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| The following summarizes projects that received Mission Match funds in the past. |
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A Baptist church in Illinois sent a team of their youth to Honduras. They finished construction on a dining facility in a children's home. The facility is also used for outreach in the community via a feeding program. The team also held Vacation Bible School and did evangelism in the surrounding communities at schools. The money that was matched was used to buy building supplies for constructing the dining facility, transportation on site, and supplies for Bible school and evangelism. |
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An international bicycling team of 5 riders and 2 support persons traveled 2,000 miles over 6 weeks from the tip of India to New Delhi to raise money for the rebuilding of a Christian hospital. A Free Methodist church in Illinois applied for funds to be matched to help with the hospital reconstruction. This Christian hospital was founded in 1951 by the Free Methodist Church to meet the needs of the poor rural population in central India. It provides primary medicine, obstetrics, surgery, pharmacy, and radiology. Areas of special attention are tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria. Other ministries also developed from the work of the hospital such as a community health service, coordinated by local churches, and a nursing school certified by the state. The nursing school has particularly helped young women from poor, lower class families to acquire skills. There is a boarding school on the hospital campus established for boys from tribal families to provide nurture and education for the children. The hospital provides a large amount of charity care. As a result, materials describing the purpose of the fundraising bike trip stated that it has become increasingly difficult to provide funding for capital improvements. |
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According to material provided by a United Methodist church in Illinois that received Mission Match funds, indigenous peoples of Ancoraimes until recently have been shut out of the educational, political, and economic structures of Bolivia. The Bolivian Methodist church with the help of missionaries from the U.S. began a school that mainly serves these indigenous peoples. The United Methodist Church from Illinois sent a team to continue construction on a new school building that had been started the previous year. Not much had been done to the school for 25 years, so the new building is a true sign of hope, according to the materials with the application. The money matched helped provide materials for the construction. |
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A United Methodist church in Illinois sent a team to Mexico where they worked with the church in a particular town to identify, fix, and repair homes in the area, and also conduct Youth Ministry Bible Schools in the town's church and in a nearby orphanage. The matched money paid for construction materials, lodging in the town, as well as food for the missionaries. |
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A United Methodist church in Illinois started a monthly dinner for low-income families in the school district where the poverty rate is almost 50%. The money the congregation raised, combined with Mission Match funds, was used to for food, publicity, and kitchen supplies. |
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A non-denominational church in Illinois sent a team to Liberia. According to information provided by the church, a fourteen-year civil war in Liberia left thousands of children without families, education, and shelter. This church decided to adopt an orphanage. They are responsible for the needs of the children including food, shelter, education, and clothing. While the team was at the orphanage, they taught basic health skills and built adequate sleeping surfaces as well as shared the hope of Jesus. The Mission Match money was used for antibacterial soap, lumber, fabric, roofing materials, Bibles and other educational materials. |
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A Free Methodist church in Indiana sent a team to Jordan. According to the application, violence, poverty, and other undesirable conditions dominate lives of the children located in Jordan’s schools and refugee camps. This church provided “my Arabic Library” which is an educational project developed to encourage a love of reading and learning in children across the Arabic-speaking world by providing a great variety of high-interest books. These books were designed to help the children develop the skills they need to have a better future. In addition to bringing the books, the mission team volunteered in the orphanages and worked with kids doing recreational activities and assisting in classrooms. |
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A Free Methodist church in Indiana built a shelter house and installed a new water system in Mexico. They also held a Vacation Bible School. The Mission Match money was spent on construction materials. |
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A non-denominational church in Kentucky sent a team to Kenya. They helped to train women in mission outreach by teaching seminars, revival meetings, and one-on-one ministry. The money was spent on travel expenses, blankets for an orphanage, ministry materials, and teaching materials for the seminars. |
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The youth at an Episcopal church in Massachusetts raised money to provide an entire community in Haiti with a water purification system. The youth raised money for an entire year to buy this reliable source of pure drinking water. Haiti ranks last on the International Water Poverty Index. In their application, the young people provided statistics on child deaths due to unclean water, to support their request for the $3,000 Mission Match option. |
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An Independent Bible Church in Minnesota sent a team to the Dominican Republic. They partnered with Youth With A Mission. They built a church and ministered to the orphans and elderly, counseled families, and did street evangelism. The money went to buy food, shoes, learning materials and hygienic supplies for the children's ministry, and children's gifts to hand out during the time of street ministry, as well as building supplies for the church. |
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A Church of Christ in Minnesota sent a team to Nicaragua. They provided medical and optical care for the needy, and also they did evangelism. The matching money was spent on eyeglasses, medicine, and medical supplies. |
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A Baptist church in North Carolina sent a team of youth to Swaziland. They conducted revival services, worked with the pastors in musical education, preschool teacher training, distributing food, and AIDS education to children. |
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A Baptist church in New York sent a team to Kenya to work with its sister church. According to their application, they want to establish and sustain child and youth ministries in a village, as well as plan and implement ongoing teacher training for the teachers at the local primary school, construct a new building for the school, and drill a bore hole to serve the communities in the area. This was a multiple year project started in 2002. The congregation indicated that the work done on this specific trip was to complete the kitchen for the school, have three days of youth ministry activities for approximately 1,200 youth from the village and two neighboring villages, have two days of professional development workshops for the teachers of the 14 primary schools in the local educational zone, begin drilling a water bore hole, hold rabies clinics at two sites for dogs in the village and the two neighboring villages, and continue building and deepening relationships with their brothers and sisters in the area. |
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A non-denominational church in Pennsylvania sent a team to a town in Mexico. According to the application, they planned to distribute much needed food, clothing and supplies. Their ultimate goal was "to introduce people to Jesus and leave a lasting impression of Him on their hearts." The money raised went towards rice, beans, clothing, Bibles, children's toys, and inspirational gifts for ministry. |
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A Baptist church in South Carolina sent a team to Trinidad. They conducted Vacation Bible School and evangelistic crusades to proclaim the message of Christ, and assist in the planting and development of churches. The money raised was spent on airfare, accommodations, VBS supplies, shipping of hymn books, and a gift to the local Baptist church for local ministries. |
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A United Methodist church in Texas sent a team to Siberia to support several orphanages. A follow-up report indicated that they distributed money to pay for medical care, clothes, and food for the children and to pay for minor repairs to the orphanages. They also helped with Vacation Bible School. According to the application, the church wanted to go the extra mile, beyond their usual mission budget, to help these orphanages because they learned the orphanage staff had limited material facilities for the children so bones were being set without x-rays, teeth pulled without painkillers, and no surgeries were going on. |
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A Christian Church/Churches of Christ in California assisted a ministry house in the Philippines. According to the application, this ministry "provides spiritual, emotional and financial aid to single mothers in crisis situations. The house provides medical care for mothers and children. There is a lack of government support, so the women have a hard time getting back on their feet. The house works with families to get an education to start their own source of income. The home provides loans to help them get back on their feet and they pay back at a low rate." |
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An Episcopal church in Connecticut sent a team to Honduras. They worked with an international program that provides livestock and training worldwide. It helps families to raise livestock to feed themselves, provide income, and care for the environment. The church members helped select families that would have their homes built or rebuilt. |
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A United Methodist church in Indiana sent a team to Appalachia in Kentucky to a work camp. According to materials provided by the congregation, the camp helps low-income people do things they are not able to do themselves such as painting, roof repair, fence mending, window repair, and other jobs. One specific project they did while there was to hang insulation board and vinyl siding on an elderly man’s home. |
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An Evangelical Free church in Illinois supported one person in their congregation to relocate to Malaysia to study and get to know people there. |
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A Presbyterian church in Illinois had two separate mission trips. One was to Mexico where they took care of children of families in poverty, did some construction on the local church, and assisted the local missionaries in their work. The second trip was to Mongolia where they volunteered as teachers for a month at a university teaching English, computers and other subjects. Their goal was also to teach about the Bible, both on and off the campus and the mission money supplied some of the education materials. |
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A United Methodist church in Indiana sent a team to a reservation in South Dakota where they did home repair, office work, day care, and helped in the cafeteria. The money went towards travel expenses, financing the construction project, food, and renting a trailer that they used to deliver donated clothing and sports equipment. |
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A Free Methodist church in Indiana sent a team to Honduras to finish an orphanage's new kitchen facilities. The current orphanage was preparing meals on hot plates. Once the new kitchen was finished, the orphanage planned to accept twenty-two more orphans. The money was used to purchase supplies needed to finish the new kitchen. |
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A Baptist church in Kentucky sent a team of their youth to Angola. They provided vitamins to children seen in the medical clinics while on the mission trip. The youth did the primary fundraising, learned the needs of the children, worked for their contributions, and communicated the needs within the church, through presentations to various adult groups in the congregation. |
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A United Methodist church in Indiana sent a team to Jamaica to help recovery from the damage of Hurricane Ivan. The money was used for repairs. |
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A Baptist church in Minnesota sent a team to Kosova. According to information on the application, the Serbs attacked the territory of Kosova in 1999, which destroyed many homes, complete villages, and the health system of the country was left in ruins. One of the major concerns for the health and safety of the patients was the lack of a sterile environment in surgery, the Emergency Room, and Intensive Care Unit. Most medical persons simply wore street clothes into the hospital as the Serbs destroyed almost all medical attire. As a result of the church's concern for the medical needs of the country, the head of the health system permitted and invited the local national church to send Christian chaplains into the hospital. The church supplied 2,700 medical scrubs and lab coats for the nurses, technicians, and doctors. |
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A Presbyterian church in Indiana helped an endangered Muslim family emigrate from Afghanistan to Canada. The congregation befriended the father while he was a student in the U.S. He did some work with the United Nations and as a result was targeted by the Taliban. His coworker was beheaded in the refugee camp. The church helped the family resettle in a safer location. |
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A United Methodist church in Indiana sent a team to Mexico. They helped lead a Kids Club with games, crafts, skits, songs, and lessons, and also did home improvement. The funds were used to buy lumber, paint, and hardware for the home improvement projects and supplies for crafts and lessons at the Kids Club. |
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A Baptist church in Mississippi sent a team to the Czech Republic and Italy to hold evangelistic meetings. The funds were used for plane tickets, traveling expenses and meals. |
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An Episcopal church in Ohio requested assistance with two new programs for young women and men. The application described the programs as focusing on building self-esteem and decision-making skills with the goals of keeping the youth in school, preventing teen pregnancy, and enhancing career development strategies, all within the Christian perspective. No other programs are available in the areas where the church is located. The funds went toward craft supplies, field trips, and a paid staff person. |
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A Baptist church in North Carolina sent a team of their youth to a youth conference in Swaziland. They were asked to lead the conference. They were responsible for planning and providing all activities, Bible studies, nightly worship services, skits, dramas, music and testimonies during the camp. Swaziland is currently recognized as having the highest mortality rate from AIDS and AIDS-related illnesses. The youth team ministered and evangelized to the country's youth during the camp about the importance of God in their lives and the importance of Godly choices. |
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A Church of Christ in Ohio sent their senior minister to teach for two weeks in Cambodia. He met with Cambodian national church leaders from the Christian churches. He spoke through a translator teaching New Testament theology. While the Cambodian leaders were in training, the church paid for their housing and food expenses. |
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An Episcopal church in Ohio for the last two years has been providing a meal to those in need on the last Saturday of the month when many run out of funds and food. The poverty rate in the churches county had increased from 11.2% over the past several years. Since the churches electrical service was not adequate to handle the preparation of the meals, they used the matching funds to rewire their kitchen. |
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A Church of the Brethren church in Pennsylvania used the funds to support the efforts of a local charitable organization that provides safe haven to asylum seekers fleeing persecution. The organization established a house that provides shelter, food, and support services to asylum seekers who do not have ties in this country. |
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Two Christian Churches/Churches of Christ, one in Ohio and one in Florida, combined to use the funds to pay for a new van for a mission organization in Jamaica after their old van was totaled in an accident. The organization provides leadership training, a camp program, a youth retreat, and other programs to the poorer churches in Jamaica. |
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A Christian Church/Church of Christ in Ohio used the money to repair damages from hurricane Ivan to a mission organization in Jamaica. |
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A Christian Church/Churches of Christ in Ohio used the funds to help a Christian school in Chile. The school includes all grades and was implementing a post high school job-training program. The government had advised the school to install an elevator so that handicapped individuals could participate in the school. Money was used to help pay for the elevator. |
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A United Methodist church sent a team of two to Paraguay and raised funds to help build a house for one of the Paraguayan families of the Methodist church. |
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A Baptist church in Tennessee used the funds for their Saturday Kids program. The program had activities for the low-income children and provided an opportunity to claim Jesus as Savior and be baptized. |
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A Baptist church in Texas used the funds to support building a discipleship training center sponsored by a church in Cambodia. The facility was used to teach and educate future pastors and church leaders, according to the application. |
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A United Methodist church in Wisconsin supported a young woman working for three years in China. She worked in community development with disadvantaged children in a city in China. |
| This list of projects that received Mission Match Funds in the past is complete as of April 16, 2008. |
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