Goal:
1,000 people giving a minimum $120/year or recurring $10/month for returning missionaries to set up their stateside home while itinerating.
Special Thanks/Prayer Reminder:
Give $120 (or set up or continue your $10/month gift) toward 1000 Sisters while at the Garden Coffee, and you will receive the annual custom charm for your 1000 Sisters bracelet! If you are unable to pick up your charm at the Garden Coffee but are already a recurring giver or begin a recurring gift by July 31, 2026, we will mail this thank you gift to you. Add a new charm each year that you participate! Enjoy and use as a prayer reminder.
→ GIVE ONLINE HERE (Give $120 one time, or set up a recurring gift of $10/month to become a 1000 Sister)
- Reference set up instructions
- Or mail a check to MDC: 1315 Portland Ave. S, Minneapolis, MN 55404 (include “BTG 1000 Sisters” in memo)
Thank you for your support of 1000 Sisters!
Garden Coffee
The Garden Coffee is an event for Minnesota women and girls to worship, network, and hear from one (or more) of our own Minnesota missionaries. This event is also our annual fundraiser for 1000 Sisters.*
- July 3, 2026 – 10:30 am-12:00 pm
- Lake Geneva Christian Center (605 Birch Ave, Alexandria, MN 56308) at the Worship Center Tent
- Featured Guests: Tara Kenyon (Central America Area Director for AG World Missions and Missionary to Panama) and Keaton & Emily Goetz (Worship)
- FREE event for women and girls of all ages; no RSVP required
- Share Facebook Event
- Pre-order your 1000 Sisters t-shirt for $20 by June 10: https://btgmissions.square.site. (Net profit supports the 1000 Sisters fund.)
- Access Promo Tools
*The 1000 Sisters fund enables us to give $1,500 checks to returning MNAOG career missionaries to set up their stateside home while itinerating.
Tara Kenyon - Speaker
Tara Kenyon is the Central America Area Director for AG World Missions, overseeing Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Panama. Kenyon is the first female area director in the Latin America Caribbean Region.
Along with this role, she and her husband, Gerritt, and their two sons have been longtime missionaries in Panama, where Bridging the Gap had taken teams for multiple years to assist with the Ilumina city-wide girls and boys conferences.
Angie Goetz - BTG Director/Garden Coffee Host
Pastor Angie Goetz is the wife to her best friend Cory, mom to three amazing kids and two daughters-in-laws, a speaker, and the director of Bridging the Gap (BTG) women’s ministry whose purpose is to encourage, equip and empower every woman in her faith journey with Jesus Christ.
Angie is passionate about creating a multigenerational community where all women can thrive in the potential that God has for them. She desires women to live fearlessly and boldly in their faith, knowing that we serve the God of the impossible. World missions captured Angie’s heart long ago, and if there is one thing that keeps her up at night, it’s thinking about the women here and all across the world that still don’t know Jesus.
Angie loves being surrounded by hundreds or thousands of women together worshipping God, or sitting at a coffee shop with a few talking about what God is personally doing in their lives. And although she’s a Minnesota girl desperate to decorate for Christmas at the first sign of snow, some of her favorite moments are sitting on a boat in the water, soaking in the sun, with a ice cold diet coke in her hand.
Follow Angie on Instagram.
Keaton & Emily Goetz - Worship
Keaton and Emily Goetz currently serve on staff at Celebration Church in Lakeville.
Steph Peterson - Emcee
Steph Peterson has been in ministry to teens and college students for over 30 years. She has found her sweet spot in seeing things in people they don’t see in themselves and helping them develop their leadership and ministry gifts. Steph currently works with Minnesota Chi Alpha in Coaching and Development and also as the MN AG Credentialed Women Director.
Follow Steph Peterson on Facebook or @XAPastorSteph on Instagram.
