Meet Our Partners & Servants

Anana Elementary School
Milele Chikasa Anana Elementary (Anana) serves about 400 students from Early Childhood through 5th grade in a community built around high expectations and a love for learning. The school offers both English and Spanish Dual Language instruction and focuses on preparing every student to thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Blackhawk Brader Way partners with Anana through Madison Public Schools Foundation’s Adopt-a-School program.

Mother & Child Resource Minsitry
Since 1999, Blackhawk’s Mother and Child Resource Ministry has come alongside more than 5,500 mothers, fathers, and newborns across Dane County. We partner with local hospitals and organizations to connect expectant mothers with essential newborn supplies and a week’s worth of clothing for babies up to 12 months. See our most needed items. 

WayForward Resources
WayForward Resources brings the community together to create food and housing security through action and advocacy. Their vision is a community where everyone has the stability to thrive.

The Beacon
The Beacon homeless day resource center works to provide community solutions to help men, women, and children who are experiencing homelessness in Dane County. Blackhawk Downtown supports the Beacon through the monthly Cooking for Good events and ongoing collection of items (underwear, socks, etc.) needed by their clients.

Capital High School
Capital High School serves students in grades 9-12 who are interested in an alternative high school. Capital High focuses on personalized learning to address each student’s strengths and areas of growth. It is designed as a small learning community where students are supported through an advisory model to develop core knowledge and skills, while exploring their interests and engaging in post-secondary planning. Capital High School is partnering with Blackhawk Downtown Church through Madison Public Schools Foundation’s Adopt-a-School program.

Badger Prairie Needs Network
Badger Prairie Needs Network (BPNN) is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting poverty and ending hunger locally. BPNN operates a food pantry that serves food insecure households in Dane County. They offer a free community meal on 1st and 3rd Saturdays each month, nutrition education & culinary arts classes in their commercial-grade kitchen, a community garden, and free legal advocacy focused on ending homelessness and leveling the playing field for people with limited financial means.

Leopold Elementary School
Aldo Leopold Elementary School is a diverse, caring school whose mission is to empower each child to become an enthusiastic lifelong learner. Leopold provides quality education by providing an integrated multicultural curriculum, an environment that recognizes individuality and fosters self-esteem, and a commitment to a mutually responsible partnership between students, families, staff and community. Leopold Elementary is partnering with Blackhawk Fitchburg through Madison Public Schools Foundation’s Adopt-a-School program.

Beacon of Hope | Kenya
Beacon of Hope is a registered faith and community based non-governmental organization in Kenya and that was established as a way for women in a Nairobi slum to develop vocational skills that would allow them to work and provide for themselves and their families. The organization now serves the community through a clinic, preschool, primary school and vocational training center. It’s focus is on creating transformation in the spiritual, physical, economic and social wellbeing of the people they serve.

Food for the Hungry | Bolivia
Food for the Hungry is a Christian organization seeking to end all forms of human poverty by going into the hard places and closely walking with the world’s most vulnerable people. They do this by providing life-changing resources such as clean water, medical aid, food, equal educational opportunities to girls and boys, vocational training and empowerment in the midst of unimaginable hardships. They have been working in Bolivia since 1978 and they have invited Blackhawk to come alongside the community of Lajastambo.

Open Roads | Romania
Open Roads is a Romania based organization in Craiova that serves young people who’ve been orphaned, released from state institutions and left to brave the world alone. Through a Sports and English Camp in the northern Alps of Romania, Open Roads serves many young people who will hear the gospel message for the first time and understand their worth and love in God.

Questscope | Middle East
Questscope is an international non-governmental, non-profit organization with the goal of “putting the last, first.” Since its start in 1988, Questscope has walked alongside people whose lives are ravaged by war and poverty in the Middle East. Their programs are designed and implemented by marginalized communities that serve to drive the most impact. Programs include mental health and well-being, emergency aid, entrepreneurship, juvenile justice, education, and mentorship.

Eaglecrest Alaska Missions | Alaska
Eaglecrest Alaska Missions is a unique mix of intense experiences designed to equip and empower individuals to become Christ-centered disciples in their world. In Sutton, Alaska , they seek to bring the presence of Christ by enhancing life in the community and beyond through work projects, day camps, weekly cookouts, and special events.

Chuck & Katie N – Reliant Mission | Southeast Asia
Chuck & Katie serve as Movement Leaders, facilitating dual-identity laborers to plant the gospel in hard-to-reach places through the development of sustainable village-based enterprises that create jobs and increase incomes among those that are making only $2 a day.

Aaron & Tiffany Robinson – Cru | France
Aaron serves as Cru’s National Campus Director of France and on the national leadership team, giving leadership to a multi-cultural team of 70+ missionaries, with a focus on making Jesus known in partnership with the Body of Christ through evangelism and discipleship among the university students in France. Tiffany holds a master’s degree in counseling with a specialization in Mission Care, and serves as part of the Human Resources team of our ministry and works to care for and serve missionaries around France.

Răzvan& Allyssa Savu – SEND International | Romania
Răzvan & Allyssa seek to glorify God and bring the greatest possible good to humankind through the preaching of the gospel, making disciples of Jesus among others here, as well as equipping and mobilizing Romanians to do the same.

Joshua & Sarah Seykora – Cornerstone Church | Busselton, Western Australia
Joshua serves as the Senior Pastor at Cornerstone Church, providing leadership to the church, including teaching, speaking, preaching, discipleship, mentorship, and overseeing the mission ministry of the church. Sarah provides support to the church in the areas of media, design, discipleship, and mentorship, and is seeking to bring life and health coaching to her community. She currently serves with Hope Farms, learning natural horsemanship to reach out to youth in crisis at the farm.

Craig & Tracy Sorely – Creation Stewards International | Kenya
Craig is the Kenya Director of Creation Stewards International, with the primary role of guiding the gospel-focused vision of CSI’s local outreach and training programs, and raising funds needed for a team of 15 staff who implement the work on the ground. Tracy supports the work of CSI through management, administration, and bookkeeping.

Jim & Molly – Questscope | Middle East
Jim works in Treasury-Finance and Regulatory Oversight for an organization dedicated to putting the last, first, by partnering with local nationals to educate and meet the needs of at-risk children and help equip displaced persons with life-sustaining skills. Molly works as a secondary English teacher in an international school.

Luis Vega – Siloam International | Honduras
Luis is the Siloam International Director for Latin America. He facilitates pastors and missionaries in evangelism, discipleship, church planting, seminars, and spreading the gospel through many means.

Tom & Becca Whitney – Overland Missions | Angola
Tom and Becca work with remote people groups of southwest Angola and engage them with the love and message of Christ, allowing the Holy Spirit to reveal Himself and empower indigenous believers to be who God created them to be. Through discipleship with those who respond to the gospel, they also equip and launch local believers into continuing the ministry on their own.

Leiton Chinn & Lisa Espineli Chinn – Yielded Evangelical Servants, Inc (YES Inc) | South Carolina
Leiton severs as co-Leader of the Anglican International Student Ministry Network (AISMN), mobilizing and encouraging and equipping the Church for “glocal” (global, yet local) missions among international students. Lisa, though retired, continues an active speaking schedule on ministry to international students.

Jon Dahl – Intervarsity Christian Fellowship | Madison, WI
Jon is the Senior Campus Staff Member and Team Leader with InterVarsity, working with graduate students, post-docs, and faculty at the University of Wisconsin.

Scott & Bonnie Roe – Cru | Madison, WI
Scott is the Southern Wisconsin Cru Area Director, which includes leading and training the Madison area and Southern Wisconsin Cru Staff, as well as student leaders on the UW-Madison Campus.

Brian & Rachel Schultz – Cru | Fort Collins, CO
Brian & Rachel serve families, young professionals, and business leaders with Cru City, where they engage the curious, equip the follower, and help everyone find their place in God’s story. Rachel also owns and runs a pottery studio as an outreach to the arts community of their city.

Brian & Linsey Smith – Athletes in Action | Lowell, MI
Linsey serves as the National Staff Care Director for Athletes in Action, assisting in front end development of AIA staff to keep them mentally and spiritually flourishing, and caring for AIA staff who are in crisis. She is also the chaplain for the Grand Rapids Rise volleyball team, leading Bible studies and providing discipleship. Brian serves as the Director of Digital Content for AIA’s Ultimate Training Camp and develops faith and sport resources for athletes, coaches and parents through books, devotionals, Bible studies, and articles.

Jeff & Karen Vandenberg – Navigators | Madison, WI
Jeff serves as the Campus Director for The Navigators at UW-Madison. He engages in relational and initiative evangelism, establishes new believers through Bible studies, groups, and conferences, and equips leaders and laborers for Christ’s Kingdom around the world.

Jeff & Beckie Wiegel – Navigators | Madison, WI
Jeff and Beckie serve with the Navigators Collegiate Ministry at UW-Madison. Jeff serves as Staff Trainer at UW-Madison and Beckie serves as Collegiate Staff-in-Training Director.