Medicos in Solidarity is a partnership between the small community clinic in Chacraseca and a non-geographic group of health professionals in the US.  

Oklahoma State Medical School has partnered with JustHope and Chacraseca to develop a service-learning program where medical students can accompany both Nicaraguan and US doctors as they serve clients in communities where medical service is otherwise limited or not available. 

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Tulsa Community College and Chacraseca have initated a partnership grounded in the opportunities for service-learning.    The experienced, gifted community leaders in Chacraseca are providing service opportunities in their community, supplemented by education and reflection opportunities that help students learn about the systemic  causes of the problems they are engaged in.  

In May of 2009 a group of students from TU’s United Campus Ministry traveled to Chacraseca and Santa Emilia with JustHope.   Upon returning, they initiated a project to remodel a dilapidated house that nine young women from poor communities are using as a make-shift dorm so that they can attend school. 

Trinity Church is a growing, family-oriented church in the Wichita suburb of Cheney.   In 2008 they pioneered JustHope's partnership in Santa Emilia, a community of coffee-pickers and subsistence farmers in the mountainous region of  Matagalpa, Nicaragua. 

UCV is a vital and growing progressive congregation in the Temecula Valley of Southern California.  The project focus of this partnership is music education for the children of Chacraseca, aimed at helping them reconnect with Nicaragua's rich tradition of folk music. 

Building houses is the method but not the primary purpose of the work that Partridge Community Church and Santa Emilia are doing together in their partnership. 

Theological Immersion Program

     A Doctor of Ministry class from Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa traveled to Chacraseca in June, 2010 to listen to and learn from the economically challenged but politically astute community members about the Intersection of religion, politics, and social justice issues in their community and their lives.  Other classes and opportunities for students to engage in immersion reflection and service learning are being explored.

Church of the Beatitudes of Phoenix, Arizona, is a vibrant, diverse, progressive community of faith who have partnered with a small, isolated Nicaraguan community called La Flor. 

Exploring Partners

Organized in 1856, First Christian is proud of it's history of standing with and for the oppressed, beginning with opening their doors to care for freed slaves who, after the Emancipation Proclamation, found themselves homeless and without resources.   First Church's exploring relationship with Chacraseca began when their pastor participated in a global immersion trip with Phillips Seminary, and continues as they take the lead in a collaborative effort to build a small laboratory in Chacraseca's clinic.    

St Andrews is an Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and also a campus center, which means they  worship as part of an inter-generational congregation but one that is rooted in a campus community. 

Disciples Christian Church, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, found their interest in adequate housing matched perfectly with the goal of Chacraseca's community leaders to make sure everyone in their community has a simple but decent place to live.  

The partnership between Oklahoma UCC Churches and Chacraseca was grounded in the need for a micro-enterprise bank for the small farmers in Chacreseca.  The difficulties of sustaining family farms is something Oklahoman’s understand all too well; and this partnership is rooted in the shared experience of nurturing new life from tiny seeds. 

First Church of Topeka birthed it's partnership with JustHope by hosting a delegation from Nicaragua and offering a holiday "fair trade" store where items from Nicaraguan artists were sold.