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Solar Oven Partners Seeks Executive Director

Solar Oven Partners (SOP) is seeking a candidate with the necessary skill set, gifts and graces to fill the Director’s position. This vibrant international ministry of the Dakotas Conference, an Advance mission project, has a 24 year history of placing solar ovens in the hands of the poor, and empowering persons through training in solar cooking and water pasteurization.

With gratitude, Solar Oven Partners remembers the leadership of our late Executive Director Christopher Sylvah on our facebook page.

Until further arrangements are made, all email communications should now be directed to Advisory Board member Karen Workman using the contact form in the footer. For urgent administrative phone messages, call 701-214-2234.

Print communication and contributions should be directed to Solar Oven Partners, 1331 W. University Ave, PO Box 460, Mitchell, SD 57301.

Christopher Sylvah Memorial Picture

Solar ovens don’t just cook food.
Solar ovens change lives and communities.

Solar Oven Partners focuses on cooking up the conditions for well-being in the Dominican Republic, Sierra Leone, and the northwestern lands of the Navajo Nation. By partnering with us as a volunteer or donor, you’ll help to change lives and increase well-being in communities where we work now and wherever God and people may invite us to go as Solar Oven Partners.

Solar Ovens Promote Wellness

Cooking with a solar oven enables a family to eat more nutritious, safe, and flavorful food…but the benefits don’t stop there.

(Play the video to hear what Minorca Says about us)

Physical
Well-Being

Cooking over a fire exposes the cook and others to the risks of smoke inhalation. Solar ovens cook healthy food and pasteurize water using clean and free energy.

ECONOMIC
Well-Being

Sunlight is free! Cooking fuel costs money. Families can direct their savings to pressing needs. Some even use the oven to produce supplemental income!

Environmental
Well-Being

Burning wood or charcoal for cooking fires creates environmental problems in a community. A free, clean fuel source has many ripple effects.

Spiritual
Well-Being

Our faith is rooted in the story of Jesus, whose example of caring we follow. We seek to deepen awareness of and relationship with Jesus Christ.

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.

Modern Paraphrase of John Wesley, founder of Methodism

BY THE NUMBERS

Ovens Delivered

COUNTRIES WE Serve

VIM Mission Trips

YEARS IN MISSION

BUILD SOLAR OVENS

Each solar oven costs about $150 to manufacture and deliver to a trained solar cook. Families receive them for a small donation. Because volunteers contribute their labor, our per-unit costs are very low.

Brooklyn Team at Raymond May 16, 2019

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Flowers are lovely, and dinner out is nice but a Mother’s Day gift to Solar Oven Partners (SOP) in honor of your mother might be the best gift ever. Your mom’s gift could help put a solar oven package into the hands of a mother who struggles to feed, clothe and...

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Solar Oven Partners’ Upcoming Mission Trips

Solar Oven Partners’ Upcoming Mission Trips

Would you like to experience the joy of placing a solar oven into the armsof people in need? Join an upcoming Solar Oven Partners (SOP) Volunteer in Mission team distribution event.SOP has scheduled several mission trips in 2024: The Dominican Republic, March 13-22,...

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