Author: Steve Amato
Description: Christians charities providing food, disaster relief, and bibles
Keywords: bible study,christian charity, charities, food, disaster relief, bibles, hungry

# Some Christian Charities

### "Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give,
not reluctantly or under compulsion,
for God loves a cheerful giver." 2Corinthians 9:7

## General International Relief
for the Impoverished

World Vision

> Mission Statement:
> World Vision is an international Christian humanitarian organization serving the world's poor and displaced by providing programs that help save lives, bring hope, and restore dignity. This assistance is provided without regard to people's religious beliefs, gender, or ethnic background.

> Getting Involved

Food for the Hungry

Mission Statement:
Food For The Hungry is an international organization of Christian motivation, committed to working with poor people to overcome hunger and poverty through integrated self-development and relief programs. Relief efforts include famines in Africa, typhoons in Southeast Asia, floods in the United States, and earthquakes in Central America.

Getting Involved

Christian Disaster Relief

Mission Statement:
Develops transportation and distribution programs for disaster relief supplies through churches, missionaries and other Christian organizations in the affected areas. Coordinates with other responding agencies to ensure non-duplication of efforts while ensuring that all disaster-caused needs are met. Provides food service and medical assistance to victims in the disaster-affected areas

Mission of Mercy

Mission Statement:
Mission of Mercy is helping to meet the physical and spiritual needs of hurting people in poverty-stricken areas of the world. Through emergency and support roles, people receive food, education, medical aid and hope in Jesus Christ.

Getting Involved

Operation Blessing

> Mission Statement:
> Our mission is to demonstrate God's love by alleviating human need and suffering in the United States and around the world. In efforts to relieve human suffering we combat hunger, deprivation and physical affliction with the provision of food, clothing, shelter, medical care and other basic necessities of life. We also help facilitate the development of healthy, vibrant and self-sustaining communities by addressing larger issues of education, food security, potable water, employment, community health, and disaster mitigation projects. In every endeavor, OBI seeks to exemplify Christian compassion and benevolence while conforming to the highest standards of integrity.

> Getting Involved

## Adoption & Helping Children

Christian World Adoption

> Mission Statement:
> Christian World Adoption is an international adoption agency with programs in six countries.

> Getting Involved

Compassion International

> Mission Statement:
> Compassion International is an evangelical Christian child development ministry dedicated to addressing the needs of children around the world, including those in the United States. More than a relief program, Compassion focuses on the real-life needs of children—spiritual, physical, economic, and social.

> Getting Involved

> > - Making a Donation
> > - Helping Recruit sponsors
> > - Sponsoring a Child

World Missionary Evangelism

> Mission Statement:
> "World Missionary Evangelism, Inc." is a worldwide, interdenominational, non-sectarian, missionary movement. WME reaches out to those in need through caring for Thousands of Orphans, Building Native Churches, Children's Homes, Leper control centers, Schools, and Training centers for the blind in needy lands.

> Getting Involved

> > - Making a Donation
> > - Sponsoring a Child

## Helping Persecuted Christians

Barnabas Fund

> Mission Statement:
> An inter-denominational aid and relief organisation encouraging Christians to support and pray for the suffering and persecuted church world-wide.

> Getting Involved

Christian Freedom International

> Mission Statement:
> Christian Freedom International is an interdenominational human rights organization for religious liberty helping persecuted Christians through advocacy and direct aid.

> Getting Involved

## World Wide Preaching of the Gospel

Wycliffe Bible Translators

> Mission Statement:
> Our vision is to see Bible translation in progress among every language group that needs it by the year 2025

> Getting Involved

Gospel for Asia

> Mission Statement:
> The mission of Gospel for Asia is to reach the unreached of Asia with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and fulfill the Great Commission through recruiting, training, sending and assisting qualified laborers to win the lost and plant local churches in partnership with the body of Christ.

> Getting Involved

The Jesus Film Project

> The JESUS Film Project seeks to give everyone in the world one chance to hear the gospel in their own language through the JESUS Film. Through use by The JESUS Film Project, and more than 835 has been seen by more than 3.3 billion people worldwide.

> Getting Involved

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