FAQs Sponsor A Child - Gifts
So let's begin with what your sponsor child receives as a result of your sponsorship.
Sponsorship helps break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by providing children with a broad academic education at one of the Vida Christian schools, school supplies, Christian discipleship and mentoring, a birthday gift, and new shoes at Christmas. As well, each child has access to a package of services, such as a daily nutritious meal, vitamins, and medical care, funded through additional giving to Impact Ministries. In addition to your monthly sponsorship, Sponsors can send up to $120.00 of additional monetary donations a year as a special gift to a sponsor child and their family. If you would like to send a special gift, below are a few options.
What can I do if I want to give more?
First, Impact Ministries would like to thank you for your generosity! There are some suggestions and parameters for additional giving listed below.
You could Support A Class
As you consider a special gift for your current sponsor child, we ask you to consider donating toward the overall mission of Impact Ministries that benefits our entire student population and their families. Class Supporters help provide additional services for students. To Support A Class, you can go to:
https://impactminusa.z2systems.com/np/clients/impactminusa/donation.jsp?campaign=32&&test=true
a. Fill in the “Your Information" form
b. In the Account Information
1. Put in the amount you would like to donate. We are looking for people to donate $50/mo
2. Select the frequency you prefer
3. Put in the 15th of the month as the draft date
4. Please leave the note area blank
5. Select the account you'd like to use (checking/saving accounts are most cost effective)
6. Add additional information based on which account you chose
7. Click Send
Sponsor a Food Hamper
There are food hampers provided at a donation of $20.00 that includes everyday staples. If you want to specifically provide a food hamper for your child or any number of students, you can go to:
https://impactminusa.z2systems.com/np/clients/impactminusa/donation.jsp?campaign=11&&test=true
a. Fill in the “Your Information" form
b. In the Account Information
1. Put in the amount $20.00 (or $20 x # of students)
2. Select Child Sponsorship Special Occasion as the purpose
3. Select ONCE as the frequency
4. Put in today's date as the draft date
5. In note type – “Child ID#9999-A – Food Hamper”
(be sure to use child’s ID# and list all ID#'s if more than one)
6. Select the account you'd like to use (checking and saving accounts are most cost effective)
7. Add additional information based on which account you chose
8. Click Send
Sponsor a Special Occasion Gift
(beyond the birthday and Christmas gifts already part of monthly sponsorship)
You are welcome to send gifts of any amount at any time (not to exceed $125/year inclusive of all gifts collected and distributed by Impact Ministries). Once a special occasion gift donation is received, the sponsor child's teacher selects a gift for your sponsor child.. Again, you can go to:
https://impactminusa.z2systems.com/np/clients/impactminusa/donation.jsp?campaign=11&&test=true
a. Fill in the "Your Information" form
b. In the Account Information
1. Put in the amount you want to provide
2. Select Child Sponsorship Special Occasion as the purpose
3. Select ONCE as the frequency
4. Put in today's date as the draft date
5. In note: type child ID #
6. Select the account you'd like to use (checking and saving accounts are most cost effective)
7. Add additional information based on which account you chose
8. Click Send
Sending Physical Gifts . . . Flat items
Mail flat gifts (i.e. stickers, cards, post cards, photos, items that fit in an envelope and meet US postal regulations for letters, etc..) as well as letters to our office. Again, mail it to IMUSA, Attn: Sponsorship, PO BOX 550, Duvall, WA, 98019; and be sure to put your sponsor child's ID# on every flat item you mail to the office.
Please do not send . . . Non-flat Items
Impact Ministries USA does not receive packages at the PO BOX and is unable to facilitate arrangements for packages to travel to Guatemala.
Coming on a short-term missions team?
If you are coming on a short-term missions team, and sponsor a child, and would like to bring a small gift with you, below are some of the items other sponsors brought with them to distribute while on a short-term team. If you are participating on a short-term missions team, let your team leader know well in advance that you sponsor a child, so they can coordinate appropriately with the Impact Ministries USA teams coordinator.
Packaging for short-term missions team
Sponsorship helps break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by providing children with a broad academic education at one of the Vida Christian schools, school supplies, Christian discipleship and mentoring, a birthday gift, and new shoes at Christmas. As well, each child has access to a package of services, such as a daily nutritious meal, vitamins, and medical care, funded through additional giving to Impact Ministries. In addition to your monthly sponsorship, Sponsors can send up to $120.00 of additional monetary donations a year as a special gift to a sponsor child and their family. If you would like to send a special gift, below are a few options.
What can I do if I want to give more?
First, Impact Ministries would like to thank you for your generosity! There are some suggestions and parameters for additional giving listed below.
You could Support A Class
As you consider a special gift for your current sponsor child, we ask you to consider donating toward the overall mission of Impact Ministries that benefits our entire student population and their families. Class Supporters help provide additional services for students. To Support A Class, you can go to:
https://impactminusa.z2systems.com/np/clients/impactminusa/donation.jsp?campaign=32&&test=true
a. Fill in the “Your Information" form
b. In the Account Information
1. Put in the amount you would like to donate. We are looking for people to donate $50/mo
2. Select the frequency you prefer
3. Put in the 15th of the month as the draft date
4. Please leave the note area blank
5. Select the account you'd like to use (checking/saving accounts are most cost effective)
6. Add additional information based on which account you chose
7. Click Send
Sponsor a Food Hamper
There are food hampers provided at a donation of $20.00 that includes everyday staples. If you want to specifically provide a food hamper for your child or any number of students, you can go to:
https://impactminusa.z2systems.com/np/clients/impactminusa/donation.jsp?campaign=11&&test=true
a. Fill in the “Your Information" form
b. In the Account Information
1. Put in the amount $20.00 (or $20 x # of students)
2. Select Child Sponsorship Special Occasion as the purpose
3. Select ONCE as the frequency
4. Put in today's date as the draft date
5. In note type – “Child ID#9999-A – Food Hamper”
(be sure to use child’s ID# and list all ID#'s if more than one)
6. Select the account you'd like to use (checking and saving accounts are most cost effective)
7. Add additional information based on which account you chose
8. Click Send
Sponsor a Special Occasion Gift
(beyond the birthday and Christmas gifts already part of monthly sponsorship)
You are welcome to send gifts of any amount at any time (not to exceed $125/year inclusive of all gifts collected and distributed by Impact Ministries). Once a special occasion gift donation is received, the sponsor child's teacher selects a gift for your sponsor child.. Again, you can go to:
https://impactminusa.z2systems.com/np/clients/impactminusa/donation.jsp?campaign=11&&test=true
a. Fill in the "Your Information" form
b. In the Account Information
1. Put in the amount you want to provide
2. Select Child Sponsorship Special Occasion as the purpose
3. Select ONCE as the frequency
4. Put in today's date as the draft date
5. In note: type child ID #
6. Select the account you'd like to use (checking and saving accounts are most cost effective)
7. Add additional information based on which account you chose
8. Click Send
Sending Physical Gifts . . . Flat items
Mail flat gifts (i.e. stickers, cards, post cards, photos, items that fit in an envelope and meet US postal regulations for letters, etc..) as well as letters to our office. Again, mail it to IMUSA, Attn: Sponsorship, PO BOX 550, Duvall, WA, 98019; and be sure to put your sponsor child's ID# on every flat item you mail to the office.
Please do not send . . . Non-flat Items
Impact Ministries USA does not receive packages at the PO BOX and is unable to facilitate arrangements for packages to travel to Guatemala.
Coming on a short-term missions team?
If you are coming on a short-term missions team, and sponsor a child, and would like to bring a small gift with you, below are some of the items other sponsors brought with them to distribute while on a short-term team. If you are participating on a short-term missions team, let your team leader know well in advance that you sponsor a child, so they can coordinate appropriately with the Impact Ministries USA teams coordinator.
- soccer balls with small hand pump
- cars for boys, small dolls for girls
- coloring books or activity books with crayons
- watercolor paints with brushes (no liquid paints)
- pencil and pencil crayons with sharpeners are a favorite of the kids
- small travel sized games: connect 4, checkers or chess, etches sketch, etc.
- hygiene products: tooth brush, tooth paste, soap, towels, face cloths, travel sized shampoo, hair ties
- any type of school supply is always greatly appreciated by the children: composition books, pencils, pencil sharpeners erasers, etc.
- hot pads and tea towel sets for a child’s mother or main care giver
Packaging for short-term missions team
- Transparent or semi-transparent plastic boxes with lids work well to help keep items clean and dry, and will pass through customers much easier.
- In the case of school supplies, a small to medium sized backpack is a nice option. And our teens seem to like messenger bags.
- Please DO NOT wrap gifts, as wrapping them makes it difficult to get them through customs at the airport.
