Local Partners
Oak Hills Church partners with local organizations as a tangible way to be the Church in our part of the world. We encourage you to learn more about these ministries and support them generously with prayer, finances, and service.
Questions? Contact Neena Conrad, our Partner Missions Coordinator.
ARTISAN MIND
Artisan Mind is an organization formed out of the love of Jesus Christ and the deep desire to share His love with seniors and those living with Alzheimer’s and dementia through creative experiences. Being immersed in creativity has a way of reminding people of what they love, who they are, and what matters most. By blending faith into art observation and creative expression, Artisan Mind takes the experience one step further by helping people recall the God who loves, Whose they are, and to Whom they matter most.
HART of Folsom
The mission of HART of Folsom (Homeless Assistance Resource Team) is to assist the homeless towards self-sufficiency and greater independence. In this, they help to meet basic needs, as well as connect individuals to helpful resources. HART welcomes all local residents, organizations, churches, neighborhoods, and businesses to get involved in this effort. They believe strongly that a collaborative community-wide effort is the beginning of addressing homelessness.
Folsom’s Hope
Folsom’s Hope is a non-profit serving the schools and families of Folsom. They run after-school and in-school mentoring and tutoring programs to serve children in need and provide resources to schools and families in our community.
New Joy Arts
New Joy Arts is a non-profit organization that exists to lead individuals to recognize their capacity for creativity, experience renewal through creative practices, and revitalize communities to flourish as creative environments. Angela Houk is the founder and director of New Joy. She explores themes such as community, identity, beauty, and faith through directed biblical teaching and creative projects. Angela teaches workshops through The Studio at Oak Hills and out in the community.
The Playmakers
The Playmakers coach and mentor kids and youth on the core values of accountability, commitment, teamwork, and family to prepare them to become people of enduring character who will lead their families and community.
Powerhouse Ministries
Powerhouse Ministries is a non-profit interdenominational corporation serving families and individuals in crisis with love and mercy to meet their physical, emotional, educational, social, and spiritual needs. Powerhouse has three distinct areas of service: a Drop-In Center, Neighborhood Outreach Programs, and a Transformation Center, each of which depends on volunteers to help them function.
Twin Lakes Food Bank
The Twin Lakes Food Bank is an extension of God’s love to hurting people. For over 20 years the Food Bank has served families in need with supplemental food. Hard times can happen to anyone, and community support ensures that help will be available to those who need it.
William Jessup University
William Jessup University offers a quality Liberal Arts education, which enables students to become transformational leaders in their homes, churches, and communities.
National Partners
We also partner with national organizations working across North America. Find out how they serve and lead the larger church and the communities they are a part of.
Questions? Contact Neena Conrad, our Partner Missions Coordinator.
InterVarsity, Utah
Kalena starting as an intern in 2019 with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Now on the Weber State University campus, Kalena and her team are committed to helping students and faculty encounter God through Bible studies, large group events, and a ministry house. Their goal is to see every corner of the campus become transformed by the love of Jesus. Contact Kalena at kalena.young@intervarsity.org.
InterVarsity
Shawn Young has been on staff with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship since 1995. Shawn serves as the National Director of Chapter Planting to reach more students and more campuses across the United States.
The Liberti Family
Steve and Dawn work with Proclaim! International, using the arts as a tool to deliver the Gospel, partnering with other missionaries, churches, and church planters to build up and multiply the body of Christ. They work out of Proclaim’s home office in Florida where Dawn works with Missionary Service and Donor Management. Steve’s ministry is focused in the Balkans and the US.
NAB on Mission
We are a family of missionaries! To be a follower of Jesus is to be a missionary. Our desire is to equip missionaries for service at home and internationally. At home and abroad, NAB on Mission serves others by coaching and equipping missionaries, regional ministers, pastors, and church planters. They provide leadership resources for pastors and church leaders and seek to spread the Gospel around the world.
International Partners
Oak Hills has ministry partners serving their communities around the globe. We love that we may be worlds apart but experience the same truth. See how God is moving in other parts of the world and how you can partner with these ministries from home.
Questions? Contact Neena Conrad, our Partner Missions Coordinator.
The Barros Family
Tati and Wellington endeavor to make disciples and church plant in Mozambique among the Makhuwa-Nahara. The Makhua-Nahara are an unreached people group, who make their living by fishing. Their official language is Portuguese. Contact them at barroswt@gmail.com.
The Beqiraj Family
Ylli and Albana are Albanian nationals, seeking to bring the gospel to their fellow Albanians by planting churches, making new contacts, discipling new believers, training leaders, and leading children’s and youth ministries, along with other pastoral duties. Contact Ylli at dishepull@yahoo.com.
Bicol Center for Christian Leadership
We continue to support Claire Marker and the Bible school in the Philippines that was started many years ago by our now-returned missionaries Gregg and Maria Evans and is now led by Filipino nationals. Based in Legazpi City and with satellites all around the Bicol region, this school trains local believers in theology, ministry, and leadership skills.
Andrew Larson
Andrew is serving refugees and those caught in prostitution through the local church and One Collective so that no one is invisible, and everyone has access to food, freedom, and forgiveness. Contact Andrew at lelarson@onecollective.org.
Restoration Ministries
Restoration Ministries focuses on bringing hope to children and their families living in the slums of São Paulo, Brazil. Most who live in the slums are plagued by hunger, disease, and poverty, and many are scarred by the devastating effects of prostitution, drugs, and domestic violence. Founded by nationals, Paulo and Ireni Mota, they seek to build trusting relationships and offer practical services and programs that restore hope to broken lives.
The SEED Group
The SEED Group (Society for the Enrichment and Empowerment of the Deprived) is a non-profit organization that exists to develop impoverished communities in India by enriching children and empowering families through holistic transformation. Extreme poverty and lack of education are key factors leaving children vulnerable to the vicious cycle of unemployment, exploitation, objectification, and discrimination. SEED group partners with churches in the US to raise up, train and support locals to educate, tutor, support and empower children so that they can become influential leaders who transform their society.
Network Partners
Although not supported financially by Oak Hills, we do network with local ministries helping to meet our community’s timely needs.
The Alliance
The Alliance is a network of agencies, nonprofits, community members, businesses, and churches working together to protect kids and strengthen families. Their mission is to ensure all children grow up in a safe, loving family and that local families have access to the resources and support needed to create a healthy, interconnected community.
Furniture for Families
Furniture for Families is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization with a simple mission: to provide children and families with furniture and other household items such as a table to eat and study at, a sofa for the family to gather on, and a dresser to put their things in.
World Relief Sacramento
World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to empower the local church to serve the most vulnerable. They aim to tackle the world’s greatest problems with holistic, locally-driven solutions that lead to lasting change.
3Strands Global Foundation
3Strands Global Foundation seeks to mobilize communities to combat human trafficking through prevention education and reintegration programs.