Ministries Making a Difference
Safe water for Asheville schools, meals for foster families, Hurricane Helene relief, Myanmar refugees
Last month, Children’s Relief International dispatched a team to North Carolina to assist in Hurricane Helene relief efforts by conducting welfare checks, delivering supplies, removing fallen trees, and praying with survivors. In 2022, the ministry allotted 99% of its operations expenses to “caring for the poor in Word and deed,” which included providing medical care, meals, nutritional aid, education, and care for widows both domestically and internationally. Children’s Relief International has 4 stars and an “A” transparency grade in the MinistryWatch database, and a donor confidence score of 93.
A team with Children’s Relief International dispatched to NC in the wake of Hurricane Helene / Photo via social media
Public schools in Asheville, North Carolina, reopened October 30 with help from Water Mission one month after Hurricane Helene ravaged Western North Carolina. The storm destroyed much of the area’s infrastructure, and while the city has water to flush toilets, the water is not safe for drinking. The disaster relief ministry is setting up water treatment systems so students and faculty have safe drinking water, according to reporting by Christianity Today. Water Mission has 3 stars and an “A” transparency grade in the MinistryWatch database, and a donor confidence score of 100.
Members of Mecklenburg Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, made 99 meals in October to give to foster families. The church’s children’s ministry, MecKidz, started Fill the Freezer for Foster Families in 2022 as one of its fall monthly missions. In the three years MecKidz has done the month-long initiative, it has collected about 250 freezer meals. The church provides “meal kits”—an aluminum pan, recipe, and information about fostering for both kids and adults—for families to use in making the meals, and the church distributes them to organizations and families within the foster/adoptive community.
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Venture is supporting partners in Thailand who are providing food and shelter to families fleeing Myanmar due to junta bombings. That is on top of efforts to help victims of September’s Typhoon Yagi that triggered floods and mudslides, killing more than 200. At least 2.8 million have been displaced since Myanmar’s civil war erupted in May 2021. Venture has 4 stars and an “A” transparency grade in the MinistryWatch database, and a donor confidence score of 84.
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