Bell Ridge Christian Church Missions Program

The Missions Minsitry has decided to add some "new to us" missions for us to support in the coming year. Two of them are local and the other is one of our own. The Edgar County Food Pantry and the Compassionate Clothing Ministry have been meeting the needs of people in Edgar County for a long time. They need financial support in order to buy food or clothing to help individuals with items that they might not have on hand from time to time.

As many of you may know at the beginning of our Faith Promise Campaign for 2007 one of the missionaries that we were supporting on a monthly basis was Cathy Sunkel and her work with Teen Missions International.  During the year Cathy decided to leave that work and go back to school.  Since that time the Missions Ministry has been considering who we might give that monthly support to.  We were made aware that The Crisis Pregnancy Center of East Central Illinois, which has an office in Paris, was in need of our support.  On September 9th the Missions Ministry voted to give our support to that work.

Bell Ridge Christian Church believes that God has asked us to take His message of love and forgiveness to the world.  We strive to support missions which we believe are doing the work of God’s Kingdom both here in the states and around the world.  We use a Faith Promise program to challenge the people of Bell Ridge to place their trust in God to provide their needs as they sacrificially give to those who are sharing the love of God.  The following ministries are the missions that we support on a monthly basis.