FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Frequently Asked Questions About Serve One Global Network
Serve One Global Network (SOGN) is a Christian 501(c)(3) nonprofit that reaches children and families in hard places with the Gospel, disciples them, and equips them for lasting change. Here are clear answers to the questions we hear most.
About Serve One Global Network
What is Serve One Global Network?
Serve One Global Network is a Christian 501(c)(3) nonprofit that partners with local churches and leaders in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and the Philippines. Together we reach children and families with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, disciple them to grow in faith, and equip them to live transformed lives that bring hope to their communities.
What is the mission of Serve One Global Network?
Our mission is to reach children and families in hard places with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, disciple them to grow in faith, and equip them to live transformed lives that bring hope to their communities.
Who leads Serve One Global Network?
Steve Cohoon, Co-Founder and CEO, leads SOGN with his fellow co-founders David Higgins (CFO), Debra Cohoon, and Carol Higgins, and with local leaders in each country we serve. You can meet the team on our About page.
It describes how we work. We serve one community at a time, alongside the local church, so that each child is known, cared for, and discipled by people who live nearby. Lasting change grows from local relationships, not from outside programs.
What does "One Community. One Church. One Child at a Time." mean?
Our Work
Where does Serve One Global Network work?
Where public schools do not offer basic education such as reading, writing, and math, NFE helps children gain the basic skills they need for life.
Community Hope Centers are local gathering places in the Philippines where children and families receive care, learning support, and discipleship through the local church. We currently work in five centers in Manila and the Visayas region.
What programs does Serve One Global Network offer?
What is Non-Formal Education (NFE)?
We currently serve children and families in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and the Philippines.
Where do Non-Formal Education children meet?
We work through local churches. This makes NFE a ministry of the church and an outreach to unreached and unchurched people in the community. Each week concludes with a discipleship program, Awana.
Why does Serve One Global Network partner with local churches and leaders?
Local leaders know their neighbors, speak their language, and stay for the long term. Working through them keeps the work trusted, culturally wise, and sustainable long after any visit from the outside.
Giving
What are Community Hope Centers?
Our work has three parts. We reach children and families through community outreach, tutoring, nutrition, and medical clinics. We disciple them through Sunday School, Awana, Bible studies, worship, and youth camps. We equip local leaders and parents through leadership retreats, skills training, and parenting and financial freedom seminars.
Non-Formal Education, often called NFE, is a structured, intentional learning program found in developing countries like Bangladesh. In our work it is guided by Christian faith principles and serves communities in low-income or economically developing regions.
Why is Non-Formal Education necessary?
The program typically lasts five years for each student.
How long does the Non-Formal Education program last?
Yes. Serve One Global Network, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 87-1043274, so gifts are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Please keep your emailed receipt for your records and talk with your tax advisor about your situation.
Is my gift to Serve One Global Network tax-deductible?
How can I give to Serve One Global Network?
You can give online as a one-time, weekly, or monthly gift, in any amount you choose. You may also cover the optional 3% processing fee so more of your gift reaches children. Or mail a check payable to Serve One Global Network, Inc. to the address on our Give page.
How is my gift used?
Right now, 93% of each gift supports programs and local partners, and 7% covers administration and fundraising.
What does a monthly gift provide?
A steady monthly gift lets our partners plan ahead for tutoring, meals, clinics, and discipleship. For example, $100 a month helps provide meals and child discipleship programming for ten children.
Getting Involved
How can I help Serve One Global Network?
There are three ways to help. Pray for our partners and the families they serve, give to support the work, and go on a future vision trip to see it firsthand.
How can I stay up to date on the work?
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn for stories from the field.
What does a monthly gift provide?
A steady monthly gift lets our partners plan ahead for tutoring, meals, clinics, and discipleship. For example, $100 a month helps provide meals and child discipleship programming for ten children.
Trust & Care
How does Serve One Global Network protect the children it serves?
We share a child's photo or story only with permission from the child's family and local leaders, and we leave out details that could put anyone at risk. Our local partners know the children personally and care for them every week.
Is Serve One Global Network a registered nonprofit?
Yes. Serve One Global Network, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 87-1043274.
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