana Elementary

Milele Chikasa Anana Elementary School serves students in Early Childhood Education and Kindergarten through 5th grade and is committed to preparing students to be college, career, and community-ready. Anana students are provided the tools needed to succeed academically, socially, and emotionally and are challenged to achieve at high levels, take risks, and fall in love with learning.

Advent Conspiracy funding will go towards supporting student learning and engagement by providing materials that will engage students in phonological awareness, phonics learning, and fluency practice.

Water Mission

Water Mission is a Christian engineering nonprofit organization that designs, builds, and implements safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) solutions for people in developing countries and in response to disasters. Their mission is to honor God by deploying and sharing safe water solutions to transform as many lives as possible as quickly as possible.

Advent Conspiracy funding will go towards Water Mission’s Safe Water and Living Water for Communities Program in Peru. This program aims to provide sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation services to rural communities and equip local churches to share the gospel of Jesus Christ to meet communities’ physical and spiritual needs. Water Mission’s community projects in Peru aim to improve these communities’ spiritual, physical, social, emotional, and material well-being by delivering long-term water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) solutions.

WayForward Resources

WayForward Resources (formerly Middleton Outreach Ministry) serves and advocates for people in Dane County who are experiencing food and housing insecurity. They host one of the county’s largest food pantries, providing the equivalent of 100,000 meals per month — a 100% increase from last year — and anticipate this record need will continue in the coming months. Through their housing stabilization program, WayForward Resources also assists those facing eviction or housing insecurity. In addition, their Reducing School Mobility program focuses on preventing children and their families from changing school districts during the year to help increase stability and a child’s ability to remain focused and engaged at school.

Advent Conspiracy funding will go towards WayForward’s efforts to meet the record-level demand for food and eviction prevention services. They will continue to assist more children, adults, and seniors utilizing the WayForward Food Pantry to meet nutritional needs. In addition, Housing Stability funds and services will assist in keeping individuals and families in their homes, avoiding the trauma of living in and experiencing homelessness.

World Relief

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. World Relief partners with local churches and community leaders in the U.S. and abroad to bring hope, healing, and transformation to the most vulnerable. Over their 75-year history, they have operated in 100 different countries and impacted the lives of nearly 100 million people.

Advent Conspiracy Funding will go towards delivering high-quality lifesaving services in Eastern Chad, where Sudanese refugees are seeking help, through programs centered on nutrition, water, sanitation, and hygiene. They will continue to safeguard the rights and well-being of vulnerable individuals, particularly women and children, by offering specialized services tailored to their needs.

Y-Malawi

Y-Malawi serves communities by having village churches at the center of their efforts while sharing the heart of Jesus and creating sustainable change in Malawi. Working with the church and local Malawian ministries who support the local churches has proven to be successful. Y-Malawi focuses on change for women and girls as well, believing that when you empower a woman, you impact her life, her family, her church, and the entire community.

Advent Conspiracy funding will go towards expansion of Y-Malawk’s Vocational Training Center, helping people become more self-sufficient and creating new jobs and opportunities in communities where some of the poorest people in the world live. The center is also used as a meeting place where Bible study where over 100 people are coming daily to hear God’s Word.