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OBJECTIVES

1) Lead efforts and partner with organizations to help distressed people or groups around the world.

1) Lead efforts and partner with organizations to help distressed people or groups around the world.

1) Lead efforts and partner with organizations to help distressed people or groups around the world.

2) Provide assistance to the impoverished and under-resourced.

1) Lead efforts and partner with organizations to help distressed people or groups around the world.

1) Lead efforts and partner with organizations to help distressed people or groups around the world.

3) Empower through individual, organizational, and community capacity building.

4) Advocate on behalf of those denied a voice due to social, political, or economic disempowerment.

4) Advocate on behalf of those denied a voice due to social, political, or economic disempowerment.

4) Advocate on behalf of those denied a voice due to social, political, or economic disempowerment.

4) Advocate on behalf of those denied a voice due to social, political, or economic disempowerment.

4) Advocate on behalf of those denied a voice due to social, political, or economic disempowerment.

PROGRAMS & PARTNERSHIPS

SIGNATURE PROGRAMS & PARTNERSHIPS

Signature Partnership: Nyame Bekyere Christian School - West Africa

Signature Partnership: Nyame Bekyere Christian School - West Africa

Suddenly Joyful's vision to spread love, hope, and joy globally is carried out through programs and partnerships with organizations and individuals locally and abroad. While our Signature Programs & Partnerships are ongoing, we also engage in short term projects.


While we were founded in 2020, Suddenly Joyful was born in 2013 when our Founder listened to God's still small voice and took her first of many missions trips to Ghana, West Africa. Please take a moment to read about our programs and prayerfully consider how you may be able to join us in our mission of bringing relief to people in distress through advocacy, training and partnerships. 

Signature Partnership: Nyame Bekyere Christian School - West Africa

Signature Partnership: Nyame Bekyere Christian School - West Africa

Signature Partnership: Nyame Bekyere Christian School - West Africa

Nyame Bekyere Christian School is a rural primary school in the Nyame Bekyere Village of Ghana, West Africa.  Suddenly Joyful serves as a partner offering and organizing academic and financial support. Our Founder lead the re-opening of this village school in 2014 and now it serves over 200 students that would otherwise be without education.


Nyame Bekyere Christian School's mission is to provide students with the academic and spiritual foundation necessary to excel in their God-given purpose. It is a primary school located in the Nyame Bekyere Village of Ghana, West Africa. Nyame Bekyere is nestled along the Cape Coast road between Kasoa and Winneba in the Gomoa District. Nyame Bekyere serves KG 1 to Primary 6 students and trains them under the Ghana Education Services Basic Education Curriculum.  

Signature Program: Deborah's 💖 Heart

Signature Partnership: Nyame Bekyere Christian School - West Africa

Signature Partnership: International Justice Mission

Deborah's Heart is a program where we provide resources to children in foster care at Christmas time.  Named in honor of Ms. Deborah Butts.  Ms. Butts is the mother of our Founder, Dr. D'Lorah Anderson  Although Ms. Butts only birthed one child, she was a loving mother to all.  Upon her baby sister Naomi's passing, Ms. Butts raised her two children.  Upon her niece Kimberly's passing, Ms. Butts raised two of her children.  Ms. Butts was loved and adored by all who knew her because of her sweet and mothering spirit.  She was one of fourteen children to Bishop Eddie Butts & Mother Jestine Butts.  Ms. Butts was a Navy Veteran and she retired from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University as Assistant Director of Veterans Affairs after 37 years of service.  Ms. Butts passed away from metastatic breast cancer in January 2017 leaving behind a beautiful legacy of love.

Signature Partnership: International Justice Mission

Signature Program: Dr. VEL MATTHEWS-SMITH MEDICAL & MINISTRY FUND

Signature Partnership: International Justice Mission

We are a Freedom Partner with the International Justice Mission (IJM) providing monthly financial support towards their mission to protect people in poverty from violence. Every day, countless people are trafficked into slavery, as slave owners make a profit off their vulnerability. IJM is a global organization that partners with local authorities in 24 program offices in 14 countries to combat trafficking and slavery, violence against women and children, and police abuse of power.

Signature Program: Veronica Colbert Anderson Scholarship

Signature Program: Dr. VEL MATTHEWS-SMITH MEDICAL & MINISTRY FUND

Signature Program: Dr. VEL MATTHEWS-SMITH MEDICAL & MINISTRY FUND

In 2023, we launched The Veronica Colbert Anderson Scholarship Fund in order to provide scholarships to socially disadvantaged young women and girls. This scholarship was funded by Mr. Corey Anderson in honor of his mother, Veronica Colbert. She was responsible for inspiring many young ladies to strive to reach their potential. 

Signature Program: Dr. VEL MATTHEWS-SMITH MEDICAL & MINISTRY FUND

Signature Program: Dr. VEL MATTHEWS-SMITH MEDICAL & MINISTRY FUND

Signature Program: Dr. VEL MATTHEWS-SMITH MEDICAL & MINISTRY FUND

Dr. Velmalia "Dr. Vel™" Matthews-Smith, MD, is a woman of faith with a huge heart to bring health and healing to the world. In 2024, she formalized a long-term partnership with Suddenly Joyful by instituting the Dr. Velmalia Matthews-Smith Medical & Ministry Fund. This fund has four programs which it funds, the Complimentary Medicine Institute and three different scholarships. 

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SHORT TERM SPECIAL PROJECTS

In addition to our signature programs and partnerships we contribute to various local and global community needs in alignment with our mission and vision. Here is a summary of some of those special projects.


2025: We contributed towards Healthy Souls International Disaster Relief work in Texas to assist with the July 2025 destructive and deadly Central Texas floods. Healthy Souls Int'l. served as the boots on the ground in Texas bringing hope, healing, and prayers to flood-affected communities.


2024: We contributed towards Surfers for Salvation missions work in Nicaragua which included provided water filters and sharing the gospel! Surfer for Salvation is a U.S. based nonprofit dedicated to encouraging and empowering today’s youth through mentoring, serving, and surfing.


2022: Rose Marie Bryon Children's Center is an after-school program established in 1948 in Daytona Beach, FL. It is located in a low-income area and operates solely on donations. We visited the schools as part of a community clean up project and were moved by the reach of the school event with its lack of resources. We made a special contribution to assist with school supplies.

 2021-22: Ghana Education Collaboration Team Project. Partnership with Rev. Anthony Doeh, Missions Director for Assemblies of God, Ghana and Pastor of Assemblies of God, North Kaneshie, Accra, Ghana West Africa to develop an advanced Christian leadership curriculum for a school set to launch in 2021.  Suddenly Joyful is at the forefront of this collaboration, alongside Hayah R.I.S.S.E. Foundation of Norfolk, VA, bringing together a team of educators from across the United States and in Accra.


2021: Provision Packs is a community-based organization where 100% of the contributions go towards efforts to close the gap on childhood hunger.  It provides well rounded supplemental food for children on the weekends, and extended breaks during the school year. We provided a contribution towards providing food for the packs.

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