God turned to ordinary Mary and Joseph to usher in God's love. Today God calls on ordinary YOU to spread god's love! YOU can help struggling families who need the financial benefits of cooking with the free energy of the sun. YOU can help protect their lungs and eyes...
Join us on our voyage across the dakotas!
Celebrate the opening of our west of the river workshop on September 26, noon-2:00! Bienvenidos SOP Open HouseDownload (PDF) Our voyagers will be traversing the Dakotas. Here is a list of all the places they’ll be stopping. Come hear what is new in the Solar Ovens...

Grandma, Granddaughters Serve Together
Mya Maxwell, 18, Bella Maxwell, 16, and Anna Gross, 15, were among a mission contingent with Solar Oven Partners to the Dominican Republic in early March. Grandma and the girls all live in the Madison, SD, area. Phillips, who has twice before gone on mission trips...

Extending Solar Oven Impact
Solar Oven Partners’ (SOP) always knew that solar cooking could have a real impact on families in developing countries. After all, a woman who cooked in a solar oven instead of over a charcoal fire didn’t have to spend limited money on charcoal, she could pasteurize...

Our Mission and Core Values
Vision: Creating healthy partnerships to increase community well-being physically, economically, environmentally, and spiritually. Mission: Establish long-term partnerships with communities having a high degree of economic deprivation and environmental degradation to...

Welcome to Our New Website!
It was time for a change at solarovenpartnersumc.org—not just a tweak but a brand new design, easy navigation, and loads of fresh content. Our new website is also designed for both a mobile and a desktop environment. You can drop by for a quick look, grab some...

Cooking Video Offers a Taste of Dominican Republic!
Solar Oven Partners (SOP) recently offered its supporters a virtual tonic for pandemic blahs: relax and have fun learning to cook a traditional Dominican meal via video, and then donate to help bring food to Dominican families in need—especially urgent in the midst of...

Building Ovens with Cleo and the Navajo Nation!
Editor’s note: Cleo Whiteface is a Rosebud Lakota who traveled with the Solar Oven Partners Volunteer-in- Mission team to the Navajo Reservation this summer. Cleo is a Sinte Gleska University student majoring in construction and building trades. What made you decide...