Missions That Help Rebuild Churches
Not all missions are solely focused on poverty needs of the public. Some missions that need help are missions that rebuild churches. Churches are a necessary part of our social environment for many reasons, and to lose places to worship is to lose an important part of our world.
There is an American mission that takes donations to repair Catholic churches. They also provide grants for religious educational programs for the continuance of the Catholic religion to the next generation. The donations also pay missionaries’ salaries. There are many missionaries who live in deplorable conditions for lack of proper funding.
Besides the churches that are in disrepair because of lack of funding, there are areas which have no church at all. People worship outside or in temporary buildings, going from one to the next as they are available. They face the elements to worship or must be forced to worship alone because of the inability to reach the others to worship with a group.
The NewTribesMission.org plants tribal churches. They expose and teach tribes to trust and know Jesus. They must often reach remote areas to be able to do this, so they need donations for planes and plane repairs, fuel, as well as other materials needed to succeed in their missionary work.
It is important for people of all areas of the world to have the moral support of a group when worshipping. It helps one stay focused, helps provide encouragement, gives mental and emotional support, and uplifts people spiritually to be able to share as they worship. As the churches grow and flourish, so does the community.
In Matamoras, Mexico, the Dios Proveera church has been aided by missionaries from churches in Atlanta, Texas. Joining together, two of the area churches took the little poverty-stricken church under their wing to aid in necessary additions. The church was helped by one of the Atlanta churches twice and by an additional third church on another occasion. As you can tell, helping as mission groups doesn’t always mean you just go in to fix a problem and leave. Some problems take more than one effort at raising donations, more than one trip to get supplies, more than one group to make the adjustments necessary. But by working together, bonds were formed within the church groups and with the Mexican people of that community. Boundaries were crossed. The love of Jesus and of strangers who became friends was enforced.