Program areas at FaithQuest Missions
Mobilized people & their churches to put their faith into action: Worked with members of more churches across the US and hundreds individuals in 2023 to facilitate & advance the Gospel and teachings of Jesus Christ to the extreme poor in areas of great needs in the world during this challenging year for the Church and culture. Helping churches to shift to local opportunities was big this year. Weaided our partner churches with encouragement, creative ideas, opportunities andfacilitation to partner with other churches, missions and relief organizations, plusservice and mission trip re-organization, sponsorship campaigns, and raising fundsfor compassionate causes near their church & around the world. The results included a great many individuals & their churches growing in their faith & serving the poor of the world & in the USA. It also resulted in significant financial giving directly to the missionaries & Christian relief and development organizations that they became involved with.
Hosting Inspirational Outreach-Oriented Events and Activities: Our Team FaithQuestactivity includes organizing and hosting events where teams from many churches canjoin together to raise awareness and support for missions and outreachactivities. These events include running, cycling, hiking, and other challengeevents that rally people and their churches to put their feet and faith into realaction. We challenge people to give to God's work everywhere and to widely serve andshare the story of the needs of the lost, hungry, thirsty, sick, trafficked,refugees and other marginalized and suffering children and adults from the extremepoor of the world.Additional Explanation:The above 4a, 4b, 4c, expenses & revenue are not allocated separately to each of thediverse activities supporting the mission. The vast majority of FaithQuest programsare accomplished by recruiting, inspiring, and equipping volunteers in the localchurch who in turn work with not only us and their churches but also serve and givedirectly to the Christian missions and relief organizations we have introduced tothem to. We celebrate that serving and giving does not need to happen throughFaithQuest, that our role is to be a catalyst for Kingdom-action widely throughchurches and organizations everywhere. The total program service expenses for 2023were $336,113 including total grants of $58,324 on total revenue of $355,360
Recruiting, training, & sending missions teams: We help churches in organizing &accomplishing missions trips that are with church members, and run through churchfinancial books not ours. We help recruit, train, & send the leaders & teams ofthese trips and work to help arrange critical components, best-practices, ministrypartnership, & after-trip church action. We continue to take a leadership sometrips as well, including FaithQuest-led & co-led trips to meet and work withpartners in Iraq, Egypt, Ukraine, Germany, and more. 2023 was a year ofcontinued news and at times restrictive international travel, yet it was a year ofmore action within the US than usual plus the opportunity to plan ahead with leadersin new and bigger ways than usual. Many courageous volunteers braved a fearfulworld to raise funds and served to help organize and achieve these accomplishments.2023 was another big and exciting year!