Urgent Help & Eternal Hope
North America Ministry
Serving Communities Across the United States and Canada
All over the continent, people and communities face hardship, and ongoing challenges that disrupt everyday life. Send Relief partners with churches to come alongside them with practical care, long-term support, and gospel-centered ministry.
Through ministry centers, mission trips, community partnerships, and crisis response, Send Relief equips churches and believers to serve faithfully and respond wisely to real needs across North America.
Whether you’re called to pray, give, serve, or lead others in ministry, there are meaningful ways to take part in serving your neighbors across the street and across the country.
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Local Hubs to Serve and Learn
Send Relief Ministry Centers are located in strategic cities and regions across North America. Each center partners with local churches to address community challenges while equipping believers to lead compassionate, gospel-centered ministry in their own contexts. Through Ministry Centers, churches and volunteers can: • Serve communities through local outreach • Receive training to start or strengthen compassion ministries • Learn from leaders already serving their communities.
Ashland Ministry Center
Located in a strategic tri-state area, this Send Relief ministry center helps rural families stop the cycle of poverty and…
Atlanta Ministry Center
Many call Atlanta the gateway to the south for business and culture. Together we can impact Atlanta and the region…
Boston Ministry Center
Be the Hands and Feet of Christ in Boston.
From relationally ministering to the unhoused, to walking in restorative ways alongside vulnerable women and families, to embracing and empowering…
Chicago Ministry Center
While Chicago is a cultural hub full of beautiful parks and pristine beaches, there are enormous physical and spiritual needs…
Denver Ministry Center
Located in the urban core of Denver, this Send Relief ministry center is focused on strengthening communities and providing support…
Laredo Ministry Center
A quiet desert city, Laredo beautifully blends the values of its Mexican and American residents to create the town’s distinctive…
Las Vegas Ministry Center
A shiny city on the outside, Las Vegas is actually home to some of the darkest and most disturbing human…
Los Angeles Ministry Center
The Los Angeles ministry center is focused on poverty alleviation in partnership with churches through homelessness and human trafficking prevention.
Memphis Ministry Center
There are deep, generational wounds in the hearts of families and communities in Memphis. Send Relief’s ministry center is striving…
New York City Ministry Center
With nearly 80,000 people experiencing homelessness in New York City, the need for physical assistance is pressing. Send Relief partners…
Puerto Rico – Guaynabo
Established after Hurricane Maria, Send Relief partners with local churches across Puerto Rico to bring disaster response, community care, and…
Puerto Rico – Ponce
From the Ponce Ministry Center, mission teams are sent to serve vulnerable communities in partnership with local churches across southern…
South Dakota Ministry Center
Send Relief leaders are hard at work helping interrupt generational cycles of poverty on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South…
St. Louis Ministry Center
Located in the gateway to the Midwest, Send Relief’s ministry center in St. Louis is dedicated to mobilizing individuals and…
Toronto Ministry Center
Hamilton, known as the Waterfall Capital of the World, combines industrial heritage with a vibrant arts scene and bustling downtown.…
Valdosta Ministry Center
This ministry center in Georgia cares for children in crisis by resourcing foster and adoptive parents and training churches to…
North American Mission Trips
Step Into the Mission Field
Mission trips across North America invite believers to serve shoulder to shoulder with faithful local churches with deep roots in the community.
These hands-on opportunities allow you to:
- Make a long-term impact.
- Serve in practical ways that lead to gospel conversations.
- Learn how to apply ministry best practices to meet needs and share the gospel in your own community.
- Grow personally through shared service and discipleship.
Meet Critical Needs Where Help is Needed Most
With your support, Send Relief works alongside trusted local churches and ministry leaders to give communities practical care, essential resources, and gospel hope in difficult circumstances.
U.S. Storm Response
Winter Storm Response Urgent help. Eternal hope. A historic winter storm is impacting communities across a wide swath of the United States—bringing dangerous cold, snow, ice, and prolonged power outages. As families face uncertainty and vulnerable neighbors are exposed to life-threatening conditions, Send Relief is responding through the local church to bring help, warmth, and
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
Send Relief’s primary collaborator in moments of crisis is Southern Baptist Disaster Relief. Bringing hope in crisis through physical and gospel witness care, this disaster relief ministry serves families and communities in their most difficult moments.
Engage in Sustainable Change across North America
You and your church can walk alongside neighbors in their daily struggles. Join Send Relief and participate in sustainable, community-led solutions and consistent gospel witness.
Lifeline Children’s Services Education
Lifeline Children’s Services’ online library of interactive courses is equipped to serve families, caregivers, church leaders and organizations as they serve vulnerable children. These courses train parents and caregivers to implement gospel-centric care to foster and adoptive children who come from hard places of trauma, loss or neglect. For churches, there are courses that encourage
Send Relief Affiliate Ministries
Offering help and hope to communities in need across North America.
Family Advocacy Ministry (FAM)
FAM is a step-by-step ministry strategy that helps churches serve and advocate for vulnerable children and families as well as those called to foster and adopt. All FAMs are equipped with ministry software, resources, tutorial, and consultation to launch and sustain their ministries. Send Relief helps churches implement FAMs so they can help bring a
Crisis Response
When crisis hits, everything changes in a moment. A family loses their home. A community is shaken. The future suddenly feels uncertain. And in those moments, people aren’t just looking for help. They are looking for hope. Across North America and around the world, crises happen every day. Some make headlines. Many don’t. But every
Backpacks
Backpack Day 2026 Sunday August 2, 2026 UPDATE: Thank you! All 2026 backpacks have been claimed. Although the backpacks provided through Send Relief for Backpack Day 2026 are no longer available to request, your church can still participate by organizing a local backpack outreach. Use the free ministry guide and promotional resources below to help