You Can Help
Projects
We are a 501(C)3 US organization, so every dollar is tax deductible. Also, every dollar goes only toward the outreach, building, and resources for the mission and the people we are here to help. [No donated funds are spent on missionary travels, housing, food, expenses as that is all covered by the individual and their supporters.
In fact, at this time, every donated dollar is ‘matched’ by another contributor. This is not going to be true forever, so to assist today makes every dollar count twice!!!
Financial Supporter
If you would like to ear-mark support for a specific missionary
You can use this method, simply note their name with your donation
All Assistance
We certainly can use all the assistance that God may bring our way though, and we are wide open to suggestions, guidance, and especially church sponsorships for the mission or receiving your missionaries. Now we have multiple ways of giving. First and foremost, your prayerful support is most needed and appreciated. We are most fed by what the Lord makes happen for us and this is assuredly directed greatly by the many prayers that are offered up for this ministry. We are very grateful for your keeping us in your prayers. Our highest prayer needs is to continue to give us favor in His direction, His wishes, and in thanks for the recent dedicated Mission couple that has committed to a long term stay here managing the Mission.
Of course, prayers for our finances; our continual relationship growth with the local villages and villagers, to minimize any ‘religious’ friction with other faiths, to strive for the spiritual health and growth of the people and community we are able to serve. The main thrust of this Mission is to save souls. We seek to show the people of San Juan Bautista district that missionaries have come and gone in the past but this is a permanent missionary investment in them and we are here to service their needs, and to let the world know of them, and to guide them to know Jesus more. Thank you for your prayers.
Monetary donations
Donor Brick program
As mentioned, your financial donations to LAMA (regardless if on-line, check, cash or Donor brick) are also fully tax deductible and a receipt will be mailed to you. With all the coming expenses of labor, materials, government reporting, etc., this is the most flexible and beneficial financial offering that we can ask for. Also, if you want your financial donation earmarked to general outreach, a specific outreach, construction costs, a particular construction area, a missionaries name, a particular family, a home fund, flood relief, child fund, etc. we will also accommodate that request (where possible). We are most grateful to your giving, especially now in our time of need.
Amazon Smiles
By putting their logo on our site, we have also become advertising ‘affiliates’ of Amazon so any purchases you make for yourself on this popular service through Amazon Smiles link will benefit our ministry. IF you access Amazon from our website (this item is not tax-deductible of course), this gets us the most percentage against your purchase, Amazon looking at it from an advertising budget. Additionally, you can go to Smile.Amazon.com once, and set your charity to benefit, so all future purchases you make via this link (Smile.Amazon.com) will benefit your charity of choice. We would hope that you would make that us by selecting “L A M A Latin American Missions Association” as your charity of choice. This gains us an additional half percent. Every dollar adds up!!! You can do both and we gain the most! But either would be of great benefit. [To do both, use the link on our site, and then when you get to your amazon purchase page, override the ‘www’ in the amazon address, replacing it with ‘smile’.]
We also have many other non-financial ways you can support us, as there are many supply items we use that we never seem to be able to get enough of! Here’s a separate link for non-financial support.
Word of mouth .. please like our website, visit our Facebook Ministry, Mission & YWAM/JuCUM Page’s, our Twitter Feed, tell others about us, inform others about our Website, Paypal, and Amazon links … everything helps!
When making purchases through Amazon for yourself, use our Amazon Smiles link so that a % of your purchase is donated by Amazon to LAMA.
Fully Registered
We are a full registered church and 501c3 charity organization, so all financial donations are fully tax-deductible. Tax receipts available upon request. Our finances are in the public domain. We have been publishing our ‘donation/expense thermometers’ (below) for the last 3 years of construction outlays at the mission. LAMA is now a Guidestar Platinum Participant as well, giving even more disclosure as to our operation and cash flow. May God bless you for all that you are able to give!
Know that all staffing and missionaries are self funded. The founders and acting board of LAMA are all volunteers. No donations go toward salaries, travel or living expenses of missionaries, volunteers or board members, but go 100% to the mission function, the people of need, the children, and the facilities to provide. We are nearing the end of a large capital outlay for completing this mission and getting debt free as soon as possible is a important goal, in light of the work this project is structured to do. Please consider using the donate button below (use ‘note’ field for any special instructions on gift).
- Donate money through PayPal (cash, check, credit card) as one-time or recurring tax-deductible donation
- Donate goods — see list of needed supplies
- Donate services — volunteer to help with construction, administrative support, teaching, distributing food/clothes/medicine, transportation, and more.
