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Hi, we're International Servants.
We are a nonprofit Christian Mission helping children overcome poverty through our network of 54 Belizean Churches, Children's Ministry, Feed-A-Child Program, Medical Mission, Dental Mission, Save A Child's Life Program, Wheelchair Ministry, Orphan Ministry and Belize Mission Trips. You can help the children of Belize in 3 key ways: Pray, Give and Go!
International Servants is a nonprofit Christian Mission helping children overcome poverty through our network of 54 Belizean Churches, Children's Ministry, Feed-A-Child Program, Medical Mission, Dental Mission, Save A Child's Life Program, Wheelchair Ministry, Orphan Ministry and Belize Mission Trips. We'd love your help in 3 key ways: Pray, Give and Go!
We'd love for you to partner with us. You can help in 3 keys ways: Pray, Give, Go!
Pray for us and God's work here in Belize. Give to make a difference in the life of a child in Jesus' name or to help build a Church. Go on one of our Mission Trips to Belize to be part of what God is doing.
Video: Click the photo below to watch a short video of Dr. Steve Stewart, one of our Board Members, as he shares from his heart about how YOU can make a difference in precious lives in Belize as you pray, give and go.
Belize, Central America, is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, with thousands of needy children and families living in jungle villages in desperate poverty. Our Missionary focus is on serving in the areas of greatest spiritual and physical need and helping the poorest of the poor. We serve in all 6 Districts of Belize, however most of the villages we serve are several hours from Belize City, in the interior of the country in jungle villages.
Statement of Faith: Our Board of Directors, Advisory Board, Missionaries and 54 local Belizean Churches follow the Southern Baptist (SBC) Faith and Message 2000, and the Apostles Creed.
The Local Church: We are actively planting local Churches in Belize, to teach kids and families about Jesus.
All donations are fully tax-deductible. We are recognized by the IRS as a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit Mission.
See your prayers and donations at work! Connect with us by joining 28,107 on Facebook following our Missionary journey at www.Facebook.com/iServants or watch our Mission videos to see God at Work through your prayers and donations here in Belize at www.Vimeo.com/iServants or www.YouTube.com/iServants
Children Come First
We focus on helping children overcome poverty.
Targeting Root Causes
Treating poverty's symptoms is temporary. Going after its cause is permanent.
Thriftiness
Keeping our costs down means your gifts make the biggest impact possible.
Our Founder
Dr. Paul Whisnant has served as your full-time Missionary to Belize since 1990 and oversees our Ministries and network of 54 Belizean Churches in Belize. The call of God led him to give everything away and move to the jungles of Belize at age 19 with only a backpack, $50 and his Bible. He lived for many years in a leaf and stick hut, with no electricity nor running water, while taking his baths in the river and eating iguanas to survive.
Video: Click the photo above to meet Dr. Paul and hear his heart for what God is doing through your donations and prayers in Belize. 30 second video.
Dr. Paul Whisnant
Dr. Paul Whisnant has served as your full-time Missionary to Belize since 1990 and oversees our Ministries and network of 54 Belizean Churches in Belize.
While on a short-term Mission Trip to Belize in 1989, Paul was called by God to full-time Missions. Five months later, as a 19 year old teenager, he withdrew from college, packed a few items in a backpack and bought a one-way plane ticket to Belize, one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere.
He arrived with only $50 in his pocket and lived in a grass hut made of leaves and sticks, in a remote jungle village, without electricity nor running water. The locals taught him how to survive by eating iguanas and taking baths in the jungle river with the crocodiles nearby. The Mission he started in that jungle hut in 1990 is now International Servants, one of the largest evangelical Missions in Belize.
Dr. Paul has served as our Belize Mission Director, and as a full-time Missionary, with International Servants since 1990. He is married to our Belize Medical Director, Amanda Whisnant, CPNP, and has 2 children. Dr. Paul, and his wife, Amanda, were born in the United States, and are dual citizens of both the United States and Belize.
Public Speaking
Dr. Paul's many years living in the jungle as your missionary in Belize produced a wealth of fascinating stories that led him to speak in the US, Africa and Asia, inspiring others to make a difference with their lives.
Whether he's speaking to 600 teens at the Smokey Mountain Youth Conference in Tennessee, 200 business leaders at the HQ for Chick-fil-A in Atlanta, GA, 700 Pastors in Africa, 100 of our Mission Trip volunteers in Belize, or in the chapel at the 20,000 member Fellowship Church in Grapevine, TX, it's his humor and commitment that'll keep you on the edge of your seat; but his passion for Missions that you'll remember the most.
Left to Right: United States Ambassador to Belize Carlos Moreno, Dr. Paul Whisnant, Amanda Whisnant CPNP.
Stats
1990: Moved to Belize as a full-time Missionary Church Planter and founded International Servants.
1997: Appointed to replace the International Mission Board (IMB) on the National Executive Board of the Baptist Association of Belize.
2004: Ordained as a Southern Baptist Minister (SBC).
2009: Awarded an Honorary PhD in Missions by the Board of Trustees at IBC.
1998-Present: Citizen Liaison, United States Embassy, Belmopan, Belize.
2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014: Awarded Certificates of Appreciation by the United States Embassy's Ambassador to Belize for his service in Belize.
2017: Recipient of the first-ever Lifetime Humanitarian Award, Government of Belize.
2017: Given the title of Honorary Humanitarian Ambassador of Belize by the Government of Belize.
Dr. Paul Whisnant baptizing a new believer in a jungle river in Belize in 2005. And, no, that's not a cell phone clipped to his belt, it's a big knife in case of crocodiles.
Fun Fact
Even though Dr. Paul graciously eats whatever is served to him in the jungle, including iguanas and rats, he can't stomach mashed potatoes.
Dr. Paul Whisnant
Feed-A-Child
Feed hungry children. Your $12 gift will feed a hungry, malnourished child for an entire month. Your generosity gives hungry kids warm, healthy meals - and hope! Many children in our rural villages are malnourished to the point of stunting their growth, living in grinding poverty in huts made of sticks and leaves with a mud floor.
Feed-A-Child
Feed hungry children. Your $12 gift will provide food for a hungry, malnourished child for a month. $100 will feed 9 children for a month.
Your gifts have fed hundreds of needy children each day in our Feed-A-Child Program in Belize.
Many children in our rural villages are malnourished to the point of stunting their growth, while live in grinding poverty in huts made of sticks and leaves with a mud floor.
Your gifts do much more than just feed the children. Each child also receives loving care from our volunteers as we provide worm medicine, children's vitamins, basic health care, school supplies and teach them about Jesus.
Did you know that worldwide, a child dies of hunger every 10 seconds? You can make a life-long difference in the life of a child today! 100% of gifts designated "Feed-A-Child" go directly to the children.
Small acts. Big impact. For every child you help, 5 more children benefit, too. (Through the power of your gifts enabling us to receive matching gifts from corporate donors, etc).
Video: Click the photo below to see your donations at work feeding children in our Feed-A-Child Program in Belize. 90 second video.
Please Give Monthly
Children need your help! Please give monthly. Giving monthly is the most powerful way to donate! You can empower children out of poverty. For good.
When you give monthly, you'll help kids and villages lift themselves out of poverty. Monthly giving is the most effective way to help children who need it most. It means your donations will be delivering the right solution at just the right time.
And while your gifts are changing lives, you'll get to see the power of your generosity through our email updates, iServants.com, Facebook.com/iServants, YouTube.com/iServants and in-person on one of our Belize Mission Trips.
Feed-A-Child Belize
Belize Medical Mission
Stop preventable deaths. Your $5 gift will provide urgently needed medicine for a desperately sick child. Click "Learn More" to see photos and videos of children that your gifts helped save, and to learn more about our Belize Medical Mission, Save A Child's Life Program, Wheelchair Ministry and Dental Mission.
Belize Medical Mission
Stop preventable deaths. Your $5 gift will provide urgently need medicine for a desperately sick child.
Your gifts have provided life-saving medication, for thousands of poor, needy children and families who live in grinding poverty in jungle or rural villages throughout Belize. In our Belize Medical Mission Clinics, our focus is on helping children who don't have access to the medical care they need, however, we also treat their family too.
Some of our patients have basic problems like fever or worms, and others have life threatening heart murmurs, dengue, cerebral palsy or malaria. The purpose of our Belize Medical Mission is to open hearts to Christ, so we set up our clinics in villages where our missionaries are starting Churches. It's a wonderful tool for showing the love of God.
Video: Click the photo above to watch a video of Amanda and hear her heart for helping one of her patients in Belize.
Mrs. Amanda Whisnant is the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner who leads our Belize Medical Mission Trips and coordinates our Save A Child's Life program. Amanda is licensed in the United States and in Belize. She was born in Ohio and completed her Masters at MUSC in Charleston, South Carolina.
In addition to serving as our Belize Medical Director, she has also worked at Pediatric Primary Care clinics in Texas and Florida, and is married to our Belize Mission Director, Dr. Paul Whisnant.
Children need your help! Our Medical volunteers are in urgent need of more medicine to treat the children. For every $100 you give, you're giving life saving medicine to 20 kids! 100% of all donations designated "Medicine" will go where designated.
Save A Child's Life Program
Give the gift of life. Your $50 gift will help a child receive life-saving surgery.
In our Belize Medical Mission Clinics, we often encounter children in need of life-saving surgery. But many of these surgeries are too complicated to perform in Belize.
Your gifts help us bring children to the USA for life-saving surgeries. We coordinate these surgeries with the assistance of others, such as Rotary, Children's Hospitals in the US, etc.
You can help us save the next child's life by giving today and designating your gift: Save A Child's Life. 100% of your gift will go towards providing a life-saving surgery for a child. Total cost per child is around $5,000. But every gift, no matter how small, will make a life-saving difference.
Meet 3 of the children you helped us save:
Above: Heilin with Amanda (far right) with Heilin's mom (far left). Heilin was run over by a truck in Belize. She received her surgeries in Dallas, Texas. Photo was taken 1 month post-surgery in Grapevine, Texas. Click the photo above to see a short video of how your donations helped save Heilin's arm and life.
Above: Marlena at our Belize Medical Mission Clinic with Jenny (one of our volunteer Physician Assistants, far left) and Marlena's mom (far right). Marlena received her heart surgery in Orlando, Florida. Photo was taken in Belize pre-surgery.
Above: Xiomara with Amanda in Belize. Xiomara received her heart surgery in Tampa, Florida. Photo was taken post-surgery in our Belize Medical Mission Clinic in her village. Amanda Whisnant is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner and our Belize Medical Director. Click the photo above to see a short video of how your donations saved Xiomara's life.
Wheelchair Ministry
Give the gift of mobility. Your gift of $25 will help provide a pediatric wheelchair for a handicap child.
In our Belize Medical Mission Clinics, we often encounter children in need of wheelchairs.
You can provide a wheelchair to a child by giving today and designating your gift: Wheelchairs 4 Kidz. 100% of your gift will go towards providing a wheelchair for a child. Total cost per wheelchair is around $500. No gift is too small.
Did you know that traditional wheelchairs don't always work because of the rugged terrain in our jungle villages? Click the photo below to watch a brief video about how your donations helped us give a rugged wheelchair to this young boy.
Belize Dental Mission
Give the gift of living without severe dental pain. Your $25 gift will give antibiotics to a patient in our Dental Mission Clinic.
The lack of access to dental care in our rural villages leaves many patients in daily, severe pain. Some even die from infections due to a lack of treatment. So our villagers get very excited when they hear that a volunteer Dental Mission Team has joined our Belize Medical Mission.
In our Medical Mission Clinics, we focus on kids. However, in our Dental Mission Clinics, we focus on adults, although we do also treat kids who are in severe pain.
Click the photo below to see a video of your donations providing important dental care to needy adults and children. Belize Dental Mission Video:
Please Give Monthly
Children need your help! Please give monthly. Giving monthly is the most powerful way to donate! You can empower children out of poverty. For good.
When you give monthly, you'll help kids and villages lift themselves out of poverty. Monthly giving is the most effective way to help children who need it most. It means your donations will be delivering the right solution at just the right time.
And while your gifts are changing lives, you'll get to see the power of your generosity through our email updates, iServants.com, Facebook.com/iServants, YouTube.com/iServants and in-person on one of our Belize Mission Trips.
Belize Medical Mission
Belize Mission Trips
You're invited to bring your Church group to come serve with us in Belize! We've been leading Belize Mission Trips since 1990, so your trip will be well-planned, Christ-centered and safe. Best of all, you'll impact the lives of those you meet as you help our local Pastors strengthen their local Churches. Click here to go to our Belize Mission Trips page.
To learn more, or to sign up for one of our Belize Mission Trips, click here: Belize Mission Trips
Belize Mission Trips
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Testimonials
Click the photos to watch short testimonial videos.
Ways To Give
Online
Click here to setup your "Automatic Recurring" giving or give "One Time" by Credit Card, Debit Card or Checking Account.
Check
Make Payable to:
International Servants
Mail to:
International Servants
PO Box 337
Grapevine, TX 76099-0337
Stock
Your gift of stock, bonds, mutual funds or other securities is welcome. You'll receive a double tax break: avoid capital gain taxes and get a current-year income tax deduction for the full value of your gift.
Text-To-Give
Text the keyword
iServants
to 77977
Your Legacy
You can leave a financial legacy for International Servants through your Will.
In-Kind Gift
You can impact many lives by donating your car, land or house.
Matching Gift
Contact your employer to see if you’re eligible for a Matching Gift.
Will I receive a tax-deductible receipt?
Yes! International Servants is a registered Nonprofit Mission. All donations are fully tax-deductible. You'll receive a tax-deductible receipt via email for your online or text gifts, and we'll also mail you a Year-End tax-deductible receipt for any and all gifts.
How do I contact you with questions about giving?
Email us at Give@iServants.com or text/call us at 817-382-8484.
How much of my gift goes where designated?
100% of your donation will go where designated. Our administrative expenses are less than 10% and are covered by a few of our larger donors who are passionate about seeing us continue to grow and impact lives.
Is my gift multiplied?
Yes. Your gift is multiplied 7 times! Thanks to our hundreds of selfless volunteers who donate their time and pay their own way, and thanks to our corporate donors, your gift today multiplies in impact to help many more children!
You will need to add the new payment method to your account, as well as, update your recurring gift to reflect the new payment method.
How do I give by check?
Yes. Make your gift payable to:
International Servants.
Mail to:
International Servants
PO Box 337
Grapevine, TX 76099-0337
Can I give by texting?
Yes. Just text the keyword "iServants" to 77977.
Can I help through my American Airlines account?
Yes. You can help International Servants by adding our Business Extra number to your American Airlines profile. Then, when you fly American Airlines, we will receive points for our Mission. This will not affect your account, you will receive your frequent flyer points as usual, and your account will remain private. It's quick and easy - it'll only take 30 seconds to set it up, and then it's automatic after that.
Here's how to add our Business Extra number to your AA profile:
1. Log into your AA.com frequent flyer account.
2. Under the Advantage tab, click "My Account".
3. Click the "Reservation Preferences" tab.
4. Scroll down to "My Business Extra Information".
5. Enter our Business Extra number: 830996, then click "Submit".
You're done!
Can I donate my airline frequent flyer miles?
Yes. You can help International Servants by donating miles. Most miles are used for flying children to the United States for life-saving surgeries through our Save-A-Child's Life Program. Minimum needed per donation: 50,000 or more miles. To donate your miles, email us at info@iServants.com and include your: First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone, Airline and the Amount of Miles you wish to donate. Then, when we have a child in need of a flight, we will contact you to use your miles and book the flights.
How do I set up a Fundraiser on Facebook?
You can set up a fundraiser on your personal Facebook page to help children in need through International Servants. Simply log into your personal Facebook page, then go to https://www.facebook.com/fund/iServants/ to get started. It's quick and easy.
Can I help through AmazonSmile?
Yes. Just log into your Amazon account at smile.amazon.com/ch/63-1155427 and save International Servants as your charity. From then on, Amazon will donate a portion of every purchase to support our Feed-A-Child Program.
What information do I need to add International Servants to my Will?
A gift in your will or living trust continues your investment in children’s well-being beyond your lifetime — and often allows you to make an even bigger impact than you ever thought possible. Whether you give a set amount or a percentage of your estate, your expression of God’s love to children gives them hope for a brighter future.
Sample language for your Will:
“I hereby give to International Servants, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, EIN 63-1155427, with its principal offices at P.O. Box 337, Grapevine, Texas 76099-0337, the sum of $_______ or _______% of the residue of my estate to be used for its general purposes.”
Name: International Servants
Federal Tax ID (EIN): 63-1155427
Address:
International Servants
PO Box 337
Grapevine, TX 76099-0337
Can I give through my desktop computer, laptop or iPad?
Yes. Just click the donate button at the top of the page.
Can I give if I don't have a cell phone?
Yes. Just click the donate button at the top of the page.
Can I give if my cell phone is not a smart phone?
Yes. Just click the donate button at the top of the page.
Can I give without setting up a new account?
Yes. Just click the donate button at the top of the page.
Can I give a monthly recurring donation if I don't have a cell phone?
Yes. Just email us at Give@iServants.com and we will set it up for you. It's easy and quick. We're happy to do it!
Can I give through PayPal?
Yes. Just click the PayPal Donate button below:
GIVE MONTHLY TO A CAUSE YOU CARE ABOUT
Lasting change begins with you. Monthly giving provides consistent support to children in need. It means your donations will be delivering the right solution at just the right time.
And while your gifts are changing lives, you'll get to see the impact of your generosity through updates and stories in our Email Newsletters, on our Facebook page, in our Videos or in-person on one of our Belize Mission Trips.
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Financial Accountability
We make sure every single penny counts.
We're always working to keep our overhead rate low. Last year, we used 90 percent of our total operating expenses for programs that benefit children and families.
Financial Stewardship
We work hard to maximize your impact.
Did you know that for each dollar donated to International Servants, more than a dollar's worth of help gets to children and families?
Here's how we multiply your impact 7x:
Tax Deductible
International Servants is recognized by the United States IRS as a non-profit 501c3 Mission. All donations are fully tax-deductible.
The Federal Tax ID # (EIN) for International Servants is 63-1155427.
Thank you for your generosity! May God bless you for helping children in need.
We Maximize Your Impact
Did you know that for each dollar donated to International Servants, more than a dollar's worth of help gets to children and families?
Every Penny Counts
We're always working to keep our overhead low. Last year, we used 90 percent of our total operating expenses for programs that helped children and families.