Your Giving Is Building Something Real

A glimpse of what your Missions Offering is doing — from a Christmas dinner in Northern Ireland to a life that walked in off the street.

On Christmas Day in Omagh, Northern Ireland, someone walked out of a mental hospital, saw a sign outside a church building that said everyone was welcome, and walked in.

They left with a hot meal, a room full of people who were genuinely glad they came, and a reason to come back the following Sunday.

That church is Omagh Community Church — part of the Assemblies of God network in Ireland. And Kristina Keen, a missionary Lighthouse supports, is part of the team that made that Christmas Dinner happen. They decorated the building, cooked a three-course meal, gave out gifts and food parcels, and made sure that anyone in their town who would have spent Christmas Day alone knew they had a place.

Several of the men who came last year started meeting regularly afterward. Friendships that started around that table.

This is one story from one season of Kristina's ministry. In the same stretch of months her church also hosted a 24-hour island-wide prayer event, raised nearly £600 for a local cancer support charity, welcomed 360+ teenagers to a youth conference — some of whom feel like the only young Christians in their town — and ran a 24-hour fundraising challenge to cover the costs of the Christmas Dinner.

It's real, boots-on-the-ground work. And your giving makes it possible.

Lighthouse supports 20+ missionaries and partners around the world. Every month on the last Sunday we receive our Missions Offering — and it goes directly to people like Kristina, doing work that doesn't make headlines but changes lives.

This Sunday, June 1, is Missions Offering Sunday. Give at lighthousenv.com/give and designate to Missions — or drop it in the offering. Thank you for being the kind of church that sends people and keeps them there. 

Read the full update from Kristina.